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 nutrients, herbs, and diet.

How I Can Help

Because disease or disorders are often affected by our emotions and state of mind, Naturopathic Psychotherapy is 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 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 naturopathy and transpersonal psychology 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

1. The healing power of nature.
   Each person has the inherent ability to establish, maintain and restore their health. The naturopath's role is to facilitate and augment this process, to act to identify and remove obstacles to health and aid recovery.
   
   
2. 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.
   
   
3. 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.
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
5. 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.
   
   
6. 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.