A Holistic Approach To Root Cause Resolution & Achieving Optimal Health
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A Holistic Approach To Root Cause Resolution & Achieving Optimal Health
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Get Started Today!
Welcome to Five Peaks Wellness where we focus on the bio-individualistic needs of our clients. We continue our mission to deliver the type of healthcare that educates, empowers, and inspires! Find out more by clicking the button below and explore our newly updated offerings. Looking forward to working with you.
Hi! I'm Shara, a Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner & the founder of Five Peaks Wellness.
This practice is a passion project from the heart! For almost two decades I have worked in the conventional medical world, first, as a physical therapist assistant and then years later I transitioned into nursing.
Over the years of acute care experience, I witnessed many downfalls to conventional medicine. I am a true believer of life saving medications and emergency care, but somehow we lost our way in the medical community when dealing with chronic ailments & disease processes. Short doctor visits, pill pushing, and limited advice on lifestyle changes I believe have significantly affected overall health outcomes.
For almost a decade I have dealt with my own gastrointestinal issues and was told repeatedly that "I'm fine" even though I knew that wasn't the case. When I finally was referred to a GI specialist, he saw me for 5 minutes, had no answers for me & the only "advice" he told me was to "come back when you have cancer". In true transparency, my familial history has colon cancer along with several other types of cancer and this traumatizing experience has been seared into my memories forever. I was failed by my medical team. No one addressed hydration, movement, nutrition, toxin exposures, mental state and stress levels. NO ONE.
It was in this moment that my purpose became very clear: I want to bring a new vision of health care to the forefront of medicine.
I decided that to not only heal myself and to make an impact on how I carried out client care I needed to further my formal medical education. I was accepted into the rigorous Nurse Practitioner program through Georgetown University and spent the next few years gaining a thorough and in-depth insight in the science of medicine. I graduated, became Board Certified and licensed, and knew I needed to add the missing pieces of my degree with a certification in Functional Medicine through The School of Applied Functional Medicine. I now practice as a Functional Medicine Consultant where I am not bound by the restraints of insurance companies and their limitations on my scope of expertise. This medical liberation allows me to treat my clients the way I expect true health care to be. The rest is history!
I look at an individual’s overall health like a layered onion. I use a deep dive approach to seek out the root cause of your symptoms and discomfort. Let's build the foundational steps to heal! My ultimate goal is to not only get you well, but to give you the tools to keep you well.
Exposures, mindset, lifestyle, movement, nutrition, and so much more play into the specific human experience. Exploring your health should be based on an individualistic approach. I’m ready to dig deeper and help you find the root cause to your symptoms.
If you’ve been thinking about an alternate route to your health journey and would like to explore how functional medicine can be of service, I’d love to hear from you 💛
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