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Integrative & Alternative Health Services

In light of our goal to provide lasting whole-person health, MCH offers our clients ancillary, naturopathic, and alternative medicine health management options to compliment traditional healthcare services made to meet national standards of care.   Via our provider partners, patients can access integrative healthcare services such as:

Nutrition Counseling & Health Coaching

Have you ever received good advice that you were unable to follow? Have you ever tried a "diet" that you found unsustainable? Have you ever wanted something in your life, but found you couldn’t achieve it alone? Health coaches are knowledgeable advisors who provide ongoing support and guidance as you set goals and make sustainable changes that improve your health and happiness. Our holistic lifestyle coaches will listen and help you navigate the world of contradictory nutrition advice to determine what changes are right for and in alignment with your unique you.

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Blood Morphology Testing

These services are provided by Christi Rein, Certified Integrative Nutritionist & Health Coach, certified Live Blood Morphologist.

Blood Morphology is a fascinating experience where you meet your red & white blood cells up close and personal!

A single drop of blood is taken from the tip of the finger and viewed through a microscope. Together with Christi Rein, you will discover the health of your blood cells and discuss strategies that are best for individual optimum vitality!

Christi Rein is a certified Integrative Nutritionist & Health Coach who is also certified in Live Blood Morphology testing.  She practices with a holistic philosophy to help her clients reach their short and long-term health goals.  She creates a supportive environment that enables her clients to achieve these goals.  She has studied all the major dietary theories and use practical lifestyle coaching methods to guide her clients in discovering which approach works best for each.  

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Neurofeedback Therapy

Neurofeedback therapy (or brainwave training) is a non-invasive way to help your brain learn to self-regulate by measuring its electrical activity (brainwaves) and giving you real-time feedback, rewarding you when your brain produces desired patterns, like calmness or focus, teaching it to function better over time for conditions like ADHD, anxiety, PTSD, or TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury).

Neurofeedback therapy (or brainwave training) is a non-invasive way to help your brain learn to self-regulate by measuring its electrical activity (brainwaves) and giving you real-time feedback, rewarding you when your brain produces desired patterns, like calmness or focus, teaching it to function better over time for conditions like ADHD, anxiety, PTSD, or TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury).

How it works:

  • Measurement: Sensors are placed on your scalp to read your brainwave activity (EEG).
  • Feedback: A computer translates this activity into visualized brainwaves on the computer. Therapeutic waves are “fed back” to your brain to encourage a healthier brainwave pattern.
  • Training: When your brain responds by producing a desired healthier pattern (e.g., calmer waves), the feedback is positive; when it's not, the feedback changes.
  • Learning: Your brain learns to adjust and create the desired patterns to keep the positive feedback going, much like learning a video game, leading to lasting changes in brain function.

What it's used for:

  • Mental Health: Anxiety, depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, addiction.
  • Cognitive Issues: ADHD, focus problems, memory issues, traumatic brain injury (TBI).
  • Other Conditions: Migraines, sleep disorders, reducing stress-induced muscle spasms.

Key points:

  • It's painless, non-invasive, and doesn't involve drugs.
  • Sessions are typically 20-30 minutes but the initial session may last up to 60 minutes depending on which and the number of conditions you want treated.
  • A course might involve 20-40 sessions, often 2-3 times a week.
  • It trains the brain directly, rather than just behaviors or thoughts

Katie Schmierer is a dedicated Functional Nurse Coach and Neurofeedback Therapy Practitioner with over 20 years of nursing experience, a deep commitment to holistic health, and specialized training in functional medicine. Her unique approach to health blends conventional nursing expertise with a holistic, whole-person perspective. Katie is passionate about empowering her clients to achieve lasting wellness by identifying and addressing the root causes of health challenges, rather than just masking symptoms. She takes a comprehensive view of each individual’s health, considering lifestyle, nutrition, emotional well-being, and other key factors, and works collaboratively to design personalized plans that promote long-term, sustainable change.

Katie's diverse background as both a labor and postpartum doula and a childbirth and homeschool educator enriches her approach, bringing a unique blend of compassion, peace, and emotional support to every client interaction. Katie is deeply committed to helping her clients gain clarity, direction, and practical tools that not only improve their health but also empower them to live a life full of vitality, purpose, and abundance.

Primary Care Services

We believe in providing each client a strong foundation on which to build lasting good health.

Mayimrapha Comprehensive Health focuses on caring for the whole you to promote disease prevention and to bring you to your best "whole" health. We seek the root causes of poor health and help you, the client, to effectively heal ailments at the source, promoting long-term health and improved quality of life.

Our owner and medical director, Dr Melanie Ukanwa, is a board certified Family Medicine physician who has acquired a rather cosmopolitan philosophy of preventative care practice, combining western allopathic medicine expertise with naturopathic modalities of care.

Dr Melanie Ukanwa
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