The terms Holistic, Wholistic, Alternative, Complimentary, and Natural are all the buzz words that we so often hear today. They encompass a new, yet old way of looking at our health. Holistic health care enables the client to take responsibility and an active role in their own health and well-being - as who knows yourself best, but you. The Holistic Practitioner’s role is to facilitate the client’s own innate ability to heal themselves and assist them on their journey back to better health and well-being.

     The words body, mind and spirit are often used by natural healers as they treat the human body as a “whole” (i.e. physically, mentally, and spiritually) and not as individual parts. This means that if a client had a physical illness, for example a headache or back pain, it will manifest in the physical body, but the root of the pain may be related to their emotional and/or spiritual health.

     Holistic therapists are not against or an alternative to western health care, but compliment and work in conjunction with Licensed Medical Doctors. Natural Health Therapists do not prescribe drugs, nor do they advise you to go off your medications. They do not diagnose for specific illnesses or disease, nor can they offer you a “cure” for your illness or disease, although miraculous healing have occurred by using natural therapies. What holistic therapists do is use these non-invasive therapies to facilitate a client’s health at any stage, whether it’s an acute or chronic problem, health prevention or as maintenance. You as a therapist are there to help the client become whole again.

     Since more and more people have been searching for natural ways to address their health concerns, the demand has dramatically increased over the past decade, hence more health and wellness clinics and spas have been opening up each and every day. Natural Medicine is actually sweeping the world by storm. The need for qualified and professional healing arts practitioners is in high demand.

     As a career there is nothing more rewarding and satisfying than knowing that you are improving the quality of someone’s life, helping out humanity, and healing our mother earth. You become the facilitators of the client’s journey back to health and recovery, the integration of their physical, mental and spiritual selves, as God had originally intended.