Thought I would save some bucks by going to the student clinic. For $40 a session, 3rd and 4th year interns under the guidance of an experienced naturopath do an intake and come up with an action plan for whatever may ail you.
Right off the boat though, you are required to buy two sessions as they will only do the intake in the first one and won't give you any plan or thoughts until the second one. So immediately that's $80, marginally less than an actual naturopath.
I also had to buy blood tests. Fine. Except they based their entire diagnosis off that blood test, completely ignoring all my symptoms from the intake! I could have gone to an OHIP-covered MD for free to read me the results of a blood test. The whole reason I go to a naturopath is for a holistic approach to medicine, and to look beyond and deeper than test results.
Furthermore, their diagnosis was to tell me my iron was low because I was a vegan. Wow. They completely ignored that I had been vegan for 11 years and that I hadn't had low iron or any of the many other symptoms before. When I pointed that out, they said "oh yea...hmmm...it's probably just the vegan thing..."
Even better, they didn't provide any dietary recommendations. When I asked for some, they said that they didn't want to burden me with diet changes since it might stress me out. So the end result was to continue taking the iron supplement I was already taking and make no other changes. And then they requested I buy another session!
Terrible. Don't waste your money. Spend the little bit extra and see a real naturopath who actually knows what they're doing.