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Integrative Naturopathic Consultations, Focused Referral Services "Services locally, Information Worldwide"
How I Approach Solving Health Problems Naturopathic Physician Code of Ethics Tele-Health Consultations and Coaching Consultations and Programs: Private Communications Portal and Health Tracker, with Library Acumeridian therapies: AcuGraph, NES, SCENAR, Auriculotherapy, Tapping... Biofeedback; Heart Rate Variability Cranio-Sacral Therapy and Somato-Emotional Release FlexAware Fitness Consultations Functional Assessment and Functional Medicine Homeopathic medicine: Integrative Homeopathy Iridology: Integrative Iridology NES biophysics scan and "Information as Medicine"
IMPORTANT: This is not an urgent care (emergency) facility. For medical emergencies dial 911 or go to the nearest urgent care facility
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Locations of Services:
Washington DC
The Naturopathic "Primary Care" situation in Washington, DC:
Integrative Naturopathic Consultations and Naturopathic Second Opinion -- These are based on my doctorate education in naturopathic medicine and extensive training and experience in other systems of medical thought (such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, and Homeopathic Medicine). I am committed to integrating high quality science and effective natural medicine approaches.
In the District of Columbia I am a licensed naturopathic physician. The profession is supervised by the DC Medical Board. I work with M.D. and D.D.S. practitioners when appropriate to give people increased options for healing of body and mind. I also have licenses as a naturopathic physician in other states.
Integrating mainstream and holistic care, my practice encompasses all ages, and is not limited by the diagnosis label a patient may have received from a medical physician. See Conditions Treated. I use a variety of approaches to help people use their inborn self-healing energy.
My practice is based on the depth of training I have received as a primary care naturopathic physician. I configure my practice to conform to D.C. regulations. When my patients need procedures and prescriptions that require a medical license, I refer them for consultation with a medical doctor.
Scope of my Naturopathic Care in DC: I particularly appreciate the fact that naturopathic physicians in Washington DC have practice guidelines that respect our trust in the body's innate ability to heal itself. I choose to not treat specific named medical diseases and instead treat the whole person. The recommendations I give are aimed at helping you learn your strengths and challenges. I help you find your own inner balance, physical-chemical-mental, so your body can heal itself. This means that I when I agree to work with a patient it does not matter what is their official medical diagnosis. I find that usually there is some kind of imbalance in overall health and I work with the individual so they can regain balance. My recommendations and homeopathic/ herbal prescriptions center on natural approaches that support the body's innate ability to heal itself. I do not use prescription drugs, but refer for them from an M.D. when needed.
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An individual licensed to practice naturopathic
medicine may:
a)
Administer or provide for preventive and therapeutic purposes
natural medicines by their appropriate route of administration the
following:
(1)
Natural remedies; (2) Topical medicine; (3) Counseling; (4)
Hypnotherapy; (5) Dietary therapy; (6) Naturopathic physical
medicine [defined as: the use of the physical agents of air, water,
heat, cold, sound, and light, and the physical modalities of
electrotherapy, biofeedback, diathermy, ultraviolet light,
ultrasound, hydrotherapy, and exercise, includes naturopathic
manipulation and mobilization therapy]; (7) Therapeutic devices; and
(8) Barrier devices for contraception.
(b)
Review and interpret* the results of diagnostic procedures commonly
used by physicians in general practice, including:
(1) Physical and orificial examinations; (2)
Electrocardiograms; (3) Diagnostic imaging techniques; (4)
Phlebotomy; (5) Clinical laboratory test and examinations; and (6)
Physiological function tests.
* Update: The District of Columbia Board of Medicine has approved
"including allowing them to perform physical examinations and order
laboratory testing and diagnostic imaging." |
My commitment to helping people whatever their condition may be is strong. I have training in dealing with the range of primary care needs. I can advise and treat people who have MCS, CFS, MS, ADD, Depression, Existential Crisis, body pains, and much more. When needed I will do this with the medical doctor as part of a team.
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Quotes that I find particularly relevant are: "It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has." -- Hippocrates
"A doctor who prescribes an identical treatment for an identical illness in two individuals and expects an identical development may be properly classified as a social menace." Lin Yutang |
Definitions of Naturopathic Medicine
My Training as a Naturopathic Physician
Outcomes Research and Science
I am committed to proving the effectiveness of the integrative treatments that I endorse. I am committed to the concept that someday Science will have ways to detect the energies that are behind the success of empirically successful techniques such as acumeridian treatments, Ayurvedic Medicine and Homeopathic Medicine. Note: In the near future I hope to finalize a research project, an IRB based upon the AcuGraph technology to monitor responses to treatments with CAM therapies.
