When you work with Mary



You will be really heard
Your uniqeness will be acknowledged
Perhaps for the first time
There will be no routine prescriptions
She will be carefully select a remedy for you
from thousands of thoroughly tested substances
To match your dis-ease at the most profound level
Bringing harmony and a deep
sense of wellbeing

Homeopathy is a truly holistic medicine
It heals the individual from the inside out

The focus is on you, all of you

Just imagine the change
a deep-acting homeopathic prescription will bring
A properly matched remedy
Will return you to health gently and

Every aspect of your life will improve

How liberating it will be to know
That same remedy will help you in future health crises
If you are weighed down by suffering
You will feel that burden lift

You will be empowered
Your health and vitality will be restored
You have endured enough
Now the healing can begin

Now you have found homeopathy

Homeopathy will be there to nurture you
Throughout life's journey
Your journey back to wellbeing starts here.


Take the first step

BOOK an appointment today
805 701 5927
or contact Mary via e-mail


 

Seeing Mary

If you are reading this, the chances are you or a loved one is suffering from a health problem that you want to resolve quickly, safely and permanently.


Choosing which practitioner to work with you to achieve this is a very important step. You need to know that the person you choose is qualified, experience and professional. You want to find someone who is compassionate and has your best interests at heart. Ideally it should be someone you feel a rapport with and can work well with. You need to feel certain that your confidentiality will be respected at all times, so you can feel safe enough to be open and honest about your situation.


Mary's foremost concern is your health and wellbeing. If you choose to see her, you can rest assured that your healing will be in safe hands. She has helped thousands of people to return to health and some of them have been kind enough to share their experiences in the Testimonials section of this site.

 

I don't live near Santa Barbara, can I still work with Mary?

Yes, Mary has clients from all over the world and has had a lot of experience of working with them via the phone and on the internet and she is happy to work with you in this way. Also, she will call you, so there will be no long distance call charges. Here is what clients, who worked in this way, said about the experience:


"Originally I was a little daunted by the idea of a telephone consultation, however Mary's professional yet warm and friendly approach made it really easy and effective. The recommended treatment has had a fantastic effect on my energy levels and general well being as well as curing me of an increasingly irritating annual hayfever allergy, an added benefit that I wasn’t expecting.

Mary also recommended a treatment for housewives' knee which was almost instantly effective and saved me the trouble of the physiotherapy course that my GP had recommended."

Julie Page, London, England

"I was very fortunate when I met Mary 10 years ago and knew I had found a homeopath I could trust and whose remedies always struck a deep chord within me.

Since then she has been accompanying me on the long and difficult road of recovery from ME/CFS. It has also been a time of deep inner work for me. On a very subtle level, homeopathic remedies have been giving me the necessary energy for this - I would have been lost without them.

Every new remedy I needed on the way has opened up new and wonderful aspects of consciousness, and changed the way I experience the world. They have played a vital and exciting part in both my inner and my outer life.

It is always a joy for me to talk to Mary - just being in her presence is a healing experience in itself. Amazingly, it even works over the phone."

Silke O'Reilly, Ireland

 

What happens at the first appointment?


If you have a chronic, or frequently recurring, complaint the first consultation generally takes an hour and a half. You begin by telling Mary what is troubling you. It is perfectly alright to give a long wish list of all the things you want to improve in your life, whether they are spiritual, mental, emotional or physical issues. It is helpful if you can give as much detail as possible about your symptoms, particularly the physical sensations that accompany them and anything that makes them better or worse.

If you have noticed any other changes in yourself (mood, anxieties, sleep, dreams, appetite, thirst, temperature) since the symptoms started; these can also be very useful. The homoeopath will normally take a full medical case history from you and record details of any previous health problems in your blood relations. The aim of the consultation is to get an overview, not only of your complaint, but also of you as a person.

How do you analyse a case?

Homeopathy is a very sophisticated language based therapy. About a decade ago a group of homeopaths in Mumbai, India who were studying under Dr Rajan Sankaran made a major breakthrough in case taking and case analysis. They named it Sensation Method and it is probably one of the most significant advances in the history of homeopathy.

