Naturopathic Care

Our team of Naturopath Physicians include Dr. Matthew Sullivan, ND, EAMP,  Dr. Mary Whitehead, ND, and Dr Teresa Goldsmith, ND.  The naturopathic doctors accept most forms of insurance including Regence, Microsoft Premera, Lifewise, Aetna, Cigna, First Choice, United Healthcare, personal injury (car accident/PIP) and more!

Dr. Mary Whitehead graduated from Bastyr University in June 2017 and is now seeing patients at The Natural Path to Healing.  Her work includes physical medicine and pain relief in the form of massage therapy (10 years as a licensed massage practitioner), trigger point injections, craniosacral therapy, activator adjustments, cupping and intraoral TMJ work. 

Dr. Mary’s primary care work includes patients of all ages but with a special interest in women’s health and hormone therapy.  She also has an interest in food allergy testing and digestive health. She also has a DEA license and can prescribe testosterone when appropriate and medically necessary.  



Dr. Teresa Goldsmith is an excellent primary care physician. She also has advanced training in Ayervedic medicine and physical medicine, including massage. Her specialties run a broad spectrum of primary care including women's health, gut and digestion issues, autoimmune etc. 

Dr. Sullivan aims to be a supportive resource for you to help you feel better quickly and sustainably, and collaborate with you to get you on a preventative course for long term health and vitality. He wants to help you thrive. As both an acupuncturist and a naturopath, he's able to integrate the ancient healing practices of China with Western Medicine to provide the best of both conventional and natural medicine. He welcomes a wide variety of patients from adolescents to seniors, with a focus on cancer support (naturopathic oncology), physical pain and injuries, endocrinology (hormones,[including testosterone], hypothyroidism, diabetes0, and mental health issues, (such as anxiety, depression, and living with chronic illness). 

The treatments that he favors are natural, safe, and effective. They include acupuncture and naturopathic medicine which includes: diet and lifestyle modification, herbal medicine, the highest quality nutritional supplements, hands on thechniques such as cranio sacral therapy, mind-body approaches, counseling, and pharmaceutical medications when necessary. Dr. Sullivan is committed to helping his patient's heal, to educating his patients about their health and their options for healing, and to treating the whole person, not simply treating one symptom or aspect of the person. 



Massage Therapy

 All of our licensed massage therapists provide individualized care based upon your body work needs. They can handle injury recovery in the event of a car or work accident (PIP and L&I claims), they can do self pay relaxation massage, trigger point massage, cupping, or swedish massage. They accept many forms of insurance (prescription required) as long as your plan covers an LMP. We can see you for your PIP claim, L&I claim, Premera, United Health Care, Aetna and more. For First Choice, Regence, and Kaiser PPO we have Naturopathic Doctors who can do massage under insurance as these are closed networks for LMPs. If you have any questions, please call 425-489-5900! 

Coemala Alltra, LMP

Ibrahim Ahmadkhanlou LMP

"I graduated in 2015 from the Alexandar School of Natural Therapeutics. While in school I cultivated my avid interest in the human body through massage, and have since established a general goal to make my life's work one of healing and wellness in society. As a provider of Zen Bodytherapy, I utilize structural integration and alignment techniques to correct the posture and structure of the body, allowing energy to properly flow through its channels, and creating efficiency with movement. I apply these techniques within a session, allowing clients to let go of their pain and suffering and live fully and freely. I also utilize swedish and sports massage in conjunction with Zen Bodytherapy techniques to help my clients relax and de-stress."

 

Chiropractic 

Josh Penner, DC

We’ve all heard the saying “move it or lose it!” but we often forget how true it is for your joints.  Your joints were designed to move, and lack of life-giving motion causes joints to begin a process of decay. This degeneration can manifest in all kinds of problems, some of which are obvious, like pain, and some which are less apparent, like fatigue or decreased organ function. Dr. Penner specializes in assessing motion and alignment deficits and correcting them through a chiropractic adjustment. A chiropractic adjustment utilizes the chiropractor's hands (“chiro” is Greek for “hand”) to deliver a safe and specific force to a spinal or extremity joint in order to clear restriction and/or restore alignment. Dr. Penner also specializes in various soft tissue techniques like post isometric relaxation stretching and Nimmo trigger point technique. He will coach you through home stretching and strengthening exercises as well as posture and ergonomic advice to help you literally take your healing into your own hands. This combination of soft tissue work, chiropractic adjustments and home exercises provides quick, natural pain relief, and restores function to your spine and therefore your whole body. Dr. Penner has done extensive postgraduate training in extremity adjusting and loves to help patients with their shoulder, hip, wrist, knee, ankle and elbow pain in addition to back and neck complaints.