Dr. Doneisha Is Ready To Talk, & Advise

Jeff Green | Mar 22, 2023

It has been a circuitous journey that has brought Dr. Doneisha Dodd to the Clarendon area of Central/North Frontenac to open an online Naturopathic practice.

She was raised in Brampton, and did a Bachelor’s degree in Biology at York University in Toronto, and then did a Master’s Degree in Human Anatomy at The University of Edinburgh in Scotland, an experience she remembers fondly.

Her studies led her to become very interested in Naturopathy, and to enrolling at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine for a four year long program.

In the meantime, her parents had left the GTA and moved to smaller Ontario communities, first to Cobourg, and then to Kaladar in 2018, and in 2021 they moved to the Clarendon Station area.

“After I graduated and completed my licensing examination in order to apply and become registered with the College of Naturopaths of Ontario, I moved up here and started up my practice,” she said, in a phone interview last week.

As a practitioner of Naturopathy, she said that she uses a variety of “different therapies; nutrition, lifestyle, herbs and supplements, mindfulness, mental health and hydrotherapy to help my patients improve their health.”

Conditions that she has worked with patients to address include high blood pressure, diabetes, respiratory conditions, gut dysfunction and auto-immune disorders such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

“I work with people with many conditions. I encourage people to have family doctors, and am very much willing to work with family doctors. It is important for people to have a health team,” she said.

She works in a couple of different ways, through personal consultations, specialised workshops, and through the Health Collective, a monthly subscription to her writings on a number of topics.

One of her upcoming workshops is called “Blood Sugar Simplified” which is based partly on her own experience while studying Naturopathy when she compared her own blood work with what she was learning and realized that she was at risk of developing Diabetes, which she has a family history of as well.

That set her to develop a strict diet which she describes as “an epic failure”. But it put her on a path to finding a plan that worked for her.” The virtual workshop will consist of a presentation, a one-hour cooking demonstration, presentation slides and a workbook with extra resources for participants and their families to use.

Her website, www.drdoneishadodd.com, outlines all of her services and pricing, as Naturopathy is not covered by OHIP, as well as including general information about health issues.

All of her services are available virtually, and she has patients from across Ontario as well as locally, and next week, Dr. Dodd will be participating in the Wellness Fair that is being organised by the Lakelands Family Health Team in Flinton (see ad on this page).