Home Visits and Telehealth
Holistic Care:
serving older adults (70+)
As a naturopathic physician with a home-visit practice I provide a medical approach that serves you as an individual.
To support your body, mind and spirit, this approach includes:
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lifestyle recommendations (nutrition, movement, mindfulness),
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craniosacral therapy,
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natural therapies (herbal medicine, homeopathy, nutrients),
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conventional and specialized laboratory testing and
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medication management.
I can also assist you to get the most out of all of your medical care by helping you navigate the complexities of the healthcare system and partner with your other practitioners. In essence, you have a naturopathic geriatrician as an integral part of your team.
As we age, we change and there is tremendous power and opportunity that comes with this. Each decade we notice that our function, ability, or agility has altered. These changes can be supported and even celebrated. We may need to focus on different activities, while aging gives us an opportunity to discover what we love. I invite you to reflect on what matters most so we can work together to ensure you feel empowered to effect positive change in your life and others'.
My goal is to enhance your well-being through prevention and health-enhancing choices, while navigating the natural process of aging and the knowledge and wisdom that comes with it.
I look forward to meeting you and working together.
End of Life Care:
serving all ages
If you or a loved are approaching the end of life, I would be honored to support your process.
As a naturopathic physician I offer a variety of modalities to help manage symptoms that may arise at the end of life, naturopathic and conventional. Working closely with the hospice team, family and friends, I ensure the needs and wants of the dying person are addressed with compassion and care.
Craniosacral therapy is available to the dying person and to their circle of family and friends. This gentle bodywork calms the nervous system, helps comfort and awaken us.
Dying is an opportunity for us to tend to what has been left undone. With support and guidance we can forgive, apologize, be forgiven, rejoice, and express our love. We can lean in when we have nothing to lose.
Each death is as individual as each life; while we cannot predict, we can prepare.
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED)
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking is a deliberate, self-initiated action by a patient with decision-making capacity to hasten death in the setting of suffering {that is} refractory to optimal palliative interventions, prolonged dying that the person finds intolerable, or expected deterioration or suffering due to an irreversible illness, that the person regards as unacceptable.*
*Clinical Guidelines for VSED were published in 2023, in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. This process requires planning and support, which I can provide in the roles of team leader and physician.
My role may include the helping track the conditions impacting you to evaluate timing, planning and preparation, and medical management for physical, emotional and spiritual support throughout the process of VSED.
VSED is a legal option in all states. Additional information is available through the non-profit VSED Resources Northwest.
Craniosacral Therapy
Craniosacral therapy is a gentle, hands-on method of evaluating and enhancing the functioning of the body. The craniosacral system comprises the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord, as well as the fascia that extends over the entire body. The treatment can be applied to all parts of the body. The results of this therapy is a calming and toning of the nervous system, which positively effects the entire body. Craniosacral therapy also releases of fascial adhesions and patterns which can result in improved alignment and a reduction in pain.