Meet Our Practitioners

Sarah was born and raised around Dayton, Ohio. She graduated from WSU with her BSN and practiced as an RN at Miami Valley Hospital for seven years. While working there she realized that she wanted to help people be able to avoid getting these debilitating and chronic conditions. During the family nurse practitioner program at Cedarville University, she learned about functional medicine and realized that treating symptoms was still not going to be enough to help people achieve real and lasting health. After graduating she started working at Western Medicine and during that time she was supported to certify in functional medicine through IFM and started incorporating those principles into her family practice care. As this part of her care with patients grew, it became clear that 15 minute visits weren’t enough to address the whole person, mind, body, and spirit. Through collaboration with her employer, they started Dayton Center for Functional Medicine which she ran for 2 years before taking over the business and changing the name to Partnered Healing Functional Medicine.

 

Sarah is passionate about helping people come back to the root of who they are as a complete person which involves supporting their physical, mental, and emotional well being.

 

Sarah has two boys and their favorite things to do together are discovering new parks, putting together Lego and puzzles, and wrestling. If Sarah’s not working you’ll find her out in nature hiking or kayaking, or fixing up her old farmhouse.

Alexis Carver was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio and received her undergrad as well as her master’s degrees from Wright State University. She is a board-certified family nurse practitioner dedicated and passionate about finding the root cause of disease using in-depth testing while partnering with patients to strategize the best treatment plan that facilitates individual healing. Her approach to practice integrates listening to each patient’s needs and desires as well as assessing the physical body and incorporating a patient-centered holistic approach to health and wellness. With over a decade of experience in healthcare, she was guided to discover a unique gap between symptom management and the treatment of disease itself. This motivated her intense pursuit for preventive medicine that used a wider lens to capture the person as a whole using body, mind and spirit to create optimal health.

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Alexis combines her training in functional medicine with her nursing background to help patients make real, positive changes towards a happier and healthier life. She strives to embrace an integrative approach to healthcare, focusing on the interconnectedness of various aspects of a person’s life and health by promoting wellness, preventing illness, and facilitating healing.

 

Her personal interests include spending time with her three children and husband, being outdoors, hiking, kayaking, and supporting her kids’ extracurricular activities. She also enjoys the perpetual quest for knowledge in the ever-evolving world of functional medicine.