​Traditional Vet

  • DVM - Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine
  • Bachelors Degree from Four Year University
  • General medicine: routine physical exams, vaccines, dewormers, pharmaceutical drugs, spay/neuters/castrations, other minor surgeries and various kinds of Western diagnostics (blood work, fecal exams, X-ray, ultrasound, biopsy....). 
  • Completes required continuing education for traditional medicine practice. 
  • Can be Board-Certified in many different specialties such as surgery, opthalmology, dermatology, oncology etc. 


​Holistic Vet

  • DVM - Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine
  • Bachelors Degree from Four Year University
  • General medicine: routine physical exams, vaccines, dewormers, pharmaceutical drugs, spay/neuters/castrations, other minor surgeries and various kinds of Western diagnostics (blood work, fecal exams, X-ray, ultrasound, biopsy....).
  • Completes required continuing education for traditional medicine practice. 
  • Can be Board-Certified in many different specialties such as surgery, opthalmology, dermatology, oncology etc.

  • Additionally certified/trained in any one of the following or a unique combo of:
  • Acupuncture
  • Chiropractic
  • Chinese Herbal Medicine
  • Western Herbal Medicine
  • Homeopathy
  • Nutritional Response Testing
  • Applied Functional Nutrition
  • Applied Kinesiology
  • Neuro Emotional Technique
  • Food Therapy (Food as Medicine)
  • Ozone Therapy
  • Reiki
  • Aromatherapy with Essential Oils
  • Massage Therapy
  • Natural Balance Dentistry 
  • Chakra Balancing 
  • Intuitive Healing
  • And the list goes on...
  • Completes continuing education for traditional medicine AND all the other modalities listed above that he/she is trained in. 

​The goal in holistic/integrative medicine is to understand the entire animal and what may be causing underlying imbalance even if the imbalance is not showing up yet in the physical form (for example lack of abnormalities in blood work but known kidney issues). In contrast, traditional allopathic medicine waits for a disease pattern to appear (such as increased kidney values on blood work or the appearance of a tumor) then attempts to correct, remove, or suppress the symptoms of the disease usually without investigating or addressing the underlying imbalance, which led to the disease in the first place.