Wellness
Being well means more than just the absence of illness. It includes feeling vibrant, connected, and alive! SCIH offers ongoing classes to support higher levels of wellness. We also offer individual support to look carefully at your lifestyle, social support, nutrition, and spiritual attunement, in order to help you reach your full potential in leading a health filled, productive, and full life. Specific areas of emphasis include smoking cessation planning, stress management, nutrition counseling, mind/body counseling, weight control, and exercise conditioning.

Listening
Many people who come to us have been through difficult experiences with health practitioners and the healthcare system. We at SCIH make it a high priority to take the time to listen to you and to let you tell your own personal health/life story. We feel that truly hearing you is crucial in forming a healing therapeutic relationship.

Stress Management
Stress is a common factor in many illnesses in our society, from tension headaches and bowel problems to ulcers, high blood pressure, and stroke. At SCIH we believe in helping you manage your own life stressors and providing you with tools to de-stress your mind, body and spirit. Not only do we offer classes in Yoga and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, but we also have practitioners in massage, biofeedback, mental health, and spiritual counseling.

Chronic Pain Relief
This area is often frustrating for both pain sufferers and physicians. Fibromyalgia is an example of a pain syndrome for which conventional medical treatment often falls short of being effective. We at SCIH offer many options to alleviate pain, and believe that a holistic mind-body approach is essential to optimal pain management. Although we do not prescribe narcotic medications or medicinal marijuana, we work with individuals, their primary care physicians, and complementary care practitioners to coordinate conventional and complementary/alternative care. Therapies that can be helpful include herbs/supplements, acupuncture, chiropractics, osteopathy, yoga, massage, dance/movement therapy, psychotherapy, and mind-body techniques including biofeedback.

Cancer Support
Cancer patients are frequently frustrated with often confusing and sometimes limited options for treatment. At SCIH, we strongly believe in a compassionate caring approach, emphasizing the strength of knowledge of one’s illness, and of the options available. We work in conjunction with medical specialists to support those choosing to undergo surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy, and to help minimize side effects. While recognizing that clinical trials on the effectiveness of complementary/alternative therapies is sometimes limited, we offer these as an option with informed consent for those individuals who so choose.

Integration
The wide spectrum of complementary/alternative therapies can be as confusing as the complex world of medicine. Knowing which therapies are effective, which providers to utilize, and how it all fits together for you as an individual can be confusing and overwhelming. We are here to help you integrate the therapies that will work best for you, select credentialed and knowledgeable practitioners, and to make sure that if you are using conventional medicine, that it all works together synergistically and harmoniously.