Hilary Farberow Stuart, ND graduated from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in 1987. As a Naturopathic Physician, she has specialized in the psycho-spiritual treatment of physical disease, and over the past 33 years in practice has developed a system which allows for the understanding and exploration of the human being beyond the physical body, through a multi-level model. She calls this system “Illuminated Healing Systems”. With a BA in Psychology, certification in different forms of Energy Psychology such as Healing From the Body Level Up and NLP, Hilary also has training in Clinical Hypnotherapy, Cranial Sacral Therapy, and Enneagram graduate study. A coach in Radiant Mind with Peter Fenner, Ph.D., Hilary also completed the Nondual Training for Teachers and Therapists. She works in private practice with individuals, couples and families, and teaches “Illuminated Healing Systems”, in the form of lectures, presentations and groups. She has also developed and co-teaches “The Dance of Light”, an art workshop. Now semi-retired, she hopes to finish her book on “Illuminated Healing Systems” in the very near future.
Jasmine Galimov, MScN, C.Hyp is a Holistic Nutritionist, Energy Healer & Hypnotherapist who helps her clients identify the root cause of chronic physical and mental health conditions through the subconscious mind. Through her own healing journey, Jasmine discovered that the power in not only using food medicine, but also thoughts as medicine. She now guides her clients through transformational healing sessions by harnessing the power of the subconscious mind for quantum healing.
Laura Gouge, ND (pronounced like ‘rouge’) is a licensed naturopathic physician and the medical director of Wolf Pack Consulting and Therapeutic Services. Wolf Pack is a small, multi-disciplinary mental health agency in Beaverton, Oregon. She also practices as part of Well Life Family Medicine, and teaches part-time at the National University of Natural Medicine. Dr. Gouge works with children and adults of all ages struggling with a wide range of mental health conditions. Her practice philosophy is based in trauma-informed care and she strives to create a holistic, innovative, and thoughtful treatment plan for each patient.
Laura Z. Weldon, ND, MS (she/they) earned both her doctorate in naturopathic medicine and a master’s degree in integrative mental health from the National University of Natural Medicine. Her interdisciplinary research currently focuses on the pathophysiology and treatment of autistic burnout, and her work advocates for a neurodiversity paradigm shift across both medicine and society. Licensed in Oregon, Dr. Weldon also works over telemedicine with neurodivergent and chronically ill clients across the United States. She provides trauma-informed naturopathic consulting and coaching services, using herbs, nutrition, movement, health counseling, and craniosacral therapy to establish and embody a radical concept of wellness that includes autistic and disabled populations. Laura is an autistic human who loves exploring how people think, feel, sense, and connect.
Amanda Watters, ND is in private practice at Neurotherapeutic Pediatric Therapies, Inc and is also an attending physician and Pediatrics Course Co-director at National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM). She completed three years of residency at NUNM, and was the Chief Resident in her final year. In 2017 she also served as the University’s Lead Pediatric Clinician for the Soy Sano/I’m Healthy Grant, which helped provide access to medical care for uninsured pediatric patients. She has a strong interest in developmental and behavioral pediatrics, and a passion for supporting adolescent patients in successfully navigating their transition to adulthood.
Angela Potter, ND is a leading holistic doctor supporting mothers in their healing process after birth. After the birth of her first baby she came face-to-face with the hardships mothers frequently experience after giving birth. She was amazed at how much pressure is put on mothers and how little support is given for whole-body wellness in this very unique time in a woman’s life. From there she developed her Postpartum Wellness Protocol that she uses with mothers nationally.
Dr. Potter has been interviewed for Healthline.com for postpartum-specific articles. She is a nutritionist as well as a doctor. Her office is located in Portland, Oregon where she lives with her husband and two toddlers.
Piper Dobner, ND, MS graduated from National University of Natural Medicine with a doctoral degree in Naturopathic Medicine and a master’s degree in Integrative Medicine Research. She uses a combination of gentle therapies, nutrition, botanical medicine, homeopathy, physical medicine (in the form of cranial sacral therapy or manipulation) and counseling to support the microbiome and provide patients with the best care possible.
Dr. Dobner is also a provider who treats C. diff using Fecal Microbiota Transplant.
Brandt Stickley, L.Ac. has a mission: he wants to help his students learn to treat not only what they see, but to develop even more subtle diagnostic skills. Through years of study and practice, he has learned to watch, sense and listen carefully to his patients, closely attuning to their pulses. He says, “My passion is exploring the confluence of Chinese medicine and psychology.” It is this careful attunement that has greatly assisted his patients suffering from a variety of psychological and neurological disorders.
Stickley joined NUNM’s faculty at the College of Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) in 2009, and is now a supervising attendant to CCM students at the NUNM Health Centers. He is a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, author, and a practitioner of the ancient art and science of classical Chinese medicine. He’s a graduate of Cornell University and American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco, and completed his internship in Hangzhou, China. He has studied Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis since 1998 with Leon Hammer, MD, with whom he has worked closely.
Stickley has learned that the pulses can tell the skilled practitioner vast amounts about patients—not just their health conditions, but the actual originating life event that created the presenting health condition. “The pulse diagnosis I practice is a very deep model that I learned from a renowned master and my mentor, Dr. Leon Hammer, the author of “Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies,” Stickley says. “The central theme of Dr. Hammer’s work is on the role of awareness. Using this awareness there is a logical methodology in pulse diagnosis that helps me deeply understand imbalances in my patients and how they evolved over time—the overwhelming experiences that impact the patient’s heart often occur like insults at conception or birth, which, in turn, create a global damaging effect on the patient’s health.”
Kabran Chapek, ND is a licensed naturopathic physician with primary experience in mental health care. He received his clinical psychiatric experience from 2007 to 2013 while treating patients with severe mental illness and addiction issues in a partial hospital program as part of a multidisciplinary team. Prior to this, Dr. Chapek studied human biology at the University of Kansas and then naturopathic medicine at Bastyr University.
Dr. Chapek has been a staff physician at Amen Clinics since 2013 where he uses brain imaging to help assess complex cases. He has a special interest in the assessment and treatment of Alzheimer’s and dementia, traumatic brain injuries, PTSD, depression and anxiety disorders. Dr. Chapek is the founding president of the Psychiatric Association of Naturopathic Physicians, an affiliate group of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians.