Welcome to Natural Medical Care, your home for personalized natural health medicine. Natural Medical Care is located in beautiful city of Lawrence between several professional and research buildings. Our approach to healthcare is comprehensive and unique to the field of Natural Medicine. We feel that a treatment program needs to be specific, individualized and integrate the best of East and West. We are dedicated in giving our patients every advantage to completely recover their health. We do this by offering a wide range of complementary therapies for optimizing patient’s personal health recovery.

From left to right; Farhang Khosh, ND; Mehdi Khosh, ND; Tomomi
Yamakawa (our office manager)

Dr. Farhang R. Khosh  -  Dr. Mehdi L. Khosh

Irene Bockelman, LSCSW, APP

Our Mission is to provide holistic natural health care focusing on the whole person. Our goals include empowering the patient through education. To this end, we believe in a therapeutic partnership between doctor and patient. We strive to promote balance, creativity, optimal health and wellness in the patient’s life on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual realms. We endeavor to honor each person’s uniqueness and to respect the healing power of nature by promoting the patient’s own natural healing abilities and by utilizing the healing properties of natural therapies. These therapies include Nutrition, Lifestyle counseling, Botanical (herbal) medicine, Acupuncture, Physical Medicine and Homeopathy. Combine and tailor these treatments to the needs of the individual in away that acknowledge the patient as a participant.

Our Philosophy:

Our Philosophy is based on the six principles of Naturopathic Medicine:

Vis medicatrix naturae
(The healing power of nature)
Wellness is an expression of equilibrium; nature abhors the instability of illness. The body has more innate healing power than all medicine in history. We call this power the life force, and foremost, we cultivate its restorative processes.

Tolle causam
(Identify and treat the cause)
Symptoms are an expression of the life force, not the cause of illness. Rather than treat the symptom, we discover the cause, and direct our healing accordingly.

Primum non nocere
(First do no harm)
Naturopathy is complementary to and synergistic with the body's own healing process. Our therapies fortify the immune system and are rarely invasive.

Docere
(Doctor as teacher)
We prefer to empower the patient with the tools and the responsibility for his or her own health. It is the patient, not the doctor, who ultimately expedites effective, long-term healing.

In pertuabato amino sicut in corpore sanitas esse non potest
(Treat the whole person)
Good health is the harmonious interrelation of physical, emotional, spiritual, environmental, social, and genetic factors. We treat the whole person, not just what ails you.

Pricipiis obsta: seromedicina curatur
(The ultimate goal: prevention)
We would rather maintain your good health than fight your disease. Thus, we work with you to create a healthy space for you to live in, and a healthy attitude to maintain it.

Dr. Farhang Khosh, N.D., received his Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University, a nationally accredited naturopathic medical school in Seattle. He graduated from the University of Kansas where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and did advanced work in Molecular Biology.  The Khosh brothers formerly worked at the Kansas Clinic of Traditional Medicine and Via Christi Integrative Center in Wichita, Kansas. They developed several herbal and nutritional products which are available to health care professionals throughout the world, and both contribute articles to health related magazines.  Both brothers have published numerous papers on naturopathic approaches to diseases.  As direct descendants of the universally known Avicenna (980-1037), in Persia the Khosh brothers were trained from childhood in natural healing by their ancestors who are held in very high regard for their healing skills. Dr. Khosh accomplishes health care using clinical nutrition, botanical medicine, homeopathic medicine and physical medicine including acupuncture and lifestyle counseling.

Publications

Khosh, F. “Naturopathic Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome”, Townsend Letters for doctors & patients, No 204 Jul.2001

Khosh, F. “Naturopathic Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease”, Townsend Letters for doctors & patients, No 216 Jul.2001

Khosh, F. “Naturopathic Approaches to Diabetes”,Townsend Letters for doctors & patients, No 222. Jan.2002

Khosh, F. and Khosh, M. “Naturopathic Approaches to Hypertension”,Townsend Letters for doctors & patients, No 227. June.2002

Khosh, F. and Khosh M.  “Naturopathic Approaches to Hypertension”, Alternative Medicine Review, Vol 6, No 6. Dec.2001

Khosh, F. “Irritable Bowel Syndrome”,Iranian Medical Journal, Vol 7, No.77, Sep.2000ess Magazine, Aug. 2000

Khosh, F. and Khosh M. “High Blood Pressure”, Iranian Medical Journal, Vol 7, No.80, Dec.2000

Khosh F, Khosh M, Beneda D: Natural Approach to Migraine Headaches. Townsend Letter for

Doctors and Patients 2002; 229/230:188-21.

Khosh F, Beneda D: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients 2003; 234:68-71.

Contributing Monthly Articles to KC wellness Magazine, June 2000 to December 2002.

