Integrative Healthcare
Creative alternatives - the best of both worlds
- Holistic medicine
- Humanistic therapy
- Holistic Western Acupuncture
Holistic medicine
My primary interest is in taking a holistic approach to helping people who are dealing
with health problems, particularly pain, stress-related illness and those whose illness
defies medical diagnosis or treatment.
I base my work on these principles:
- Health is not just an absence of illness, but the positive balance of all aspects of a person - body, mind, emotions and spirit. Accident, injury or stress (physical or emotional) can throw this balance out and lead to uncomfortable symptoms or disease. Often, symptoms can be recognised as a message that something is not right in one's life.
- Recognise the body's own ability to heal and re-balance itself, and design treatments to stimulate and support this function and thus strengthen it for the future.
- Focus on the individual, his/her unique way of life and response to their condition (rather than on the symptom or disease).
- Recognise that individuals need not be isolated; each of us is connected to others, to society and our environment in complex ways.
- Help each individual to regain control and the power to optimise their well-being, by means of respect, information and skill-building, thus avoiding inappropriate dependency on drugs or the services of others.
- Everyone has creative ways of dealing with the stresses of their life. Aim to help clients use that creativity in a positive way to recreate situations as they would want.
This leads to an approach that is:
- as natural as possible: my aim is to reinforce the body's own natural healing resources wherever possible, rather than override them
- complementary to other treatments, including orthodox medicine: I will recommend another therapist if the two therapies will work well together
- alternative: where diagnosis, drugs or surgery are unacceptable or have failed, I offer help to explore alternative strategies
- holistic: I treat each person as a whole individual, not just a set of symptoms or problems, and aim to restore balance between the different parts of the whole.
