Hi. I’m Heidi.

I loved helping and supporting people long before I became a Functional Nurse Practitioner. My father used to tease me: “Everybody knows you want to be a nurse but you.” And he was right—
to an extent. I wanted to be as caring as a nurse yet as knowledgeable as a doctor. Coupling care with information makes sense to me. So that’s exactly what I did.

To become a Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner, I took the long road. Each step in my journey enabled me to provide my patients with better, more wholistic care using insights I’d gathered from an education in both conventional and functional medicine philosophies. I began my career as a Registered Nurse, then travelled abroad to lead medical teams in developing countries. Here I witnessed first-hand how community, love, and relationships can impact overall health and wellness, which shaped me as a medical professional moving forward. I completed my Master’s degree and became a Nurse Practitioner. Which means I can diagnose, treat, and prescribe.

Initially, I thought that becoming a Nurse Practitioner was the end of my career journey. But I found myself providing answers to my patients that would have been unsuitable to me or my family had I been in their shoes.

It felt like I was abandoning their health concerns and dismissing their lived experiences, and I found this unacceptable. So I sought more education to help me harmonize the medicine of what and the medicine of why.

I attended the Institute of Functional Medicine. Here I learned one of the guiding principles of my practice today: Never ever stop asking why.

Today, I have a patient-centred, science-based, and collaborative approach to wholistic healing that marries conventional and integrative methodologies using a Functional Medicine Framework. There is so much value in both practices. And with this approach, I can confidently uncover and identify the root cause of many health concerns.

I also never ever stop learning. After all, health is a continuum, and so should be my education in it. I am currently studying with international leaders in Functional Medicine at the Kresser Institute. If I identify a gap in my knowledge that hinders my ability to help my patients, then I get busy learning how to fill that gap.

I work together with people whose health questions have long gone unanswered. And I put them on their journey to answer them.