Over the last 30+ years, AFPA has licensed over 130,000 well being, vitamin, and health professionals. We frequently function distinguished and new graduates who’re utilizing what they’ve realized 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 Advisor with AFPA. I’m a working towards surgical ICU nurse in central Massachusetts and the very proud proprietor of A Higher Path to Wellness.

How did you initially develop into desirous about well being and wellness?

I grew to become desirous about holistic well being and wellness after graduating from one of many high nursing applications in Massachusetts again in 2014. The primary non-nursing ebook I picked up after a 4 yr bachelor’s program in science and nursing was a ebook on holistic well being and vitamin and kitchen chemistry. I used to be floored by the evidence-based science and data 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 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 intensive 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 could possibly be finished on-line that had nice customer support.

I did intensive analysis into studying critiques, evaluating applications, and AFPA simply actually checked all of these packing containers for me. I additionally favored that I might name and get a reside individual and ask questions and speak to them about what this system actually seemed like for any person who had no concept 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 folks 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 exploit 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 all around the nation. I assist them one-on-one in training periods. We take a look at the place you’re and assist type a holistic plan for you and the way you should use meals and issues in your surroundings, 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 academic 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 tips on 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 your corporation?

My favourite facets 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 periods and training, or the folks I meet out locally doing vendor occasions or talking engagements. I’ve made among the greatest buddies, and colleagues, and I’ve among the greatest shoppers that I might have ever requested for. The those that I get to have interaction with frequently 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 try this and I get to fulfill and work with a few of these superb folks.

Do you will have any success tales you’d wish to share?

I’m grateful to say that I’ve plenty of success tales that I might share, however selecting one would do a disservice to the quantity of onerous 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 folks 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 basically in itself is the success story of my shoppers as a result of all of them obtain success in their very own means. 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 reasonably priced, well timed, and may be finished by yourself accord. And I believe that it is just going to higher you as an individual, as a practitioner, as a coach, to proceed to coach your self and be capable of apply that to the sufferers, shoppers, no matter you confer with them as, that you simply handle, it’s solely going to make you higher in the long term. And the assets that you simply 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?

A Higher Path to Wellness

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Get Your Free Information to Turning into a Holistic Nutritionist

Be taught concerning the vital function of holistic nutritionists, what it takes to achieve success as one, and tips on how to construct a profitable, impactful profession in vitamin.