Homeopathy, a comprehensive system of medicine founded by German doctor Samuel Hahnemann in 1796, boasts over 200 years of clinical history and evidence. This natural healing modality is holistic, addressing the mind, body, and emotions. By stimulating the body's natural defenses, homeopathy aids in mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Clients often witness not only improvements in physical symptoms but also increased energy, creativity, emotional balance, and a heightened sense of freedom.

Homeopathy focuses on treating the whole person, not just the disease, allowing it to be applied to adults, children, and animals of all ages. Whether addressing recent concerns or long-standing issues, homeopathy remains a versatile approach for various physical, mental, and emotional conditions.

Yes! Homeopathy is considered safe for people of all ages, including infants, children, pregnant women, and the elderly. Homeopathic remedies are made from natural substances in highly diluted forms, making them non-toxic and free from harsh chemicals. They work gently with the body’s natural healing processes and have minimal risk of side effects when used properly. Homeopathy focuses on individualized treatment, ensuring that remedies are tailored to each person's unique needs. However, it’s important to consult with a qualified homeopath to ensure the best results.

Homeopathy can support a wide range of health concerns by addressing the root cause of symptoms and promoting the body's natural healing process. It helps a wide range of physical, emotional, and mental health concerns and is often used to treat both acute and chronic conditions. It supports the body’s natural healing processes and can address conditions like chronic pain, digestive issues, skin conditions, allergies, migraines, hormonal imbalances, sleep disturbances, anxiety, respiratory ailments, and more. Homeopathy is also useful for managing acute issues like colds, flu, ear infections, and minor injuries. Additionally, it can provide support during life transitions, such as menopause or surgery recovery, and help with emotional concerns such as grief, stress, and behavioral challenges in children.

The fundamental tenant of homeopathy is that we do not treat disease, rather the person with the disease. This may sound obvious, but it comes as a surprise to people when they hear the questions homeopaths need to ask. My clients often say that they’ve never been listened to so intently by a health care practitioner before or asked so many interesting questions.. In treating chronic disease, I need to know about my client’s personality, physical constitution, lifestyle, relationships, work and home environment, temperature and weather desires, and food preferences, cravings and aversions.  Most important of all is the question, “What was going on in your life when you became ill?”.

Understanding etiology or causative factors is of little importance to allopathic/conventional doctors.  But in homeopathy, it is the most important information. The client’s disease symptoms come last in the priority. This is because homeopathy heals from the inside out….the physical symptoms are what appear last. This does not necessarily mean that they are on the skin, but that the physical body is an expression of the internal mental, emotional, and energetic aspects of the being.

In homeopathy, the "vital force" refers to the body's innate energy or life force that maintains health and balance. It's the vital, dynamic force that animates all living beings and governs their ability to heal and self-regulate. In other healing modalities, it is called CHI or QI energy in Chinese Medicine or Prana in Ayurveda.

When the vital force is in balance, a person experiences good health, but when it is disturbed by factors such as stress, illness, or trauma, symptoms of imbalance or disease can appear.

Homeopathic remedies aim to stimulate the vital force, helping it restore balance and promote healing from within. Unlike conventional medicine, which often targets specific symptoms, homeopathy views symptoms as expressions of a disturbed vital force. By addressing the root cause through individualized remedies, homeopathy seeks to strengthen and support the vital force, allowing the body to heal itself naturally.

Homeopaths often hear questions from concerned mothers, such as, “I asked our pediatrician how to prevent infections from coming back so I don’t have to keep giving my child antibiotics.” Similarly, women ask their gynecologist, “What can I do to stop recurring yeast infections?” Conventional doctors continue searching for solutions to these common concerns.

In homeopathy, the goal is not just to treat current symptoms but to prevent their recurrence altogether. Homeopaths have successfully treated children suffering from recurring ear infections, asthma attacks, and upper respiratory infections, many of whom had been on antibiotics for years. To the surprise of parents and doctors, strengthening the child’s constitution with the right remedy made further antibiotics unnecessary for years. How is this possible? Homeopathic remedies work by enhancing the body’s natural healing energy—its vital force—empowering it to maintain long-term health.

Yes! Bodywork modalities are often very supportive of healing. Such modalities include massage, chiropractic, craniosacral, Bowen therapy, fascia work, etc. It is not recommended to combine Ayurveda or acupuncture with homeopathic treatment, as they can have similar actions and can affect the body’s response to homeopathic remedies.

