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About me

About meI am a Family Nurse Practitioner with over 9 years of healthcare practice in Family Medicine, 2 of which are in Functional Medicine. I started my post degree education at the Institute of Functional Medicine in 2019, resigned from my conventional medicine role in 2020 - to start my own healthcare business in Functional Medicine called Lilly of The Valley GUT Health in Catasauqua PA.

I chose to name my business, in part because, 'Lily of The Valley' is a flower symbolic of rebirth and humility and also thought to symbolize a return to happiness. A Gut Health Reset, often is all one needs to restore vitality and function. My office locations also holds symbolic meaning - Catasauqua comes from the word "gattoshacki" which has been translated into " the earth is thirsty"!

My InspirationAs time passed, I noticed it was becoming more and more difficult to maintain my life-long passion - life style prevention of chronic disease! Dedicated to preventative and integrative modalities most of my career, I had a reoccurring thought as I listened to the many unrelated complaints my patients came with to the office. MY thought was, "I am missing something, and I am not treating the underlying cause - I am practicing through a reduced lens and I am not viewing this persons health state a