acne

Providing realistic and customized support to finally take control of your acne

Struggling with Acne?

Adult acne can be very frustrating and demoralizing to deal with. For many adults struggling with acne, it goes further than outward appearances. It impacts quality of life, negatively affects their social life, and is correlated with higher rates of anxiety and depression. Not to mention, pharmaceuticals available for acne can be very hard on the body with long lasting side effects and high relapse rates. The truth is that acne is a sign of an internal imbalance within the body. The key to clear skin really lies in identifying and targeting the underlying cause, as well as ensuring foundations of health are in place.

How We Can Help

Chances are if you’re here, you’ve been struggling with your acne for far too long. If acne is ruling life, you keep cancelling plans because your skin is so bad, you’re spending hours getting ready in the morning, and you feel like you can’t even go the gym without putting makeup on, you’re in the right place.

Our team is here to help you take the guesswork out of eliminating your acne, and provide you with a customized and realistic treatment plan.

Here’s how we help:

• We assess and target local skin contributors such as receptor hypersensitivity, and sebum overproduction

• We assess and treat specific hormone imbalances contributing to your acne

• We ensure our gut-skin axis is functioning optimally because without this, targeting your skin or hormones won’t work

• We ensure foundational pillars of physical and mental health are in place - because acne is much more than what’s going on externally, it requires internal physical work and mindset shifts

What To Expect

Wherever you are in your acne journey, our team will take the time to hear you, meet you where you are at, and teach you how to feel confident and comfortable in your skin again. Our ultimate goal is always to dig deeper and find the unique underlying causes of your acne, so that symptoms are corrected - not masked, you feel in control again, and you begin to see your body as an ally and not the enemy anymore!

Love Your Skin: Our 5 Step Program

It’s time to reclaim control and feel great in your skin again! This is exactly why we created the Love Your Skin Program. This 5-step program will help identify why you’re getting acne in the first place, reduce breakouts, and maintain results, so you can get back to feeling comfortable in your skin!

our 5-step program

1. Identify Barriers  - We complete extremely comprehensive intakes and lab testing to understand your general health status, your digestive function, your hormone levels, and identify where things are going wrong. We also send you home to complete symptom monitoring so we can start to pick up on your unique symptom patterns.

2. Support Foundations – This is where your treatment begins. We ensure the foundations of skin health are in place so your symptoms resolve faster and we’re maintaining these results long-term. This includes correcting things like digestive function, food sensitivities, and your stress response. Often just supporting these and putting them into place can make a world of difference! We teach you how to implement foundational supports in a balanced way so you never feel restricted.

3. Customized + Targeted Supplementation – Once we receive all of your lab results and symptom diary we start targeting treatment specifically to you. This often takes the form of highly concentrated supplementation and is completely based on your unique physiology and barriers. In some cases, we’ll custom formulate topical prescriptions to help you get results faster!

4. Optimize the Gut – Once foundations are in place, and we’ve removed underlying barriers through targeted supplementation, we look at further optimizing the gut. The gut is the foundation of lasting health in the body and has far-reaching impacts on our skin health. Optimizing this system is a must in order to maintain long-term results.

5. Maintenance – Once your initial concerns have been addressed, we create a new plan for you to carry forward to help sustain your results. Our goal at this point is that you’ve become such an expert in understanding your own body that you only need us for maintenance support quarterly or bi-annually!

If you’re struggling with adult acne and want to learn more, we offer complimentary 15 minute consults with our chief Naturopathic Doctor focusing on skin health, Dr. Simone Pirita.