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| Lois has been interested in
alternative methods of healing for more than thirty years. As a
graduate assistant at Winona State University she ran the
biofeedback lab for the Educational Psychology and Counseling
Department, teaching other graduate students progressive
relaxation skills and about the practical aspects of using
biofeedback as a counseling tool. |
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While in graduate school she also
learned about meditation, its healing effects and about reflexology. In
the past 30 years she has practiced and taught these and other healing
skills in addition to using the counseling skills gathered in graduate
school.
Her initial experience with homeopathy was years after a journey with
cancer treatments: radiation, chemotherapy and surgery, living in
Central America for 2 years, then on an Indian Reservation for four
years. Exhausted, with very little energy, a single working mom
responsible for the care of her energetic elementary age daughter, she
found it hard to drive or do anything for long periods of time. When
driving from S.D. to Minnesota to visit family, she had to make frequent
stops to rest, unable to drive for hours as she had done before her illness.
Exhausted at the end of the day, she had pretty much lost her sense of
humor. Life wasn’t much fun then.
When she moved back to Minnesota, a friend recommended her homeopath and
told her a little about homeopathic treatment. She made an appointment,
had her intake and began treatment. She started to get better, started
to read all she could about this method of healing that was so new to
her. Then her homeopath moved. For years she used homeopathic tissue
salts for basic first aid remedies and continued to read about
homeopathy.
Her first homeopath told her about the correspondence courses offered
through the British Institute of Homeopathy and had recommended some
books. She chose to read as much as she could and sent for information
from BIH. Her daughter’s parenting needs took priority until graduated from high school and college, but Lois continued the dream of
studying homeopathy to add to her practice already consisting of Reiki,
reflexology and acupressure.
When Val Ohanian and Eric Sommerman started Northwestern Academy of
Homeopathy in Minneapolis, she was still parenting, so waited until the
time was right. She started study with Northwestern Academy in January
of 2003 in Class #5.
As they began their final year of clinical study at Northwestern Academy
of Homeopathy, they were encouraged to set up their private practices. She
opened her private practice as a classical homeopath in July of 2005.
She has studied homeopathy from a clinical perspective,
learning to see the remedy possibilities in a person, to assess what
potency of remedy would be most helpful, to determine how often each
person needs to be seen in follow-up appointments, when to change
remedies and when to wait. She has also been studying life sciences,
learning more about allopathic medicine and treatment protocols in order
to better work with you and your doctor, if that is your wish.
She looks forward to practicing homeopathy in order to bring more
alternative healing possibilities to East Central Minnesota.
Training and Experience
Degrees
- AA--Concordia University, St. Paul, Mn [1968]
- BA--U of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Mn [1973]
- MS--Winona St. Univ., Winona, Mn [1976]
Seminars and Classes
- International Institute Reflexology--96 hours
- Acupressure (Jin Shin Do)--96 hours
- Touch for Health--40 hrs
- Thought Field Therapy--16 hours
- Reiki Master/Teacher, [since 1999]
- Three in One Concepts --219 hours
- Kaya Regeneration Therapy--40 hrs
- ARCH healing practitioner--16 hrs
- Classical Homeopathy-- over 1300 hours (includes 4 years of classroom
and 2 years of supervised clinical experience)
[Northwestern Academy of Homeopathy]
- Midwifery and Homeopathy --32 hours [2003 & 2004]
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