Dr Alexia Tsakiris received her B.S. from Rutgers University in 2000 and graduated with her BVetMed from the Royal Veterinary College in London in 2005. She then worked as a small animal veterinarian focusing on internal medicine. She was certified in acupuncture as well as Food therapy through the Chi Institute. 

She studied herbal medicine with the College of Integrative Veterinary Therapies (CIVT) and received her Certificate of Veterinary Herbal Medicine (Western) in 2014 and earned her Graduate Diploma of Veterinary Western Herbal Medicine (GDipVWHM) in June of 2017. The fall of 2018 Dr. Tsakiris joined the faculty of the CIVT.

She studied under Ethnobotanist David Winston RH(AHG) in his two year Clinical Herbalist Program (2014-2016) and is working towards becoming a registered herbalist (the highest accreditation for human herbal medicine). 

She is also taking coursework in veterinary spinal manipulation through the Health Pioneers Institute.

We had a great conversation discussing how she got an interest in Holistic medicine, the path that she took as she was getting certified in various modalities, and what her practice structure looks like today. 

Please enjoy my conversation with Dr. Tsakiris!