Integrative Functional Medicine

My health career was initiated in 1981 after attending the Boulder School of Massage Therapy. For 10 years following graduation I maintained a private massage practice in Denver, Colorado. I then chose to take my career to the next level and pursue a Doctorate of Chiropractic.

I have always felt my career was designed prior to my “knowing” and my path is just filling in the steps. This was definitely one of those moments. I attended Palmer Chiropractic College in Santa Clara, CA., graduated in 1989 and began the next phase of my life as a Chiropractic Physician.

I established my first clinic in Sandpoint, ID. a small town in northern Idaho. The practice was an open room adjusting concept with a payment box on the wall, modeled after the practices of the philosophically based chiropractors. At that time, I used no supplement support, we simply adjusted, opening the nerve channels in the spine to support the body in regulating itself.

In 1995 I began to study European methods of natural healing, including homeopathy, nutrition, nutritional supplements, and a series of diagnostic tools designed for early detection of biochemical imbalances that lead to disease processes. Over the next 10 years I studied European Biological Medicine with Swiss based Naturopathic Doctor and researcher Martin Keymer, Dr. Thomas Rau M.D, the Chief Medical Director of the Paracelsus Biological Medicine Network, also from Switzerland, and here in the United States with the German Naturopathic Doctor Marlene Geiser. During this time I had the rare opportunity to practice with Alf Zeigler, a German medical doctor, homeopath and medical intuitive. It was the culmination of these experiences that have led me to the German Biological Medical system that I practice today.

Currently, I am mentoring under the Physicians Association of Anthroposophical Medicine (PAAM) as the first Chiropractic Physician to be certified by the international organization that has traditionally been exclusive to medical doctors. Anthroposophic Medicine is a holistic and human-centered approach to medicine viewing health and illness, nature and the human being in a spiritual light.