Naturopaths are health care providers who
treat the whole person, calling on science and the body's innate wisdom to stimulate healing.
I am qualified as a Naturopath, holding a Doctorate in Naturopathy, with an emphasis on Complementary
and Alternative Therapies for Mental Health. I blend this training with my Masters in Psychology in order to provide
a truly holistic approach to healing.
Naturopathy is based on the premise of educating the patient on how to be responsible for their own health care.
I teach my clients about self care and make recommendations with regards to treatment options,
both allopathic and complementary. I am also a Certified Clinical Nutritionist and Herbalist and offer
suggestions on diet and appropriate supplementation.
How I Can Help
As disease in the body is often affected by the emotions and state of mind, Naturopathic Psychotherapy is
regularly used by naturopaths to obtain emotional balance.
Naturopathic Psychotherapy involves diagnosing and removing the disturbing emotional causes of disease, whether
psychological or physiological.
The patient is not to be regarded as having a mind in a body, but as constituting a mind-body-spirit unity.
Mental-emotional, physical, and spiritual factors act and react upon each other, producing either health or disease.
I combine my formal education and experience in transpersonal psychology, naturopathy and nutrition to address the
whole person - mind, body and spirit - in order to create profound and lasting change. The following are just some of the basic ways that
naturopathic medicine can help.
Healthy weight loss counseling and support
Dietary review and for adults, children and the whole family
Programs, suggestions and recipes for improved nutrition
Guidance on nutritional and herbal supplements and potential interactions
Disease prevention support for major medical and psychiatric issues
Counseling in preparation for conception and to increase fertility
Green, non-toxic living and detoxification recommendations
Natural PMS and menopause alternatives
The Principles of Naturopathic Medicine
The practice of naturopathic medicine is founded on principles formulated from the observation of health and disease,
and examined in light of scientific analysis.
The principles address the psychological, physiological and spiritual nature of the person and
distinguish naturopathic medicine from other medical approaches.
The healing power of nature.
The body has the inherent ability to establish, maintain and restore health. The naturopath's role is to
facilitate and augment this process, to act to identify and remove obstacles to health and recovery.
Identify and treat the cause.
Underlying causes of disease must be treated before a person can recover. Symptoms are expressions of the body's
attempt to heal, and should not be suppressed by treatment. The naturopath must evaluate underlying causes on
all levels, treating causes rather than symptoms.
Treat the whole person.
Health and disease are conditions of the entire organism, involving a complex interaction of physical,
spiritual, mental, emotional, genetic, environmental, and social factors. The naturopath must treat
the whole person by taking all of these factors into account.
First do no harm.
Illness is a purposeful process of the organism. Symptoms are an expression of the life
force attempting to heal itself. The naturopath's treatment must support the healing power
of nature and therapy must be congruent with the internal order of the organism.
Naturopath as teacher.
A cooperative doctor-patient relationship is, in itself, therapeutic. The naturopath's major
role is to educate and encourage the patient to take responsibility for health, and to be a
catalyst for healthful change. It is the patient, not the doctor, who ultimately creates or accomplishes healing.
Prevention.
The ultimate goal of naturopathic medicine is prevention, accomplished through education
and promotion of life-habits that create good health. The emphasis is on building health rather than
on fighting disease.
Why Naturopathic Medicine Works
Treating ourselves as a whole person makes sense. For one thing,
naturopathic medicine is cost-effective because it focuses on
prevention, patient involvement, noninvasive methods and appropriate use of technology.
A landmark study released in September 2004 at a congressional hearing found potential cost savings resulting from daily
use of calcium and folic acid could save $15 billion in health care costs.
An even more recent study released June 2007 reports that supplementation with calcium, Vitamin D,
folic acid, omega-3 essential fatty acids (EFAs), and lutein with zeaxaanthin by select populations could save more
than $24 billion in health care costs.
There are good grounds for believing that in the great majority of cases of physical dysfunction, emotional stress or
disturbance plays a very important causative role. Furthermore, in many cases mental-emotional
stress is the leading initiator of the disease. Consider these statistics:
According to the Institute For Health and Healing at California Pacific Medical Center,
more than 80 million Americans turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) every year.
A Harvard Medical School survey found that 68 percent of adults have used at least one form of CAM therapy.
According to a July 2000 study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, at least 69 percent of
cancer patients turn to a CAM therapy, most commonly in combination with allopathic treatment.
When combined with traditional psychology, naturopathic methods can help people to feel better faster
and learn to practice techniques that can prevent further problems.
For more information about how I can combine naturopathy and psychology to help you, please call
(408) 315-0645 or contact me online.
"Naturopathy relies on simple remedies - in
conjunction with fasting, exercise, fresh air, sunshine,
water and diet - to help the body regain health
naturally."
John Lust
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goal."
Henry Ford
"Deep change differs from incremental change in that it
requires new ways of thinking and behaving."
Robert E. Quinn
"We would accomplish many more things if
we did not think of them as impossible."
C. Malesherbez
"Joy is not in things - it is in us."
Ben Franklin
"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease."
Sri Swami Sivananda
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein
Randi Fredricks ::: 1723 Hamilton Ave Suite D, San Jose, California, 95125 ::: 800-957-5655
