PRACTITIONER PROFILE
Vivienne Ambrose
What has kept you practising for 30 + years ? I have always been passionate about being a natural therapist . I have always enjoyed the interaction with people and have wanted to serve people and nurture people enabling them to find their potential by improving their health and lifestyle , directing them to positive thinking and finding a fulfilling lifestyle abundant in health , contentment , peace , harmony and happiness .
What have been the most important changes you have seen in natural medicine during you career ? The wonderful range of exceptional products coming to the market for practitioners to recommend and prescribe along with the exceptional education avenues such as Congress and many of the amazing seminars and webinars available to all to improve one ’ s knowledge base and hands on skills . Evidence based research on the use of products is becoming more available and this gives more credibility to our profession .
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How do you envisage Natural Medicine developing over the next 30 years ? I fear natural medicine may become unnatural , controlled and over-regulated , suffocating the expression of natural medicine . I would not like to see our once-prized profession in the hands of doctors , pharmacists and others as they have their own profession - allopathic prescribing and their own methods of diagnosing . They should stick to that and not interfere in the natural therapists ’ domain . Our patients come to us as they want to get away from the medical side of things , choosing rather a natural herbal or vitamin , mineral or homeopathic product in preference to a medicine prescribed by a doctor . It would be sad to see their right and freedom to choose be taken away from them .
What advice would you have for today ’ s emerging practitioners ? Listen carefully to wiser , older and experienced practitioners . We have all carved out some territory and techniques and ways of practising that works for us and attract certain types of clients .
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