The Consultation
Nutritional Therapy
Before the consultation, I will send you a questionnaire to fill in, which asks questions about general lifestyle, food preferences and symptoms you may be suffering. There will also be a three day food diary to complete, in order that I can get as clear a picture as possible of your current diet.
The consultation itself will take approximately one hour, and will consist of clarification on any of the questionnaire that I feel needs to be expanded upon, an explanation of what I believe to be happening, with regard to the food you are eating. For example, it may be apparent that your liver needs support, or that there is evidence of a possible food intolerance or even a parasite infection. I will spend time explaining the links between symptoms and the diet and how I feel it is best to progress, with a view to dietary changes, possible testing and perhaps a supplementation programme, again, tailored to the individual.
Subsequent consultations will depend on the progress made initially. It may be that there are several things to address and changes may occur between consultations, which will require longer treatment. It may be, on the other hand, that the protocol adopted makes immediate improvements and that only two or three consultations are required.
Homoeopathy
The homoeopathic consultation is quite different from the nutritional consultation. The initial appointment can be expected to take approximately 1 ½ housr (for children, this usually reduces to 1 hour), during which time it is important that I find out as much about my patient as an individual as I can.
I will need to gain as detailed an understanding as possible of my patient, particularly anything that he or she feels if typical or peculiar to him or her. I would stress that I am not looking for secrets, but rather how this patient reacted to events in his or her life and how they shaped him or her into the person that they became. The more detailed and open the patient can be, then the more tools I have available to me to find the correct remedy. It is a process that all my patients have found beneficial, often simply because it is the first time they have had the opportunity to tell their story to an unprejudiced ear. My job is absolutely not to judge but simply to listen and try to understand.
Again, the treatment may take some time if the complaint has been present for many years, but it may be that it can be dealt with very quickly. With regard to homoeopathy, I always like to see my patients a minimum of three times. This is to ensure that, even if the complaint has been addressed, then the system has been strengthened to the point that the susceptibility has also been addressed.
Combined Nutrition and Homeopathy
An initial appointment combining both of these therapies will take approximately 2 hours and will take every aspect of each therapy into consideration. Most of my patients adopt this approach in order to gain the most benefit from an appointment.
| Initial consultation | £90 |
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| Follow-up | £65 |
| Initial consultation | £80 |
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| Follow-up | £65 |
| Initial consultation | £65 |
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| Follow-up | £50 |