Dr Clemency Mitchell qualified as a doctor in Aberdeen in the 1960's. Her first real job was as medical officer at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. After that she married Colin Mitchell and worked full time at home while raising their four children. Eventually she started teaching a college course in health principles, and then began work in General practice, where she worked for nearly thirty years . At the same time Dr Mitchell pursued her interest in natural methods of healing and traveled to America on a number of occasions to see programs such as NEWSTART in practice. She has also taught a college level class in health principles for the past thirty years, and has been the medical advisor and health lecturer at Country Life London for the past ten years. Dr Mitchell retired from general practice last year to spend more time in teaching healthful living principles in college courses and in programs at Country Life and elsewhere, and in practicing natural methods of healing according to the NEWSTART principles.