Your Consultation...

Your consultation should feel like a chat where you’ll tell me about what you’d like sorting out, including how long you’ve had the complaint and what influences it.

Your medical history and your family’s medical history may also be discussed since it gives an idea of what you’ve been susceptible to and may be susceptible to in future.

This information helps to build a picture of influences on your own health. It’s also important to get an idea of how your illnesses make you feel.

The initial consultation lasts up to 1 hour. The aim is to get an overview, not only of your complaint but of you as a person.

Follow-up appointments are usually monthly and also last up to 1 hour. As your health improves, and you reach your health goals, the interval between appointments will become longer.

Who is Homoeopathic Al?

When I get ill, and let's face it, I'm human too, I try humour first. I feel that laughter is the best medicine. A close second is homoeopathy. I've chosen to spell homoeopathy this way since this is the English spelling. I was informed that by spelling my profession homeopathy, I was in fact ultimately practicing something else. The second spelling is the more common American spelling and the most common spelling found on the internet so I chose homeopathical, instead of homoeopathical.

In my home we have no aspirin, no paracetamol, no antihistamines, no Alka Seltzer, no Piriton, no Calpol, no Optrex, no Diocalm, which reminds me, I'd best buy a First Aid kit! The thing is, we use homoeopathy. It works. We have some flower remedies, herbal medicines and aromatherapy too but essentially the conventional route is our last resort. I can't remember the last time I saw a doctor as a patient. I do rub shoulders with the orthodox medical world. Partly, because I was a physiologist and pharmacologist before becoming a homoeopath and partly because some doctors are human too.

I would describe myself as a healer. I facilitate that process through homoeopathic medicines that I prescribe to help heal you where you're stuck; where you're sick, ill or whatever you choose to call your problem.

A homoeopathic prescription will help you identify with the solution, rather than focussing on your problem.

Sometimes I'm classical sometimes I'm downright radical in my prescribing methods. Therefore I choose to describe my prescribing technique as flexible. Homoeopathy is fundamentally about helping you get well again as quickly, gently and permanently as possible so it's important to match not only the medicine for you but also the way in which it's prescribed. For instance, homoeopathy has a reputation for making your symptoms worse before they get better, however, that's just dependent on how they're prescribed.

What do I specialise in?

People! That sounds like a simple cop-out but that's actually what I specialise in. Some people want me to treat their dogs and cats but I can't since I'm not a vet! So, people... small ones, big ones, old ones, new ones, any ones!

Homoeopathy can help pretty much anything and anyone. I tend to attract fairly challenging cases, in the sense that I have a broad knowledge of how our bodies work and how conventional medicines interact with our mind, body (and soul) and since I offer home visits too, I also get to help those unable to climb up the stairs to my clinic rooms in Bromley, Guildford, Wallington and Dorking and those people who'd just prefer a consultation in their own familiar surroundings for whatever reason.

Essentially, I love people, I love healing, I love my job and I love homoeopathy and the potential it has to help people free themselves from 'stuckness' on any level.