A physician.
A widow.
A woman,
still becoming.

I’m Michele.

I came to medicine through curiosity about the body. Grief brought me into questions that were also deeply personal.

I trained as a naturopathic physician at Bastyr University and have spent more than a decade in clinical practice. My education taught me to investigate, to look for connections, and to consider a person’s life alongside her symptoms.

After losing my husband, the physical experience of grief became part of my own story. I knew the language of medicine. I was also a woman living through loss.

Those experiences shape the questions I bring to this work. What has changed in an ordinary day? What is happening physically? What support is already present, and what still feels missing?

I want medicine to make room for those questions—and for the person asking them.