Who We Are and How We Practice

Naturopathic doctors are healthcare practitioners, like your GP, or family doctor. We go through 4 years of medical school after obtaining a 4-year undergraduate university degree. Our philosophy differs from that of medical doctors, however; it stems from the fact that the body and nature are our greatest healing tools. We know that, if we create the conditions for health, then we can prevent disease and enable the body to heal itself.

We believe in treating the root cause of disease and view symptoms as an attempt of the body to signal a greater underlying problem of imbalance, not simply something to be suppressed with medications. When patients do get sick, we believe in using non-invasive, natural medicine – such as herbs, nutritional supplements, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, nutrition, among other tools – to gently help the body on the road back to health.

We also advocate an individualized approach to health. We believe that no two people and no two diseases are the same. We treat people, not the disease they present with, and we take our time with patients – appointments are typically 1 hour or more in length – so that we can learn the patient’s story and understand what’s really going on with them.

In other words, naturopathic doctors are “physicians who listen.”

Naturopathic doctors use six principles to guide our care of patients. These principles are foundational to all NDs and are interwoven throughout our evaluations and treatment plans.  

Our toolbox is vast and our hope is to make you so healthy you don’t need us but for maintenance and ongoing prevention of disease. We approach healing from a hierarchy perspective. This perspective is represented by the naturopathic therapeutic order. Nutritional templates “diets” and lifestyle choices form the foundation for any health plan. Each stage above this foundation represents another layer of treatment the body may need to acquire self-healing.