Nicole Galante

This is a woman who claims to be a medical medium; she apparently also is an acupuncturist [it says this on her website] and chiropractor, yet when I asked her if she was an acupuncturist, she said no, she was a chiropractor. Red Flag #1.

When you call this office to book, you will be asked for a credit card number; dont give it. Find another practitioner. Because heres what happens: a) the first appointment is $300/hour; b) all subsequent appointments are $300; and c) if you follow up with questions by email, the office staff wont tell you HOW these are priced. Red Flag #2.

This practitioner, at the end of the telephone consult, will give you an email address, and encourage you to write her with any questions. But heres the quicksand (see c above) when I asked her office staff at what point are you charged for questions, I did not receive an answer. These delimiters should be clearly defined, not left loosey, goosey, and lets face it, if this office has your credit card number and youve crossed over the number of questions you can ask, but HEY GUESS WHAT no one told you where that line was get out of there. Red Flag #3.

There was another telling red flag which I should have paid attention to early on. On her FB page, this practitioner had posted something to the effect of how poor she was or that she never had enough money words to that effect. When I put that piece together with the dicey, not explained way that follow-up questions are charged this is an office that has lost its moral compass. Red Flag #4.

Oh. And did I mention that she was 20 minutes late for the telephone consult? And, offered no apology. And, rather than tuning in as a good medium will, she asked me what was going on. Red Flag #5.

NOTE: in order to book an appointment, you have to have read Anthony Williams book Medical Medium. Which I had done. This is a worthy book, and I organized the foods I needed based on how he outlined certain conditions. So I had a good handle on my conditions, and an excellent handle on the foods I needed. So if you consult this practitioner youre going to be doing all the work. This is a lazy practitioner. When her voice suddenly became animated at the end of the consult, I knew something was off. That animation was giving me the email to which to send questions. [SEE RED FLAG #3] And she spent more time talking about other questions her patients had had than she had answering my questions. Red Flag #6.

And questions? I started off with a list of questions. Thirty minutes into the consult, she suddenly said: Is there anything else?

To which I said But you didnt answer my initial questions so I had to repeat myself.

This practitioner apparently was never taught The Golden Rule to apologize for being late; this practitioner posts inappropriately, and unprofessionally on FB; this practitioner lowers the name of what she does.

My advice: make sure all the rules, regs and delimiters are clearly defined, and outlined. If you can, find a practitioner whose face you can see. BTW this practitioner doesnt do Skype. I wondered if this was because she was doing other things during the consult. So face to face, so you can ready body language, and, if anything inappropriate and unprofessional occurs, you communicate a world by getting up and walking out.

Then notify your social network, write a letter to the person who recommended the practitioner [if you were referred], and report the practitioner to the Better Business Bureau.

FINAL PIECE OF ADVICE: trust those red flags. At the first sign of the second red flag, cross the practitioner off your list and proceed to the next name on your list.