Hi, I'm Krista.

I’m a Functional Medicine Nutritionist, Master Restorative Health Practitioner, Clinical Herbalist, and founder of Symbiosis Wellness. 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, 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 serious infection and tick bite, I went from living a healthy and active life to dealing with debilitating fatigue, neurological symptoms, multiple dysautonomias, MCAS, thyroid autoimmunity and a long list of symptoms that didn't fit neatly into one diagnosis.

Like many of the clients I work with today, I spent years looking for answers. That experience ultimately changed the direction of my life and led me deeper into my study of functional medicine, herbal 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 even more personal when my daughter developed PANDAS and tick-borne illness. This led me to dig even deeper into pediatric neuro-immune health, brain health, chronic infections, and how to support our children in being and living their best in an incredibly toxic and often times confusing world when it comes to health and caring for our little ones. Today my daughter is in remission and I get to say “YES, WE DID IT!!!”

Those experiences are part of what has brought me here, but it’s more than a decade of clinical work and the hundreds of individuals and families I’ve worked with that have shaped the practitioner I am today.

Caring for Families

Today, I care for children and adults facing many of the same challenges my family and I have experienced. I have a special passion for helping children with neuro-immune conditions such as PANDAS and ADHD as well as individuals 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 individuals 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.

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.

My mission statement to you

I have spent these last two decades gathering tools to support you and my desire is to provide you with a whole systems, heart centered approach to healing, thus allowing you access to the real obstacles that are getting in the way of your health and vitality. I am able to facilitate deep and insightful inner work that will support you in fully taking the reins in your health diagnosis(s), creating possibilities for you or your child to achieve lasting healing and feel great!