Begin Your Path to Health Optimisation ★ Support for Chronic and Severe Disease
Be Better Health and Wellness is an Integrative Health Consultancy focused on supporting individuals with complex and chronic health presentations through evidence-informed, whole-person care.
Additionally we guide you on optimisation of general health and wellness.
Health is influenced by multiple interconnected systems — neurological, immune, metabolic, emotional, and lifestyle factors. Our role is to support balance, regulation, and understanding of these systems.
Berdene Segal is the founder of Be Better Health and Wellness and is an Integrative Health Consultant. Her work focuses on nervous system regulation, chronic condition support, and patient education, always in collaboration with medical professionals.
Management and support for severe conditions. Optimization of health and wellness.
Qualifications: BSc (Physiotherapy), University of the Witwatersrand; Advanced Master’s Degree in Integrative Medicine (Tech University); Courses completed in CranioSacral Therapy (Upledger Institute®).
Focus: Root-cause, whole-person care across gut-brain-immune health, stress reduction, sleep, reduction of neuroinflammation, systemic inflammation, trauma-informed care and techniques, mitochondrial (cellular health and energy production) and skin health.
Berdene Segal is the founder of Be Better Health and Wellness and is an Integrative Health Consultant. Her work focuses on nervous system regulation, chronic condition support, and patient education, always in collaboration with medical professionals.
Management and support for severe conditions. Optimization of health and wellness.
Qualifications: BSc (Physiotherapy), University of the Witwatersrand; Advanced Master’s Degree in Integrative Medicine (Tech University); Courses completed in CranioSacral Therapy (Upledger Institute®).
Focus: Root-cause, whole-person care across gut-brain-immune health, stress reduction, sleep, reduction of neuroinflammation, systemic inflammation, trauma-informed care and techniques, mitochondrial (cellular health and energy production) and skin health.
Berdene Segal is a physiotherapist and Integrative Health Consultant with forty-three years of clinical experience.
She holds a BSc in Physiotherapy from the University of the Witwatersrand (1982) and an Advanced Master’s Degree in Integrative Medicine from Tech University, and is a CranioSacral Therapy practitioner who has completed courses in CranioSacral Therapy at the Upledger Institute®: CST1, CST2, SomatoEmotional Release, and CranioSacral Therapy Touching the Brain Level 1 (Stimulating Self-Correction Through the Glial Interface / CranioSacral Therapy for the Central Nervous System). Her clinical experience was gleaned from practising physiotherapy and collaborating with many doctors, dentists and specialists across diverse fields within medicine and dentistry, including in NHS hospitals in the United Kingdom, South African government facilities, and thirty-two years in general private practice treating neurological, orthopaedic and soft-tissue conditions, with a special interest in TMJ/TMD disorders.
Throughout her career, Berdene has practised physiotherapy in a deeply integrative manner, always considering the broader clinical picture and the interconnections between body systems. It was this approach that led her to formal studies in Integrative Medicine, to her Advanced Master’s Degree, and to founding Be Better Health & Wellness (Pty) Ltd. Integrative health consulting grew out of her physiotherapy rather than replacing it, driven by consistent clinical observation: patients with complex, multi-system presentations require more than single-modality treatment. A TMJ disorder may involve CranioSacral system restriction. Chronic pain may be sustained by neuroinflammation and gut dysbiosis. Fatigue may reflect mitochondrial dysfunction (impaired cellular function and energy production) compounded by HPA axis dysregulation.
Be Better Health & Wellness (Pty) Ltd stands on its own as a separate entity. All Integrative Health & Wellness services and treatment are provided under it, and billing for those services is issued by Be Better Health & Wellness (Pty) Ltd. The TMJ Self-Management Course and the Self-Care for Pain Management course are sold on the Be Better Health & Wellness (Pty) Ltd website, at bebetter-health.com/courses.
Berdene Segal has recommenced physiotherapy practice as Berdene Segal Physiotherapist, which is run completely separately from Be Better Health & Wellness (Pty) Ltd.
Berdene works alongside medical teams — never independently. She does not diagnose, prescribe, or alter medications. No changes to medications will be made. Supplement and herbal guidance is provided only with physician approval. No hormonal therapy recommendations are made. Her role is to provide the Integrative clinical reasoning that connects systems and supports the patient’s overall programme.
University of the Witwatersrand
Government Hospitals
Neurological, Orthopaedic, Soft-tissue Conditions. TMJ/TMD special interest.
Courses completed in CranioSacral Therapy, Upledger Institute® (CST1, CST2, SomatoEmotional Release, and CranioSacral Therapy Touching the Brain Level 1: Stimulating Self-Correction Through the Glial Interface / CranioSacral Therapy for the Central Nervous System)
Tech University
Recommencement of physiotherapy practice as Berdene Segal Physiotherapist, Glenhazel, Johannesburg. Registered Physiotherapist, practice number 7214685. Run separately from Be Better Health & Wellness (Pty) Ltd
