Jobs at Alternative Health Schools
Alternative health is the practice of healing based on non-clinical, cultural or historical based traditions. It includes such complementary medicine as massage, acupuncture, holistic methods and stone therapy. These techniques are taught individually as well as in school and classroom settings. Several job opportunities are available.
Nutritional Consultant
Many of the practices of alternative health center around nutrition and healthy eating. A Nutritional Consultant is aware of food's effect on the anatomy and physiology of the digestive track and entire body. Toxins and detoxification is another big area in nutritional counseling, which includes natural and environmental toxins and their effects, as well as detox. In a school setting a Nutritional Counselor may teach classes or serve as aid and resource for other teachers.
Master Herbalist
A Master Herbalist is familiar with herbs and vitamins and how combinations effect various diseases and maladies. They have many hours of hands-on experience mixing herbs and holistic medicines to achieve relief for aches, pains and health problems. They use the three main traditions of healing; Chinese, Western, and Ayurvedic. Working as a Master Herbalist in a school of alternate health could be as an instructor or counselor as well as hands-on lab tech preparing herbal mixtures.
Acupuncturist
Acupuncturists insert and manipulate needles in the skin in order to relieve pain and discomfort. Acupuncture is also said to treat certain diseases and promotes general good health. Acupuncturist jobs at an alternative health school in a teaching capacity as well as hands-on experience coordinator and lab instructor.
Homeopaths
Homeopaths treat disease and disorder by the application of highly diluted substances that trigger the body's natural healing mechanisms. The diluted substances are chosen based on a “like with like” theory, which means any substance that causes symptoms can be diluted and used to treat those same symptoms. Jobs in alternative health schools for homeopaths could include instructor, on-campus homeopaths, counselor or lab instructor.