Do these 11 Health & Wellness Practice Categories feel useful for identifying someone’s complementary skills? Feedback welcome to help make communication among new collaborators smoother.

This isn't about bureaucracy or putting people or modalities in boxes — rather, it's an optional framework to streamline communication on routine topics, giving us more time for meaningful work.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

As we connect with like-minded colleagues and explore new ways of collaborating, it helps to be able to reach each other quickly and with minimal friction. If you meet someone through the Health Explorations Collective and are considering a collaboration or referral, it’s often helpful to quickly confirm modalities or skill sets.

To support this, I’d like to offer an optional framework that can make communication about such routine topics more efficient — so we can spend our time together on the deeper, more meaningful work.

Do these categories — and the modalities within them — feel useful when you’re trying to identify or confirm someone’s complementary skills? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Health & Wellness Practice Categories

1. Medical Diagnosis or Assessment

2. Other Clinical Care

3. Mental & Emotional Health, Trauma Healing

4. Health & Lifestyle Coaching

5. Bodywork, Manual Therapies

6. Movement, Fitness

7. Mindfulness, Somatics, Nervous System Regulation

8. Vibrational Healing

9. Energy & Spiritual Practices

10. Other Modalities

11. Business, Marketing, Provider Training

Sample modalities and techniques for each category are listed below.

Medical Diagnosis or Assessment

• Ayurveda Physician

• Functional Medicine

• German New Medicine

• Herbal Medicine, Traditional Medicine

• Homeopathy

• Integrative Medicine

• Naturopathic Medicine (ND)

• Nurse Practitioner

• Orthomolecular Medicine

• Osteopathy (DO)

• Physician (MD, MBBS, etc.)

• Physician Assistant

• Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

Other Clinical Care

• Midwifery

• Nurse

• Respiratory Therapist

• Specialists: Surgeon, Neurosurgeon, Cardiologist, Dermatologist, Oncologist, etc.

Chiropractic doctors (DC) are listed under Bodywork, Manual Therapies

Mental & Emotional Health, Trauma Healing

• Addiction support

• Counseling

• Family Constellation Therapy

• Gestalt Therapy

• Hypnotherapy

• Nervous system regulation (see Mindfulness, Embodiment, Nervous System Regulation)

• Psychedelic medicine

• Psychotherapy

• Regression Therapy

• Sleep specialist

• Subconscious work, PSYCH-K, shadow work

• Trauma healing

• TRE

Health & Lifestyle Coaching

• Ayurveda counseling

• Dietitian

• Functional Nutrition

• Health & wellness coaching

• Nutritional coaching

Bodywork, Manual Therapies

• Alexander Technique

• Chiropractic (DC)

• Craniosacral therapy

• Lymphatic drainage

• Massage

• Myofascial release

• Reflexology

• Rolfing / Structural Integration

• Rosen Method

• Thai Massage

Movement, Fitness

• Personal training, strength coaching, sports performance

• Physical Therapy / Physiotherapy

• Pilates

Mindfulness, Somatics, Nervous System Regulation

• Breathwork

• Dance or Movement Therapy

• Embodiment techniques

• Feldenkrais Method

• iRest

• MBSR

• Meditation

• Mindfulness techniques

• Restorative Yoga

• Somatics

• Yin Yoga

• Yoga

• Yoga Nidra

• Yoga Therapy

Vibrational Healing

• Biofield Tuning

• Light Therapy

• Sound, Music Therapy

• Vibrational Medicine

Energy & Spiritual Practices

• Energy work

• Reiki

• Shamanic Healing

• Spiritual Counseling

• Tai Chi

• Therapeutic Touch

• ThetaHealing

• Qi Gong

Other Modalities

• Aromatherapy

• Art Therapy

• Executive coaching

• Life coaching, relationship coaching

• Muscle Testing

• Other modalities

• Reproductive specialist: doula, lactation consulting, pelvic floor therapy

Business, Marketing, Provider Training

• Business coaching or services

• Marketing

• Provider training

This isn’t about bureaucracy or putting people in boxes — I have zero interest in that! Rather, I found that when I wanted to communicate with people who had different skills and backgrounds, I needed a common language to describe the people to each other. Thus, I devised this optional framework to streamline communication on routine topics, giving us more time for meaningful work.