I know what it’s like to get eight minutes and a template, to have your concerns waved off, your labs come back “normal” while you feel anything but, and your gut instinct that something is wrong quietly dismissed. I also know what it’s like to sit on the other side of that desk, inside a system that makes it structurally impossible to practice the medicine you were trained for.

I’m a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner. I’m also a classically trained musician, a former athlete, and a mother of three. I know what it takes to perform at a high level under sustained pressure, and I know exactly what happens to a body and a mind when that pressure never lets up. The people who find Aristea are high performers who’ve put themselves last for years. I was that person. I still catch myself being that person. I built this practice for us.

Direct primary care lets me practice medicine the way I actually believe in it: a smaller panel, real time with each member, and the clinical depth to look past the chief complaint to what’s actually driving it. Today I care for a deliberately small number of people, which means I answer your message myself, I remember what you told me three months ago, and I’m your partner through the ordinary weeks and the ones that blindside you.