The ultimate goal of holistic health care is to respect how infants and children evolve and mature, causing no harm to the health and stability of their maturing immune, nervous and digestive systems.

At Holistic Child Health, Dr. Lawrence B. Palevsky uses holistic health care to encourage children to reach their maximum potential as human beings in body, mind and spirit, while educating and empowering parents in their child’s health.

The preference at Holistic Child Health is to introduce treatment programs that safely nourish the healing of a child’s illness, while also recognizing each child’s inherent healing ability.

Some of the treatments used to help prevent and treat illness in children are: body work, chiropractic, cranial-sacral therapy, eastern/Asian medicine, environmental medicine, essential oils, aromatherapy, functional medicine, herbal remedies, homeopathy, naturopathy, nutritional medicine, osteopathic and western medicine. Strategies are created to maintain wellness and heal children with acute and chronic illnesses by exploring the physical, emotional and spiritual factors that impact wellness and illness in each unique child.

Suggestions for prevention and treatment are designed to help you recognize and reduce or eliminate specific factors that overwhelm your child and contribute to his/her symptoms and illnesses, as well as to incorporate safe remedies that restore well-being and ease symptoms without suppressing the important body functions necessary to reestablish balance.

Dr. Palevsky will work with you to optimize the growth, development and maturity of your child. He will help strengthen your confidence through your own experiences and intuitions, supporting the idea that parents are the primary care providers for their children.

At Holistic Child Health, parents are invited to raise their children in a climate driven by love, not fear.

Biography: Dr. Palevsky is a board certified pediatrician who received his medical degree from the NYU School of Medicine in 1987. He completed a three year pediatric residency at the Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC and a one year fellowship at Bellevue Hospital-NYU School of Medicine in the pediatric outpatient department and emergency room. Dr. Palevsky served as the chief of the Pediatric Acute Care Unit at NYC's Lenox Hill Hospital and most recently was in practice as the holistic integrative pediatrician for the Center for Health & Healing, an integrative and complementary care medical facility affiliated with the Beth Israel Medical Center in NYC.

Dr. Palevsky’s clinical practice includes experience in pediatric emergency and intensive care medicine, in-patient and out-patient pediatric medicine, neonatal intensive care medicine, newborn and delivery room medicine and conventional, holistic and integrative pediatric private practice in NYC.

Dr. Palevsky is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, president of the American Holistic Medical Association (www.holisticmedicine.org), co-founder and president of the Holistic Pediatric Association (www.hpakids.org), a diplomat of the American Board of Holistic Medicine and a medical advisory board member to the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in New York City, Developmental Delay Resources (www.devdelay.org ), Families for Natural Living and the National Vaccine Information Center.

Dr. Palevsky teaches holistic integrative pediatric and adolescent medicine to parents and medical and allied health professionals both nationally & internationally.

To make an appointment with Dr. Palevsky or to learn more about holistic health care, call 631.262.8505 or visit www.drpalevsky.com.