Michelle Meyer, N.D. has been a holistic health care consultant since 1984.  She has had her practice as a licensed Naturopathic Doctor in Ottawa since 2000. Michelle supports each patient to see your current state of health as reflecting a bigger, unique and ornate puzzle created and influenced by your life experience and lifestyle choices. Naturopathic therapies are used to facilitate your body’s ability to heal itself.

Botanical (herbal) medicine is an important focus of Michelle’s practice. Michelle’s interest in herbal medicine traces back to her childhood, when she started her active involvement in outdoors activities, such as camping and hiking as well as canoe tripping and Outward Bound. Through this wilderness experience and more in-depth academic study, she has developed a deep appreciation and understanding of the many medicinal uses of the plants growing in the woods and fields that we often ignore. Michelle uses combination homeopathic remedies and nutritional supplementation in conjunction with botanical medicine, and focuses in particular on the use of foods as medicine. 

Michelle’s  practice emphasizes the importance of healing on all levels as our bodies commonly mirror deeper emotional areas of imbalance or “dis-ease”. Her practice incorporates a strong counselling orientation for those wishing to explore emotional challenges we may or may not be aware of, which can affect our physical well-being.  Michelle has received extensive psychotherapy training including a certificate in body-centered psychotherapy following a four-year post-graduate training program in Core Energetics, 20 years of training and practice in Re-evaluation Counselling and courses in Gestalt therapy. She currently is enrolled in a Hakomi psychotherapy training program, which applies many Buddhist philosophical principles.

Michelle is also trained as a certified colonic hydrotherapist. Colonic hydrotherapy is used as part of the detoxification programs she individually designs for patients.

Prior to her training at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Michelle worked as a community development consultant. Her clients included a number of Anishnabe (Ojibway) native communities in Northwestern Ontario who worked together to create the only Native-owned organic wild rice worker co-operative. Michelle has also worked as a Development and Education Officer for the Ontario Natural Food Co-op and been a member of the Board of Directors of numerous environmental and community organizations including Carlington Community and Health Services in Ottawa (2003-06).  She was on the government-linked committee that drafted the definition and terms of certification for regulating organic agricultural food production in Canada in 1988.

Michelle proudly parents three children, Claire, Tristan and Raffi, aged 18, 11 and 6 years old.  The younger two attend Parsifal Waldorf School while she maintains her practice as an N.D. and psychotherapist.