Health & Wellness Institute

In our integrative approach, our goal is to effectively address your current health problems and to improve your health over the long term by dealing with the underlying causes of your health conditions. The first and essential step to accomplish this is thorough intake and assessment, and your active participation in this process is vital.

Because many factors interact to affect your health, it is very important that we gather information about a whole range of functions and issues. Before your initial visit, and at times during the course of our work together, we will request that you fill out various health related questionnaires. These questionnaires are wide in scope, in order to identify factors influencing your health. This is an opportunity for you to review your past history, to reflect on your current symptoms and patterns, and to organize your health information. We urge you to be as thorough and thoughtful as possible in gathering this data.

During your initial visit, we will gather more information through questioning and physical exam. We will then discuss with you options for physical and laboratory testing which may be appropriate. In many cases, we will initiate a process of specially designed clinical screens, which are groups of basic tests we utilize to assess several areas of physiology that commonly contribute to health problems. Information about these screens will be available at the time of your visit.

The success of your health improvement program will depend on your active participation in observing and monitoring certain key indicators of your personal functioning, and communicating your information with our healthcare team. We have designed systems and tools to help you to record your observations and health data, and to support you over time to be an active participant in your health program. We look forward to working in partnership with you, to design and implement a plan that will allow you to achieve the health results you seek.