Beyond Generic Advice
A More Complete View of Your Wellness
Your symptoms and concerns do not exist in isolation. A comprehensive wellness assessment considers your health history, existing laboratory results, nutrition, digestion, sleep, stress, movement, environment, and personal goals.
This whole-person approach helps reveal meaningful patterns and priorities so your wellness plan can be focused, practical, and tailored to you rather than built from a standard protocol.
Care That Recognizes the Whole Person
Wellness Care That Recognizes Your Culture and Lived Experience
You should not have to separate your culture or lived experience from your health story. Recommendations are thoughtfully personalized to respect your food traditions, values, family roles, access, preferences, and everyday realities.
Areas of Support
Concerns We Can Explore Together
- High blood sugar and prediabetes
- High blood pressure or high cholesterol
- Digestive problems and food reactions
- Chronic stress, fatigue, or burnout
- Sleep difficulties and low energy
- Menopause-related wellness concerns
- Nutrient deficiencies or depletion
- Autoimmune and inflammatory wellness concerns
- Stress, mood, and emotional wellness
- Preventive and long-term wellness goals
- Post-cancer cellular restoration support
Functional Insights
Functional Lab Testing for Deeper Understanding
Functional lab testing is an important part of Dr. Houston’s holistic evaluation process. It provides deeper insight into patterns and underlying imbalances that may be influencing your wellness at a cellular level.
Results are interpreted alongside your history, symptoms, nutrition, lifestyle, and goals to help identify potential root contributors and guide an individualized wellness plan. This integrated interpretation is one of the important differences between physician-led naturopathic wellness consulting and general wellness coaching.
Your Wellness Process
What Personalized Wellness Care May Include
Comprehensive Assessment
A detailed exploration of your health story, current concerns, daily patterns, existing results, and wellness goals.
Functional Lab Insights
Testing and thoughtful interpretation provide additional information about patterns that deserve attention.
Individualized Wellness Plan
Personalized nutrition, lifestyle, education, supplementation, and alternative natural therapy recommendations.
Education, Support & Follow-Through
Support That Helps You Put Your Wellness Plan Into Practice
Knowing what to do is only part of creating meaningful change. Dr. Houston emphasizes wellness education so you understand what your findings may mean, why each recommendation was selected, and how the different parts of your plan work together.
Ongoing support and accountability help you move from information to consistent action. Progress can be reviewed, questions addressed, and strategies refined as your needs evolve. This guided process can make nutrition, stress management, sleep, movement, and other wellness changes feel more achievable and sustainable.
Your individualized plan may include personalized nutrition recommendations, herbal therapies, and carefully selected nutritional supplements. Recommendations are based on your assessment, functional lab findings, current concerns, preferences, and goals—not a standard supplement list.
Why This Approach
The Value of Physician-Led Wellness Consulting
Dr. Houston brings clinical naturopathic training to every wellness assessment. Rather than focusing only on a symptom or offering a generic program, she evaluates the relationships among your concerns, test findings, lifestyle, stress, nutrition, and lived experience.
You receive professional education and a clear wellness strategy designed to help you make sustainable, informed choices. Recommendations may complement conventional care and can include alternative natural therapies selected for your individual wellness priorities.
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens during a virtual naturopathic consultation?
Your consultation includes a detailed discussion of your health history, current concerns, daily habits, existing laboratory results, and wellness goals. Dr. Houston uses this information to identify meaningful patterns and develop personalized nutrition, lifestyle, educational, supplementation, and natural-therapy recommendations within the scope of wellness consulting.
What is the difference between a naturopathic physician and a general wellness coach?
A licensed naturopathic physician completes doctoral-level education in naturopathic medicine and receives clinical training in health assessment, laboratory interpretation, nutrition, and natural therapies. Dr. Houston brings that physician-level training to wellness consulting while clearly distinguishing these services from medical diagnosis or treatment.
Can a naturopathic doctor order and review functional lab tests?
When appropriate, Dr. Houston may recommend and review selected functional laboratory tests to explore patterns involving nutrition, digestion, stress physiology, hormones, metabolism, or other wellness priorities. Results are interpreted alongside your history, symptoms, lifestyle, and goals rather than treated as isolated answers.
What health concerns can be explored during a holistic wellness consultation?
Common concerns include digestive discomfort, fatigue, chronic stress, sleep problems, menopause-related changes, high blood sugar, blood-pressure or cholesterol concerns, nutrient depletion, and preventive wellness goals. The consultation focuses on whole-person patterns and practical ways to support overall well-being.
Are virtual naturopathic consultations available outside Atlanta?
Yes. Journey of Wellness is based in the Atlanta area and provides virtual wellness consulting to adults throughout the United States.
Does Journey of Wellness accept insurance?
No. Journey of Wellness does not accept insurance for its wellness consulting services. Program details and costs are explained during the free discovery call.
What happens during the free discovery call, and why is a credit card required?
The discovery call is a brief, no-cost conversation about your concerns, goals, Dr. Houston’s approach, services, process, and fees. It is not a medical appointment and does not include assessment or individualized recommendations. A credit card reserves your appointment time; there is no charge for attending, but a $50 fee applies to missed appointments.
Your First Step
Begin With a Free Discovery Call
Discuss your wellness goals, ask questions, and determine whether Dr. Houston’s approach is the right fit for you.