Over the past 30+ years, AFPA has licensed over 130,000 well being, vitamin, and health professionals. We often characteristic distinguished and new graduates who’re utilizing what they’ve realized to encourage others and make a distinction.
Meet one in all 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 Marketing consultant 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 grow to be taken with well being and wellness?
I grew to become taken with holistic well being and wellness after graduating from one of many high nursing packages in Massachusetts again in 2014. The primary non-nursing e book I picked up after a 4 12 months 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 ideas that nobody had ever shared with us. I began asking round my buddies 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 packages?
I selected to be a Licensed Holistic Nutritionist and Licensed Dietary Wellness Marketing consultant 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 might be achieved on-line that had nice customer support.
I did in depth analysis into studying evaluations, evaluating packages, and AFPA simply actually checked all of these packing containers for me. I additionally appreciated that I might name and get a reside particular person and ask questions and discuss to them about what this system actually regarded like for someone who had no thought what to match it to.
The explanation I selected the certifications I did was as a result of I wished to have one foot in holistic drugs and one foot in Western drugs. 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 nicely 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 purchasers just about from all around the nation. I assist them one-on-one in schooling classes. We have a look at the place you’re and assist type 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 are 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 power to lecture to the athletic division for my alma mater, which was wonderful. I’ve gained pitch contests speaking about improvements on easy methods to change the face of what well being seems 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 components of operating your online business?
My favourite elements of A Higher Path to Wellness is the those that I get to fulfill, whether or not it’s the one-on-one individuals who discover me for classes and schooling, or the individuals I meet out in the neighborhood doing vendor occasions or talking engagements. I’ve made a number of the finest buddies, and colleagues, and I’ve a number of the finest purchasers that I might have ever requested for. The those that 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 do this and I get to fulfill and work with a few of these wonderful individuals.
Do you may have 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 onerous work my purchasers all put in. Collectively, the quantity of weight reduction, the quantity of diminished continual illness, the quantity of medicines that my purchasers 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 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 purchasers as a result of all of them obtain success in their very own method. 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 way of AFPA?
My recommendation to different individuals who need to get licensed by way of AFPA is to do it. It’s inexpensive, well timed, and will be achieved by yourself accord. And I feel that it is just going to higher you as an individual, as a practitioner, as a coach, to proceed to teach your self and be capable to apply that to the sufferers, purchasers, no matter you check with them as, that you just care for, it’s solely going to make you higher in the long term. And the sources 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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