Emma Grieve
Integrative Medicine
Integrative medicine is directed at treating the whole person rather than just a presenting symptom or dis-ease. Doing this effectively requires that you, the patient, partner with me in the treatment process. It is the thoughtful, evidence-based combination of modern or conventional medicine with holistic medicine. The approach requires considering the likely most important underlying causes of whatever is troubling you. We work together in identifying those factors likely to help you to re-capture your life and health. It goes well beyond simply considering a selective and isolated set of symptoms. Using the best science, the challenge is to understand the root cause of the medical problem (or more usually, a combination of problems) that are the source of your ill health, considering interactions between genetic, environmental, historical and current lifestyle factors. I have many tools that build your sessions with me.
Integrative Medicine with me is divided into three steps:
- Ask. I ask questions and pay attention to what is physically happening to your body when targeted, a process called biofeedback. The answers are gained as specific muscles tense and relax in response, and by utilizing information gathered verbally from you for clarity. It is deeply science-based. More and more we are learning that what happens within us is connected in a complicated network of energetical relationships. Understanding these connections allows us to see into the deep functioning of the body. I have several methods for getting down to the nitty-gritty, my main one being this detailed Protocol Cart. In addition, I tune into the session (generally before you arrive) using Mindscape.
- Balance. I use the information provided to develop techniques that restore balance to the mind and body by targeting the affected body systems. We are all genetically and biochemically unique and we have all been exposed over our lives, to different social, familial, and physical experiences. Health and balance is not just the absence of dis-ease but a state of energy and vitality that contributes to an amazing quality of life, and no matter what the ups and downs are we traverse them with grace and ease.
- Communication. Your body has its own ability to heal and if properly supported, can delay or manage many of the disorders and challenges we face day in and day out. The final phase of our session is repairing faulty lines of communication throughout the body system. Tapping is used at various points on the body, especially the head (brain), chest (heart), and tummy (gut-brain) focusing on “energy circuits.” When the energy and vibrations are free to flow, so is your life!
~ Chronic pain~ Relationship problems~ Poor mental clarity~ Performance issues~ Arthritis~ Breathing issues and environmental sensitivities~ Behavioural problems at school or in social settings
~ Insomnia
~ Trauma
~ Migraines and Headaches~ Fatigue~ Hormone Imbalances~ Emotional eating~ ADD/ADHD, Learning disorders~ Allergies & Intolerances~ Infertility~ Depression and Anxiety
~ Epigenetics