Integrative Natural Medicine

A Person-Centered Approach

Integrative, functional medicine has delivered real innovation in healthcare throughout America and the world.  The promise of innovation has created a paradigm shift from disease-focused medicine to health and wellness, using a holistic, person-centered approach.  Fundamental to this paradigm shift, is the change in the approach practitioners use to understand the root cause of health issues or disease.   Once identified, education is shared with the individual to promote understanding of factors underlying their health issues, so changes can be made.  Providing health directives and tools to support those directives are designed to bring the person forward, from ill-health to balanced health, to wellness.  

The framework is "person-centered" where the individual actively participates in their healthcare and works alongside the health practitioner to correct disease and promote health.

Identifying patterns found through science-based diagnostic testing helps to validate the root cause of disease. Diagnostic testing alone, however, is not enough. While testing is important, attention is given to your life story. This includes learning about your genetics and family history, life events and responses to them, nutrition, energy field balance, personal views or ideologies, and more. Exploring your life story identifies factors that contribute to health and disease. These factors are considered along with test results, and together, contribute to a better understanding of your health and wellness.

While self-diagnosis and self-care trends are evolving to become mainstream medicine, the accuracy of self-diagnosis accessed through the internet, news and other media, is questioned. Unfortunately, the media does not take into account your unique health history, lab data, diet and nutrition history, and other very important factors that are crucial for health assessment and treatment. Through inquiry, you are encouraged to do what you can for yourself, but if your health issue continues beyond a reasonable time, it is advisable to seek the guidance of a certified functional medicine practitioner.

Your Unique Health Profile

All self-reported information, scan results, laboratory/pathology reports, and other scientific data contributes to your unique health profile.

Your complete health profile information is used to design a written plan of care specific to your needs. The plan prioritizes steps to address your immediate health concern or illness first.

Methodologies used to shift from disease to health and wellness may include the following-

  • Blended approach using conventional and functional medicine
  • Nutrition based strategies for healthy eating
  • Botanical or plant-based medicine
  • Nutraceutical supplementation
  • Education-based seminars and webinars 
  • Energy Medicine
  • Psycho-emotional counseling
  • Other modalities viewed as more natural approaches

Are medications prescribed as part of the treatment?

If necessary, prescription medications are used as a secondary approach to healing and health. When immediate health concerns are resolved, a different plan of care is designed to reflect ways to promote and maintain optimal health.

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    "We are living at a time when chronic diseases are at an all-time high.  The burdens placed on individuals and the healthcare system have supported the need for a paradigm shift in medicine and healthcare delivery. Underlying the paradigm shift has been the shift from disease-focused medicine to health & wellness, using a holistic, restorative approach to individual health. Various organizations offer advanced formal training, fellowships & certifications for licensed health practitioners who practice functional medicine.

    When selecting a health care provider it is important to inquire about the background of the practitioner, certifications, the focus of their practice, the types of services offered and length of time the practitioner has been in practice offering integrative, restorative health care services."

    - Dr. Bonnie Mackey, PhD, NP, APHN-BC 

    Individual TeleHealth Consultations

    TeleHealth provides at-home health care appointments

    Consultations are designed to provide a uniquely individualized experience based on your needs and goals. Your needs and concerns usually fall in the range from simple to complex issues.   The time it takes to resolve those issues depends on the specific health issue, along with individual ability and willingness to follow health directives.

    What is TeleHealth?

    TeleHealth provides an opportunity to provide an array of services: assessment of health conditions, counseling, and development of health directives and treatments by using the telephone.

    How do you use the TeleHealth service?

    Click the Contact link on this website and email a request for a pre-appointment call, leaving your telephone number and the best time to reach you.

    What services can TeleHealth provide?

    Please review the list of services on this website, by clicking under the Services tab at the top of this site. Most all health issues are appreciated and open for discussion prior to making an appointment.  A pre-appointment telephone call lasting about 20 minutes will help you decide if the services are appropriate for you.

    When is TeleHealth Inappropriate?

