Overview

Over the last 40 years, since Clare graduated from Murdoch University as a veterinarian she has increasingly used natural therapies. Most of her patients have been dogs and cats who have not improved with conventional veterinary treatments at their regular vet. Clare has been using acupuncture for over 40 years, and gained the Certificate of Veterinary Acupuncture (CVA) from the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society in 1991. This is the Australian Veterinary Association recommended qualification for Australian vets using acupuncture. She completed a Brauer professional practitioner diploma in homoeopathy in 1996; has reiki 2 and have several sets of flower essences which she enjoys using for behavioral and physical problems. Clare was the founding president for several years of the Australian Association of Holistic Veterinarians (now known as Integrative Veterinarians Australia), an organisation who encourages vets to use a holistic approach. The AAHV introduced the first veterinary specific professional course in classical homoeopathy for Australian vets, from which I was awarded the certificate of the International Association of Veterinary Homeopathy. I have completed Dr Bruce Ferguson’s Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine Herbology course. Clare encourages her clients to have regular vet for conventional diagnosis, medicine, surgery and emergency services, and they bring their pet in to see her for chronic or ongoing problems where ongoing conventional drugs are not preferred or not working, for example skin allergies, lameness or spinal pain, colitis or behavioural problems. I am particularly interested in setting up a healthy lifetime for young animals using diet and minimal drugs.