Kristi Hughes, ND

Dr. Hughes is the founder of the Center of Natural Healing Arts with locations across Minnesota doing business as The Healing Center. While in medical school, she worked at the Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain Clinic learning advanced strategies for managing chronic pain naturally. Kristi graduated from National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and has been in private practice in Alexandria, Minnesota since 1997. She also owns and practices in clinic sites located in Moorhead and Maple Plain, Minnesota. All practices integrate lifestyle modification programs with a functional medicine based philosophy. This approach to patient care and her clinical experience is then applied to her style of teaching. She is involved in educating both health care providers and the general public.

Kristi is an Applied Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice graduate and has been providing training courses for physicians and health care providers for the last seven years. She lectures internationally on integrated health care practices, the management of pain and fatigue syndromes, adult and childhood obesity, blood sugar abnormalities and metabolic disorders, and clinical implementation techniques for healthy weight loss programs. Kristi is one of the instructors in the national certification program for FirstLine Therapy, providing clinical insight for implementing the researched based lifestyle program used to manage chronic diseases and abnormal body composition.

The Healing Center clinic sites provide integrated health care solutions using naturopathic and functional medicine, botanicals, dietary and lifestyle counseling, cold laser, Chinese medicine, and acupuncture. The clinics provide individualized management approaches for managing and preventing chronic disorders as well as addressing acute episodes. The health care providers at The Healing Center are graduates from accredited naturopathic medical schools in the United States and Canada, along with being active members of both the national and state associations. Many of the practitioners are involved in professional health and wellness lectures and in training programs designed for physicians and integrated health care providers. The Healing Center offers customized Corporate Wellness Programs with on-site laboratory and body composition assessment.
www.thehealingctr.com
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