Over the past 30+ years, AFPA has licensed over 130,000 well being, vitamin, and health professionals. We repeatedly characteristic distinguished and new graduates who’re utilizing what they’ve discovered 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 practising surgical ICU nurse in central Massachusetts and the very proud proprietor of A Higher Path to Wellness.
How did you initially turn into 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 guide I picked up after a 4 yr bachelor’s program in science and nursing was a guide on holistic well being and vitamin and kitchen chemistry. I used to be floored by the evidence-based science and knowledge and the useful suggestions that nobody had ever shared with us. I began asking round my mates that have been in med faculty, and nobody was studying about this very key piece of well being and wellness. There was such an absence of evidence-based vitamin, and I made a decision proper then and there that I used to be going to start out 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 in depth analysis, I actually wished a program that match not solely with the sort 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 may very well be finished on-line that had nice customer support.
I did in depth analysis into studying evaluations, evaluating applications, and AFPA simply actually checked all of these packing containers for me. I additionally favored that I may name and get a stay particular person and ask questions and speak to them about what this system actually regarded like for any individual who had no concept what to check it to.
The explanation 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 folks extra preventative well being and dietary interventions to pair with their well being. And the Holistic Nutritionist Program actually aligned so properly with that mind-set.
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How are you utilizing your certification?
I take advantage of my certification by serving to folks in some ways. Primarily, I’ve a house workplace right here in Worcester, Massachusetts the place I work with shoppers nearly from everywhere in the nation. I assist them one-on-one in schooling periods. We take a look at the place you might be and assist kind a holistic plan for you and the way you need to 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 academic occasions, workshops, and talking engagements. Within the final couple years of my enterprise, I’ve actually branched out. I’ve had the power to lecture to the athletic division for my alma mater, which was wonderful. I’ve gained pitch contests speaking about improvements on find out how 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 area.
What are your favourite elements of working what you are promoting?
My favourite features of A Higher Path to Wellness is the people who I get to satisfy, whether or not it’s the one-on-one individuals who discover me for periods and schooling, or the folks I meet out locally doing vendor occasions or talking engagements. I’ve made among the finest mates, and colleagues, and I’ve among the finest shoppers that I may have ever requested for. The people who I get to have interaction with regularly from having launched this enterprise and utilizing my certificates this manner have come again to me tenfold. I’m so glad that I get to do this and I get to satisfy and work with a few of these wonderful folks.
Do you may have any success tales you’d wish to share?
I’m grateful to say that I’ve quite a lot of success tales that I may 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 persistent illness, the quantity of medicines that my shoppers have been in a position to come off, the biomarkers just like the lipid panels, the fasting glucose, the insulin ranges which have all been lowered in a wholesome, constructive, sustainable method have simply shattered my expectations on what folks can actually obtain once they put their thoughts to one thing and have the ability 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 approach. It has been a pleasure and can proceed to be so long as I advance in my profession to cheer them on and assist 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 means of AFPA?
My recommendation to different individuals who need to get licensed by means of AFPA is to do it. It’s reasonably priced, well timed, and may be finished by yourself accord. And I feel that it’s only going to higher you as an individual, as a practitioner, as a coach, to proceed to coach your self and have the ability to apply that to the sufferers, shoppers, no matter you seek advice from them as, that you just handle, 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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Study in regards to the essential position of holistic nutritionists, what it takes to achieve success as one, and find out how to construct a profitable, impactful profession in vitamin.
