Laura Sandquist, CNP, DNP

I am a board-certified adult and geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in functional medicine and integrative medicine seeing patients 16 years of age and older. I have been a registered nurse for over 10 years and a nurse practitioner since 2012. 

I’m interested in partnering with people to help them safely navigate and use the best of what integrative and Western medicine both have to offer. I provide help with many chronic health concerns including irritable bowel syndrome, acid reflux, insomnia, fatigue, depression, anxiety, stress, pain, headaches, autoimmune disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, PCOS and obesity.  I offer integrative medicine consultations to support these and other health conditions.

I also provide guidance for moving upstream, and creating wellness plans that will prevent disease, and optimize health and vitality.

I'm passionate about: using food as medicine and exploring how stress, sleep, spirituality, relationships and the environment are all connected to health and what to do about it. 

A challenge of my career I enjoy is: deeply listening to the whole story and discovering what factors may be contributing to why someone has a disease or symptoms. Then taking a step further and guiding people through the complexity of making lifestyle changes that will work for them. 

The best thing I've done for my health is: to eat more healthy fat and protein, and eliminate a food that was causing symptoms.

I knew I wanted to become an integrative medicine nurse practitioner: when my husband experienced a dramatic improvement in several chronic health conditions by applying some simple principles of functional medicine to his life after being chronically unwell since he