MEET THE TEAM

Hi, I’m Krista!

I am a Master Restorative Health Practitioner, Functional Medicine Nutritionist, Clinical Herbalist and founder of Symbiosis Wellness. I have extensive training in functional laboratory testing, biochemical nutrition, chronic infections and Pediatric Functional Neurology and for more than a decade, my passion has been helping children and adults experiencing complex illness and often confusing symptoms to find clarity and finally heal.

Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with hundreds of individuals and families, with a particular focus on chronic gut issues, chronic infections, mold and environmental illness, Eczema, ADD/ADHD, PANDAS, thyroid autoimmunity and other persistent health challenges.

Your body doesn’t just decide to stop working. My job is to find out why!

Many of the clients who come to me have been struggling for years. They have seen multiple practitioners, tried dozens of protocols and supplements and have received multiple diagnosis’s. Instead of one size fits all protocols, I look at how gut health, nutrient deficiencies, immune function, inflammation, chronic infections, environmental exposures, metabolism, and the nervous system may be connected so we can understand what is driving the bigger picture.

I’ve spent years pursuing advanced clinical training and have had the opportunity to study with many of the nation’s leading experts in functional medicine, chronic infections, environmental illness, pediatric and neuro-immune health, nutrition, herbal medicine, and homeopathy. I continue to study and expand my clinical training as our understanding of these conditions continues to evolve.

While every case is different, I often have clients report significant changes within the first few weeks of care, many times in symptoms they’ve struggled with for years!

Why I Do This Work

My interest in complex health started with my own experience nearly two decades ago.

After several major health events, including a MRSA infection and a Lyme diagnosis, I went from living a healthy and active life to dealing with debilitating fatigue, neurological symptoms, POTS, thyroid autoimmunity and a long list of confusing and scary symptoms.

Like many of the families that I help today, I spent years looking for answers with little to no improvement. That experience ultimately changed the direction of my life and led me deeper into my study of functional medicine, chronic infections, environmental illness, and immune health.

I wanted to understand why some people remain sick despite doing everything right.

Years later, this work became deeply personal as I helped my own daughter navigate eczema and PANDAS. Being both a practitioner and a mother deepened my commitment to understanding pediatric neuroimmune health, environmental illness, and chronic infections.

Today, my daughter is in remission. That experience shapes the care I offer families—the determination to keep connecting the dots, the patience to work through complex challenges, and an understanding of what it feels like to want answers for your child.

Caring for Families

Today, I care for children and adults facing many of the same challenges. I have a special passion for helping children with neuro-immune conditions such as PANDAS and ADHD as well as adults and families struggling with Lyme, chronic infections, gut and immune dysfunction, long covid and chronic skin conditions such as eczema.

I also enjoy working with adults who want to be proactive about their health. We live in a world where our bodies are constantly navigating environmental toxins, chronic stress, and nutritional challenges, and I believe there's tremendous value in building resilience before illness develops.

I know how overwhelming it can feel when you're searching for answers—for yourself or for your child. My hope is that every person I work with feels heard, understood, and supported by someone who has been there, both as a patient and as a mother.

My education brings together functional nutrition, restorative health, and psychology, with advanced training in gastrointestinal health, functional blood chemistry, thyroid and hormone health, and mold and environmental exposures.

My pediatric training includes practitioner mentorships with Dr. Pejman Katiraei focused on mold illness, ADHD and PANS/PANDAS, and Dr. James Greenblatt in pediatric functional psychiatry. Continued education also includes Dr. Nancy O’Hara’s practitioner membership focused on PANS/PANDAS.

Additional training includes functional nutrition with Andrea Nakayama and Master’s level designation through the Institute of Restorative Health as well as advanced function medicine training through Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, and the Hedberg Institute.

A little more about me

I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Transpersonal Psychology and have over a decade of advanced training and certifications in various energy and alternative healing modalities such as Theta Healing, The Emotion Code and Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Therapy. I am also a Certified Level 2 Bioenergetics/Medical Biomagnetism Therapist and Certified Ozone Therapist.