This may look like a medical doctor’s office, and it is. But you’ve never seen a practice quite like this before.

For one, you’ll be consulting with not one, but two Health Practitioners. They are Dr. Clare Westmacott and Carole Westmacott, a registered nurse, and together they combine medicine and homeopathy to help you obtain ideal health. Their office desks sit side-by-side – a metaphor for the balanced approach they’ll bring to you.

Tucked in the cluster of buildings along Canmore’s Lincoln Park, the Westmacotts started Ideal Health in 1999. Their previous careers had them working for 25 years doing mainstream medicine in rural Ontario. However, the Westmacotts noticed a recurring pattern: people weren’t consistently reaching and then maintaining an optimum state of Health. They realized the key to ideal health could be found in the practices of both medicine and homeopathy.

Each of their patients, mainly women, have their own family doctors. And the Westmacotts come in when complementary therapies are needed or desired. Their belief is that wellness is all-encompassing – emotional, physical, mental and spiritual – and so must the response be to the ailments that challenge us. From natural hormone therapy to homeopathic detoxifying, they’re here to offer you not an alternative, but a complementary solution.

If achieving your ideal health means also seeing someone else, this team will refer you to local practitioners, such as a holistic nutritionist, certified HeartMath therapist, chiropractors and others.

It’s all about collaborating with others to help you get better. In fact, collaboration is at the very core of the Westmacotts’ practice.

You’ll know that the moment you walk in and see them sitting side-by-side.