Hope Restored. Health Reclaimed. Lives Transformed.
If you and your family are exhausted from years of being dismissed, frustrated by band-aid solutions, and searching for someone who will truly listen, you've found your partner in healing.
At Fundamental Healing, we believe your health can be restored, not just merely managed. We employ a holistic approach to heal the body in the least invasive, most natural means possible.
Whether you are suffering from chronic disease or are looking to increase longevity, Fundamental Healing can help you achieve your health goals with a personalized level of care unlike any you have experienced.
Meet Your Partner in Healing
Fundamental Healing Founder Gretchen Perry-Emery meets families during their most challenging times and offers guidance and reassurance, drawn from her own personal journey, to inspire healing and strength. Gretchen herself learned so much from her own personal experience of healing herself and family members from diseases like Autism Spectrum Disorder, Chronic Lyme, and other autoimmune states. This journey led her to functional medicine, when traditional medicine offered no real solutions for healing.
To this day, her lived experiences and triumphs have helped her develop a special empathy and an extra measure of compassion when working with patients. She loves serving others and guiding them on how they can reclaim their lives through root-cause resolution, not just symptom management.
What Makes Fundamental Healing Different?
At Fundamental Healing, a holistic approach is used to heal the body in the least invasive, most natural means possible. You don't have to be ill to appreciate the benefits of our comprehensive approach to healthcare. Whether you are suffering from chronic disease or are looking to increase longevity, Fundamental Healing can help you achieve your health goals with a personalized level of care unlike any you have experienced. A compassionate provider is dedicated to developing a collaborative relationship, and you will be actively involved in the development of your treatment plan.
Most practices that provide 1:1 Concierge medicine charge monthly fees and accept no insurance plans. Fundamental Healing will only charge you for the time the provider spends on your care. No monthly service charges for being in the practice and no 'initiation' fee. In addition, most labs are covered by traditional insurance plans. For Medicare patients, many specialty tests (used to best understand root cause) can be covered in part or fully.
Our mission is to help patients achieve the highest expression of health, and we accomplish this through the investigation of many factors based on a Functional Medicine paradigm. Much like a puzzle, your comprehensive health intake ( 3-4 hours) and specialized test results will be analyzed. How they come together will determine the best plan of care to meet your individual health needs.
What is Functional Medicine?
Functional Medicine addresses the underlying causes of disease using a systems-oriented approach, engaging both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership. It is an evolution in the practice of medicine that better addresses the healthcare needs of the 21st century. By shifting the traditional disease-centered focus of medical practice to a more patient-centered approach, Functional Medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. Functional Medicine practitioners spend time with their patients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease. In this way, Functional Medicine supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual.
"About Functional Medicine" Functionalmedicine.com IFM 2015
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, we work to integrate insurance billing options when appropriate. During your consultation, we'll review your specific coverage and explore all available options to make care accessible.
Instead of managing symptoms with medications, we investigate the root causes using advanced testing that reveals nutritional deficiencies, toxicities, and imbalances that standard labs miss. We then create personalized healing plans that address these underlying issues.
Yes! We provide holistic family medicine for newborns through the older adult. We are schooled by the Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs and are able to care for those with developmental challenges, spectrum disorders, and almost any pediatric chronic condition including autoimmune.
Yes! We offer secure telemedicine consultations for families local, across the United States, and internationally. Through virtual appointments, we provide the same thorough, personalized care—including comprehensive health reviews, coordination of functional testing with labs nationwide, and detailed follow-up consultations. Distance doesn't limit our ability to be your dedicated healing partners. However, nothing compares to a thorough in-person functional Medicine work-up if you can make the trip since a head to toe physical, neurological and muscle testing are performed best in person.
Gretchen has earned a reputation for providing guidance that extends beyond supplements to include lifestyle optimization, advocacy strategies, and family-wide health transformation, resulting in children entering mainstream classrooms, adults reclaiming their vitality, and families breaking free from generational health limitations.
Every healing journey is unique. Some patients notice improvements within weeks, while others with complex conditions may need several months. Once support is in place, it can take 90-120 days for new cells to form that can help the body behave in a different fashion. We provide realistic timelines based on your specific situation and support you throughout the entire process.
We have a decade of success in helping patients overcome symptoms related to conditions that traditional medicine otherwise missed or did not give attention to, because the lab ranges they use are not as narrow at the 'healthy' reference ranges we are trained to use.
We believe the body is a temple to house the soul and we encourage and guide patients to make decisions that would treat it as such. We empower patients with the knowledge it takes to make informed decisions on how to fuel their body and protect it from environmental assaults that compromise their quality of life.
Families Share Their Healing Stories
These testimonials are more than feedback— they reflect what’s possible when dedicated care leads to real improvements in health and quality of life.