About Cherise Branch, APRN FNP-BC FAAMM

Cherise Branch

APRN FNP-BC FAAMM

I don't just treat the symptom. I look for why it's there.

After 20-plus years in internal medicine, I was left with the feeling that I “managed” prescription lists and kept patients cobbled together with band-aid fixes, putting out the fires of illness one at a time.

My own journey changed that. Disordered eating, irritable bowel syndrome, and anxiety led me to finally take care of myself in my 40s. So much of what I had experienced (“Your colonoscopy is normal, Cherise.” Sound familiar?) and what my patients suffered could have been prevented, or managed far more effectively, by combining the holistic art of nursing with the root-cause model I practice today.

That perspective came in handy at home, too: I married a guy on the autoimmune spectrum, and Steve RPh has managed his psoriasis without a prescription since we discovered root-cause care in 2016.

Ultimately, this approach gave me a whole different set of tools. I'm passionate about digging deep, using personalized lab testing alongside two decades of conventional experience to uncover why symptoms are happening in the first place, rather than suppressing them.

So, feeling flabby, foggy, flatulent, frigid, forgetful, and fatigued? I'm your hormone-guru gal, using diet, lifestyle, supplements, mindfulness, detox, exercise, fasting, and the rare prescription or two to help you regain your Fiery and Fabulous.

Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of Texas (Presidential Scholar, 1991). Master's as a Family Nurse Practitioner, 1999.

How I Practice

My core values of care

The principles behind every plan I build with you.

An Integrative Approach

If you've seen your provider and still struggle with symptoms, even on medication, it's time to go deeper. I provide complementary care alongside what you've already received, while finding the factors that created your symptoms in the first place.

Dedicated Attention

In a typical 7-minute visit there's little time to examine the depth of your symptoms, let alone the causes. As they say, if you're in a hole, the first step is to stop digging.

Personalized Care

You're biologically unique, and so are the factors behind your symptoms. After your intake I may run specialty lab tests your current provider may not know about, to map a precise roadmap back to energy.

Root Cause Resolution

I'm laser-focused on the root of your symptoms, using advanced testing that reaches well beyond basic blood work, examining stress, food intolerances, and gut and hormonal imbalances.

Co-Creating Health

Together we discover what's impacting your health the most. Lifestyle change can feel daunting, but with the right support and tools, new healing practices become a natural part of everyday life.

Innovative Treatments

It takes on average 17 years for clinical breakthroughs to reach a conventional office. I stay trained in up-to-date medicine and the most advanced testing, paired with current nutritional science.

Why It Matters

Why partner with a root-cause practitioner

Caring for your health is more than eating right and exercising. Current research shows the body is a complex collection of organs, systems, and even bacterial colonies, the microbiome, that greatly impact one another.

The standard of care hasn't quite caught up. Many providers still treat parts of the body separately, without accounting for how deeply these areas affect each other.

When you're healthy, these systems work together like a symphony in perfect harmony. When one is off-balance, the whole symphony is out of tune, and you need more than a fix for one part.

At my practice I follow a modern functional approach: advanced testing, whole-body care, and up-to-date nutritional science to help you rebalance and finally heal.

This in-depth approach is the only successful way to treat chronic illness, because most chronic illness has many causes at once.

Instead of addressing symptoms across separate areas, this approach treats the underlying root cause, while looking at diet, environment, emotional health, and mindset.

About Cherise