Behind the Credentials
Learn more about Carol’s areas of study and expertise and how they come together to improve your whole-health care experience:
ADVANCED NURSE PRACTITIONER
An Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) is an experienced and highly educated Registered Nurse who manages the complete clinical care for their patient, not only a specific condition. ANPs are educated at the Master’s level and are assessed as competent in this level of practice.
ANPs are clinical leaders with a level of practice characterized by autonomous decision-making thorough assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, including caring for patients with complex multi-dimensional health challenges. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, ANPs can work in or across all clinical settings dependent upon their area of expertise.
CERTIFIED NURSE-MIDWIFE
A certified nurse-midwife (CNM) is a midwife who exceeds the International Confederation of Midwives essential competencies for a midwife and is also an advanced practice registered nurse having completed registered nursing and midwifery education.
In addition to performing routine gynecological care for women of all ages, CNMs also provide care during preconception, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and peri- or post-menopause.
While the conventional model of care tends to focus on managing problems and complications through the use of routine care and technological interventions, the midwifery model of care focuses on:
Health, wellness, and prevention
Labor and birth as a normal, physiological process
Minimal interventions
Personalized care
WOMEN’S FUNCTIONAL & INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE PROFESSIONAL
Health encompasses the totality of a woman’s life—as do the factors that lead to disease. Women’s functional and integrative medicine brings together the factors that need to be addressed to help women regain health, balance, and happiness.
Functional medicine offers a different perspective, integrating traditional women’s wisdom with the latest scientific evidence for the prevention and treatment of common women’s health concerns. It emphasizes a whole-woman approach to most common and complex daily health concerns the modern woman is facing and experiencing, always taking into consideration body, mind, and the whole context of a woman’s life.
Structural Energetic Therapist® (SET)
Structural Energetic Therapy® is an advanced hands-on therapy that provides long term rehabilitation of acute and chronic pain and dysfunction.
Phase I training includes basic spinal stabilization techniques and protocols to release the core distortion pattern out of the structure and soft tissue of the body.
Head, Neck and Shoulder
Cranial Therapeutic Decompression
Cranial/Structural Frontal/Occipital Decompression
Quick Release Technique
Cranial/Structural Core Distortion Releases I
Pelvic Balancing
Cranial/Structural II
Advanced Thoracic Releases
Emotional Energy Release Techniques
Body Reading
