Mindfulness in Therapy

Mindfulness meditation is a practice that was developed in the ancient Buddhist tradition and continues to be practiced today.  It involves obtaining a calm and conscious awareness of one’s body functions and feelings.  Currently, many therapists are incorporating this practice of mindfulness meditation with cognitive behavioral therapy to form a treatment for a variety of … Read more

Drug-free Therapy for Pain

My specialty is to help our clients achieve optimum health and well-being, in a drug-free environment. What does this actually mean for a person? It can mean anything from just feeling good throughout the day, to healing and overcoming difficult health challenges. What it does not mean is maintaining drug use to an accepted perceived … Read more

Workplace Health Program

An effective workplace health program can help in promoting to workers healthy behaviors to avoid disease as well as help those already affected by disease to improve or delay disease progression.  While the evidence demonstrates good workplace health programs are beneficial, some employers choose not to invest in them or to cut funding for programs … Read more

Why Health Psychology?

Since 2002 I have been in practice as a Traditional Naturopathic Doctor.  I earned my degree from Trinity School of Natural Health who have been providing professional programs of study in Natural Health since 1991.  My education also included business management and dietetics.  Why did I continue my education in Health Psychology?  I have always … Read more

Can herbs help addiction? (part 1)

Alcohol An estimated 17.6 million American adults (8.5 percent) meet standard diagnostic criteria for an alcohol use disorder according to results from the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) reported in the current Archives of General Psychiatry [Volume 61, August 2004: 807-816]. Conducted by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and … Read more

Mindfulness Meditation – An Effort in Grounding

Mindfulness Meditation.  It seems everyone is talking about it.  Having graced the front cover of Time Magazine at least twice in the past eleven or so years, as well as being added to the tool box of many therapists around the world, meditation is becoming recognized as a powerful healing modality for many problems that … Read more