Patients have always come to me in different phases of their wellness journey. Whether you are sick and currently in resistance and suffering, or are feeling good and want to maintain a high level of vitality, I am here doing what I do to support your success in the expression of your next level of health.
My first goal is to target any underlying imbalances and offer solutions to strengthen and harmonize the body. It is then that healing, repair, and resilience occur. My patients learn a higher level of care for their body and to refine their skills of tuning into their individual needs. My work is to equip you so well that you understand how your body works and how to best support it both now and in the future long after our time together.
It is incredibly common to treat the physical and emotional body separately in our culture, as if our negativity, stress, and worry don’t impact our physical body. It is scientifically confirmed over and over that stress contributes to the majority of our diseases. I found my way into the work of Mind Body medicine as I peeled layers away from illness and found that there were almost always components of negative suppressed emotions strongly interfacing with the primary physical complaint.
I draw from many specialty techniques learned over my career to achieve the whole body care that I utilize today. By recognizing how mental and emotional and even spiritual health affect your body, you can employ practical tools to support your own wellness.
Care Options
The Functional Medicine and Whole Body Healing You Need
Comprehensive Care
Goal-Focused Functional Medicine & Whole Body Healing
If you have a diagnosis or know that something is off, this is the care plan is for you. My intention is to deeply listen to you and your body and leverage a wide range of healing modalities to give you the support that will propel your desired change. Comprehensive care patients have access to my full range of functional medicine testing and whole body healing treatments. Your first two visits include a deep dive consultation and diagnostic testing and formulation of a personalized care plan. From there the real fun starts… Time to get results! Re-examinations are structured in at a minimum of 3 months to confirm that alongside ‘feeling better’, you are experiencing objective, measurable change in your body.
Lifestyle Care
Wellness Plan for Proactive Vitality
If you feel good and are looking to be one step ahead in your health, this plan is for you. It’s grounded in the Wellness Advantage Blood Analysis for a deep analysis of health alongside a thorough intake questionnaire. The aim is to catch any trending patterns away from health before they become disease states in the body. Once you’ve collected your lab, you’ll have 2 visits with Dr. Alethea (either virtually or in person) where you’ll receive a customized plan of action and a follow up 3-6 months later to check progress and help you stay on track towards your wellness goals.
I also offer a Teen Screen version of Lifestyle Care specifically for teen issues and solutions.
FOCUSED PROGRAMS
Functional Medicine Advice From the Comfort of Your Home
If you are looking for deeper insights about your body from the comfort of your home, this may be for you. Access a growing library of elite functional medicine testing and solutions for various targeted health issues, from hormones to blood sugar balance and more. My online programs provide the core information, testing, and solutions that you need to be able to achieve the health and goals you desire from your body.
Become a Patient
If you are ready to take the next step in your health journey, contact my Patient Care Manager Sarah by phone, text or email to get started. She’s available if you need more support deciding which care option fits best for you or if you are ready to schedule your first appointment. I offer in-person care in the greater St. Louis area and virtual care nationwide.
What to expect as a new patient
To establish care, you’ll first start with a conversation with Sarah, our Patient Care Manager, who will ensure that you are in the best care option for your goals and desired results. You will have a private healthcare portal established where your digital forms will be completed and you can also upload any recent labs and testing that you have already done. We appreciate seeing anything from the past year as our goal is to build on what you have already done with your other health partners and not to spend your energy and effort in already explored areas. Answers to other common new patient questions are below.
What can I expect from the first visits?
Your first visit will include a consultation as long as necessary to gather your background and story and current health status as well as multiple in office diagnostics that will both gather important and difficult to obtain data from your body as well as help steer decisions for further testing such as blood analysis, hormone profiles and stool testing.Patients often leave their first visit with the task of further data collection from the body via various labs as well as some actionable items that were isolated in your time with the doctor.
The second visit is truly the most exciting as you get to see the results of all your testing! If it is one arena that our practice shines it is in ensuring our patients understand their body more deeply and that includes what it is currently doing and why it is doing it. Equipped with this impactful information, appropriate plans of action are laid out and agreed upon.
What about supplements?
Comprehensive care patients typically receive specific supplementation recommendations as well as possible lifestyle and dietary recommendations. Current patients have exclusive access to my online supplement store for top-tier pharmaceutical grade supplements.
What is whole body healing?
Whole body healing recognizes the interconnection of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health and seeks to treat all aspects of a whole person. Whole body healing treatments utilize neurological reprogramming, nervous system regulation techniques, breathwork, acupuncture, bio energetic synchronization techniques, traditional chinese medicine, and more.
Do you accept insurance?
Our office in a non-participating provider with all insurance companies. Insurance companies do not typically ‘cover’ or allow our preventive services, however because we are out of network providers, many of our patients do submit their bills and receive some reimbursement. Since we are not contracted with any insurance companies we cannot speak to or correspond with them on your behalf.
Our patients pay upfront and in full for the services they receive.
How much do services cost?
Costs vary depending on the care option selected. Click to view the costs for Comprehensive Care, Lifestyle Care/ Teen Screen, and Functional Medicine Focused Programs.
Supplement costs can vary widely depending on the unique needs of a patient.