Over the last 30+ years, AFPA has licensed over 130,000 well being, diet, and health professionals. We commonly function distinguished and new graduates who’re utilizing what they’ve discovered to encourage others and make a distinction. 

Meet certainly 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 Marketing consultant 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 turn into concerned with well being and wellness?

I turned concerned with holistic well being and wellness after graduating from one of many high nursing packages in Massachusetts again in 2014. The primary non-nursing ebook I picked up after a 4 12 months bachelor’s program in science and nursing was a ebook 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 pals 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 diet, 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 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 may very well be carried out on-line that had nice customer support.

I did in depth analysis into studying critiques, evaluating packages, and AFPA simply actually checked all of these containers for me. I additionally appreciated that I may name and get a dwell particular person and ask questions and discuss to them about what this system actually appeared like for any person 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 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 classes. We take 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 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 power to lecture to the athletic division for my alma mater, which was superb. I’ve received pitch contests speaking about improvements on the best 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 acquired to make use of, and it has helped propel me into the well being, wellness, and diet house.

What are your favourite elements of operating your corporation?

My favourite facets 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 classes and training, or the individuals I meet out locally doing vendor occasions or talking engagements. I’ve made a number of the greatest pals, and colleagues, and I’ve a number of the greatest shoppers that I may 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 have got any success tales you’d wish to share?

I’m grateful to say that I’ve a variety of success tales that I may share, however selecting 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 persistent illness, the quantity of medicines that my shoppers have been capable of come off, the biomarkers just like the lipid panels, the fasting glucose, the insulin ranges which have all been lowered 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 well informed, 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 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 inexpensive, well timed, and will be carried out by yourself accord. And I believe that it’s only 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, shoppers, no matter you seek advice from 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?

A Higher Path to Wellness

Instagram @a_better_path_to_wellness

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Get Your Free Information to Turning into a Holistic Nutritionist

Study concerning the vital position of holistic nutritionists, what it takes to achieve success as one, and the best way to construct a profitable, impactful profession in diet.