Traditional Naturopathy involves helping people to make healthy lifestyle and nutrition choices, empowering them to help themselves attain true health. In naturopathy, the whole person is taken into account in all recommendations. Physical, spiritual and emotional health are seen as equally important to well-being and clients are given educational choices about the whole person (sometimes called holistic). Each person is treated with respect, most appointments with clients last at least an hour, giving the practitioner and client time to understand each other and elaborate on suggestions for healthy changes that the client can incorporate into his/her life. The goal of a naturopath is to empower the client to make changes, the naturopath must be able to understand how a client lives and what nutritional and lifestyle adjustments that client is able and willing to make. Good health can be seen as a life in balance, when some part of that life becomes out of balance (through poor nutrition, lack of exercise, injury or emotional trauma) a person manifests an imbalance or disease as a symptom that can be a clue as to what needs to be changed to bring balance back to the person. A naturopath can provide educational resources to empower the client to make these changes, become healthier and then maintain that health for a fulfilling life.
Many people value their animals as companions and members of the family. The health of their companions is sometimes as important to them as their own health. More and more health consulting involves ways to improve the life and health of animals and naturopaths with the right education and experience can help educate and empower clients to make nutritional and other changes to improve the lives of their companion animals also.
Naturopaths use education as a tool to put health into the hands of the client, they do not diagnose diseases, prescribe medications or treat ailments, in either people or animals. Instead, they work with the client to educate the client about nutrition and how this relates to health and disease, herbs and how they have been traditionally used to return balance to the body and other therapies and their uses. Each client must decide in what ways they will live their lives to the fullest, the naturopath is there to give them the tools they need to succeed.
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Alethea Kenney has a Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Science from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN and a Doctor of Naturopathy in Traditional Naturopathy from Clayton College of Natural Health in Birmingham, AL. She is a member of the American Herbalist's Guild and has a certification in aromatherapy from the Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy. Her background in wildlife, ecosystems and plants has enabled her to teach people about how medicinal plants fit into the world and can enrich people's lives. She has 15 years of experience gathering medicinal and edible plants throughout the Midwest and brings this first hand knowledge to her classes. By using herbs, diet and lifestyle changes, people can learn to live healthier lives more in tune with the planet and their own spirituality. She has hands-on experience teaching people through workshops and classes to use herbs and diet to reach and maintain a healthier lifestyle. Her experiences as veterinary assistant, animal control officer and shepherdess have given her real-life experience in using nutrition to maintain a wide range of animals and seeing the value in natural therapies for returning animals to health.