Consultation
Initial Consultation
When you visit a homeopath, you enter a therapeutic relationship where they build a comprehensive view of your health, illnesses, and personality.
During your initial consultation, I’ll focus on understanding your primary health concern and your overall health.
Be prepared to provide a detailed timeline of significant life events, illnesses, surgeries, your present symptoms, your chief complaint, your emotional and mental health and medications.
This helps the homeopath identify your vulnerabilities and the roots of your health concerns. You may also need to share your family medical history, potentially including your grandparents, to reveal inherited health patterns.
The homeopath will inquire about your reactions to different situations, your environment, food preferences, reactions to weather, sleep patterns, dreams and general physical concerns. Though some questions may feel unconventional, they contribute to a holistic understanding of you as an individual.
Using this information, the homeopath will evaluate your case, create a tailored treatment plan, and prescribe remedies available at a homeopathic pharmacy.
The Homeopathic Prescription
If you are UK based you will receive your remedy in the post with details of the prescription including how to take the remedy and for how long.
If you are an international client I will email you your prescription with instructions on what to take, where to purchase and how to take the remedy.
I usually ask for an update around one or two weeks later by email for chronic cases. It’s really useful for you to keep a note of any changes you experience after taking your remedy as sometimes we can forget what symptoms we had as we get better.
Follow-Ups
For constitutional care, follow up consultations are required between 4-6 weeks after the initial session, depending on symptoms.
Each person is unique and cases are done on an individual basis, but basically the longer you’ve had symptoms the more follow ups you’re likely to need to get to the level of health you’re happy with.
I do offer email support in between sessions for advice as well. If you’re unsure whether you need a follow up session, just drop me an email and we can discuss this together.
How many consultations?
This depends very much on what sort of illness you have, as well as other characteristics of your case.
Therefore, I cannot assess this until I see how you respond to your remedies. Acute complaints may be helped instantly but, in general, a long-standing complaint will not disappear immediately, although there may be a response and some improvement quite soon.
Homeopathy is personalised, so the number of consultations varies per individual.
Many notice improvements after the first session, often needing two or three follow-up visits, typically 4-6 weeks apart.
For chronic or longstanding conditions, treatment duration may extend, potentially requiring one consultation per year you have had the condition.
Once the primary issue is addressed, ongoing collaboration with your homeopath can focus on preventing inherited tendencies and strengthen your immune system proactively.
ACUTE CONSULTATIONS
Sudden unexpected illnesses and events happen to us all at various times, and particularly to children. When this happens and you are an existing client of mine, you can book in for an acute session lasting 15 minutes for urgent help. Issues would include tummy bugs, childhood illnesses, ear infections, flu, accidents etc. I will see you over FaceTime/Telegram/Zoom for acute sessions and email your prescription including remedy and dosage. It is useful for you to have a first aid homeopathy kit at home for such times so you can take the prescribed remedy as soon as possible. If you’re not already a client of mine you can book an acute consultation through the SWIFT Homeopathic Care- https://www.swifthomeopathyclinic.com/
HOMEOBOTANICALS
Homeobotanical Therapy is a core system of therapy developed in New Zealand in 1984. Herbal remedies are prepared from liquid tinctures then diluted and potentised homeopathically.
The resulting remedies have incredible healing properties which are very gentle on the body to aid with detoxification, elimination and also enhanced absorption of nutrients.
Homeobotanicals may be suggested for you if I feel you need extra support for specific conditions, for example to support digestion, sleep, specific organs, thyroid issues or hormonal support.