Meet Dr. Karley Denoon

Karley collaborates extensively in study and focus groups with medical doctors, researchers, psychologists, clinical herbalists, pharmacists, entrepreneurs, social workers, medicine makers and other practitioners outside of her profession, ongoing to enhance her clinical and professional skill set.

 

Dr Denoon’s goal with offering mentorship is to share what she has learned through her years pioneering Naturopathic Medicine in a rural area, having seen thousands of patients, being defaulted to practicing a lot of primary care all while owning and running a large clinic and regularly consulting for other clinics and doctors.  Karley successfully sold her big clinic in 2022 and has since kept a small modest practice where she could diversify her offerings. 

 

Karley acknowledges that healthcare professions can be lonely and isolating, even competitive, and her goal is to start to shift this.  There hasn’t been a week that Dr Denoon has been in clinic where she hasn’t called a colleague, mentor or friend to bounce an idea off or ask for insight.

Karley has hosted students for many years in her clinical practice, she has been both a formal mentor for ND’s, as well as informally been a go to resource for many ND’s and other practitioners.

Karley has a multifaceted career. Karley has presented for many professional groups, had multiple speaking engagements, and was recruited to help set up the first biohacking facility in Canada, Aeon Future Health. She sits on the board of Arnica Foundation, which serves to increase access to mental health support for young women, and is the Co-Founder of The Center for Sacred Arts. She hosts the Podcast The Modern Day Wisdom Keepers Podcast where she interviews leading experts with the intention to resource women with modern day wisdom to live a fulfilled, enriched and connected life. She deeply believes in mentorship and guidance, and asking for help at pivotal stages of development, both personally and professionally.

Karley has scaled the growth of a clinic from a windowless closet at the top of steep stairs to a gorgeous ground floor clinic hosting over 10 practitioners. She has run both small and large scale practices, dispensaries and staff, had locums, a maternity leave, a sick leave as well as been through incorporation, dissolution of a company, creating legal contracts and navigated the nuances of the ND scope and standards of practice. She was voted one of the Kootenay's top 40 under 40 in business (when she was under 40…ha!) and regularly nominated for excellence in business awards by her local chamber of commerce.

When Karley is not seeing patients, or building businesses, she is on her 40 acre farm where her and her family raise livestock and have a garden that feeds them year round, and a medicinal garden from which she makes medicines for her family.  She loves living in the mountains, skiing, walking and being surrounded by wildlife and the natural world. Karley attributes much of her own success to her mentors, and her grounded relationship with her SELF and with the natural world.