Over the last 30+ years, AFPA has licensed over 130,000 well being, vitamin, and health professionals. We frequently function distinguished and new graduates who’re utilizing what they’ve realized to encourage others and make a distinction.
Meet one among our featured graduates, Kellie Hamilton BSN, RN, HN. She earned her Holistic Nutritionist Certification from AFPA.
Meet AFPA Graduate Kellie Hamilton BSN, RN, HN
Inform us about your self.
My identify is Kelly, and I’m a Licensed Holistic Nutritionist and Licensed Dietary Wellness Guide with AFPA. I’m a training surgical ICU nurse in central Massachusetts and the very proud proprietor of A Higher Path to Wellness.
How did you initially turn out to be occupied with well being and wellness?
I grew to become occupied with holistic well being and wellness after graduating from one of many prime nursing applications in Massachusetts again in 2014. The primary non-nursing ebook I picked up after a 4 yr bachelor’s program in science and nursing was a ebook on holistic well being and vitamin and kitchen chemistry. I used to be floored by the evidence-based science and knowledge and the useful ideas that nobody had ever shared with us. I began asking round my pals that have been in med faculty, and nobody was studying about this very key piece of well being and wellness. There was such a scarcity of evidence-based vitamin, and I made a decision proper then and there that I used to be going to begin filling that void.
Which AFPA certifications have you ever earned, and why did you select these certification applications?
I selected to be a Licensed Holistic Nutritionist and Licensed Dietary Wellness Guide with AFPA. After intensive analysis, I actually wished a program that match not solely with the form of alignment of how I noticed myself as a coach going ahead, however I additionally wished one thing that was going to work with my busy schedule. I wished one thing that could possibly be completed on-line that had nice customer support.
I did intensive analysis into studying evaluations, evaluating applications, and AFPA simply actually checked all of these bins for me. I additionally appreciated that I might name and get a dwell individual and ask questions and speak to them about what this system actually appeared like for anyone who had no thought what to check it to.
The rationale I selected the certifications I did was as a result of I wished to have one foot in holistic medication and one foot in Western medication. I felt like there’s such a disconnect and there’s such a spot for each of them. I wished to supply individuals extra preventative well being and dietary interventions to pair with their well being. And the Holistic Nutritionist Program actually aligned so effectively with that mind-set.
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How are you utilizing your certification?
I take advantage of my certification by serving to individuals in some ways. Primarily, I’ve a house workplace right here in Worcester, Massachusetts the place I work with shoppers nearly from all around the nation. I assist them one-on-one in schooling periods. We have a look at the place you might be and assist type a holistic plan for you and the way you should use meals and issues in your surroundings, whether or not it’s including issues or omitting issues which might be simply actually affecting the general high quality of your well being.
I’m additionally a really passionate public speaker. I like to do instructional occasions, workshops, and talking engagements. Within the final couple years of my enterprise, I’ve actually branched out. I’ve had the flexibility to lecture to the athletic division for my alma mater, which was wonderful. I’ve received pitch contests speaking about improvements on the best way to change the face of what well being seems to be like. I’ve upcoming occasions for senior facilities and doing talking engagements for them. I’ve been featured on cable entry TV on matters like Parkinson’s vitamin and extra. I’ve actually put the certifications and licenses that I’ve acquired to make use of, and it has helped propel me into the well being, wellness, and vitamin house.
What are your favourite components of working your enterprise?
My favourite features of A Higher Path to Wellness is the people who I get to fulfill, whether or not it’s the one-on-one individuals who discover me for periods and schooling, or the individuals I meet out locally doing vendor occasions or talking engagements. I’ve made a number of the finest pals, and colleagues, and I’ve a number of the finest shoppers that I might have ever requested for. The people who I get to have interaction with regularly from having launched this enterprise and utilizing my certificates this fashion have come again to me tenfold. I’m so glad that I get to try this and I get to fulfill and work with a few of these wonderful individuals.
Do you’ve gotten any success tales you’d wish to share?
I’m grateful to say that I’ve a variety of success tales that I might share, however selecting one would do a disservice to the quantity of exhausting work my shoppers all put in. Collectively, the quantity of weight reduction, the quantity of diminished continual illness, the quantity of medicines that my shoppers have been capable of come off, the biomarkers just like the lipid panels, the fasting glucose, the insulin ranges which have all been diminished in a wholesome, constructive, sustainable method have simply shattered my expectations on what individuals can actually obtain after they put their thoughts to one thing and have the facility of a knowledgeable, skilled, empathetic coach behind them. And that actually in itself is the success story of my shoppers as a result of all of them obtain success in their very own manner. It has been a pleasure and can proceed to be so long as I advance in my profession to cheer them on and help them and yell their success tales from the mountaintop as a result of they deserve it.
What recommendation would you give others contemplating getting licensed by way of AFPA?
My recommendation to different individuals who wish to get licensed by way of AFPA is to do it. It’s reasonably priced, well timed, and might be completed by yourself accord. And I believe that it is just going to higher you as an individual, as a practitioner, as a coach, to proceed to coach your self and be capable to apply that to the sufferers, shoppers, no matter you confer with them as, that you just care for, it’s solely going to make you higher in the long term. And the assets that you just get from becoming a member of this group alone will proceed to serve you all through your profession.
How can we discover you on-line?
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