About Your Homeopath

Meet Orchid Rastadmehr, MA, MSc, DHMHS, Homeopath. Combining rigorous academic research with compassionate natural medicine to guide your journey toward balance, vitality, and sustainable holistic health in Toronto and beyond.

Bridging Clinical Science and Natural Healing

Orchid is an integrative healthcare practitioner and clinical researcher with more than two decades of scientific and clinical expertise. She began her academic career as a college lecturer following her Masters of Art degree in Linguistics (1997) before serving as a clinical researcher in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Toronto where she received her Masters of Science degree in 2005. There, she investigated the functional impact of tongue resection on oral cancer patients and authored and presented relevant scientific studies and articles. 

Dedicated to Registered Homeopathic Medicine

Following her clinical research career, Orchid completed her DHMHS degree in 2009. and became a registered Homeopath in Ontario under the College of Homeopaths of Ontario. Today, her extensive scientific foundation enriched and integrated with her individualized and deeply analytical homeopathic practice and natural treatments helps her understand the true vitality addressing root imbalances across physical, mental, and energetic health.

Whether you consult with Orchid in person in Toronto or through our secure virtual consultations across Ontario, you receive deeply attentive, personalized care.

Areas of clinical focus and preventative wellness

Orchid works closely with patients facing complex, chronic and acute  conditions and those seeking preventative wellness. Her clinical practice focuses on women’s health and fertility support, skin disorders, environmental allergies and asthma, digestive concerns, and mental health challenges like chronic stress and anxiety. Every treatment protocol is thoroughly customized to stimulate your body’s inherent self-healing intelligence.

  Orchid's Publications

  • Rastadmehr O., Bressmann T., Smyth R. Irish J. C. (2008). Increased midsagittal tongue velocity as indication of articulatory compensation in patients with lateral partial glossectomies. Head & Neck,.30(6),718-26
  • Rastadmehr O., Bressmann T., Ackloo E., Irish J. C. (2006). The Impact of Lateral Tongue Resections on Midsagittal Tongue Movement during Speech. 5th International Conference on Speech Motor Control Nijmegan: Abstracts, 14, 66.
  • Rastadmehr O., Bressmann T., Heng C. L., Irish J. C. (2005). Acoustic and articulatory space before and after lateral tongue resections in oral cancer patients. Canadian Acoustics, 33 (3), 82-83.
  • Rastadmehr O. (2003). How to help a child speak early. Tehran: Nourbakhsh (in Persian)

  Orchid's Presentation

  • Rastadmehr O., Bressmann T., Irish J. C. Velocity of Tongue movement after a partial Lateral glossectomy. American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Toronto, 17.09.2006
  • Rastadmehr O., Bressmann T., Ackloo E., Irish J. C. The impact of lateral tongue resections on midsagittal tongue movement during speech. SPOON Meeting of Wharton Head and Neck Centre, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, 16.06.2006.
  • Rastadmehr O., Bressmann T., Ackloo E., Irish J. C. The impact of lateral tongue resections on midsagittal tongue movement during speech. Speech Motor Conference,
    Nijmegen, 7.06.2006. (Poster Presentation)
  • Rastadmehr O., Bressmann T., Heng C. L., Irish J. C. Acoustic and articulatory space before and after lateral tongue resections in oral cancer patients. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association, London, Ontario, 12.10.2005.