Women's Wholistic Wellness
This dynamic approach of truly integrative care at Mountain Spirit is designed to support women naturally, throughout Life’s many experiences and transformations:
Our Advanced Practice Nurses (APN’s), Doctors of Oriental Medicine (DOMs), Occupational Therapists (OTs), and Licensed Massage Therapists (LMTs) have developed these unique & unified services to promote wellness from within. Focusing on physical, emotional and energetic experience, these services are dedicated to help each woman to balance her rhythms, hormones, tissues, organ systems and her whole self.
This includes female-specific services, procedures & concerns such as:
Annual exams, pap smears, and primary care medical needs
Menstrual and menopausal related hormone imbalances, specializing in Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy.
Referrals for Lab orders, basic imaging, diagnostic tests, and to specialists (including those who may order advanced imaging, as only they deem necessary)
Multiple modalities to address imbalances and disease. Including: Herbal, Homeopathic, Functional Medicine, and Pharmaceutical options
Prenatal and postnatal Massage, Acupuncture and health support.
Fertility promotion, via Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine, as well as natural Bio-Identical Hormone Balancing Therapy
Multiple Contraception Options: Birth control pills, Implantable options like Nexplanon, and IUDs (Paragard, and hormonal IUDs including Mirena, Kyleena, Skyla)
Vaginal concerns including infections, sexual health testing and management
Vaginal/Bladder prolapse, including Pessary fitting, cleaning and care.
Breast health, featuring Well Breast Massage*
These treatments equally address universal Wellness needs, regardless of gender or gender identity:
Pharmaceutical management of health conditions: Refills, initial prescriptions and medication adjustments
Physical pain or tension relief, specializing in safe, natural, and drug-free methods free from physical dependency
Sleep and Energy Balancing
Emotional & Mental Health Support: Medication management, and referrals
Digestive health: Promoting healthy nutritional absorption, and other issues related to diet, exercise and metabolism.
Balanced waste elimination, including the option of gentle gravity-fed Colon Hydrotherapy offered by our Colon Hydrotherapist
and much more!
Coordination of Care for Women's Wholistic Wellness
Our team of professionals are here for you. For female-specific concerns such as menstrual challenges, hormonal imbalances, breast health and fertility promotion you may schedule directly with our DOM’s or Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) depending on your needs.
Prior to receiving insurance-supported, women-focused ancillary healthcare services such as well-breast massage, medical massage, or medical acupuncture, patients may choose either a Nurse-Practitioner or DOM for their initial consultation here. The patient-selected practitioner will develop a treatment plan to help each patient achieve their health goals, based on the patient's values, while respecting her personal healthcare decisions.
For prenatal and postpartum related wellness, our DOMs are educated to provide acupuncture and herbs for fertility, common complaints of pregnancy. Acupuncture in the first trimester is focused on treatment of nausea, fatigue and anxiety. Later in the pregnancy, Acupuncture treatments may help relieve back pain, soothe digestive discomfort, and promote restful sleep. A growing number of women have found Acupuncture to be successful for turning breech presentation (well prior to labor, when efficacy may be confirmed by their OB/GYN or Midwife). Other providers and local centers, such as The Birthing Tree, have recommended Mountain Spirit practitioners to prepare for natural childbirth.
Meanwhile, our APNs manage pregnancy confirmation visits, provide education, and offer counsel to identify the most appropriate obstetrical providers for their care (based on the patient’s own values and goals). For safety and comprehensive wellness, all currently pregnant patients of Mountain Spirit must be under the separate care of a licensed prenatal provider (OB/GYN, Nurse Midwife etc) in order to receive ancillary services at our clinic. Additionally our Certified-Nurse Midwife can offer postpartum support and our FNP can offer wellness checks for all children ages 1 and over.
All of our services aim to support each woman’s innate homeostatis to prevent illness, heal from disease, and nurture wellness.
Well Breast Massage: Nurturing Women's Whole Health
Well Breast Massage often transforms the wholeness of Patients' existing Primary Care, Massage and/or Acupuncture treatments.
What can Well Breast Massage* help treat?
Breast pain, congestion, swelling (including injuries)
Fibrocystic breast disease confirmed as benign
Discomforts of pregnancy, feeding and weaning
Premenstrual & menopausal tenderness
Focus on supporting breast lymphatic tissue
Post -surgical or -cancer treatment symptoms
Post-implantation muscle tone challenges
Assisted breast monitoring & holistic comfort
*Notes: Services such as Well Breast Massage (WBM) meet important safeguards. They are provided only by licensed professionals who have received training in this area, for patients who specifically request and consent to WBM treatments in writing. Patients who elect to receive WBM may choose to discontinue it at any time, even in the midst of a session. Well Breast Massage is by License created by Caryn Boyd Diel LMT, Instructor and Director of the White Cloud Institute in Bellingham, WA.
Indications and Contraindications for Breast Massage*
Important Note of Contraindications, when Breast Massage is NOT recommended and/or provided...
Lactation mastitis, or an Infection of any kind
Treatment of an unscanned/undiagnosed lump
Specific on-site work at the location of an abscess
An implanted breast manifesting with a distorted contour
An implanted breast with lateral breast / subscapular pain
*NOTE: Services such as Well Breast Massage (WBM) meet important safeguards. They are provided only by licensed professionals who have received training in this area, for patients who specifically request and consent to WBM treatments in writing. Patients who elect to receive WBM may choose to discontinue it at any time, even in the midst of a session.