How I Approach Solving Health Problems
I am an advisor for the Academy of Functional Medicine, Dentistry and Psychology [more]. I am part of a growing network of practitioners who assess and support the human health and wellness using a model that is only slightly, but significantly, expanded from current western medical standards. For most people I refer to the items on the checklist for factors that block healing [ANS Functional Factors], and use that to help decide what their next step will be. We appreciate the Five Levels of Health & Healing (see below). I usually describe my Three Control Systems model of how you control your life [see blog description].
I am trained in the basic western approach of taking a good health history, doing physical examination, ordering laboratory tests and appropriate consultations with experts as needed. I am also trained in Chinese medicine, homeopathic case taking, several kinds of counseling and mind-body techniques. Recently I have added the NES ProVision biofield scan because it is compatible with this expanded model. For those to whom it is important, I have a depth of training in spiritual approaches and shamanic work that we can discuss if it is of interest to you. When it will add to the effectiveness of treatment, I contact and work in team fashion with licensed medical doctors. I work together with the patient to decide what they want to do next as they move ahead in their journey of healing.
The Five-Level Map to Healing promoted by Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., Ph.D. [other site]
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The Five Levels of Health & Healing: Adapted for healthcare consortium Founders sites:
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Acumeridian theory and practice are changing the way scientists think about the human body and healthy lifestyle. Acumeridian therapies include much more than sticking needles in the body. Working with the “acumeridian” system is a central part of the treatments used by many CAM practitioners. I have a masters degree in Acupuncture, which included study in China with a Taoist physician. For many years I have studied and used different meridian-based ways of helping people. I have trained with Dr. Klinghardt, and Dr. McClure through Capital University classes.
More details on acumeridian theory [on teaching website].
Auricular Acupuncture (without needles).
Biomodulator: Pain treatment; muscle relaxation and re-education (SCENAR class of cybernetic biofeedback).
AcuGraph (Digital Meridian Imaging for Health Energies Assessment)
NES ProVision
biophysics scan: With Infoceutical treatment includes meridian aspects.
Other
as appropriate: Reflexology, acupressure, etc.
Biofeedback; Heart Rate Variability
1. RSA (Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia) technology allows me to coach you to “turn on” your parasympathetic nervous system; this is part of your Autonomic Nervous System. [For deeper study read about Stephen Porges, and consult references on Vaschillo's Resonant Frequency Theory.]
2. Heart Rate Variability is a way of assessing your Autonomic Nervous System. This is your own unique response, giving us vital information about your heart’s electrical activity and how your ANS is functioning to control that activity at rest and under stress. When we repeat this test in the future we will be able to monitor improvement in your body’s ability to self-regulate in response to stresses. [HRV info]
>> More details on
Biofeedback
My deep personal experience with Biological Dentistry -- first as interested reviewer of the information, then as satisfied patient and committed practitioner -- drives me to keep in touch with biological dentists and practitioners who co-manage patients who seek their care. Through my alliances with medical doctors, dentists and other practitioners I am able to provide life-changing networking to help solve an individual's health puzzle. Biological dentistry in some way touches on virtually all of the health sciences. The support I provide to the program for a patient can include any of the training I have had as a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, an acupuncturist, or other educational experiences.
>>More details on Biological Dentistry [on teaching website].
>> More details on counseling [With special message about Suicide]
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Making it Easy Call the office: 202-237-7681 | Telehealth option |
Integrative Naturopathic Counseling offers much more than talk alone. I am a supporter of the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine [more]. I am also an advisor for the Academy of Functional Medicine, Dentistry and Psychology [link]. I offer unique insights and techniques that help you sidestep "mental illness labels" and discover an alternate path to controlling your own life. In-person or phone/Internet. I incorporate "21st Century Processes and Resources" for mental health improvement data tracking for referral consultations and individual one-on-one counseling. I promote the concept of Natural Medicine and Mental Health [site]. Contact me and we can talk about your specific situation.
>> See also: Coaching | Temple Grandin and Brain Heroes | Trauma Resources | NICABM New Brain Science | Functional Medicine and Depression | HANDLE and Neurodevelopmental Differences | Support for Family Constellations | Brain Mapping | AcuGraph and Health Energies Assessment | Deep Personal Searching or End-of-Life Concerns for Family Member | FlexAware neuro-structural rehabilitation and fitness | [other site:] Autism | Personality Typing | Tapping therapies | Steve Jobs and cancer choices
Cranio-Sacral Therapy and Somato-Emotional Release
This is my program of Cranial Bio-Dynamics. It is the Upledger approach combined with training I had in the Cranial Fluid Dynamics of Solihin Thom, D.O. and then integrated with my knowledge of obstacles to self-healing, including Biological Dentistry and the effect of dental conditions on health. This is an important part of my Counseling options, as well as being crucial to my Detoxification and Rehabilitation programs.
