I frequently get inquiries asking if I have experience with a specific diagnosis. I know that potential clients are using this question to screen practitioners and I always answer truthfully and literally. It’s just that I wish I got asked a couple of different conversation starters.
First, I have worked with different clients on the same medical diagnoses (provided by medical doctors as I don’t diagnose). As much as I would like to apply a quickie protocol to each client with the same diagnosis, I have found it next to impossible to achieve. Each person is so different and their steps to healing are so different, that even if I have worked on a specific diagnosis before, it’s really about whether I’ve worked with YOU before. So the question I would love to hear is ‘Do you customize your health suggestions for each individual?’ If so, I’d proudly answer, ‘Heck yea!’
Secondly, I wish I got asked about my perspective on healing rather than if I have experience with a diagnosis. I believe that diagnoses just describe the symptoms of the problem, but not the root of the problem. So I would prefer to be asked if I have experience with the immune system acting incorrectly (e.g. autoimmune disorders) rather than the question of whether I’ve worked with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Or, I would prefer to be asked if I thought there was hope to reverse chronic illnesses or chronic kidney disease. I would love someone to call and ask ‘Are you focused on identifying the root cause of the illness rather than just focusing on the symptom?’ To that question, I’d answer a gleeful ‘Bring it!’
Fundamentally, I’d like to be asked if I have familiarity or success working on how the body is manifesting its imbalance, because I believe the diagnosis is informative but not indicative of what needs to be done to support each individual body and enable healing.
On last thing about diagnoses, I find them kind of depressing. It gives me the feeling of an ending place rather than a starting place of curiosity. When asked if I have experience on a diagnosis for which I’ve never had a client, I simply answer no but would prefer, for me, that it not be a screening question and the end of the conversation but the start of one.
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