What is an Integrative Health Practitioner?
Wellness and health can’t always be reached by just taking a tablet or changing just one aspect of our lives. An integrative Health Practitioner’s approach to health is integrative and holistic, looking at physical, social, cognitive, behavioural, spiritual, energetic and affective aspects of someone’s life.
An Integrative Health Practitioner / Coach (IHP ©) aren’t doctors or competition for traditional medicine. Instead they fill in the gaps and can help people create personalised practical, sustainable changes to lifestyle and diet to help them regain balance and steadily see improvements in their health
When working with an IHP©, some of the things you can expect to cover are ….
Personalised Diet /nutrition recommendations
Functional lab testing
Exercise and movement
Stress Reduction Techniques
Toxin Removal
Functional Medicine Detox and Gut Protocols
Resetting Sleep Patterns
Shutting Off Fight/Flight
Healing Emotions
Supplement Regimens
Developing a Success Mindset and understanding limiting beliefs.
The main principle is that our bodies are like a rain barrel. They are intelligent and have the capacity for self-regulation, which expresses itself through a dynamic balance of all your body systems. As we go through life, we fill it up with lots of negatives including lack of sleep, stress, and more specifically toxins. This gradual accumulation is really not noticed until it spills over. The spillover is a disruption in balance that has an overflow effect on other functions in the body, eventually leading to symptoms.
When working with an Integrative Health Practitioner they’ll address the hidden stressors that disrupt the balance, instead of chasing symptoms
An IHP© practice is based on ‘7 Integrated disciplines’ of natural healing, combining elements of ancient Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine with Naturopathy, Eastern philosophy, Bioregulatory Medicine (the science of self healing) and modern state-of-the art Functional and Orthomolecular medicine. Using these modalities we can determine the underlying, root cause of external symptoms and address lifestyle issues that set the stage for chronic illness to develop and decide which healing modalities to use at what time and with which people.
Integrative Health Practitioners work with people who are suffering from a range of symptoms
To name a few they include…….
Trouble losing or gaining weight
Insomnia
Anxiety and depression
Underactive thyroid
Digestive issues such as IBS, Acid reflux, bloating, food sensitivities, SIBO, Leaky gut, candida and gut dysbiosis
Womens health- PCOS, estrogen dominance, Bacterial vaginosis, UTI’s, Thrush
Men’s health- prostrate, low testosterone
Blood Sugar dysregulation
Energy and fatigue including chronic fatigue
Immunity & allergies
Skin- Eczema, psoriasis, Cystic Acne, dermatitis
Get in touch to find out if working with an Integrative Health Practitioner might be the support and guidance you are needing you to help get to the root cause of your symptoms and begin your journey to regaining balance and taking control of your health.