Integrative Medicine

Step into the Emerging Future

My style of practice is similar to the way medicine is practised in Europe. Gentler medicines first, before the strong. And don’t worry, I pull out the strong medicines as needed which are part of my tool kit.

Let’s start by making a general broad strokes description of causes of illness and disease. We can say there are two main causes: those that come from the outside and those that come from within. We can categorize them as material causes and psychological causes.

Material Causes

Material causes come from our environment, and include infections from bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. For example: living in a mouldy basement, or having mould in your car etc. Other examples are poisoning from pesticides, herbicides, preservatives, dyes, and drugs, as well as exposure to radiation. Accidents, injuries and a lack of oxygen. Side effects of medications. Nutritional deficiencies such as a lack of food, essential vitamins and minerals can also lead to illness.

The importance of lifestyle in health and wellness is a conversation which cannot be avoided. You cannot live in a musty mouldy basement and expect to get better. You cannot work a 100 hour week and not think that stress will take it's toll on you. You cannot be on conventional medications for years without experiencing the (side) effects. A whole-person approach to wellness includes these aspects of health.

Functional medicine, Traditional Chinese medicine and Homeopathy are the ways I choose to approach material causes.

Psychological Causes

The general thinking and philosophy around the causes of chronic disease is that the deep roots of the cause lie buried within our psyche. If we understand the existence of the mind-body connection then we understand that these deep roots manifest on the physical plane.

Cutting off the flower or stems (that’s a metaphor) may make it look and feel better for a while, but this is not permanent healing. True healing lies in deeper exploration and addressing root causes. These root causes are psychological and can result from things such as intergenerational themes and trauma, stress, fear, worry and unresolved problems. Factors often overlooked by conventional medicine.

Homeopathy offers the gift of true healing. With its unique concept, homeopathy captures individually experienced stress patterns and translates them into a suitable remedy from nature. No matter what therapeutic path you take, healing is best achieved when individual disease patterns are understood in depth.

In his book The Myth of Normal, Gabor Maté highlights numerous studies and case histories that confirm the connection between stress, trauma, emotions, and chronic illness.

The challenge as a practitioner is that patients are often unaware of unconscious energy or themes driving their struggles. As a homeopath, the practitioner’s role is to hold space, guide and look for clues to where the stuck energy or sensitivity is.

Integrative Body Psychotherapy and Homeopathy are the ways I choose to explore and heal the deeper psychological aspects of being.

Organon aphorism §77

Those diseases are inappropriately named chronic which persons incur who expose themselves continually to AVOIDABLE noxious influences, who are in the habit of indulging in injurious liquors or aliments, are addicted to dissipation of many kinds which undermine the health, who undergo prolonged abstinence from things that are necessary for the support of life, who reside in unhealthy localities, especially marshy districts, who are housed in cellars or other confined dwellings, who are deprived of exercise or of open air, who ruin their health by over-exertion of body or mind, who live in a constant state of worry, etc. These states of ill-health, which persons bring upon themselves disappear spontaneously, provided no chronic miasm lurks in the body, under an improved mode of living, and they cannot be called chronic diseases.

Dr. Samuel Hahnemann MD, founder of Homeopathy

Hope

Hope is one of my core values. One of my strengths is holding an umbrella of hope for you. Healing and growth take time and the road is not always easy. If you’ve been struggling, you may have forgotten—or may not even know—that things can get better. Hope is essential for staying motivated on your path, especially when things feel difficult. And we all know that anything worth doing comes with challenges.

Even if you feel like hope is lost for you and your health, I’m here to remind you that there is always something we haven’t tried yet. I will hold space for hope, even when you feel like it’s gone.

This is medicine for you, not just your symptoms.

When asked what my specialty is, this is not easy to answer. This is an allopathic question and in itself demonstrates the fundamental difference between an allopathic approach to medicine and homeopathy. I treat the individual, not the disease. I will say I have been in practice a long time and there is very little I have not seen, however there are certain areas I am highly trained, skilled and experienced to work in.

One focus of my work is psychological according to the work of Jack Rosenberg and Virginia Satir. In order to better understand the history of my patients, methods such as dream work, imagination, intergenerational themes and shadow work are important tools in daily work. I have completed the three-year advanced training course at the IBP Institute in California, USA and advanced training with the Satir Institute of the Pacific.

Body and somatic pain. If you are have tried and are not getting significant relief from body-centred therapies, you may want to consider a different approach. Integrative Body Psychotherapy understands that unconscious protective coping is felt as holding patterns in our muscles, bones and fascia.

We exist inescapably in the context of relationships. Explore the underappreciated interpersonal component of our health.

“It’s not what trauma or what happened that’s important. It’s what you did with it on the inside”

Gabor Mate. The Myth of Normal

Low energy, and fatigue. It’s not any fun not having alot of energy to enjoy life. Join me as we remove obstacles to your vitality and activate your ability to recalibrate.

Inflammation and autoimmune concerns. Immune system and digestive complaints. Female hormonal complaints. These systems are the fundamentals of good health and integrative medicine. If you are looking for a permanent solutions, reach out here.

Accidents/injury/sports injuries in adults and children. My early years my specialty had been treating physical pain.I am specially trained and experienced in this area; Traditional Chinese medicine and homeopathy are exceptional tools for accidents and injury.

Sudden reversals in health.

We want to comfortable and these get in the way of our enjoyment of life. I walk with you and shine a guiding light as we explore. These can be an alone symptom or a component of your diagnosis/symptoms.

One of the groups I like to work with is CEOs. A CEO is someone who is in a lead position who mentors others and upon whom others lean.  This can be a mom, a dad, uncle or auntie, manager, supervisors, health care professionals, school principals, teachers and anyone who other people rely and lean on.

I work with children and the elderly. Working with children is a specialty. Learn more about working with childrenhere.

I find solutions for those struggling with acute and chronic complaints who are not getting answers they need from mainstream medicine/modalities.