Services

Joan Valentine Foundation will provide educational and informative services to the general public about holistic, alternative and integrative medicine

  • A partnership between patient and practitioner in the healing process.
    Appropriate use of conventional and alternative methods to facilitate the body’s innate healing response.
  • Consideration of all factors that influence health, wellness and disease, including mind, spirit and community as well as body.
  • A philosophy that neither rejects conventional medicine nor accepts alternative medicine uncritically.
  • Recognition that good medicine should be based in good science, inquiry driven and open to new paradigms.
  • Use of natural, less invasive interventions whenever possible.
  • The broader concepts of promotion of health and the prevention of illness as well as the treatment of disease.