A Mission for Life

SINCE 1999

  • 15 years of professional experience

  • 25 years of studies in Academies, Colleges and Institutes of Holistic Medicine

  • 46 years of continuing education


CREDENTIALS

TOTAL PROGRAM HOURS - HOLISTIC MEDICINE : + 4260 hours

2021 to Present

Harvard Medical School. Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Certificate of Completion: Healing Leg Pain
    Syllabus: Hip pain, Upper Leg Pain, Knee Pain, Lower Leg Pain.

  • Certificate of Completion: Back Pain: Find Solutions for your Aching Back.
    Syllabus: Anatomy of the Back. Types of Back Pain. Back Pain Relief Strategies. Creating a Treatment Plan.
    Self-Care Strategies. Complementary Therapies.

Naturopathic Continuing Education, New York, USA.
Courses for Practitioners: Naturopathic Doctors and Natural Medicine Practitioners.

Continuing Education Approval : College of Naturopaths of Ontario , College of Naturopathic Doctors of Alberta, North American Naturopathic Continuing Education Accreditation Council (NANCEAC), Alliance of International Aromatherapists (AIA)

  • Certificate of Completion: Creating Herbal Formulas for Metabolic Disorders - by Dr. Jillian Stansbury, licensed naturopathic physician. Metabolic Disorders, focuses primarily on diabetes and metabolic syndrome . How to craft herbal formulas for improving basic metabolic function to help treat diabetes, hyperlipidemia, metabolic syndrome, and support weight loss. 

  • Certificate of Completion: Deprescribing in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes - by Christie Fleetwood, Registered Pharmacist and Naturopathic Doctor. The benefits and risks of drugs including nutritional deficiencies

  • Certificate of Completion - Creating Herbal Formulas for Thyroid Disorders- by Dr. Jillian Stansbury, licensed naturopathic physician. Contributors to Thyroid Disease, Materia Medica

  • Certificate of Completion: Deprescribing in Dyslipidemia - by Christie Fleetwood, Registered Pharmacist and Naturopathic Doctor. The benefits and risks of drugs including nutritional deficiencies

  • Certificate of Completion - Creating Herbal Formulas for Female Reproductive System Disorders - by Dr. Jillian Stansbury, licensed naturopathic physician. Menstrual irregularities, including amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, PMS , menopause, including hot flashes, osteoporosis, breast disorders, including mastitis and fibrocystic breast disease, ovarian cysts and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), endometriosis, uterine fibroids.

  • Certificate of Completion - Post-COVID Syndrome: Assessment and Clinical Approaches - by Dr. Paul Anderson, Professor of Pharmacology and Clinical Medicine
    The most prominent post-COVID syndrome symptoms - The demographics most affected by the disease (despite its random nature) - The potential diseases or disorders that may arise alongside post-COVID syndrome - various methods of treatment that could potentially lessen the effects of COVID-19, and thus, post-COVID syndrome.

  • Certificate of Completion - Autoimmune Disease and Immunology - by Dr. Ambrose, Naturopathic Doctor.
    The Immune System in Autoimmune Disease. Naturopathic Approaches to Treatment. How to modulate the immune system. The role of the microbiome, nutrition, and hormones in inflammation

Accademia delle Arti Erboristiche - Rome, Italy - Doctor Fernando Pitera’ de Clima

Canadian Examining Board of Health Practitioners

  • Registered Natural Health Practitioner - R.N.H.P

  • Certified Herbalist Health Practitioner - CHHP

  • Certified Aromatherapy Health Therapist - CAHT

Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine ( Los Angeles, California) and SuWen Herbs (United Kingdom), by Professor Giovanni Maciocia.

Giovanni Maciocia was a world-renowned practitioner of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, known as “the Father of Chinese Medicine in Europe”. Born and educated in Naples, Italy, originally from a medical family. Trained in the U.K. and China in TCM

  • Certificate of Completion: The Treatment of Anxiety and Insomnia with Chinese Medicine

  • Certificate of Completion: Tongue Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine

  • Certificate of Completion: Chinese Herbal Formulas in Practice: Foundations, Formulations & Clinical Integration

Wild Rose College of Herbal Medicine, British Columbia, Canada.

Certificate of Completion: Traditional Ayurvedic Medicine, Theory and practices of traditional Ayurvedic medicine: constitution, daily and seasonal regimens, the causes of disease, diagnostics, and the principles of treatment.

Certificate of Completion: Traditional Chinese Medicine-TCM diagnostic principles to assess patterns of disharmony in the body and formulate appropriate treatment strategies. Organs physiology, meridian theory, and the role of TCM in treating disease.

Alternative Medicine College of Canada, Quebec

  • Diploma of Naturopath (1839 hours - 123 credits) : Holistic Naturopathy Practitioner or Natural Health Practitioner (Not Naturopathic Doctor)

  • Diploma of Natural Health Practitioner Anatomy physiopathology III , Regenerative treatments (Meristemotherapy) : detoxification, revitalization, drainage, Orthomolecular approach, Client-Therapist relationship - Clinical Case Studies.
    A training program with three complementary levels:

    1. Natural Health Advisor

    2. Natural Health Educator

    3. Natural Health Practitioner

  • Certificate - Natural Health Educator Anatomy physiopathology II - Health Education - Energetics approach -Pathologies and Treatments - Clinical Case Studies

  • Certificate - Natural Health Consultant Anatomy physiopathology I - Vital Hygiene - The Pillars of Health - Nutrition Basics - Medications and Medical exams - Energetics approaches - History and Foundation - Detoxification (elimination and cleansing) - Clinical Case Studies

Viriditas Herbal Product, by John Redden, founding member and former vice-president of the Ontario Herbalists Association, Toronto, Ontario.