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Irene Bockelman, LSCSW, APP

Natural Medicine Specialist, Dr. Mehdi Khosh received his Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University, a nationally accredited naturopathic medical school in Seattle, Washington. He graduated from the University of Kansas where he earned his bachelor degree in Biochemistry. Dr. Mehdi Khosh has performed a great deal of research in genetics at The University of Kansas and the VA Medical Center in Kansas City. He completed his residency at the Kansas Clinic of Traditional Medicine in Wichita, Kansas. Dr. Mehdi Khosh is co-founder and president of the Natural Medical Care clinic in Lawrence, Kansas. He is currently working at Natural Medical Care and Sastun Center of Integrative Center. He is dedicated to truly holistic medicine, which shows in his gentle manner, perceptiveness and attention to the details of each patient’s individual needs. He uses clinical nutrition, botanical medicine, homeopathic medicine, physical medicine, oriental medicine and life style counseling to help people achieve optimal wellness. Dr. Mehdi Khosh speaks and writes locally and nationally, serves as president of the Kansas Naturopathic Physician Association, Great Plains Comprehensive Agriculture and Medical Institute (Great plains CAMI).

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Irene Bockelman, LSCSW, APP

Irene Bockelman, LSCSW, APP

~Philosophy~

A wellspring of vitality, creativity, a knowing~an abundance of resources~lives within each of us.  Often in overfilled lives, life events and unmanageable stressors such as too many roles and obligations, limiting, worn-out beliefs, attitudes and habits, we are at risk of losing contact with our reservoir of inner gifts.  Our capacity to live a vital, authentic life can become diminished.

Symptoms of fatigue, depression, anxiety, fear, isolation, a scattered mind, and physical illnesses may manifest.  We may lose our center and be pulled into “doing” our life rather than “being” with or in the core of it.   As we attempt to cut off from stressors or pain, we may also disconnect from our resources and lose connection with all that we truly are. 

Being with what IS…is an important component of healing.  Clients are invited into a state of neutrality, curiosity and compassion to be with what IS.  Being in this state enhances our ability to transform that which is not working in our lives into allowing greater connection with our internal resources and nurturing what is more optimal to come forth.  Being reconnected more fully with our reservoir of internal resources,
we are more likely to be with life more completely—physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

~Irene’s Background~

Irene has been working in the mental health field for over twenty years and has been in private practice since 1991 offering psychotherapeutic services.  She has completed Post-Master training programs in:

*Marital and Family Therapy
*Hypnotherapy
*Polarity Therapy
*Trauma Healing Therapy

Her integration of these trainings allows her to offer a continuum of services with a holistic understanding of the body-mind-spirit interaction.  Dr. Northrup, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, states, “All distress, all healing of distress, and all creation of health are simultaneously physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual.”

Irene’s training and certification as a Polarity Therapy Practitioner has assisted her with broadening and deepening her view of imbalance, dis-ease and wellness.  (www.polaritytherapy.org)  Polarity Therapy increases:

*relaxation and fluidity in the body
*body awareness and connection with oneself
*connection with resourceful places within oneself
*ability to release stored emotions and life experiences which may get stuffed in the body
*connection with one’s total being rather than just from the neck up.

Whether it is in a traditional psychotherapy session or in a Polarity Therapy appointment, she works with clients to create a safe, supportive space where one can meet and connect more fully with oneself in a conscious, aware and resourced way.

~Services~

*Individual Therapy
*Couple Therapy
*Family Therapy
*Polarity Therapy

Irene utilizes a holistic approach working with various life transitions, depression, anxiety, relationship concerns, anger management, parenting issues, adjustment to divorce and remarriage, loss and grief, anxiety and stress management, self-esteem issues, workplace issues, and various types of trauma.   These issues may manifest into physical symptoms such as headaches, sleep disturbances, backaches, symptoms of IBS
and other digestive problems, fatigue, respiratory and cardiovascular problems, or any number of stress related symptoms. 

Irene views her work as a complementary modality.  Her services are not intended to be a substitute for medical care.  She values and makes an effort to collaborate and coordinate her services with other health care providers.

Irene listens to your needs.  She begins where you are and supports your process at a beneficial pace to meet your therapeutic goals.  Together, services are decided upon which will best serve your current needs.

~Licensure and Certification~

*Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker (LSCSW)
*Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist (LCMFT)
*Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW)
*Associate Polarity Practitioner (APP)

~Professional Affiliation~

*National Association of Social Workers
*American Polarity Therapy Association (www.polaritytherapy.org)
*United States Association for Body Psychotherapy

~Contact and Locations~

Phone:  913-634-4196
             1-866-371-2088 Toll Free

Locations: * 4824 Quail Crest Place, Lawrence, KS   66049
                  *10875 Grandview Drive
Overland Park, KS 66210<

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