Dr. Claudia Welch | Consultations

Consultations

Telephone Consultations with Dr. Claudia Welch

What to Expect

Initial consultations with Dr. Welch are about 50 minutes long. During that time she will have time to hear some of your concerns, ask you some questions and often have time left over to offer some guidance on Oriental or Ayurvedic approaches to your health. Following your consultation, if appropriate, she will compile and send or email you an individualized packet of information on Oriental or Ayurvedic lifestyle, dietary and/or remedies specific to your concerns. This information often includes information about your constitution, according to Ayurvedic medicine. She strives to give you information—both on the phone and in writing—to support your confidence in addressing your concerns yourself, mainly through lifestyle and diet. Dr. Welch is rarely able to give more than one phone consultation per person, but in that one consultation, you get a lot of information to hopefully inspire you in a healthy direction, using simple but powerful tools.

Your consultation should in no way be considered to be a substitution for care from your local qualified health care practitioners. Dr. Claudia Welch is not your primary care practitioner and should not be expected to alert you to any serious health concern or to fulfill other functions that your local health care practitioners would fill. If you choose to act on any of information offered during or after your consultation, you are doing so by your own choice and with the agreement of your primary and other health care providers.

Scheduling an Appointment

Required Paperwork & Prerequisites

Women: Please only schedule an appointment after you have read Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and Western Science, by Dr. Welch. This will provide much information that Dr. Welch will not then have to take time to explain during your consultation and it will likely be able to go into more depth and be more worth your time and expense.
Men: Please only schedule an appointment after you have read Part III of Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and Western Science, by Dr. Welch. This will provide much information that Dr. Welch will not then have to take time to explain during your consultation and it will likely be able to go into more depth and be more worth your time and expense.
Completed Health History Form: fill out the form on-line.
Email a photo of yourself taken within the last six months to: tracitalynne@gmail.com. A full-body picture (clothed, please) is best, but a face-only picture will do in a pinch. Emailing me an electronic version is preferable to mailing a paper one.
Completed Initial Informed Consent for Oriental Medical Consultations, signed and dated. Download the form here. Mail to: Dr. Claudia Welch, PO Box 76, Calais, VT 05648
A check or money order, in US funds, for $275.00 made out to “Dr. Claudia Welch.” Mail this, along with the signed consent form, to the same address. (A follow up consultation, should you have one, lasts a half hour and is $125).

Once we receive your on-line Health History Form and all the rest of your paperwork by mail, we will contact you to schedule a phone consultation and let you know what phone number to call at the time of the appointment. We will not contact you or schedule a consultation before receiving all the paperwork. Dr. Welch travels frequently and sometimes does not receive her mail for 3-4 months so, while not common, it is possible not to hear from someone for up to 4 months after submitting your material. Dr. Welch is rarely able to give more than one phone consultation per person. If you feel you will benefit more from someone who can provide follow up care, or are looking for someone local, or for different terms than are outlined here, please contact us through this website and request a referral list.

We will try to give you a reminder phone call or email, at least 24 hours before your scheduled consultation time, but cannot always do this. It is your responsibility to keep the appointment.

If you call for your consultation and voicemail picks up, there is a busy signal or there is no answer, please leave a brief message with the phone number at which you can be reached and hang up. Then please phone again every minute until you are answered in person. Please don’t leave any more messages and don’t wait five minutes. This arrangement will help us avoid spending 5-10 minutes calling one another, leaving each other messages, crossing lines, etc.

We have a 24 hour cancellation policy. If you do not keep your appointment, you will be charged the full fee. This is because it can take months to make an appointment and someone else could have taken your spot. This works both ways, if we forget your appointment, or cancel on you without 24 hour notice, we will offer you a replacement consultation at no cost.