  • Certificate of Completion, Medical Herbalism, Advanced Clinical Protocols” Program: Botany, phytochemistry, pharmacology, herb-drug interactions, and human physiology, body systems, case studies. Approximately 100 herbs covered by actions, pharmacology, and energetics.

Herbal Academy, Massachusetts (USA)

  • Graduate in “Mastering Herbal Formulation

  • Graduate inClinical Herbalist Advanced Course” - Herbal Academy, Massachusetts (USA) - course. Program: Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine - Herbal First-aid - Phytochemistry and Herb-Drug Interactions - Knowledge of 150 herbs - Creating formula - Side effects and Safety - Food and Nutrition - Herbal support for immune system - Respiratory health - Endocrine system - Reproductive health - Blood, lymph, and mucous membranes - Digestive System - Musculoskeletal System - Nervous system, Cardiovascular System, Liver , Urinary System - Healthy aging - Common Childhood discomfort. Herbal preparations and body care products for daily care and common ailments.

  • Certificate - “Clinical Skill Herbal Course”: Clinical Health Assessment (patient intake discussion, intake form), Clinical skills (Protocol and formula creation, Assessment and knowledge of Drug-Herb interactions)

Pacific Rim College, Victoria (BC), Canada

  • Certificate - “Food-Drug-Herb-Nutrient Interactions & Drug-Induced Nutrient Depletions

  • Certificate - An Integrated approach to Female Hormonal Health

  • Certificate - Reading Diagnostic Laboratory Blood Tests for Female Hormonal Health

Institute of Natural Medicine - Naturopathy School - Urbino (Marche), Italy

  • CourseDetox in Professional Practice”

  • Certificate‍ ‍Naturopathic Iridology according Dr. Jensen‍ ‍

  • Certificate - Phytotherapy for viral infections

  • Certificate - Cancer: Genetics, Epigenetics, Metagenomics and PNEI (psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology)

Thesaurae Natura - Lago Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy

  • Certificate - Basic Course of Ildegardian Medicine with Doctor Sabrina Melino, chemist and pharmaceutical technician

1999 to 2015

  • 2015: Publication at the AIA (International Alliance of Aromatherapists) of two clinical studies on the benefits of essential oils for plantar fibromatosis and sebaceous cyst.

  • 2014: Aromatherapy teacher training Course - Aromahead Institute, USA.

  • 2014: Course in Advanced Aromatherapy . Aromahead Institute, USA.

  • 2014: Course in Viruses and Immune System - Aromahead Institute, USA.

  • 2014: Certificate of Participation : Private Seminar on the creation of Natural Perfumes at the “Studio des Fragrance” of Galimard House in Grasse (Provence) in France. Instructor: Anna Augurina, previous brand manager of Prada, Nina Ricci and Antonio Banderas.

  • 2010: Certificate of Professional Aromatherapist - Canadian Institute of Natural Health and Healing, Canada -

  • 2010: Certificate of European Lymph Drainage Massage - Canadian Institute of Natural Health and Healing, Canada

  • 2010: Certificate of Energy 1 and 2 - Canadian Institute of Natural Health and Healing, Canada

  • 2010: Certificate of Meditation - Canadian Institute of Natural Health and Healing, Canada

  • 2010: Certificate of Nutrition - Canadian Institute of Natural Health and Healing, Canada

  • 2010: Ayurveda Healing Course: - American Institute of Vedic Studies, Santa Fe ', New Mexico

  • 2009: Course in Natural Perfumes - Mandy Aftel Berkley, California

  • 2009:Course in the Manufacture of natural products - Marie Clair Lapare ', Doctor of Naturopathy (Québec, France and Morocco)

  • 2009:Course of Introduction to Anatomy, Pathology, Physiology

  • 2009: Member of the International Council of Reflexologists

  • 2008: Certificate ofIridology 1 - Canadian Institute of Natural Health and Healing, Canada. 21 hours

  • 2008: Certificate of Reflexologist - Canadian Institute of Natural Health and Healing, Canada “ Reflexology
    166 hours . Techniques: On Zon Su (Chinese Reflexology) - China / Ingham and Buyers (Modern Reflexology) - USA / Angelo Luciani (Psychosomatic Reflexology) - Italy

  • 2005:Certificate of Shiatsu 1 - International Academy of Applied Health, Ottawa, Canada

  • 1999: Chinese Foot Reflexology Training Course - Rome (Italy) with Dr. King Jie from Hospital of Shanghai

  • 1978 - 2000: self-direct learning in Western Herbalism, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda (Indian) Medicine

EXPERIENCE

2025: Vita Pura Naturale - Natural Health Consultations
Registered Natural Health Practitioner
Certified Herbalist Health Practitioner

Since 2016:
Founder of Stefania Borrelli - Pure and Natural Italian Lifestyle:
Natural Health Consultant
Clinical Herbalist

Creation of custom herbal and essential oil based remedies and products for the care and well-being .
Organization of workshops for wellness and health centers, individuals and corporates.
2022: Member of ICAN (International Clinical Aromatherapy Network): a global platform whose members are professionals in the fields of clinical aromatherapy, aromatic medicine, essential oil science and essential oil research.
2015: International Representative AIA (International Alliance of Aromatherapists)

2014 - 2019: organization and presentation of workshops at the Royal Mental Health Care and Research in Ottawa, on the benefits of essential oils on emotions and general well-being for patients and clients of the Research Center.
2009 - 2015: Volunteer Member of the Board of Directors of the AIA (International Alliance of Aromatherapists) with head office in Colorado (USA)
2009- 2015: Founder of JoyAmore - creation of products based on essential oils. Organization of workshops for wellness and health centers.