Update Notice:   In order to prevent confusion of the public due to other organizations engaging in copyright and trademark infringement by using a similar name as the Integrative Pastoral Medical Association, including IPMA and PMA, and to ensure the Integrity of our Associations name & reputation is not attached to or associated with the negative publicity and reputation of other organizations, The Board has chosen to change the name of this Association to "The American Association of Integrative & Pastoral Medicine© & the Apprenteiceship & Certification Board of Integrative & Pastoral Medicine respectively. All practitioners with legitimate certifications and licensures in Pastoral Medicine© will have a "®registered certification mark symbol after their Certification (i.e. Doctor of Pastoral Medicine®, Doctor of Integrative Pastoral Health® etc).
Any practitioner holding themselves out to be licensed or certified in Pastoral Medicine, but does not have the ®Registered Certfiication Mark, are NOT authorized by the AAIPM® and ACBIPM®. Any practitioner who uses any certification mark, without authorization by the ACBIPM, AAIPM, holding themselves out to be practitioners of Pastoral Medicine/Integrative Pastoral Medicine, will be liable & prosecuted for fraudulent use of a protected certification mark & regulated healthcare/Pastoral Care profession.

ACBIPM/AAIPM is the only National Board that is authorized to issue Pastoral Medical Licensing and Board Certifications. Any other organization that does so is engaging in fraudulent and illegal activity, as well as engaging in gross ethics violations.  We will add all practitioners who fraudulently hold themsleves out to be practitioners of Pastoral Medicine®, to a public published black list & such names will remain public until they have proven they are no longer engaging in fraud by associating themselves with fraudulent PO Box Pastoral Medicine scams.

 The National Commission for the Apprenticeship & Certification Board of Integrative & Pastoral Medicine®(NC-ACBIPM)  & The American Association of Integrative and Pastoral Medicine© also legally & formally known as the Integrative Pastoral Association® IPMA, USPTO Patent), CHI-Hebrew Pastoral Medical Association(CHI-HPMA), Jewish Pastoral Medical Association(JPMA), Jewish Pastoral Medical Association for Integrative Medicine(JPMAIM) or the Association for Pastoral Healthcare & Integrative Medicine(APHIM)® , is a Charter of the Cushite Hebrew International(CHI) Mizrahi Ethiopian Jewish International Rabbinical Council(Jerusalem Israel), a traditional Jewish Community.

The current CEO of AAIPM is Dr. Shalomim Y HaLahawi MD(AM), PsyD, ND, Ph.D, DPH, DFM, BC-OMD, Lic.PMD, Rabbi.  He is an ordained Jewish Rabbi of the Orthodox Mizrahi branch of Judaism, a Doctor of Integrative Medicine, Doctor of Pastoral Psychology & world reknowened author & lecturer. AAIMP is one of the oldest Pastoral Medical Associations in the United states serving the Jewish & Interfaith community, continuing a long tradition of Talmudic based medical sciences passed down from generation to generation. 

Envisioned & established under executive charter in 1996 by a group of Jewish elders, Board of directors  and healthcare professionals(Then ITCC Association of Natural Health, Holistic Counseling & Therapeutic Ministry) under the Original Organization then called Visions of Dreams Prophetic Faith Jewish International & Israelite Torah Covenant Community Ministries(Incorporated under the State of Florida) &  re-organized  in 1999 as an un-incorporated non profit religious association & renamed Ha' Yisrayli Torah Brith Yahad & re-organized again in its current stage under the Revised Articles of Association of the Ha' Yisrayli Torah Brith Yahad in 2004 as an ecclesiastical ordination & occupational licensing authority for the Ha' Yisrayli Torah Brith Yahad department of evidence and Faith Based Medicine & Integrative Healthcare .


We certify & issue Class B Occupational licenses(Certification Marks) to practitioners who have established themselves & graduated from Colleges, Institutionss or Apprenticeship programs that teach & train  practitioners in pastoral healthcare, and who integrate evidence based natural holistic healthcare with faith based teachings, such as  the Jewish-Israelite Torah, Ayurvedic & Talmudic roots to Natural Medicine & Primary Healthcare Sciences aka Integrative Family Life Care® based on a system of medicine & healthcare that has evolved for over 6000 years in the Near East. All practitioners must meet the high standards, educational and clinical skills requirements as filed with the Federal USTPO & puslished herein under educational requirements in order to obtain any license or registrations.

Our CEO is an Ordained Rabbi, Levitical Priest & Integrative Naturopathic Physician(Read more on what is Integrative Pastoral Medicine) & oversees & delegates powers to administrate  the daily operations of every aspect of the Edenic Kingdom Civilization & AAIPM which is a ministry department of a larger purpose. We are a Federally & Internationally registered/chartered  Inter-Faith Based Regulatory Board for "Integrative Pastoral Medicine,  Pastoral Counseling & Humanitarian Medicine" Professions for faith based & diaspora communities".  We are also officially Internationally Affiliated/Registered with the United Nations as a Civil Society Organization for Economic & Social Affairs . We offer Class B Occupational Certification Marks & Licensure, Board Certifications, Registrations & Commissions under Kingdom Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction to serve the Edenic Kingdom communities to qualified practitioners based on high strict Torah based standards & qualification. All are welcomed to apply regardless of religious or faith based affiliations!