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What is Holistic Medicine?

Holistic Medicine:

Strives to meet each patient with grace, kindness, acceptance, and spirit without condition and view people as the unity of body, mind, spirit and the systems in which they live.

Seeks to help people find the highest level of functioning and balance of human experience, resulting in a dynamic state of being fully alive, creating well-being regardless of the presence or absence of disease.

Helps to relieve symptoms, modify contributing factors, and enhance the patient’s life system in order to optimize future well-being.

Seeks to help each person evoke their own innate powers of healing of body, mind and spirit.

Utilizes safe and effective options in diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, which come from a variety of traditions, and are selected in order to best meet the unique needs of the patient. The realm of choices may include lifestyle modification and complementary approaches as well as conventional drugs and surgery.

Promotes partnership which encourages patient autonomy, and values the needs and insights of both physician and patient. The quality of this relationship is an essential contributor to the healing process.

Focuses patient care on the unique needs and nature of the person who has an illness rather than the illness that has the person.

Works toward the personal incorporation of the principles of holistic health- by the practitioners, which then profoundly influence the quality of the healing relationship.

All life experiences including birth, joy, suffering and the dying process are profound learning opportunities for both patients and health care practitioners.

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100 Village Walk

Guilford, CT

203/458-6676

Fax 203/458-6670

Working with the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of health and disease, we specialize in clients with chronic disease, chronic pain and women’s health issues.

Holistic Consultation with Karen M. Prestwood, MD. Dr. Prestwood is board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Holistic Medicine, and blends all of her knowledge to best serve each person. She pays attention to the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of health and disease and specializes in clients with chronic disease, chronic pain and women’s health issues. Dr. Prestwood provides primarily consultative services although she is currently accepting new primary care clients. Evaluations include a complete history with physical exam and laboratory work, as needed. After the evaluation, Dr. Prestwood may recommend herbs, supplements, nutrition, energy or mind- body medicine or other complementary modalities, as well as conventional (allopathic) treatment. Dr. Prestwood believes in individualized care and spends enough time with new clients to fully assess their specific needs.

Initial consultation (2 hours) $200

Individual follow-up consultation (1/2hour) $75

Group follow-up consultation (2 hours) $40

Energy Medicine works with the physical body as well as the energy field surrounding the body (aura). Frequently, our energy gets stuck or blocked in certain parts of the bodies or aura- resulting in discomfort, disease or discontent. Using various energy modalities, the energy is freed resulting in improved physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being (1 ½ hour) $120