Details of Services
Now offering naturopathic consultations. Collaborating with practitioners at the Washington Institute to provide full-service naturopathic care. Call for scheduling.
Honoring your individual life journey: Body, Mind and Spirit.
Dr. Ralph Wilson, ND
Naturopathic Functional Assessment
Based on Integrative Medicine with a deep appreciation of the techniques described by Traditional Naturopathy. This intake includes a preventive approach plus evaluation of obstacles that prevent the natural healing power of the body from moving a person toward improved health. In addition to physical observations, this may include Acugraph Digital Meridian Imaging, Iridology photographs, Heart Rate Variability testing, Autonomic Response Testing (a kind of Kinesiology testing), and when appropriate the laboratory tests available at the Institute. Diagnostic labels are based on homeopathic and Oriental medicine. "My approach is to help the individual see themselves in a new way; this can be very important for them to make decisions that lead to deeper health and improved feeling of wellbeing."
Treatments and recommendations are aimed at freeing the body's natural healing power. These may include: physical treatments such as craniosacral therapy; neuro-SCENAR; auriculotherapy (no-needle ear acustimulation); nutritional supplements and homeopathic remedies. In addition, referral to other Washington Institute practitioners can be arranged. He is glad to coordinate with your conventional medical doctor. The goal is to empower the patient to be the main provider of support to their body's healing.
Naturopathic Pastoral Counseling
He works with people who want to understand their "health puzzles" and know more about their body, mind and spirit. He explores structure and function to present expanded options for changing your life on a whole-person basis. He offers unique insights and techniques that help you sidestep "mental illness labels" and discover an alternate path to self-control and self-appreciation.
His approach includes considering allergies/hypersensitivities, Autonomic Nervous System function and excesses or deficiencies that affect mind and body. He may use mind-body correlations from Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, and the New Understanding of the Natural World that accompanies Homeopathic Medicine. His eclectic support of your mental and physical health may also integrate body psychotherapy, eye movement and mental field "tapping", craniosacral therapy, auriculotherapy, insight counseling and various biofeedback technologies.
He has a depth of experience with supporting people who are dealing with a range of concerns such as enhancing wellness, child/adolescent performance, autism, cancer and chronic illness, or end-of-life issues and is glad to coordinate with your conventional medical doctor about this.
Craniosacral Therapy
A relaxing and rejuvenating experience that also works on deep inner rhythms that are part of the body's inner healing mechanism. The Autonomic Nervous System is the key to the rapidly growing number of stories of significant benefit from this therapy. "Autonomic Self-Regulation" is enhanced by this innovative therapeutic encounter; self-healing of a number of conditions has been reported in the literature that is developing as a result of wide access to craniosacral therapy. Along with the relaxation and increased sense of wellbeing there sometimes are releases of memories; Somato-Emotional Release is an accompanying technique that may be added during visits after the first one.
Electro Dermal Stimulation
Neuro-SCENAR technology, using the Tennant Biomodulator Plus. This is approved by the FDA for pain and muscle re-education. The patient feels an electric tingling as the cycles of on-off biofeedback stimulate the surface of the skin. The device contains an intricate computerized measurement and treatment algorithm based on original research that was part of the Russian space program; its stimulation can be applied to the traditional acupuncture points. Cosmonauts used the "SKENAR" device to stimulate production of neuropeptides in order to assist the natural self-healing mechanism of the body. Dr. Wilson applies this technology within the context of his extensive background in acumeridian science, physical therapeutics, and what he calls the human "Energy Anatomy."
Integrative Iridology
Dr. Wilson adapts traditional iridology into his overall assessment of the human physical and energy aspects. Computerized digital photography takes pictures of the iris of the eyes so that he and the patient can discuss the meaning of the different structures that can be seen in the enlarged picture. The science of microcircuits within the body is described as the basis for correlating different zones within the iris to different organ systems in the body. Dr. Wilson describes the iris structure as providing clues to the structure of tissues elsewhere in the body at the time of development in the womb before birth. This is consistent with findings of acupuncture that "everything is connected to everything else"; iridology can give information that points out strong points and areas that need extra support. "Neuro-emotional Iridology" information about personality tendencies -- based on the Rayid system of interpretation -- is also included as described in the book What the Eye Reveals.
Classical Homeopathic Evaluation
Constitutional homeopathy interview. Introduces the patient to the concept of their "Healthy Core Constitution." Includes counseling in self-knowledge and "homework" of doing their own Emotional Experience Inventory. Books and resources for further study on their own are discussed. They receive the experience of a homeopathic remedy that is chosen to specifically target the healthy part of their life.
Integrative Homeopathy Consultation/Miasms
Expands upon the basic Healthy Core evaluation and begins addressing such important parts of the person's health as their Timeline of life's shocks and traumas. Integrative Homeopathy describes the approach called "Heilkunst" (from the title of the book by German physician Samuel Hahnemann, M.D.). A description is given of the human being's unseen Energy Anatomy and of the "energy hijackers" known as Chronic Miasms and other disturbing energy experiences that block the natural healing process of their Living Power.