The Online Wellness Association Blog

One of the benefits of belonging to ONLINE WELLNESS ASSOCIATION, OWA, is the visibility. Dollar for dollar, a membership with OWA is well worth your advertising dollars. For the minimal membership cost of $169/year ($249 initial) you not only receive a directory listing with a link to your site, you are also included in all the publicity generated to promote OWA. A good example is the half page color ad in the Sept/Oct issue of NEW CONNEXION JOURNAL; a publication distributed to over 40,000 people in the Pacific Northwest. Lifestyle Changes, one of the first members of OWA, was included in the ad right next to the OWA ad. OWA promotes the success of their members as they promote the success of ONLINE WELLNESS ASSOCIATION. Have you applied for membership? http://www.onlinewellnessassociation.com/index.php?v=requirementssub

Information about the NEW CONNEXION JOURNAL can be found at
http://www.newconnexionjournal.com

In my last blog I announced that there will be some changes to both of my websites; those changes will be made during the month of September. OWA is continuing to accept applications for membership consideration. Have you applied as yet? One question I am often asked about membership is ‘What if I am not required to have specific credentials for my wellness practice?’ Interesting question; you might be surprised to learn that there are not boards, state or federal regulations to oversee every wellness association. For instance, in the State of Oregon you do not have to have any specific credentials to call yourself a ‘counselor’–as long as you don’t represent having credentials that you don’t have. That is why online Wellness Association requires four RECENT professional references; no legitimate professional will be a reference for someone that is not legitimate. Our membership director screens the references thoroughly; OWA puts a lot of weight on the professional references in order to approve membership. If you have not considered becoming a member, please be sure to visit http://www.onlinewellnessassociation.com to learn how you can become a member.

Learn more about me, MAx Fabry on the ‘Words from our Founder’ page at
http://www.onlinewellnessassociation.com

Just wanted to give everyone a ‘heads up’ that changes for OWA are coming. In August, the OWA site will be moved to a new hosting server. I am told by my present web developers and host of my websites, that the transfer might not go real smooth and they ‘will not accept any liability for the functioning of either site’ following the transfer. I am attempting to follow the directions for transfer that the developers have provided to me as far as finding a new host: ‘specifically the need for the server to have PHP5’. I have started interviewing hosts for the site. If you have anyone that you have 100% confidence in, please let me know ASAP. I continue to believe and support the mission of Online Wellness Association. Just want you to know if the sight falls off the earth, OWA is still here and serving the mission of building a safe internet platform for legitimate wellness practitioners to offer their services, and for the public to confidently access those services. I am open to your feedback to consider while I am regrouping the site.

MAx Fabry, Founder, Online Wellness Association
http://www.onlinewellnessassociation.com/index.php?v=wordssub

I was talking to an insurance person at a meeting this morning about the OWA SEAL of APPROVAL. It started by explaining to her what and why Online Wellness is, and what the mission of OWA is: to build a safe internet platform for wellness practitioners to offer their services and for you the public to safely access those services. She immediately started telling me about her experience looking for a therapist online. ‘It was scary. How am I to know who is real and who isn’t? Some of them just looked scary.’ She ended up not wanting to do the work it would take to verify their credentials. I went on to explain that this is a fine example of why OWA has come to be and how practitioners need to meet a standard in order to be granted the OWA SEAL of APPROVAL. It was truly heartfelt when I told her that ‘it is my mission to have the OWA SEAL of APPROVAL reflect the same visual confidence level as the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Do you have a SEAL OF APPROVAL on your website?

Learn more about SEAL OF APPROVAL at:
http://www.onlinewellnessassociation.com/index.php?v=sealsub

Read more about the OWA mission at: http://www.onlinewellnessassociation.com/index.php?v=about

MAx Fabry: Learn more about me and my private practice at
www.lifestylechangescounseling.com

I am also founder and proud member of Online Wellness Association
www.onlinewellnessassociation.com

I really need to give kudo’s to the OWA ‘Spotlight Therapist’, Catherine Van Wetter. I have a client that was very stuck in old family ‘stuff’. Catherine does systemic constellation work that allows the client to reveal the true dynamics within the family system and then facilitates understanding and healing for the client. I asked Catherine if she would be able to do a session with this client to help him with his family dynamics that was preventing him from moving forward with his life. She met for one hour with my client who reported to me that it was like ‘a twelve hour session in just one hour….it was remarkable’. Today when I saw him, his energy was lighter, and he was having difficulty even bringing the past into the present. ‘Remarkable’. Since Catherine has joined OWA I have gotten to know her work and I am fascinated by all that she does. If you haven’t visited her site, please make a point of it: http://www.courageconsultants.net. Thank you, Catherine, for the help you gave my client: You are mystical.

MAx Fabry: I am also founder and proud member of Online Wellness Association
http://www.onlinewellnessassociation.com

Learn more about me and my private practice Lifestyle Changes at
http://www.livestylechangescounseling.com.