Since pharmaceutical medications are chemical medicine, and homeopathy is energetic medicine, the two should not be contraindicated. However, you may find that you need less pharmaceutical interventions after homeopathic treatment, so it is important that you work with your medical provider to adjust your prescriptions as needed. Wisdom Homeopathy does not advise clients on changing or quitting pharmaceutical medications. 

When we start working together, our first session will be about two hours long. During this time, we’ll discuss every aspect of your health and overall wellbeing so I can get a full understanding of your situation. Afterward, I’ll take some time to carefully analyze everything we’ve discussed and select one homeopathic remedy that best matches your entire symptom picture. We’ll then meet again about every 4 weeks to check how you’re responding to the remedy and make any adjustments if needed. Once your healing is well on its way, we can start spacing out appointments to every 6 weeks or so.

When you start taking a chronic remedy, you can expect one of four things to happen:

1. Your symptoms start improving. Sometimes this happens quickly, sometimes it happens more slowly. We should trust our body’s innate wisdom in prioritizing what to heal first.

2. You get a slight aggravation of your existing symptoms. Sometimes your body is so eager to jump-start healing when it gets the right remedy, and it will go “all in” too quickly. Believe it or not, it’s a good sign when this happens! It tells your homeopath that the remedy is the right one to stimulate a change in those symptoms, but the posology (how it’s delivered) needs to be adjusted.

3. You develop new symptoms. These are called “proving” symptoms and are caused when the remedy is not a good match for your symptom picture. Symptoms are typically mild and of short duration. We do our best to avoid this situation, and the occurrence is rare when being treated by a classically trained homeopath, as long as you are open and forthcoming with your entire symptom picture. We are only as good as the information we’re given!

4. Nothing. Very rarely, nothing shifts. This is typically due to “maintaining causes,” (things maintaining your illness) or “obstacles to cure” (lifestyle factors standing in the way of you getting better).

In an acute situation, you should start noticing positive changes within a few hours. In chronic care, it may take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months. This is dependent on your case complexity, history of suppression, level of sensitivity, vitality, and lifestyle factors.

Many people today are quite ill and have had some level of suppressive experiences, medications, and interventions that can further complicate disease processes and pathology. Because of this overall weaker baseline for many clients, our work in chronic care is long term and we often need to move through a series of more than one remedy to bring you to a stronger level of health overall. I do this in a very methodical and thoughtful way in my practice. However, in classical homeopathy, we practice just one well-indicated remedy at a time.

Classical homeopathy uses the traditional method of homeopathy which recommends one well-indicated, INDIVIDUALIZED remedy based on the law of similars. This means that your entire case is taken into consideration and one remedy is selected to address as many aspects of your case as possible. It is based on hundreds of years of practice and the original works of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the inventor of homeopathy. It also has a lot of research to support its methods.

Protocol or “practical” homeopathy is not based on homeopathic principles, and is, therefore, not truly homeopathy. It uses an allopathic approach (certain remedies for named conditions - such as Arsenicum album for eczema) and fails to consider the unique aspects of the person’s case. It is, in my opinion, reckless and dangerous, and can be suppressive in the same ways that pharmaceutical treatment can be. Protocols can really muddy a case and tend to cause more problems in the long run.

If you've fallen prey to practitioners who claim you can treat chronic diseases yourself at home with minimal training, be prepared if your new classical homeopath suggests a "remedy vacation" for three to six months. This break allows the protocols to clear your system before starting treatment.

Blended homeopathic remedies combine several commonly used remedies for specific therapeutic needs, such as colic or migraines. While the remedies themselves are prepared in a homeopathic manner, this approach differs from traditional homeopathy. While these blends may offer temporary solutions, they lack the depth of individualized care. From a medical perspective, it's akin to using a broad-spectrum antibiotic before identifying the specific strain of bacteria. While there's hope that one of the remedies will help, there's no personalized analysis or management, and your chances of developing secondary symptoms are higher. Blends are best for short-term acute issues when there is no access to individualized options or guidance. However, relying on blends can compromise the integrity of homeopathy.

I encourage all individuals to make informed choices and educated decisions. I recommend reading research from multiple sources, and never blindly trusting any practitioner or physician with your health decisions. Your health is ultimately YOUR responsibility. I will not discuss or assist in vaccination decisions with clients, though it can be helpful for my general analysis to know vaccination status.