Over the last 30+ years, AFPA has licensed over 130,000 well being, diet, and health professionals. We often 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 title is Kelly, and I’m a Licensed Holistic Nutritionist and Licensed Dietary Wellness Advisor 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 develop into keen on well being and wellness?
I turned keen on holistic well being and wellness after graduating from one of many high nursing applications in Massachusetts again in 2014. The primary non-nursing e book I picked up after a 4 yr bachelor’s program in science and nursing was a e book on holistic well being and diet and kitchen chemistry. I used to be floored by the evidence-based science and data and the useful suggestions that nobody had ever shared with us. I began asking round my buddies that have been in med college, and nobody was studying about this very key piece of well being and wellness. There was such an absence of evidence-based diet, 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 Advisor with AFPA. After in depth analysis, I actually needed a program that match not solely with the sort of alignment of how I noticed myself as a coach going ahead, however I additionally needed one thing that was going to work with my busy schedule. I needed one thing that could possibly be completed on-line that had nice customer support.
I did in depth analysis into studying opinions, evaluating applications, and AFPA simply actually checked all of these packing containers for me. I additionally favored that I might name and get a stay individual and ask questions and speak to them about what this system actually seemed like for anyone who had no thought what to match it to.
The rationale I selected the certifications I did was as a result of I needed to have one foot in holistic medication and one foot in Western medication. I felt like there may be such a disconnect and there’s such a spot for each of them. I needed 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 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 setting, whether or not it’s including issues or omitting issues which can 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 way to change the face of what well being appears like. I’ve upcoming occasions for senior facilities and doing talking engagements for them. I’ve been featured on cable entry TV on subjects like Parkinson’s diet and extra. I’ve actually put the certifications and licenses that I’ve obtained to make use of, and it has helped propel me into the well being, wellness, and diet area.
What are your favourite components of working your small business?
My favourite points of A Higher Path to Wellness is the those 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 few of the greatest buddies, and colleagues, and I’ve a few of the greatest shoppers that I might have ever requested for. The those who I get to interact with frequently 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 any success tales you’d prefer to share?
I’m grateful to say that I’ve numerous success tales that I might share, however choosing 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 in a position to come off, the biomarkers just like the lipid panels, the fasting glucose, the insulin ranges which have all been decreased in a wholesome, optimistic, 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 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 wish to get licensed by means of AFPA is to do it. It’s inexpensive, well timed, and will be completed by yourself accord. And I feel that it’s only going to raised you as an individual, as a practitioner, as a coach, to proceed to teach your self and have the ability to apply that to the sufferers, shoppers, no matter you check with them as, that you just maintain, 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 neighborhood alone will proceed to serve you all through your profession.
How can we discover you on-line?
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Study concerning the necessary function of holistic nutritionists, what it takes to achieve success as one, and the way to construct a profitable, impactful profession in diet.
