Healing Views, Mount Evelyn, VIC

Maria is a qualified homoeopath. She studied at the Melbourne College of Natural Medicine and the Australasian College of Hahnemanian Homoeopathy. Born and raised in The Netherlands, Maria started her nursing career in 1976. After 2 degrees in nursing (Psychiatric and Mentally disabled) Maria worked for 10 years as a counseller in the leading alcohol and drug detox-rehabilitation centre where she did individual and group counselling. After 10 years of this work and completing her degree in social psychiatric studies she took on a position with the Information and Prevention department advising the local and federal government on alcohol and drug policies. After migrating to Australia in 1991 and working as a psychiatric nurse using the allopathic approach, Maria was frustrated that the patients' illnesses and symptoms were being suppressed rather than cured. Homoeopathy treats you as a whole person rather than just treating the disease. This seemed like the ideal method of treatment to Maria so she took a 4 year course in homoeopathy and has been a qualified homoeopath and been practising as such since 1998.