Naturopathy

Dr. Alicia Johnson is a licensed Naturopathic Medical Doctor. Her areas of expertise include women’s health, infertility, prenatal health, and pediatrics.

Dr. Johnson is a graduate from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, AZ. Prior to medical school, she received her Bachelors of Science in Life Sciences with a secondary degree in Gerontology, the study of aging. Dr. Johnson has a passion for getting to know her patients and working together as a team to address even the most complicated health concerns. By improving health naturally by addressing the cause of disease rather than simply addressing symptoms, she strives to help people change their lives from the inside out.

Dr. Johnson utilizes natural, non-invasive therapies to treat many common conditions such as menstrual irregularities, menopausal symptoms, abnormal pap smears, depression, weight loss, and anxiety. In the pediatric population, she uses safe natural treatments to address chronic conditions such as eczema, asthma, allergies, and ear infections.

Each patient is treated individually with a combination of nutritional supplementation, botanical medicine, dietary counseling, homeopathy, and lifestyle counseling. This unique individualized approach is effective for improving the outcome of almost any chronic health condition because many chronic diseases simply do not respond well to simple pharmaceutical treatment.

Naturopathic Medicine is also particularly effective in addressing digestive problems, fatigue, inflammatory conditions, and many other conditions that may otherwise be difficult to manage.

What Is Naturopathy?

Naturopathy is a comprehensive system of natural medicine that has been applied throughout the world for hundreds of years. It is very effective, safe and gentle method of healing which works by stimulating the body’s natural ability to heal itself. It views the illness as more spiritual in nature, similar to Traditional Chinese Medicine, advocating the idea that illness results from bodily imbalances.

A form of holistic medicine, naturopathy treats the whole person on mental, emotional and physical levels. It recognizes all symptoms of disease as disharmony within the person as a whole. Naturopathy recognizes that it is the individual who needs treatment, not only the disease. For a cure to occur, an internal single remedy for the whole person is identified, rather than a several different remedies for each ailment.

Dr. Benedict Lust was the founder of naturopathy and the man who sustained and popularized it. Lust had been exposed to a wide range
of practitioners and practices of natural healing arts.

Naturopathy Consultation

A naturopathic practitioner is a unique experience for someone accustomed to conventional medicine. The first task of the practitioner is to record all physical, mental, and emotional symptoms that will determine the patient’s remedy.

During the the consultation an individual will be asked to talk about their complaints, as well as the individual way in which they are experienced, one’s reactions to them and how they affect their life.

The naturopathic doctor views every disease as a mind-body process, where one’s personality traits are as important as their physical symptoms.

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