Patients

The Naturopathic Process provides an alternative route to conventional medicine. Derek is a specialist in natural medicine and preventative health-care, integrating scientific knowledge with traditional healing wisdom.

As a Naturopathic Doctor he listens very carefully to your priorities, makes his assessments and develops a treatment plan considering the environmental, physical and emotional aspects of your individual case. Unlike the modern medical health-care system where the majority of illnesses are treated with either pharmaceuticals or surgical techniques, Derek can offer the most specific of presently 12 different gentle and highly effective therapies to address your illness directly.

Patients seek health-care for two primary reasons - to address acute/ recent ailments or to address chronic/longstanding ailments. These can be booked according to need and severity.

Initial appointments are generally 1 1/2 hours. At such time, a determination of the underlying cause for your symptoms is developed integrating both modern and traditional diagnostic methods of assessment. This is to understand its significance in relationship of your medical history and your present physical state. Derek's role then is to educate his patients, apply treatment, and encourage responsibility for one's health in the most basic of things. Follow up visits concentrate on refining a patient's treatment plan toward correcting the original concern. Each treatment intention is to solve the problem rather than beginning a costly maintenance program. As his patient, he will guide you through the process and provide you with strengthening and preventative techniques unique to your case.