Generally the First Session involves a wellness and goal overview, a broad assessment which includes determination of your constitutional type and pinpointing areas of particular importance.

We will also spend some time on key focus areas. The first session can also include a completely personalized printed guide to implementing your goals with leads for additional reading.

The first session, however, is not limited to this format.

Follow-Up Sessions usually focus on a particular goal or issue.
Possible themes include:

PHILOSOPHY and APPROACH

- EATING FOR OPTIMUM HEALTH with a pro-food, pleasure-oriented approach based on your individual needs and your constitution. Let me guide you toward smarter shopping, cooking, dietary planning, and exploration of new tastes to promote healing, wellness, and longevity or to target particular health concerns. Stop obsessing about what you can’t eat… Let’s talk about what you can and should eat and enjoy for optimum vitality. Find out what “diets” are missing and why a diet that works for someone can’t work for everyone. “Let your food be your medicine” (Hippocrates).

- SMART SUPPLEMENTATION begins with quality supplements carefully chosen for your individual needs. In the recent past the trend in modern nutrition has been toward large doses of highly refined, often synthetic, isolated so-called “essential nutrients”. However most ancient health systems and many enlightened modern healers understand that the body is a complex dynamic living system that benefits from complex, whole, natural food. The best supplements are naturally sourced or whole food based, properly co-factored, and used selectively to meet your specific needs.

- LIFESTYLE COUNSELING can be they key to discovering that elusive harmony between life’s pleasures, obligations, triumphs, and challenges. We are bombarded from every direction by the pressures of modern life, making it difficult to find a healthy and happy equilibrium. Striking a balance in life is one of the biggest challenges we all face. We have forgotten the wisdom in nature, the basic concepts of “going with the flow” and having a life of purpose. I offer a safe, non-judgmental, and objective helping hand to help you gain perspective, new coping skills, and realign your life toward a greater sense of overall well-being.

- NATURAL HEALTH MANAGEMENT: I like to imagine a future where both medical doctors and natural medicine practitioners understand their strengths and limitations and work together for the best patient outcomes. Enlightened researchers and medical doctors are coming to recognize the value of a natural and holistic approaches especially in the treatment of chronic and degenerative disorders, “disorders of lifestyle”, sub-acute complaints, and perhaps most importantly, prevention.

- LIFESTYLE COUNSELING can be they key to discovering that elusive harmony between life’s pleasures, obligations, triumphs, and challenges. We are bombarded from every direction by the pressures of modern life, making it difficult to find a healthy and happy equilibrium. Striking a balance in life is one of the biggest challenges we all face. We have forgotten the wisdom in nature, the basic concepts of “going with the flow” and having a life of purpose. I offer a safe, non-judgmental, and objective helping hand to help you gain perspective, new coping skills, and realign your life toward a greater sense of overall well-being.

- INTEGRATING EXERCISE into lifestyle is about an intelligently designed active lifestyle plan. Active living has not always come easily to me. I understand the challenges involved in making healthy activity part of everyday life. But our bodies have evolved to move – and the positive effects on our health and happiness are undeniable. I offer a different approach to making exercise part of your life and enjoying it - whether you’re just starting out, or need help building on what you are already doing.

- BREATH and ENERGY WORK has been used for millennia around the world in numerous traditional healing modalities. Meditative and hypnotic elements, hands-on healing, combined with specific guided breathing patterns are used to achieve profoundly heightened self-awareness and introspective ability creating a unique window for personal insight, transformation, and healing.

- TO BE CALM is more than just a luxury for those with time on their hands or a trend for the spiritually inclined. Even in the perceived chaos of modern life, a sense of deep inner peace is possible. The methods to achieving this have has many names across time and culture, but they all involve precise, scientifically measurable brain-states with far reaching effects on our sense of health and wellbeing. Let me help you re-learn or enhance this essential life skill using time tested ancient techniques or optional modern variations.