    TeleHealth is not a substitute for emergency or urgent care.  You are advised to call 911 and/or go to the nearest emergency center if you are having a medical emergency condition such as pain, seizures, uncontrolled bleeding, head or neck injuries and/or when you decide you cannot wait for a scheduled appointment due to any condition.   In other words, when you get a sense you have an emergent health issue that needs immediate attention, you are advised to call 911 and/or go to the nearest emergency center.

    Before you make your appointment

    Prior to making an appointment, you are encouraged to discuss your needs and concerns with Dr. Mackey.  By doing this, you may clarify the type of service that best fits your needs. Speaking with Dr. Mackey prior to an appointment gives you an opportunity to ask questions you may have. It also provides you with a chance to get to know one another prior to making an appointment.

    How your consultation will work

    Using a person-centered approach, Dr. Mackey takes time to listen to you, where you share the details of your concerns. For health-related concerns, please review the information under the services tab, Integrative Health & Functional Medicine. All self-reported information and data are considered before a written plan is created.

    Appointment Process:

    • Identify your specific needs and concerns
    • Call Dr. Bonnie Mackey prior to making an appointment to discuss your needs:  315-246-8559; there is no charge for this pre-appointment call
    • Once you choose to move forward and make an appointment, email Dr. Mackey at bonnie@mackeyhealth.com, so requisite forms can be attached, completed, and returned by you to MackeyHealth via scan/email or direct fax (561-892-2999).
    • If you choose a health-related appointment, obtain the last 3 sequences or years of laboratory and pathology reports, and submit to MackeyHealth along with the emailed forms.  If there is any additional data that would contribute to best understanding your health issues, kindly submit that as well.
    • Once all forms and data are received, and prior to your scheduled appointment, Dr. Mackey will review and create your personal profile prior to your appointment.
    • Appointments will be set by email or telephone; consultations are by telephone.
    • At the appointment, further details are discussed and a written plan is co-created by you and Dr. Mackey.
    • You are provided with an educational packet of information prior to the appointment,which is used during the consultation and as future reference.
    • Payment is by credit card.  No insurance is accepted.

    Advocacy Through Second Opinion Consultative Service

    A Second Opinion Service is an advocacy service, designed for individuals and other licensed health care practitioners who are seeking additional guidance.  Second opinions as a consultative service, provides individual case study review and evaluation, and offers new approaches to unresolved health issues or related concerns.

    The need for a second opinion depends on your need to resolve simple to complex health or life issues.  The aim is to find solutions to these issues.  For example, you may be in question about a treatment consideration that requires evaluation and direction.  Perhaps you have concerns about a specific health or life issue that you have tried to resolve but could not, and need a second opinion. Or you may be in need of a counseling session to gain a different perspective on a recurrent issue.
    Caring, common-sense approaches are used when meeting your individual requests.

    Second opinion services include:

    • Evaluation of a health or life issue through review of:  your family and personal health background, laboratory and pathology reports and other things to fully assess the issue.  A study of the evaluative profile is done in advance of the session and reviewed in the session as well.  You are encouraged to actively participate in the session and answer questions that are helpful in best understanding the root cause of your issues,
    • Discussion of education materials specifically related to your concerns, which is designed to help you understand the interrelationships between testing data and factors that may have contributed to those concerns
    • A written plan that outlines next action steps to take for resolving the issue
    • Follow up discussions to answer any questions relative to the original inquiry

    Scheduled appointments are available as a telephone.  Fees are based on the level of complexity of the health or life issue, and the time needed to address the issue.

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    "At MackeyHealth, we approach people as exceptional individuals. We know that a person’s life events, actions and vision create a life story which is woven into the fabric of their health. Learning about your unique life story provides insight into understanding the root cause of ill-health or disease, and is correlated with various levels of diagnostic testing.

    In pursuit of wellness, you may be seeking healthy longevity based on diagnostic information alone. You may be someone who is pressing on with unnecessary expensive testing and treatments. While these treatments may make you feel better initially, little has been done to help you build a solid base for health.
    Along with Dr. Mackey, you are empowered and carefully guided to build a solid health base so you don’t have to rely on continuous expensive testing and recurrent treatments. The ingredients to building a base for health are focused education, useable tools and a willingness to do the work necessary to build that base."

    - Bonnie Mackey, PhD, NP, AHNP-BC, IFM Certified Practitioner