About Monica
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Monica loves her faith and her family, and being of service to her community by providing empowering health care and education.
She is dedicated to helping her patients achieve true wellness and is focused on excellent outcomes for those she serves.
She has been married for 13 years to Mark, Really Great Guy
(and definitely who you want by your side if you need food, shelter, or fire, or if you're in the ICU)
and is the super proud mom of three awesome kids.
She also loves beaches, Arches, archers, Irish dancers, gymnasts, fiddling, strong and brave mothers and grandmothers
(especially her own!), Ann and Dave, Sr. Corazon, Michael Jordan, and Caitlin Clark.
Volunteer/Community Engagement:
2021-present
Respect Life Committee, St. Augustine's Catholic Church
2009, 2010 summers
Mission coordinator for Physicians for Peace surgical missions to Dila and Adigrat, Ethiopia; missions for surgical repair of post-polio deformities, orthopedic traumas, burn deformities
2007, spring
Nurse, Etta Projects nutrition/maternal care center, Montero, Bolivia
2002-2003, year
2006, summer
Teacher and clinic assistant, Don Bosco/Salesian Sisters
school and clinic
Dila, Ethiopia
Celebrating life, health, and empowerment
with patients
for over 17 years.
Moscow Medical, Moscow, ID 2013-2014
Full spectrum family practice
A local pregnancy medical clinic 2016-2023
Nurse Practitioner, reproductive health
Seattle University, Seattle, WA Springs 2016, 2017
Adjunct Faculty for advanced practice nursing program
American Academy of FertilityCare Professionals
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Wellpower Functional Medicine, PLLC, Est. 2015
Founder and Owner
Functional Medicine private practice
Educational retreats and workshops
*the medical practice of Wellpower Functional Medicine, PLLC was closed from 2022-2023 for additional training and refocus.
Monica brought Functional Medicine and NaPro services to a local pregnancy center for a time until new direction necessitated moving the services to her own practice. The Wellpower medical practice was re-opened in July 2023 as Functional Fertility Northwest, with a specialty focus on functional medicine and NaPro Technology for reproductive health issues.
Functional Fertility Northwest, est. 2023
Founder and owner
Private medical practice; functional medicine
and NaPro technology for reproductive health
FertilityCare of the Palouse, est. 2023 Founder and Responsible Practitioner
The only nationally accredited FertilityCare Center on the Palouse
Educational Outreach/Speaking Events:
3/2022 Introduction to NaPro Technology
~ Health colleague in-service presentation
3/2023 Reproductive health and Healing
~Lenten Healing Series Presentation
10/2015 Speaker, Palouse Women's Expo
9/2015 Co-coordinator, with special guest Ocean Robbins "Food, Spirit, and Function" a mini-retreat on mindfulness and functional medicine
6-8/2015 Co-Coordinator, Summer Wellness Series 1912 Center
2/2015 Coordinator/director, women's wellness retreat
N-Sid-Sen Retreat Center, Harrison, ID
2014-2015 KROC Center presentations, Coeur d'Alene, ID
Credentials:
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana; BA, magna cum laude, 1998
Seattle University, Seattle, Washington; RN, MSN, 2006
Board Certification: Family Practice, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, active since 2006
Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner (IFMCP) 2017
FertilityCare Practitioner (FCP), Saint Paul VI Institute Omaha, Nebraska, 2022
Creighton Model Medical Consultant for NaPro Technology, Saint Paul VI Institute and Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 2022
