I meet you where you are.
Why Seek Guidance?
You’d like to learn what to eat to be healthy
Your doctor has advised you to lose weight
You think an unhealthy diet is making you ill
You’ve battled weight issues all your life
You feel you’ve gained weight abnormally
You desire a healthy lifestyle
You’d like to feel and look your best, boost confidence, energy, mood & self-esteem
Ultimately, the strategies that will work are those you put to use - Let's work together to discover and practice these.
Combined Conventional & Functional Medicine Approach to your Care
The functional medicine model of care offers a patient-centered approach to management of chronic health conditions. It seeks to answer the question, “How did you become ill (or overweight)?” so you can receive personalized, effective care for your needs.
Functional medicine providers spend time listening to you and gathering your medical, family, social, and health behavior history. We use this information to identify the root cause(s) and triggers for health conditions so we can customize a healthy living plan for you. Your plan will address many aspects of your life, from physical needs, including nutrition, exercise and sleep, to mental and emotional stressors related to your work, home, and community life.
The foundation of functional medicine is the use of food as a first-line therapy. Combined with a conventional medicine approach, practitioners may also prescribe medications. Essentially, the right nutrition, combined with lifestyle and behavioral interventions and symptom relief, will help you take charge of your health.
Meet Maria
“To guide your journey, I meet you where you are. I listen carefully to learn quite a lot about you and how you came to be concerned for your health. Together we create a realistic plan with targeted goals to set you on a path to better health.”
Maria’s health and lifestyle were dramatically changed by her own 65 lb weight loss in 1986. Since that time she has been mindful of this gift and continues to balance her lifestyle to not gain and stay healthy. Her personal and professional experience makes her passionate about helping others learn what they can do to maximize their health and well-being and reduce health risks. She does this by cuing into the unique needs of individuals to assist them in setting realistic goals and selecting the best methods for staying on track and accountable. It’s her pleasure to guide you to better health.
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Why Telemedicine?
Since the start of the pandemic in January 2020, the request for weight management services has surged beyond expectations. Striving to meet your needs we've found delivery of services to be most effective via face-to-face video consultation with your health data collected and monitored remotely. Here are some of the benefits:
GREATER ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE
HIGHLY EFFECTIVE & SAVES TIME
MORE CONVENIENT
HIGHER QUALITY OF LIFE
HIGHER QUALITY OF CARE
MORE COST EFFECTIVE
PREVENTS SPREAD OF INFECTION
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Meet The Team Behind the Scenes!
Debbie
Debbie works remotely to coordinate a smooth and efficient patient experience for you. She’ll assist you in getting established and in collecting your health information for Telemedicine visits, remote monitoring, and records keeping. She handles initial and follow-up scheduling and lets you know what is needed for appointments.
She graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a BA in Communications. For almost 20 years she had a career in the Fashion Industry, specifically production, which exposed her to travel and see the world in Asia, Europe, and Mexico, For a few years she gained retail experience in the food industry, acquiring a better understanding of how food is ordered, shipped, merchandised, and sold at the store level.
Uniquely, Debbie offers her perspective as a prior patient of GladHealth, familiar with all aspects of the patient experience.
She enjoys spending time volunteering in the community and outside in nature in all seasons experiencing what Maine has to offer. Debbie misses her adventures with her dog Lucy terribly.
You can reach Debbie during office hours, Monday through Thursday, by the messaging feature in your Charm PHR or by sending an email to debbie@gladhealth.com
Janine
Janine contributes behind the scenes by compiling recipes, specialty food products and cookbook recommendations for display on Pinterest Boards and Amazon Lists for the GladHealth Website. She also assists in the home office by handling physical records and shipping materials and products to you at home.
As part of her studies at University of Southern Maine for a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sociology, Janine became interested in how food affects people and society. She continues to dedicate her interest in this important field in her employment in Nutrition Services at Maine Medical Center in Portland.
In her spare time, Janine enjoys drawing digital art and crafting jewelry to display and sell on her Etsy Shop. She’s a serious nostalgia buff and thrifter, and enjoys nothing more than hanging out with and adoring her three cats: Holly, Julie and Luke, and taking & sharing adorable kitty pics & videos.
You can reach Janine on Tuesdays and Thursdays by the messaging feature in your Charm PHR or by email: janine@gladhealth.com
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Phone: 207-536-4948
Fax: 833-650-8860
Email: hello@gladhealth.com
Administrative Office:
278 Veranda St Portland, ME 04103
