I graduated from Palmer Chiropractic College in 1981.

Midwifery: Having my first baby at home, I became involved with the home birth movement in Santa Cruz, California and worked as an assistant midwife, attending births for a number of years.

Craniosacral Therapy; My husband and I studied and had preceptorships with John Upledger, D.O. from 1982 through 1991. I specialize in and produced a video on Craniosacral therapy for infants

Homeopathy: In 1988 I decided to take up the study of homeopathy and enrolled in the International Foundation of Homeopathy Professional Course. After beginning my studies, I unexpectedly became pregnant with our third child. Our baby was born six weeks early with a moderately serious birth defect, tracheoesophageal fistula; his esophagus ended in a blind pouch that was not attached to his stomach. Thankfully this was surgically corrected on his first day but he did not grow and develop normally, and still resembled a newborn baby at seven months of age. Every night he would begin to cough at 2am, and clear frothy mucous would form in his mouth. To keep him from choking, we slept with him held upright on our chests while he coughed all night. We took our child to neonatologists, pediatricians, acupuncturists and osteopaths, but he continued to wake at night with this strange cough and failed to develop. A colleague from Southern California urged me to take our baby to see an experienced homeopath who lived in Santa Barbara. At first my husband was very skeptical. After a long and careful interview, the homeopath gave me a single dose of a remedy and assured me that children who respond to the remedy that most closely matched the symptoms of my son tended to be “late starters.” Twenty hours later our child ceased coughing at night and he had already made significant developmental changes by the time of our first follow-up appointment at six weeks after the initial dose.

Undertaking the study of Classical Homeopathy is a lifetime pursuit and involves a sympathetic and thorough understanding of human nature and behavior as well as a scholarly knowledge of homeopathic remedies—the material medica. I was extremely fortunate to have been mentored for nine years by the master homeopath, Ananda Zaren, who had successfully prescribed for my child. For twenty five years I have studied homeopathy with colleagues in Switzerland, Germany and Belgium. I continue to actively seek to broaden my education in homeopathy. I am very grateful to my current teacher, Henny Heudens-Mast and to my patients who continue to astonish and teach me through their earnest transformations in healing.

VITAE

Karen Bilgrai Cohen, D.C., CCH

Education:

1970-1975	University of California at Santa Cruz Bachelors degree in History of Art Awarded Honors
1978-1981	Palmer College of Chiropractic-West Doctor of Chiropractic Magna Cum Laude
1988-1991	International Foundation of Homeopathy Professional Course
1991-1992	Course in Classical Homeopathy Taught by Paul Herscu, ND, DHANP, Phoenix Arizona
1991-1992	Clinical Supervision in Homeopathy With Ananda Zaren, Woodstock, Connecticut
1995	Teacher’s Course George Vithoulkas, Alonissos
1997	Seminar with Massimo Mangialavori, Jeremy Schere, Rajan Sankaran, Divya Chabra
1998-2013	Seminars with Henny Heudens-Mast Leuven, Belgium

 

Published Works:

1986	Clinical Management of Women in the Childbearing Year Extension Press; Santa Cruz, California
1987	Clinical Management of Infants and Children: A Handbook for Chiropractors Extension Press; Santa Cruz, California
1991	Advanced Topics in the Clinical Management of Infants and Children Extension Press; Santa Cruz, California
1993-1994	Editor of Core Elements in the Materia Medica of the Mind Vol I, II by Ananda Zaren Published in Germany by Burgdorf Publishers, 1993,94
1995	Lecturer International Foundation of Homeopathy Case Conference

Homeopathic Organizations:

1992	Member of the Board of Directors International Foundation for Homeopathy
1996	Member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Homeopathic Certification

Employment:

1982-present	Private practice in Santa Cruz, California at Branciforte Chiropractic & Homeopathy
1982-1985	Instructor at Palmer College of Chiropractic-West Subjects taught include obstetrics and gynecology, histology, geriatrics, toxicology general pathology, renal and pulmonary physiology and microbiology.
1985-1988	Instructor in the Continuing Education Department of Palmer College of Chiropractic – West
1988-1993	Instructor in the Post-Graduate department of Los Angeles College of Chiropractic
1984-1990	Assistant to the Santa Cruz Nurse Midwives in the capacity of childbirth educator and labor attendant.
1989-1991	Founding president of Preferred Chiropractic Services, an organization for the development of ethical and economic guidelines for the chiropractic profession.
1995	Instructor in the Pediatrics Postgraduate Certificate program Palmer College of Chiropractic – East
1995-1999	Instructor in the Palmer College of Chiropractic – West Postgraduate division
2000-2008	Instructor at the Pacific Academy of Homeopathic Medicine San Francisco, California

Honors

1997	Voted one of the San Francisco Bay areas most trusted chiropractors by San Francisco Magazine, March 1997 issue.