Diploma in Naturopathy Year 3 - 2026/27 - EARLY BIRD OFFER until end of Black Friday

Sale Price: £2,625.00 Original Price: £3,950.00

Dates and times

  1. 8-11 October 2026

  2. 12-15 November 2026

  3. 21-24 January 2027

  4. 25-28 February 2027

  5. 15-18 April 2027

  6. 13-16 May 2027

  7. 10-13 June 2027

  8. 8-11 July 2027 REVISION

  9. 2-5 September 2027 FINAL CLINICAL EXAMS

Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays are dedicated to seeing patients in our busy low-cost student clinic and working out individual treatment plans for them.

Clinic days start at 8:30am and finish at 5pm.

Sundays (9am to 5pm) we work on specific topics, and have guest lecturers visiting.

Extra clinic days are planned weekly.

What will you learn?

This is the third and final year of the nature cure course. It is mainly clinic based and will equip you to practice naturopathy.

PREREQUISITES

All students entering Year 3 of the course must have successfully completed Year 1 and 2

Note also that progression to Year 3 requires students to obtain an RQF Level 3 Emergency First Aid award from a course provider of their choice, and to provide proof of an up-to-date enhanced DBS check. Students will also learn how to use naturopathic and herbal first aid techniques in the management of trauma over the course of the year.

INTRODUCTION

Year 3 is focused around supervised clinical training in the community clinic, which is interspersed with practical workshops, case conferences, and a number of special topic lectures. 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The broad goal of teaching the principles and practice of Naturopathy is to equip the students with the knowledge, practical ability and communication skills required to function effectively as a practising naturopathic practitioner. 

By the end of year 3 students will:

  1. Demonstrate skill in history taking, observation and clinical examination, and in the concise and accurate recording of clinical information.

  2. Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills with patients, colleagues, and other health professionals in the formulation of solutions to patients’ problems that promote health and well-being.

  3. Demonstrate skill in verbal and written communication with patients, colleagues and other health professionals on all matters concerning the patient’s wellbeing and their personal health plan.

  4. Be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestation, treatment, and prognosis of common disorders of human function.

  5. Be able to formulate personal health plans for patients (involving specialist referral and further investigations where indicated) by the integration of clinical information, based on scientific rationale and informed by the established principles of Naturopathy.

  6. Be able to describe various modes of management with proper regard to dosages, side effects, potential toxicity, interactions with other treatments, and contra-indications (wherever applicable).

 

PS a payment plan option is available, please ask us

Dates and times

  1. 8-11 October 2026

  2. 12-15 November 2026

  3. 21-24 January 2027

  4. 25-28 February 2027

  5. 15-18 April 2027

  6. 13-16 May 2027

  7. 10-13 June 2027

  8. 8-11 July 2027 REVISION

  9. 2-5 September 2027 FINAL CLINICAL EXAMS

Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays are dedicated to seeing patients in our busy low-cost student clinic and working out individual treatment plans for them.

Clinic days start at 8:30am and finish at 5pm.

Sundays (9am to 5pm) we work on specific topics, and have guest lecturers visiting.

Extra clinic days are planned weekly.

What will you learn?

This is the third and final year of the nature cure course. It is mainly clinic based and will equip you to practice naturopathy.

PREREQUISITES

All students entering Year 3 of the course must have successfully completed Year 1 and 2

Note also that progression to Year 3 requires students to obtain an RQF Level 3 Emergency First Aid award from a course provider of their choice, and to provide proof of an up-to-date enhanced DBS check. Students will also learn how to use naturopathic and herbal first aid techniques in the management of trauma over the course of the year.

INTRODUCTION

Year 3 is focused around supervised clinical training in the community clinic, which is interspersed with practical workshops, case conferences, and a number of special topic lectures. 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The broad goal of teaching the principles and practice of Naturopathy is to equip the students with the knowledge, practical ability and communication skills required to function effectively as a practising naturopathic practitioner. 

By the end of year 3 students will:

  1. Demonstrate skill in history taking, observation and clinical examination, and in the concise and accurate recording of clinical information.

  2. Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills with patients, colleagues, and other health professionals in the formulation of solutions to patients’ problems that promote health and well-being.

  3. Demonstrate skill in verbal and written communication with patients, colleagues and other health professionals on all matters concerning the patient’s wellbeing and their personal health plan.

  4. Be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestation, treatment, and prognosis of common disorders of human function.

  5. Be able to formulate personal health plans for patients (involving specialist referral and further investigations where indicated) by the integration of clinical information, based on scientific rationale and informed by the established principles of Naturopathy.

  6. Be able to describe various modes of management with proper regard to dosages, side effects, potential toxicity, interactions with other treatments, and contra-indications (wherever applicable).

 

PS a payment plan option is available, please ask us

Payment

One fee of £3500. (Board and lodging not included).

GUEST LECTURERS will join us on some of the units.

Dr Nic Rowley, MA, MRCS (Eng), LRCP, PGCE, Lic Ac, read medicine at Trinity College Cambridge, and completed his clinical training at the Royal Free Hospital, London.

As well as running holistic medical practices in Kent and West Sussex, he has played a significant role in the raising of educational and regulatory standards of complementary and alternative medicine in the UK. As academic vice principal of the European School of Osteopathy, he devised and authored the UK's first classified honours degree program in complementary medicine to be validated by an established university. He was thus closely involved in the process that lead to Osteopathy being recognised as an independent, self-regulating profession governed by statute in Britain, a model that has subsequently been developed within other complementary medical disciplines. He was also Dean of Studies at the School of Herbal medicine, and guest lecturer and examiner at several major colleges of alternative medicine including the International College of Oriental Medicine and the College of Homeopathy.

Nic is author of several books including Basic Clinical Science (an overview of orthodox clinical science for students of alternative medicine) and Hands On (a manual of clinical skills), and has sat on external degree academic validation panels for various universities, including the University of Wales, overseeing the validation of courses at diploma, degree, and Master's level for schools of complementary medicine both in Britain and Europe. He has a particular interest in the therapeutic use of music, and holds a teaching qualification (PGCE) from the Institute of Education, University of London. Nic was the architect Heartwood Herbal Education.

Kirsten Hartvig ND, MNIMH, DipPhyt trained at the School of Herbal Medicine, Tunbridge Well, and the College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy in London. She is an acclaimed nutritionist, medical herbalist, and registered naturopath practising in The Rachel Carson Centre, Emerson College. She is director of the Healing Garden, and the author of 14 books on natural health, including Eat for Immunity, Healing Spices, and Healing Berries. Kirsten leads monthly herb walks starting from Emerson College, and gives talks and workshops on natural health in practice.

Kirsten teaches materia medica and food as medicine at the Nordic College of Natural Medicine in Denmark, where she also was a government advisor on herbal medicine and natural health, and part of the Danish Health Authority’s Council for Alternative Medicine. Kirsten has taught nutrition and dietetics at the European School of Osteopathy; she wrote the dietetics course material for the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine masters degree course, and the developed the second year materia medica material for the Heartwood Professional Course. Kirsten is part of the YouTube channel Herb Hunters, with Frances Hambly, and the Herbal Medicine Show on UK Health Radio. She is a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists and past president of the General Council and Register of Naturopaths.