Dr. Willow is a fourth-generation naturopathic doctor who graduated from NCNM in 1983. She was fortunate to start her clinical journey with elder Leo Roy MD, ND, learning basics that she gratefully still applies. In her early career she taught at OCNM (now CCNM), becoming the first clinic director in 1986. In 1987 she started to practice in rural Ottawa and in 1997 founded Carp Ridge EcoWellness Centre on 190 acres of wilderness. It has an integrated clinic, a holistic bed and breakfast for inpatient work and offers programs that range from foraging to cancer prevention to spiritual development. It hosted North America’s first Forest School, collaborates with its charity arm for community wellness and demonstrates sustainable features such as composting toilets, solar panels and recycled buildings. The property is zoned for several homes which will be eco-examples that people will be able to visit. In 2001, Katherine encountered Dr. Hamer’s German New Medicine after her husband was diagnosed with brain tumours. Following his unfortunate passing, an autopsy confirmed the GNM principles and motivated her to study it intensively. She then incorporated GNM with naturopathic medicine, Ayurveda and spirituality to create holistic individualized programs for patients. In 2018 Katherine published a book about the startling results she was seeing with GNM, wanting to share these breakthroughs so that more people could benefit from this new paradigm of body-mind understanding. She is in the process of setting up a course for ND’s to support the integration of German New Medicine into naturopathic practice and education. In her spare moments, Katherine likes to spend time with her grandson, experiment with wild plants for food and medicine, and practice earthing on the land.

For the 2022 Toronto Naturopathic Conference Dr. Willow will be presenting: German New Medicine – Fundamentals & Theory

In this session Dr. Willow discusses the foundational principles of body-mind paradigms with particular focus on German New Medicine and how this can compliment naturopathic practice.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will note medical articles that show how body-mind principles are supported by research, resources they can share with patients to deepen confidence and compliance.

2. Participants will know that body-mind medicine is best used in the context of conservative caution, realizing that medical support may be necessary at times and when to refer for that possibility.

3. Through case studies, participants will learn how to safely begin using body-mind approaches in a naturopathic setting.