LifeQual Center

Before graduating from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM) in 2011, I earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology and in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry premed at Portland State University. After graduating from NCNM, I completed their one-year residency program while co-creating a multi-practitioner naturopathic medical clinic and birth center in the western hills of Portland. I found that naturopathic medicine practioners, being so unique in the philosophy of patient care compared to western conventional medicine, need different ways of serving the community than maximizing the amount of people coming in for office visits. This approach inevitably leads to treatment plans becoming less personalized and less effective and more formatted to fit the time-consuming demand of a high volume of patients.  

My own wellness journey began as I left the Portland hills to move in with my grandmother in Seattle to take over her care in her home. While caring for her, my background in understanding nutritional science earned me a position as director of a cooking school in the Queen Anne neighborhood, teaching cooking with whole foods to the community. I also helped run a facility out of a large private home that was designated for people with multiple chemical sensitivities and allergies who were visiting Seattle for various medical treatments; the facility was maintained to be as hypoallergenic and chemical-free as possible at all times. I was referred to a family in Tacoma seeking advance home care in order to keep one of the family members out of hospitals and out of a care facility. My experience working with this family can best be described as holistic home-centered wellness, or home-based concierge medicine. The focus of my fulltime work was only devoted to the healthcare and wellness needs of a small number of individuals who got instant direct access to me as their physician at all times during business hours when I would be in their home. I colloborated their home care with their MD primary care physician, who greatly reduced the medications he prescibed, as the clear results of diet and comprehensive lifestyle changes made these pharmaceuticals no longer necessary in his view.

After six years of working with this family, I returned to Portland in 2024 to be closer to my own family who lives around the Oregon City area. I am excited to bring to patients the knowledge I have gained in my own quest for a better way to inspire health and wellness to individuals in my community.