As a healthcare professional for over 20 years working in critical care, emergency medicine and anesthesia, I am committed to providing safe, professional, evidence-based, client-centered medical aesthetic and wellness care to all my patients.

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I first entered the world of aesthetics as a patient myself. At the time, I was a divorced mother of two young children, working long shifts at the hospital, trying to balance my work and home life, and I was exhausted. It had been years since I had truly taken care of myself. With the guidance of expert aesthetics and wellness providers, I began with injectables and a medical-grade skin care regimen. I was amazed at how quickly giving my skin the TLC it deserved it took years off my appearance! I felt younger, sexier, and revitalized. Aesthetics helped me  regain the confidence I needed to put myself back into the dating world, expand my social circles, and ultimately build my own businesses helping others do the same. 

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During this transformation, I earned a life coaching certification, and spent years helping women to reinvent their lives and rediscover themselves.

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Years later in my early 40s, I again found myself feeling lost. My energy was gone, I was irritable and snapping at my kids, I had gained weight despite maintaining a healthy diet and exercise and for the first time in my life, my sleep was awful. I felt like a completely different person.

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For years I went to multiple health care providers for help, only to be told that nothing was wrong and sent home with anti-depressants and sleeping pills. During that time period, I was diagnosed and medicated for ADHD, anxiety and depression. At the time, I thought maybe there was something wrong with my hormones because my periods had become heavy, irregular and unpredictable. However, because all of the traditional bloodwork my doctors ordered came back "within normal range",  I stopped pursuing it. 

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Years went by and one day, my partner suggested that I might again want to have my hormones checked. I went to both my PCP and GYN, and although I hadn't had my period in 7 months, I was told that all my labs were "normal", that there was nothing that could be done until I officially hit menopause, exactly one year after my last period and that even once I did hit menopause, neither of my providers were willing to prescribe hormone replacement. 

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I reached out a colleague in the functional medicine space and learned so much about how medicine's traditional approach to pre-, peri- and post-menopause is leaving so many women underserved, gaslit and miserable, despite the wealth of research and evidence out there to support hormone replacement therapy (HRT).  She ran a panel of labs that indicated that I was indeed peri-menopausal and needed hormone replacement. Not only that, but my Hashimoto's thyroid disease, which was diagnosed in my early 20s was being grossly undertreated.  I went on HRT and never looked back. 

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The idea that there are so many women out there who, like me, have been overlooked and unheard made me incredibly angry. I decided to learn more about hormone treatments and earned a BHRT certification so that I could give women their lives back.

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Damn Girl! Aesthetics and Wellness was inspired by my passion for empowering and advocating for women, my commitment to safe, individualized patient care, and my love of aesthetics. How we want to show up in the world is important, and we all want to reflect the beauty that resides inside us.

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If this resonates with you, I’d be honored to help you come up with a plan to achieve a radiance that encompasses your true spirit, making everyone around you (including yourself) shout out “Damn Girl!”