About

Cyndi Gilbert, Natur­o­pathic Doctor

Cyndi Gilbert, Natur­o­pathic Doc­tor, has always been pas­sion­ate about nat­ural approaches to health, in par­tic­u­lar the con­nec­tions between body, mind, spirit and envi­ron­ment. She believes that pat­terns of health and ill­ness rever­ber­ate across phys­i­cal, mental/emotional and spir­i­tual lev­els of the self. While her prac­tice is both eclec­tic and inclu­sive, Cyndi has a spe­cial inter­est in women’s health, peri­na­tal care, pedi­atrics, and mind/body medicine.

Prior to enter­ing the field of natur­o­pathic med­i­cine, Cyndi received an Hon­ours Bach­e­lor of Arts degree in Cul­tural Stud­ies from Trent Uni­ver­sity where she founded a thriv­ing com­mu­nity gar­den. She then stud­ied with herbal­ists in Nova Sco­tia and Que­bec, and worked for a national envi­ron­men­tal non-governmental orga­ni­za­tion. Cyndi also lived and worked in China, where she began to study acupunc­ture and east­ern herbal traditions.

Cyndi then returned to Canada to pur­sue her edu­ca­tion as a Natur­o­pathic Doc­tor, grad­u­at­ing from the Cana­dian Col­lege of Natur­o­pathic Med­i­cine (CCNM). While attend­ing CCNM, she led an active role in the devel­op­ment of the school’s Paracel­sus Botan­i­cal Gar­den, a teach­ing gar­den for stu­dents and visitors.

In addi­tion to main­tain­ing a gen­eral fam­ily prac­tice, Cyndi is an assis­tant pro­fes­sor, teach­ing Botan­i­cal Med­i­cine and the Art & Prac­tice of Natur­o­pathic Med­i­cine at the CCNM. She co-authored a text­book titled Prin­ci­ples and Prac­tices of Natur­o­pathic Botan­i­cal Med­i­cine pub­lished by CCNM Press. Cyndi is licensed and reg­is­tered as a Natur­o­pathic Doc­tor in Ontario by the Board of Direc­tors of Drug­less Ther­apy — Natur­opa­thy and a mem­ber of the Cana­dian Asso­ci­a­tion of Natur­o­pathic Doctors.