Using Sensation Method means I am able to differentiate much more clearly between those needing Animal, Vegetable or Mineral remedies.

Mineral concerns are:
existence and later separation, identity, security and task, creativity and performance, responsibility and finally disintegration and death.

Plants concerns are:
Sensitivity and reactivity, matching a stimulus with an equal and opposite response, emotion, sentiment, fluidity.

Animal concerns are:
attack, defence, survival, sexual attraction, competition, a split in consciousness.

By focusing mostly on physical sensations the client is often able to access deeply buried information that helps me to identify the remedies they need.

Here are a few examples of my clients' own words to illustrate how this works in practice:

“A void, nothing else, space, a very cold artificial color, vibrating,
buzzing, electrical.” (Neon)

“Squeezing, can’t flow, small, dense, pressing in, no more hollow space, squishes
out, ruptures, slimy, gelatinous. Rubbery, green, dense. V-shaped reservoir of
nourishment.” (Cactus)

“Speeding up, closing in, spins around, gets smaller, paralyzed, trying to survive, pulls things from me, steals my life. A circular sphere emanates from me.
Animated like a puppet.” (Spider, with empathy for its prey!)


What happens after a consultation?


The most important law that a homoeopath has to follow to prescribe successfully is the Law of Similars, which states that we must match the symptom picture of an illness or injury to the symptom picture of the medicine. The better the match the more likely the medicine is to cure you.

The first task is to carefully analyse the information collected in the consultation and select symptoms that are particularly characteristic or individual to your case.
Once this is done, the homoeopath uses two different kinds of reference books:


Repertories are books in which symptoms experienced by provers (testers)of homoeopathically prepared substances are organised (both schematically and alphabetically). They have been expanding and improving steadily over the past two hundred years. So far over 1,000 different substances have been tested to see what symptoms they produce in a healthy person. A repertory provides are detailed index of symptoms to help narrow this huge number of substances down, by guiding the homoeopath to those which best cover all the selected symptoms and traits.

These particular substances can then be studied in depth in the Materia Medica. These are organised alphabetically, giving the names of each substance and describing them in great detail. This is where the final choice is made.

Repertories and Materia Medica are now available on computer software which saves a lot of time when cross-referencing, but even so the search is likely to take quite a long time. For this reason the homoeopath may not prescribe anything for you immediately, particularly if it is your first visit. If, however, your consultation was for an acute illness, the analysis will be simpler and the need for the remedy more urgent, so it will normally be prescribed there and then.



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How much will it cost?

You will be asked to commit to three consultations. The first will last for an hour and a half and then there will be two shorter follow up sessions (usually 45 minutes) over the following two months. After your first appointment Mary will work on your case thoroughly to research the best possible prescription for you from thousands of choices.

Your remedy costs are included in the fee and if you need to make a phone call to Mary or e-mail her between appointments there will be no charge made.

Follow-up consultations help us to assess your reaction to the previous remedy and decide how your treatment can best be continued.

Most people will experience a significant improvement after these three consultations, which will normally be scheduled over a period of 90 days. The cost for these three consultations is $585. This is payable in three monthly installments of $195.

Reduced rates

If two or members of the family require treatment at the same time, please discuss a special family rate with Mary when booking your appointments.

Mary is happy to treat all mothers of children under two years of age, who are under her care, at absolutely no charge.

If you need help with a first aid type injury or a genuine acute minor illness ( such as a cough, cold, earache or flu that you do not experience repeatedly) Mary will work on this problem with you for a flat rate one off payment of $95, this will include your homeopathic medicine..

How many consultations will I need to have?


This is a very difficult question to answer and will depend on the individual case. However, one can generalize a little. Acute cases and injuries tend to respond very quickly once the correct remedy is found. The same is often true of more long-term problems which have a clear aetiology (ie. if you have never been well since a particular event).

For chronic illness of long-standing progress is likely to be slower, but you should still have clearly identifiable changes within 90 days and thereafter appointments will usually be needed much less frequently. Before we make this change to less frequent appointments I will carefully explain to you the signs you need to watch for when your homeopathic medicine needs to be repeated. At the end of the 90 days (or three appointments) you and I will review your case and make a further contract to work together, based on your needs at that time.

