Judi Epstein, MSN, ARNP-C
Family Nurse Practicioner
(She/Her)
Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
Judi is a family Nurse Practitioner with extensive experience in both conventional and integrative medicine
Judi Epstein, MSN, ARNP, has been caring for people across their lifespan for more than three decades. A Family Nurse Practitioner with extensive experience in both conventional and integrative medicine, Judi brings a depth of clinical knowledge, curiosity, and compassion to her work.
For the past two decades, her practice has been deeply rooted in Functional Medicine, specializing in root cause care and treatment. By considering the whole person and honoring the interconnectedness of the body, mind, and spirit—Judi educates and empowers people to make informed choices that nurture long-term health and well-being.
Root-Cause Medicine Grounded in Experience
Throughout her career, Judi has cared for people in a diverse range of settings, including hospitals and private practices, community and public health centers, migrant and refugee health programs, birthing centers, and as a high-risk flight nurse.
Working with people from an eclectic, multicultural, and multilingual demographic, she listens closely to each person’s story and values the traditions, beliefs, experiences, and cultural practices they bring to their care.
Judi holds degrees from SUNY at Stony Brook, Temple University, the University of Colorado, and the University of New Mexico. She has trained with many gifted teachers and healers and has pursued ongoing education through the Institute for Functional Medicine.
Judi’s Approach to Functional Medicine
Judi combines evidence-based medicine with the principles of Functional Medicine to uncover the underlying factors contributing to illness and help restore greater balance and vitality.
She places particular emphasis on food as medicine and the powerful relationship between nutrition, digestive health, the microbiome, and the brain. She helps people understand how these interconnected systems can influence physical health as well as mood, cognition, energy, and overall well-being.
Judi uses both conventional and specialized laboratory testing, to better understand each person's unique physiology. Including comprehensive blood panels, stool testing, genetic testing, hormones (saliva and urine), nutrient and toxic elements, and metabolic testing.
Treatment plans may include therapeutic nutrition, botanical and nutritional supplements, prescription or compounded medications, homeopathics, movement and lifestyle interventions.
Judi believes deeply in collaborative partnership and offers guidance to educate and empower people to better understand their bodies and make informed choices that nurture their long-term health and well-being.
Judi’s Specialties Include:
- Digestive Health: IBS, SIBO, SIFO, dysbiosis, malabsorption, and histamine intolerance
- Fatigue & Complex Chronic Illness: Chronic fatigue, stress-related adrenal dysfunction, thyroid health and EBV reactivation
- Autoimmune & Metabolic Health: Identifying and addressing underlying contributors to immune and metabolic dysfunction
- Methylation & Nutritional Health: Exploring epigenetic, nutritional, and biochemical factors that can influence health
- Women’s Health: Supporting women’s health concerns across the lifespan
- Pediatric & Adolescent Health: Providing thoughtful and specialized whole-person care for children and teens
Trusting the Body’s Innate Wisdom
With more than three decades of clinical experience—as well as personal insight gained through navigating her own health challenges, Judi embraces a deep respect for the body’s innate wisdom and capacity for healing.
Judi lives in the Pacific Northwest, in “the land of the big trees.” Outside of her clinical work, you can find her digging in her garden, cooking farm-to-table meals for her community, walking with her tail-wagging four-legged companion, making art, and participating in conscious dance and embodied movement practices—as both a dancer and a teacher.
To learn more about Judi’s dance & movement practice, please visit:
danceyourmedicine.org
Our Patients Get Results
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I've seen Tracy Schulsinger for a number of years for thyroid and hormone stuff. She is wonderful! I recently injured my knee and started seeing Jessie for Physical therapy and she is truly fantastic! Using SFM machine and some other amazing therapies, including cranial sacral and I don't know what I am suddenly getting the most incredible gains..."
