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Your health…
Discover How.
The answer isn’t always in the pieces.It’s how they connect.
The idea behind the practice
A hormone shift. A sleep pattern. A stretch of stress that never quite ended. A family history nobody mentioned. Each one, on its own, is easy to dismiss.
The Wholehearted NP is a functional and hormone medicine practice built around one central idea: the picture only becomes clear when the pieces are viewed together.
Every piece is real. None of them is the whole story.
There is more than one way to investigate
A complicated health story deserves more than one lens. Both paths begin from the same conviction: look at the whole, not just the part.
An advanced approach to complex cases
Another way of looking at the body's systems. Bioenergetic assessment explores patterns and possible areas of imbalance that don't always show up where you'd expect them to.
Functional & hormone medicine. A deeper look at the whole picture.
A comprehensive deep dive across medical history, symptoms, laboratory information, hormones, lifestyle, and environment, looking for the patterns that are missed when each problem is considered separately.
Two different lenses — one larger picture
Not a menu of conditions
We don't treat a list. We read the pattern. These are some of the pieces we hold up to the light together.
Yalanda HowardHormone and Functional Medicine Specialist
Yalanda Howard
Meet your practitioner
After more than 30 years in healthcare, I know that listening is not a courtesy. It is part of the assessment. You know your body because you live in it every day; I bring experience, curiosity, and perspective to help make sense of what feels disconnected.
I see no more than about eight patients in a clinical day because attention needs room. I may not be the right practitioner for everyone. For the people I do work with, I bring the same commitment and effort I ask of them.
Two lenses — one larger picture
Bioenergetic Testing and the Mosaic Medical Evaluation begin in different places, but neither reduces a person to a questionnaire, a laboratory value, or a list of symptoms.
The point is to look more carefully at the individual pieces — and then to ask what story they may be telling together. Sometimes the larger picture changes not only what we see, but the questions we know to ask next.
FAQ
Looking at the whole picture can be expansive. Beginning should still feel clear.
Call for an appointment.
Bioenergetic Testing offers another lens for exploring patterns in complex cases and possible areas of imbalance. The Mosaic Medical Evaluation is a functional and hormone medicine deep dive into your medical history, symptoms, laboratory information, hormones, lifestyle, environment, and broader health story.
You may begin with the path that most closely reflects what you are looking for. Bioenergetic Testing offers a different vantage point when a case feels complex or difficult to explain. The Mosaic Medical Evaluation is designed for a comprehensive medical, functional, and hormone-focused review.
Expect a careful look at more than the symptom that brought you in. The process considers timing, context, recurring patterns, prior findings, and the parts of your story that may not have been considered together before.
No. These paths are not a replacement for conventional evaluation, urgent care, or the care of your established medical team. They offer an additional way to investigate the larger picture thoughtfully.
The Wholehearted NP is a private-pay practice and does not bill insurance directly. Documentation may be requested for you to submit to your insurer for possible out-of-network reimbursement; coverage is determined by your individual plan.
Both in-person and virtual appointments are available. The appropriate format may depend on your location and the path you choose.
Bring the information that helps tell the story: a medication and supplement list, relevant laboratory results, prior diagnoses, and a sense of when things began to change. You do not need to organize the entire picture before you arrive — making sense of it together is part of the work.
Notes from the practice
What the fifteen-minute appointment never had time for.
Off Script is where we write about hormones, patterns, and the questions that don't fit neatly on a chart. Unhurried, plain-spoken, and occasionally unexpected.
What patients are saying
★★★★★
Patient rating · Five out of five stars
“Two years earlier, bioenergetic testing indicated that my husband’s liver was a serious concern. We had just had X-rays and ultrasounds that said his liver was fine, so we had a hard time believing it. Two years later, my husband was diagnosed with liver cancer that had already spread. I appreciate her honesty and helpfulness. These exams are not only educational and insightful; they can also provide a heads-up and, at times, be lifesaving.”
— DP
★★★★★
Patient rating · Five out of five stars
“I find her work personal and extremely helpful in thinking outside the box. It’s finally somebody who cares.”
— JM
★★★★★
Patient rating · Five out of five stars
“Thank you, Yalanda, for all the work you’ve done. If I could give you six stars, I would.”
— TK
★★★★★
Patient rating · Five out of five stars
“I finally found somebody who would look at my hormones from a personal standpoint, not some big-box company.”
— LK
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