>> More details on Cranio-Sacral work.
This
is a core aspect of the Integrative Medicine approach to health care.
Removing obstacles to self-healing is a part of virtually every program
I recommend. Through teamwork with other practitioners, such as for
colon hydrotherapy, my patients can receive a wide range of treatments that help
remove these "shackles" and improve freedom to heal.
This
is a combination of patient home-based learning, and the Comprehensive
Digestive Stool Analysis laboratory kit.
Functional assessments and Functional Medicine
Several methods can be used. Functional Laboratory tests and others, including Heart Rate Variability, NES scan, AcuGraph digital meridian imaging
>>More
details on Functional Assessments and Functional Medicine
Herbal preparations can be a very effective part
of an integrative medicine program. I encourage patients to study on
their own the benefits of different herbs, so they can learn basic
self-care at home as well as how to expand their use of herbs in their
meals.
Homeopathic medicine: Integrative Homeopathy.
Homeopathy offers a powerful way to remove Disease
from a person's life. Those who study homeopathy would identify
"Disease" differently than in the western medical model, pointing to
deeper original causes of health conditions. Homeopaths talk confidently about achieving Cure
in situations that otherwise seemed beyond hope. “Classical
Homeopathy” is sometimes very powerful, and that is an option.
“Acute Prescribing” is sometimes what I choose. I am studying the
Dynamic Medical System that is known as "The Medical Art" (or
"Heilkunst" in German), and consider this approach when I make
my homeopathic recommendations, as well as when constructing my overall
naturopathic medical recommendations; this is an integral part of the
Integrative Homeopathy program.
| I see the partnership between the homeopathic practitioner and person being cared for as a "Life Makeover." Everything about them is considered. This is much deeper than simply "fixing" some inconvenient, isolated symptom. --- Ralph Wood Wilson, N.D. |
>>More details on Homeopathy/Heilkunst, theory and application [teaching website].
Hypnotherapy/Soma-Focus
I offer client-centered hypnotherapy as a focused method of improving the communications between the inner automatic survival mechanisms and the conscious mind. All too often people are unaware of the distinct difference between their conscious mind and their body with its autonomic nervous system that has effects on the function of organs and systems such as heart rate, digestion, fight/flight alert mechanism, etc. Hypnotherapy helps to bring the body and mind into a more coherent teamwork arrangement. Read more about the new term, Soma-Focus. Note: I favor the approach of psychotherapist/hypnotherapist Milton Erickson and the more recent development of "Positive Psychology". I do not ask the person to emotionally relive past traumas.
>>More details on Hypnotherapy
Iridology: Integrative Iridology
Physical iridology and also Neuro-Behavioral iridology. Analysis of the iris including “autonomic nerve wreath” gives a very informative assessment.
In the District of Columbia I can order laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging.
>>More
details on laboratory testing and Functional Medicine
NES Biophysics Scan Technology and "Information as Medicine"
From the developers: "The NutriEnergetics System is the first and only instrument capable of accurately describing a full range of information about the location and causes of ill health. It quickly allows the practitioner to get to the root causes of illness and will often find factors that even the most sophisticated and expensive laboratory and imaging tests cannot detect. All this is done rapidly and non-invasively. Additionally, it gives precise information about the specific subatomically encoded micronutrients known as Infoceuticals needed to repair the body’s bioenergy field at the quantum level, bringing the body back towards optimal functioning, healing and well-being. It is a uniquely profound and effective system."
>>More details about NES Biophysics Technology.
As part of Naturopathic Primary Care I often create an individualized nutrition program. This can include Ayurvedic/Endocrine body type, ABO blood type and/or other considerations. The program includes a printed chart of foods to include and ones to avoid during your integrative treatment. Therapeutic Nutrition is a core tool of naturopathic physicians, and this includes the importance of how your food is raised and how it is prepared and eaten as well as taking nutritional supplements. I have worked as the colon hydrotherapist in an Ayurvedic clinic, and have a deep respect for the role of nutrition in the health of the bowel.
>>More details about my use of nutrition in guiding self-healing [on teaching site].
As a stand-alone treatment, or as part of an overall visit that uses several techniques, bodywork treatments can be powerful boosts to the body’s self-healing abilities. Deep tissue massage. Cranio-Sacral therapy. Chinese Tui Na massage. Infrasound device. I am certified in Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Field therapy.
