About
Dr Ulrike Breytenbach
Restoring the conditions for life to flourish.
Physician. Lifestyle Medicine practitioner. Trauma-informed coach and leadership educator. Founder of Zilaphe.
My story
My journey has taken me through medicine, grief, addiction, entrepreneurship, loss, leadership, regenerative farming and profound questions about what truly heals human beings.
Those experiences taught me that symptoms rarely exist in isolation. Health emerges when we restore the conditions that allow life to flourish.
Today I integrate Lifestyle Medicine with trauma-informed coaching and leadership development to help individuals and organisations create lasting wellbeing.
Qualifications
Professional background.
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MBChB
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery
Mission
To restore the conditions in which human beings — and the systems they live and work in — can flourish.
Vision
A model of care in which healing is understood as the restoration of relationship, and prevention is treated as seriously as cure.
Values
What the work is built on.
Dignity
People are met as whole human beings with histories, not as diagnoses with appointments.
Evidence
Clinical rigour is non-negotiable. Lifestyle Medicine is medicine, held to the same standard.
Compassion over shame
Shame is a poor motivator and a reliable predictor of relapse. Change is built on safety.
Coherence
What is taught is practised. Regulation cannot be delivered by a depleted practitioner.
Living systems
Bodies, families, teams and land recover through the same principle — remove what harms, restore what nourishes.