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Services include holistic primary care consults, women's wellness (including gynecological exams), and acupuncture. People frequently see me for fatigue, thyroid disease, women's hormones, weight loss, diabetes, hypertension, food allergies, Lyme disease, etc.
Herbs, nutrition, energetic therapies including homeopathy, Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, life coaching, essential oils and meditative practices may be woven into your treatment plan.
You can expect attentive care with longer appointments, electronic medical records, online appointment scheduling and more.
Read below for more specific information on consultations, available testing and supplements, and practice philosophy.
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The initial appointment is approximately 1.5 hours ($225 with Nadine, $325 with Dr. R). Follow-up usually lasts 1 hour ($125 for Nadine, $150 for Dr. R). Phone consults are $2/min. I encourage you to "shop around" -- these are very reasonable rates, especially considering the time and energy given during and outside of the appointment as well as operating costs and the universally escalating cost of malpractice. Moreover, your time, money and energy are investments in your health and well being.
Acupuncture sessions are now open to new and established patients. Treatments run about an hour.
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We have a fully stocked in-house apothecary with vitamins, herbs (including TCM formulas), and homeopathics.
In addition to ordering conventional labs through your insurance company (usually Quest or Labcorp), we also offer many alternative laboratory evaluations. Testing available includes digestive studies, food sensitivities, antioxidant and nutritional deficiencies and evaluation, hormones, heavy metals, etc.
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 Jennifer Rabenhorst, MD, MAc, LAc
♦ Dr. Rabenhorst honored with a Patients' Choice award in 2008, 2009 and 2011! ♦
Of the nation's 720,000 active physicians, less than 5% are accorded this honor.
Dr. Rabenhorst focuses on empowering her patients to heal, body, mind and spirit. She creates the space for healing, and helps this process happen with grace and love. To really learn more about her practice of medicine, visit our Testimonials page. You are going to change your life. This is not passive. This is about transformation. You have to do more than swallow pills. Her training includes graduating Cum Laude and with Honors with a Bachelors of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. She went to the University of Maryland School of Medicine (4 years), and completed her formal training at the Georgetown University/Providence Hospital Family Practice Residency Program (3 years). Upon graduation from Residency, she was honored with the Community Medicine Award. She then earned her Masters of Acupuncture from Tai Sophia (3.5 years). She has also had training in Zero Balancing, Akashic Records and Reiki.
She continues to be an active member in the International College for Integrative Medicine, the American College for Advancement in Medicine, the Institute for Functional Medicine, and the Weston A. Price Foundation.
In addition to learning, she also loves to spend time with her wonderful husband of 6 years, to garden, to play racquetball, and to read. She also leads an Eckhart Tolle meditation group.
 Nadine Oswald, PA-C
Nadine is an empathetic and talented healer whose specialties include pain relief, (including myofascial release and trigger point injections), hormone balancing (men and women including thyroid disorders and chronic fatigue) and weight management.
Nadine has 29 years experience including integrative and holistic approaches. Her training includes Occupational Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery, Physical Medicine & Pain Management, and Bariatric Medicine incorporating functional endocrinology, Reiki practitioner and zero balancing.
She became interested in the use of Integrative approaches over the past
10-15 years and it has become a hallmark of her current practice. She
uses a functional medicine approach to her evaluation and management of
metabolic disorders including hypothyroidism; adrenal fatigue;
estrogen, progesterone & testosterone imbalances (hormonal
imbalances); fibromyalgia, and musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction.
Treatments may include dietary counseling; natural supplements and
nutritional therapies; myofascial release and trigger point injections;
Reiki and Emotional Freedom Technique. She has a reputation for taking the time to listen to your concerns and educating you about the options. Her patients have noted her compassion, thoughtfulness, knowledge, understanding, and having positive outcomes and overall wonderful experience. (for more quotes, see Testimonials)
 Denise Graybeal, Office Manager, LMT
Denise is our office manager extraordinaire, who joined in January. Denise brings a wide range talents and experience. She is the cheerful voice helping you out on the phone and the one making sure you get your supplements speedily shipped right to you. She is also the manager for our Holistic Maryland Wellness Center, and is behind those great newsletters!
Denise has a degree in English Language and Literature and is nationally certified in massage and
licensed in the state of Maryland. She has training in a range of
modalities, including Swedish, Deep Tissue, Structural Integration,
Reflexology, Cranial Sacral, Reiki, Sports, Russian Sports, Trigger Point,
Shiatsu, and Acupressure. For more information on her massage practice, visit http://www.holisticmaryland.com/denise.html
From this area originally, she greatly enjoys travel, and lived in Boulder, Colorado for a year after college, followed by a month of volunteer work in Ghana, West Africa. When not in the office, she is usually spending time with her boyfriend, and their two cats and dog, reading, or planning her next trip.
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My Philosophy is really captured by one word, namaste:
“I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells.
I honor the place in you which is
of Love, of Truth, of Light, and of Peace.
When you are in that place in you
and I am in that place in me,
We are One.”
In addition to a strong spiritual foundation that strengthens my integrity, my philosophy is focused on holistic healing. I also feel it is important to ascertain the cause of symptoms. This means it is important to not just cover up the symptom, but to also ask what the symptom means. Often, there are layers to our relationship with our symptoms. There is a "Fix it" attitude and then there is an investigative relationship. The symptom might have meaning and be a source of insight on a mind, body and/or spirit level, and at the same time we are suffering. This interplay is, I think, part of the art of medicine.
Health is not an endpoint; healing is a lifelong journey. I believe health mirrors life in that we are not meant to feel perfect all the time, just as life is often not how we want it. However, there are times of feeling wonderful, and my service is to help you understand your body and guide you in caring for yourself so these times are optimized.
This journey is a healing partnership. Click on this link to read more much more about my philosophy.
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