Provided you are making progress we can also switch to shorter follow up appointments at the reduced rate of $95.

Should I stop taking all other medication?


No, it is inadvisable to stop taking prescribed drugs suddenly or to alter dosages without professional help. It is important that you tell your me about any medication that you are on. Hopefully the need for these will lessen as treatment progresses and they can be gradually and carefully reduced under your doctor's supervision.

How can I tell if the remedy is working or not?


Reactions to homoeopathic medicines vary with the individual. Some experience a clear improvement in their symptoms very early on. Others find that their symptoms worsen for a short time before improving (this is known as an aggravation). Still others find that their general sense of well-being increases. This is a very good sign as it shows the remedy is working at the most fundamental level and removing dis-ease and eventually the original symptoms will disappear.


Apart from general improvements (in sleep, digestion, mood etc.) homoeopaths tend to look out for three particular things, which usually mean that there is a movement towards cure. The first is a shift in symptoms from above to below ie. from head to toe (eg. a rash moving down the body). The second is a shift from within out ie. from deeper parts of the body to the surface (eg. asthma changing to eczema). The third is that old symptoms start to appear in reverse order.
This is the equivalent of the body having a spring clean, clearing out old symptoms that have previously been suppressed.

It will be a great help if you can mention to Mary any changes that you have noticed since taking the remedy. If you think you're likely to forget what has been going on, you could jot down a few notes throughout the month and bring them along to your next appointment.


Is it O.K. to self-prescribe when you are seeing a homoeopath?


Self-prescribing can be very useful in treating acute illness or injury. Homoeopaths treat the underlying weakness in the patient's constitution, this should mean that eventually you will have fewer acute illnesses. If you are working with me, please phone or send me an e-mail before taking any other homeopathic medicine, as it may interfere with your treatment. Clearly, this does not apply in a first aid emergency where the medicine can be taken immediately.


You owe it to yourself to begin the journey to lasting health and wellbeing...


Take the first step

BOOK an appointment today
805 701 5927 or
contact Mary via e-mail


California has a great law that requires me to inform you of my training. I received my homeopathic education in London at the College of Homeopathy and did
a one year apprenticeship with a highly experienced homeopath. I also completed a two
year post graduate course at The Dynamis School, London and since then have been involved in continuous professional development. I have been in full time practice in London, Ireland and Spain since the mid 1990s.

The homeopathic remedies I use are legal to buy without a prescription. The Homeopathic
Pharmacopoeia was legislated in the Food and Drug Act of 1938 as a separate category
of substances not considered drugs.

My work as a homeopath is to complement existing licensed medical practices, and I
recommend that you retain the services of a primary care physician or other licensed provider for appropriate medical evaluations, diagnoses, and treatment.


I am not a licensed physician, and I do not diagnose or treat disease. I recommend that you inform
your health care providers that you are receiving homeopathic treatment. Any decisions
about the treatment of disease or the changing of medical prescriptions will be made
solely between you and your physician or other provider who made the prescription.

If you know or suspect that you have a condition that may warrant the care of a licensed medical professional, you should seek medical advice as soon as possible.
Homeopathy is compatible with and does not interfere with most orthodox, complementary or alternative treatments, and, one may, depending on circumstances,
choose to utilize the benefits of more than one discipline.

Homeopathy is a therapeutic treatment. For it to be effective, follow-up appointments are
suggested every 3-4 weeks for the first 3 months, and possibly longer, depending on the nature of the illness for which a client is seeking treatment, although it is better not to begin using two healing modalities at exactly the same time, as it makes it harder to judge which is bringing benefit.


Homeopathy is alternative or complementary to healing arts that are licensed by the State of California. Under section 2053.5 and 2053.6 of the California Business
and Professions Code, I may offer services in homeopathy subject to requirements
and restrictions described here. My services are not licensed by the State of California.

I keep detailed records of our interviews for study after the session. This allows me to review segments for observations and ideas that might have been missed during our session.


If you have any concerns about homeopathic treatment, please feel free to discuss them with me directly.

 

 

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