Meet the Team

  • Richard Pitt, CCH

    Richard has been practicing homeopathy since 1984. He initially trained and practiced in the UK and then lived and worked in the USA for 20 years. He was Director of the Pacific Academy of Homeopathy in San Francisco for 12 years and a founding member of the Council for Homeopathic Certification, serving on its board for 17 years.

    He has lived for eight years in 4 African countries and was Education Director of the Kenya School of Integrated Medicine for 5 years where he was also project director of a 5 year European Union Public Health Project. He is the author of 5 homeopathy books and was Editor of the California Homeopath from 2006 to 2016.

    Richard Pitt, His site are at:
    https://www.richardpitthomeopathy.com https://www.thenaturalmedicineguide.com.

  • Kirsten McGregor, CCH, AHC

    Kirsten McGregor is a board-certified Classical Homeopath (CCH) and an Ayurvedic Health Counselor (AHC) based in Sacramento, California. In her practice, Metta Integrative Health, she integrates both forms of medicine to provide a highly individualized, and profoundly effective, holistic approach toward radiant health and wellbeing.

    Kirsten is a graduate of the Academy of Homeopathy Education and is board-certified in Homeopathy through the Council for Homeopathic Certification (CHC) which is accredited by the NCCA. She completed full-time academic studies for Ayurvedic Health Educator at the California College of Ayurveda - Hindu University of America (HUA).  She then furthered her training for Ayurvedic Health Counselor at Mount Madonna Institute.

    Kirsten is a member in good standing with the North American Society of Homeopaths (NASH), the National Center for Homeopathy (NCH) and the Council for Homeopathic Certification (CHC). She is also a member of the California Association for Ayurvedic Medicine (CAAM) and the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA).

    Kirsten McGregor, CCH, AHC
    Website: https://www.mettaintegrativehealth.com

  • Kathleen Scheible, CCH

    Kathleen Scheible, CCH has a classical homeopathy practice in San Francisco, California. She graduated from Pacific Academy of Homeopathy in 2009. Kathleen founded the Bay Area Homeopathy Association in 2007, and is the current President of the California Homeopathic Medical Society, the parent organization of the California Homeopath Journal.

    Kathleen has served as the Homeopath Ambassador for the Integrative Healers Action Network non-profit dedicated to transforming trauma into resilience for those effected by climate disasters since 2018. Kathleen is the current Chairperson of the Board of America's first Homeopathic Medicine Political Action Committee, and is active in advocating for homeopathy and homeopathic medicine on a local, state and federal level.

    Kathleen Scheible,
    https://www.bernalhomeopathy.com

  • Vijay Vaishnav, MD (Hom), CCH

    A former full-time Professor and Chair of Homeopathic Materia Medica at CMP Homeopathic College in Mumbai (India), Vijay Vaishnav, MD (Hom), CCH has over 39 years of clinical practice as well as teaching experience internationally.

    He has been a resource-person and a subject matter expert for the Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH), which is a federal body under the Dept of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathy) of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Govt. of India, and has reviewed and contributed to many of its publications. He has also been a faculty for the Practitioner and Doctoral Programs in Homeopathy at the American Medical College of Homeopathy at Phoenix, Arizona, a Grand Rounds teacher at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Portland, Oregon, and a visiting faculty at the Caduceus Institute of Classical Homeopathy, Santa Cruz, California.

    He is currently practicing homeopathy in California, USA, and is on the Board of the California Homeopathic Medical Society (CHMS). He is also on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Integrated Standardized Homeopathy- a peer-reviewed journal.

    Vijay Vaishnav, MD (Hom), CCH
    https://www.drvaishnav.com

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