GET TO KNOW GRETCHEN PERRY-EMERY, MSN, FNP-BC, NP-C, FMAPS
"My own journey led me to understand that healing is part of God's design for our lives. When we uncover and address the root causes of illness - rather than merely masking symptoms - we align ourselves with the body's divine capacity for restoration."
Fundamental Healing Founder Gretchen Perry-Emery meets families in moments of desperation - often lacking hope - and can encourage them through the authenticity of lived experience. Gretchen has walked the path of struggle when recovering her own children from autism spectrum disorders, healing herself from Lyme, Hashimoto, and environmental toxin sickness. Her trial impacted her personally, and mimics many of the same challenges the families she works with face. Â
Gretchen understands the importance of building trust with the families she works with through taking time and a passion, to uncover and understand how each person’s genetic influences, predispositions and life environmental exposures influence their current expression of health.Â
Unlike practitioners who operate within the strict confines of the traditional medical model, she dedicates hours - not minutes - to uncovering a complete health story through a comprehensive health history and head-to-toe physical with neurological and muscle testing. This enables her to determine the best functional testing to order, which often reveals what standard medicine misses. Instead of creating dependency, she educates and empowers patients to become their own health detectives, providing the knowledge and tools to understand body symptoms driven by environmental influences, so they can make informed decisions for lasting transformation.Â
Her practice applies advanced functional testing, balances accessibility with a concierge approach, integrates insurance options whenever possible, and delivers care with compassion, encouragement, and faith in God’s design for healing.
Gretchen’s Personal Path to Fundamental Healing
Gretchen is a board-certified family nurse practitioner who pursued an advanced degree to help others overcome challenges similar to those she has faced. Her personal experience of healing herself and family members from diseases like Autism Spectrum Disorder, Chronic Lyme, and other autoimmune states has helped her develop a special empathy and an extra measure of compassion when working with patients. For over ten years, she has been working with Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) approaches to healing.
In 1994 Gretchen received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Michigan State University. She entered the workforce as an RN in the Maternal Child Health unit at Royal Oak Beaumont. After a few years, she entered the Pharmaceutical industry and learned about clinical trials, competitive selling, and marketing.
In 2005, autism touched her personally, and when Westernized medicine could not provide the answers she was seeking, she began to dig deeper, knowing in her heart recovery was possible. It was then that she was introduced to functional medicine, and over time, her knowledge and passion for this new kind of medicine grew.
In 2015 Gretchen graduated from an accelerated MSN-FNP program and achieved dual board certification from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the American Nurse Credentialing Center. Gretchen is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of others and is an active member of the American Nurses Association, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the Physicians for Informed Consent Network, a PANDAS network of providers, and a Fellow of the Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs. When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with family, outdoor activities, serving others through the church or community, and advocating for medical freedom.