become a holistic healer

I just finished an MS in clinical nutrition, I thought it would just happen after that. But now having trouble getting started. I was bruoght up to work for the “system” and I think that might be why I am having trouble being self-motivated to start my own thing. Also the course wasn’t very practical, and had no internship or clinical experience requirement, so I have to figure all that out myself.
Nutrition and health is such a jungle now and so many conflicting ideas, that makes it much harder to figure out what to do and how to do it. I’d like to be able to trust the basis of all I’ve ben told but unfortunately I can’t becaue there’s so much coruption and pseudo science, but I can’t validate everything myself even if I wasn’t lazy. Just have to play it by ear and try different things. At present I’m offering free consultation so I can get some experience, and I do have one “real” case of someone who’s had bad fatigue for about 20 years.
I’ve been checking out Ray Peat articles on his site in the last few days (after seeing his presentation at an event last year), that is some radical stuff and really turns a lot of things on their head, question is how true it all is. Certainly will be disturbing if it is true. For example, he claims that poly unsaturated oils, esp omega 3’s, are toxic and saturated fats are preferred, essential fatty acids are a fraud, cysteine/methionine are harmful in excess, free amino acids are bad for you, melatonin as a supplement is harmful, it’s often advisable to restrict water intake and/or eat lots of salt. Almost makes you think he’s just trying to be contrary for its own sake..

I am frequently asked exactly what I am referring to when I say “holistic healing.” It is a broad term used to describe a number of different things. Let me share some insight here.

Holistic is “emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole.”
http://dict.die.net/holistic/

Another definition for holist is “emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts.”
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/holistic

In other words, everything affects something else. If you treat an abcessed tooth with topical gel for pain relief, you may temporarily relieve the pain, but you won’t heal the infection. Thus, to heal holistically is to consider the whole of the person and affect healing on all aspects of the person involved in the process of the disease or infirmity. That may include allopathic or alternative medicine, psychological counseling, and spiritual counseling, among other things. To heal holistically is to treat the whole person; body, mind, and spirit.

Holism is “the theory that living matter or reality is made up of organic or unified wholes that are greater than the simple sum of their parts.”
http://www.answers.com/topic/holism

In other words, we are more than just a collection of molecules. There is more substance to what makes up life.