In the Clinic with Camille

When I started my practice in 2004, I had no idea how much personal growth - emotionally, spiritually, and skill-wise - would be required to start and run a practice.

Like so many of you, I started with lots of education and no idea how to find clients. Or run a practice. It's common to feel insecure and overwhelmed at how many steps there suddenly seem to be between you and doing the work you were trained to do.

After you figure out those first steps, the complexity still remains - and maybe even grows over time. Cases get harder. Life pressures evolve. Rather than not having enough clients, now you're juggling too many. Keeping up with both growing as a clinician and holding a practice together can feel lonely and like a heavy weight to carry.

Especially when all you want to do is help people and sustain yourself.

I get it. And it’s why I do what I do.

I’ve been a practicing licensed nutritionist and clinical herbalist, university educator, and mentor to hundreds of students and clients for nearly twenty years, but I still remember how hard it was to take those first steps (and the second ones, and the fifteenth ones).

In all that time, one thing has stayed the same: growing a practice with integrity and empathy while making a living requires monumental personal growth.

Often, it's harder than it should be.

When you take surround yourself with a supportive community and experienced guidance, small steps can add up to bigger ones. Growth can take root from a place of alignment, profession… Read More