Learn more about nutritional therapies at our clinic.
At Spirit of Health, we offer integrative therapy services to patients aged 14 and above. Integrative therapy combines tools, treatments, and therapies from multiple therapeutic and alternative practitioners to assess and treat the connection between your physical, emotional, and mental health.
When we think of addressing our mental health, we typically think of talk therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy. We rarely think about our lifestyle, which includes things like diet, sleep, physical activity, and connection with people and nature.
All of these lifestyle and body-related factors matter when we think about holistic healing through integrative therapy. These elements are the foundations we want to help you modify, improve, and maintain for better mental and physical health.
Learn more about our nutrition-focused therapy practitioners below.
Our naturopathic doctors are regulated healthcare providers who use natural therapies to support healing. They offer a wide range of services, including acupuncture.
Occupational therapists help with the therapeutic use of everyday life occupations with people, groups, and communities to support occupational performance and exercise across a number of daily tasks.
Our dietitians empower people to understand, embrace, and heal relationships with food. They tailor nutritional advice to everyone’s personal needs, challenges, taste, and accessibility while translating the science of food into simple terms.
The role of psychology and psychiatry is well-established in mental health care, mainly as assessing, diagnosing and treating symptoms. What is innovative and more unique to Spirit of Health is our intentional focus on the mind, body, and spirit connection.
International authorities recommend that the mind-body connection and healing through activity and nutrition should be some of the first line of support for people with mental health concerns1. The link between what you eat and your emotions has been studied for decades but is only more recently being considered an important part of mental health care2 3. Psychiatry and psychology are have developed sub-disciplines to study the aetiology and application of nutritional supports to enhance mental health4.
Studies have shown the links between what you eat and your emotions This article explains the mind-gut connection and some nutritional factors affecting mental health.
For more information and references, please visit our Resources center.
Your assessing practitioner will assess lifestyle factors and prescribe a personalized treatment plan.
This might include working with a number of practitioners simultaneously, for example a nutritionist for diet, occupational therapist for activity, yoga facilitator for movement, and psychologist/psychotherapist for addressing negative thinking patterns and enhancing coping skills.
You can also directly sign up for these therapies without the integrative assessment.
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