Natural Health Practitioner

Diploma Program

This comprehensive 1056 hour program examines the complexities and inter-relationships of body conditions and symptoms. Graduates will have the ability to analyze and offer appropriate counselling for identified body disorders and to recommend a pathway of guidance to those aspiring to achieve better personal health balance; by drawing from a broad range of recognized techniques and natural health disciplines.

The Natural Health Practitioner will be capable of working as a ‘self-proprietor’ or within a professional group or clinic environment, in a field of ever expanding consumer awareness and employment opportunity.

The N.H.P. is the pathway for the Natural Health Practitioner (Advanced) diploma program.

What follows is a listing of the courses required to complete the Natural Health Practitioner program:

120 hours:

• Electives

96 hours each:

• Anatomy/Physiology
• Nutrition
• Clinical

72 hours each:

• Iridology
• Research

48 hours each:

• Herbalism
• Interest Courses
• Massage
• Reflexology

36 hours:

• Business Skills

24 hours each:

• Co-op
• First Aid
• Homeopathy
• Human Relations
• Meridian Theory
• Pathology
• Pharmacology
• Professional Development
• Public Health
• Shiatsu
• Therapeutic Exercises

12 hours:

• Assessment Techniques