This is the first step in treatment process. Here we discuss your medical history. This helps us to understand how you have arrived at the symptoms that your body is showing at the present moment. This also helps me greatly to determin in which direction the treatment should go.
In this holistic appraoch I have found that it is very important to see and understand the underlying emotional aspects to the buildup of noticable symptoms. Often the first sign our body gives us is through emotions, which later, if not addressed, lead to noticable symptoms like pain or other discomfort.