• The patient and practitioner are partners in the healing process.
• All factors that influence health, wellness and disease are taken into consideration — including body, mind, spirit and community.
• Providers use all healing sciences to facilitate the body’s innate healing response.
• Effective interventions that are natural and less invasive are used whenever possible.
• Good medicine is based in good science. It is inquiry-driven and open to new paradigms.
• Alongside the concept of treatment, the broader concepts of health promotion and the prevention of illness are paramount.
• The care is personalized to best address the individual’s unique conditions, needs and  circumstances.
• Practitioners of integrative medicine exemplify its principles and commit themselves to self-exploration and self-development.

-Bravewell Collaborative