The naturopathic approach
Dr. Stockwell is a graduate of Bastyr University in Kenmore, Washington — one of four accredited naturopathic colleges in the country. Her training combines the medical sciences and diagnostic skills of conventional medicine with the principles of natural healing: identify the root cause, support the body's own ability to heal, and use the least-invasive intervention that will work.
That doesn't mean refusing to use the right tool. Where prescribing is the right answer, she prescribes. Where a major condition needs a specialist, she refers. Coastal Wellness Health is not the right place for surgery, emergency medicine, or major neurological or cardiovascular events — but it is the right place for the chronic, the complex, and the long conversations those cases need.
What's offered
- Whole-person primary care: nutrition, botanicals, homeopathy, craniosacral therapy, visceral manipulation, and selective pharmacologic prescribing.
- Digestive disorders — ongoing treatment and management.
- Food allergies and prescribing therapeutic diets.
- Sleep disorders linked to stress and anxiety.
- Type-II diabetes — prevention, treatment, and management with supplements, botanicals, diet, and lifestyle work.
- Women's health.
- General metabolic cleanse programs.
- Weight-loss programs.
- Cardiovascular support and prevention of cardiovascular disease and hypertension.
- Lyme disease — adjunctive care alongside your primary medical team.
- Treating chronic inflammatory conditions.
The goal is to help patients take charge of their own health — and to teach them how, so the work continues between visits.
How it fits with acupuncture
Many patients see both Dr. Stockwell and Dr. Schmidt — naturopathic care for the underlying systems work, acupuncture for symptom relief and regulation. The two practitioners trade notes when both are involved in a case. Most people start with one; if the other turns out to be useful, we'll say so.