What happens during your first consultation?
Listening to all your health concerns and gathering information
If you have never had an holistic treatment before, you will probably be pleasantly surprised by the experience. In my consultations, clients have often said that they feel it's the first time that someone's really listened to them and taken their symptoms seriously. This is probably because, in holistic healing, every aspect of your health is important, and all the symptoms that you choose to tell me about, no matter how minor, will be taken into account when I treat you. Seemingly unrelated symptoms can point in the direction of treatment. This initial consult typically takes from 45 min to 1 hour.
Taking full details of your health history
In your first consultation, I would usually start by asking about your main complaint. I would then ask you a series of questions about other symptoms that you may or may not have. These would be symptoms that I think may be related in some way to your main complaint. If you have already submitted the intake forms online, I will have already studied these and as questions specific to the information provided. During this process, I would also ask you about any major illness that you've had throughout your life.
I will also request any recent laboratory blood work you may have done. Also included in the initial consult fee are various labs which test for common nutrient deficiencies, such as Vitamin D, Red Blood Cell (not serum) Magnesium, Zinc, Vitamin B12, Folate, and more...
This process, together with my observations about your complexion, general manner and appearance, would enable me to start forming my diagnosis. All of the on-line presubmitted forms will have already given me an idea of how to conduct the questioning during this initial consult. Request Appointment Online
Learn More About How We Can Help you.
Integrative Medicine
In addition to Eastern diagnostic techniques, I also make full use of Western medicine diagnostic methods. My approach is a multi-dimensional one in which all levels are addressed in order to facilitate true healing using a variety of natural medicine modalities and the best of Western diagnostics. On your follow-up consult you receive a 20 page report tailored to your specific imbalances and health issues. You also receive a customized Health Improvement Plan designed for your health needs. This Consult Summary will also include nutritional and lifestyle recommendations necessary to get you to optimal health!
Learn More About How We Can Help you.
labs included(mAY VARY DEPENDING ON INDIVIDUAL NEEDS AND CLINICAL PRESENTATION - all included in intitial consult fee):
Blood Analysis and Health Improvement Plan
Ferritin
Iron & TIBC
Fasting Insulin
Magnesium
Uric Acid
CBC (Includes WBC, RBC, Hemoglobin, Hematocrit, MCV, MCH, MCHC, RDW, Platelet Count, MPV and Differential (Absolute and Percent - Neutrophils, Lymphocytes, Monocytes, Eosinophils, and Basophils)
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)
Folate
Lipid Panel (Includes (Cholesterol Total, HDL Cholesterol, Triglycerides, LDL, VLDL Cholesterol)
Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (Includes Albumin, Albumin/Globulin Ratio (calculated), Alkaline Phosphatase, ALT, AST, BUN/Creatinine Ratio (calculated), Calcium, Carbon Dioxide, Chloride, Creatinine with GFR Estimated, Globulin (calculated), Glucose, Potassium, Sodium, Total Bilirubin, Total Protein, Urea Nitrogen)
Gamma Glutamyl Transferase (GGT)
Hemoglobin A1c with eAG
Vitamin D, 25-Hydroxy, Total, Immunoassay
DHEA-S
THYROID TESTING
T4 Free (FT4)
T3 Free (FT3)
TSH
Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies
Thyroglobulin Antibodies
Your customized health improvement plan…
Over 20 page report with recommendations and guidance for your specific health issues
All the resources you need to get well
Dysfunctions detected through science-based testing and analysis