Over the last 30+ years, AFPA has licensed over 130,000 well being, vitamin, and health professionals. We usually function distinguished and new graduates who’re utilizing what they’ve discovered to encourage others and make a distinction.
Meet considered one of 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 change into fascinated by well being and wellness?
I grew to become fascinated by holistic well being and wellness after graduating from one of many prime 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 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 had been in med college, 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 type 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 achieved on-line that had nice customer support.
I did intensive analysis into studying evaluations, evaluating applications, and AFPA simply actually checked all of these containers for me. I additionally preferred that I might name and get a reside particular person and ask questions and speak to them about what this system actually appeared like for someone 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 may be 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 properly 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 everywhere in the nation. I assist them one-on-one in training periods. We take a look at the place you might be and assist kind a holistic plan for you and the way you should utilize meals and issues in your atmosphere, 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 superb. I’ve received pitch contests speaking about improvements on how you can 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 subjects like Parkinson’s vitamin 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 vitamin house.
What are your favourite components of operating what you are promoting?
My favourite elements 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 training, or the individuals I meet out in the neighborhood doing vendor occasions or talking engagements. I’ve made a few of the greatest mates, and colleagues, and I’ve a few of the greatest shoppers that I might have ever requested for. The people who I get to interact 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 superb individuals.
Do you might have any success tales you’d prefer to share?
I’m grateful to say that I’ve loads of 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 power 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 diminished 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 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 inexpensive, well timed, and may be achieved 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 be capable of apply that to the sufferers, shoppers, no matter you check with 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 neighborhood alone will proceed to serve you all through your profession.
How can we discover you on-line?
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Be taught concerning the necessary position of holistic nutritionists, what it takes to achieve success as one, and how you can construct a profitable, impactful profession in vitamin.
