Practitioner Details

About Me

My Approach to Care
I grew up in Brazil. As a child, I sat across from doctors who looked past me, scribbled prescriptions, and sent me on my way. I left those visits feeling smaller than when I walked in. Those moments planted something in me — a conviction that medicine should make people feel seen, not dismissed.
That conviction is the foundation of how I practice today.
Root-Cause Medicine, Practiced Carefully
I'm certified through the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFMCP) and trained in the Metabolic Approach to Cancer (MATC) through MTIH. After more than seventeen years in clinical practice, I've watched conventional medicine do extraordinary things — and I've also watched it leave too many patients with a folder full of "normal" labs and a body that still doesn't feel right.
Functional medicine fills that gap. Instead of matching symptoms to medications, my job is to ask why your body is producing those symptoms in the first place. We look at your gut, your hormones, your nutrient status, your detoxification pathways, your stress patterns, your sleep, your environment. Then we connect the dots.
This is detailed, slow, careful work. It's also where lasting change happens.
How We Work Together
Clark Wellness runs on a two-visit model designed to give your case the depth it deserves.
Your first visit is your baseline. We spend real time on your full health history, your goals, and what you've already tried. If advanced testing is appropriate — gut microbiome, DUTCH hormones, organic acids, mycotoxins, genomics, heavy metals — we order it then.
Your second visit is the review. By that point, your labs are back, I've spent hours with your data, and we sit down together to talk through what your body is telling us and what to do next.
Between and beyond those visits, my team and I stay with you. Functional medicine isn't a one-and-done; it's a partnership.
A few practical notes: I ask every patient to have an established primary care provider and current age-appropriate screenings before we discuss hormone replacement. This isn't bureaucracy — it's good medicine. Your PCP and I work as a team, not in competition.
Whole-Person Care
People are more than the sum of their lab values. Body, mind, and spirit are woven together, and care that ignores any of those three misses something essential.
My faith is part of who I am, and patients are welcome to bring theirs into our conversations or to leave it at the door — either is honored here. What matters is that you're treated as a whole person, with dignity, and without rush.
Who This Practice Is For
The patients who do best with me tend to be the ones who've been told their labs are "fine" but know in their bo