Hunter Purdy's background as a certified holistic nurse, her training in various complementary practices, her years of hospice nursing, and her experience farming and gardening organically in rural Kentucky communities offer WaysMeet clients a unique perspective.

Hunter serves as a holistic nurse consultant and educator at WaysMeet. She offers to WaysMeet clients a Holistic Health Assessment and Plan that focuses on the balanced integration of conventional, as well as complementary, approaches. After a comprehensive evaluation, Hunter and the client together develop an individualized health care plan that is based on sound research and evidence and, most importantly, is specifically directed to meet the client's chosen needs.

Hunter holds a B.S. in Agriculture from the University of Kentucky. She has been a registered nurse since 1991. She turned to nursing as a way to educate and care for humans that addresses the inseparability of mind, body, spirit, and environment. Over the past 12 years, she has provided nursing care, administrative assistance, and consultation in a number of rural Kentucky primary care clinics. She completed an American Holistic Nursing Association endorsed certificate program in holistic nursing through Seeds and Bridges, Inc. and has been a board-certified holistic nurse since 1999. Hunter has received training in Healing Touch through the American Holistic Nurses Association, and has completed the Professional and Advanced Professional Training offered by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine . She has a special interest in helping clients with cancer develop programs that integrate conventional, alternative, and complementary care for cancer treatment and its side effects and completed the CancerGuides training offered by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in January 2004.

In addition to her practice at WaysMeet, Hunter is a member of the Advisory Committee for the University of Kentucky College of Medicine grant for integrating complementary and alternative medicine into the education of conventional health professionals. She shares a beautiful Estill County farm with her husband, dogs, and horses.