We deserve more attention to ourselves in order to perform our best and give back effectively.
We deserve to be inspired to take back control over our health, and prioritize rest, recovery, stillness, and joy, just as much as productivity and performance, in order to nurture and optimize resilience.
We deserve to learn about the impact of our choices and our environment on health and wellness in order to foster positive health habits to inspire long-lasting and meaningful change in our families, communities, and beyond.
Having experienced a chronic health condition as well as cancer, I am acutely aware that there is more to health and healing than symptom palliation, and that a holistic, comprehensive, preventative approach to health is what will help us thrive as individuals and as a society.
Choosing health is not always easy
It involves patience, motivation, good days and bad days, and work, but the results may surprise you, and bring you to your best self.
This is what I am passionate about.
Enter Naturopathic Medicine
It is a primary-care model that uses traditional healing practices combined with modern medical knowledge to identify the root cause(s) of disease, remove obstacles to health, educate about prevention, and empower individuals to maximize wellness and vitality.
It approaches health with a comprehensive and holistic view, where the body is viewed as a unified whole; one that values mental, emotional, and spiritual health as much as physical. With a focus on the fundamental pillars of health and individualized patient care, knowing that each person has unique goals, risk factors, complaints, and values, it is a model for healthcare that helps you to become the best you.
Treatment modalities can include Traditional Asian Medicine and acupuncture, botanical medicine, nutritional and lifestyle consulting, nutraceuticals, and homeopathy. With additional training, many NDs in Ontario can also offer bio-identical hormones and Naturopathic Intravenous Infusion Therapy (IVIT).
Naturopathic Doctors play an integral role in modern healthcare - safely offering the complimentary and alternative approach that people are increasingly seeking.
I am incredibly grateful for and proud of our Canadian allopathic healthcare system - it saves, and makes meaningful impact on, countless lives everyday. However, the current model is one that cannot adequately support disease prevention, optimal chronic disease management, optimal nutrition, and wellness.
I am inspired by the direction that future healthcare models are going, which will see truly integrative healthcare models being more commonplace. As a Naturopathic Doctor, I am honoured to be a part of a patient's journey to health, providing integrative, adjunctive treatments alongside other medical care.
