Functional Medicine Fusion Services
Functional medicine looks beyond isolated symptoms to understand
how your body’s systems are interacting as a whole.
At Instinctive Wellness, this work is grounded in a fusion of modern medical experience and functional medicine principles — using the strengths of both approaches to better understand why symptoms are occurring. Through a detailed clinical history, advanced laboratory testing, and careful attention to physiology, nutrition, environment, and stress, we identify patterns that may be driving illness or imbalance. Care is personalized, collaborative, and designed to support your body’s inherent capacity to heal, especially when something still feels off despite standard evaluations.
Choose “Telemed Consult / Referral” for the first step – the FREE 15 min consult.
How Functional Medicine Looks at the Whole System
Functional medicine is not about replacing modern medicine, but about expanding the lens through which health is understood. By looking at how systems influence one another — digestion, hormones, immune function, nervous system regulation, metabolism, and environment — we can identify patterns that often don’t appear when each concern is addressed in isolation. This systems-based approach allows care to be more precise, more personalized, and more responsive to the lived experience of each client.
What to Expect...
Functional medicine care at Instinctive Wellness is thoughtful, collaborative, and paced to support meaningful change over time. Rather than quick fixes or one-size-fits-all protocols, visits focus on understanding patterns, prioritizing next steps, and building a plan that is realistic for your life.
Alongside clinical data and testing, Deb draws on years of experience working with complex cases to notice subtle patterns and ask focused questions that help guide the medical work, always within an evidence-based, medically grounded framework.
Full Initial Consultation & Assessment
Your care begins with a complimentary 15-minute video consultation. This serves as a discovery call and the start of onboarding, as well as establishing that this approach is a good fit for your needs. Initial symptom forms are initiated, and relevant medical records are gathered.
Your full initial appointment typically lasts 2–3 hours, allowing time for a thorough review of your health history, current concerns, goals, prior laboratory work, specialist evaluations, and diagnostic imaging. A comprehensive physical examination is also performed to help build a complete picture of your health.
Based on this visit, appropriate laboratory testing is ordered through Quest or LabCorp. The bulk of the labs are covered by insurance, aside from deductibles or copays. Imaging is ordered when indicated and processed through insurance. Additionally, there are discounted self-pay options available for those without coverage.
Deb also recommends a single Reiki session early in care. This session is never required and is not diagnostic, though it adds layers to the clinical picture. It can help support nervous system regulation, clarify priorities, and establish a shared energetic baseline that often enhances the effectiveness of subsequent functional medicine visits. Learn more about Reiki.
Developing Your Individualized Health Plan
Using laboratory results, diagnostic testing, at-home pattern tracking, and all information gathered during your initial visit, Deb performs an in-depth analysis of your body’s physiology to identify potential drivers of imbalance or illness.
Findings are reviewed together during your first follow-up visit, with clear education provided. Your individualized treatment plan is then finalized collaboratively. Plans may include dietary guidance, lifestyle modifications, targeted supplementation, referrals to specialists, and medications when appropriate.
Depending on your presentation and initial results, additional functional or specialized testing may be recommended. This may include evaluations related to nutrition, hormones, toxins, gut health, or other contributing factors. More info about specialized testing below.
Ongoing Follow-Up & Support
Follow-up appointments are scheduled to monitor progress and adjust your plan as needed. Visits are typically more frequent early in care (every 1–2 months) and become less frequent as your health stabilizes.
These appointments provide space for ongoing communication, addressing new concerns, and ensuring that your care remains aligned with your evolving needs. Each visit is designed to support informed, shared decision-making so healing continues in the context of your real, lived life.
Your Detailed Care Plan
After each appointment, you’ll receive a detailed written care plan summarizing key discussion points and outlining next steps. This document is designed to be practical, clear, and easy to reference.
You are welcome to share this plan with other members of your healthcare team to support collaboration and continuity of care.
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A brief overview of how individualized functional medicine is practiced at Instinctive Wellness,
especially when symptoms don’t fit neatly into standard medical boxes.
If you prefer not to watch the video, the key points are summarized below.
Specialized Labs
Pricing
Many people arrive at functional medicine after years of feeling unheard, rushed, or treated one symptom at a time. Instinctive Wellness was designed in response to that experience, with a model of care that is collaborative, thorough, and systems-based.
Root-cause care is labor-intensive, collaborative, and pattern-based. Rather than addressing a single issue per visit, we look at the whole system together — and how symptoms, labs, history, and lived experience connect over time. Care at Instinctive Wellness is collaborative and team-based, with shared decision-making and clear communication throughout the process. When patients and clinician work together at the table, care tends to be more effective, more sustainable, and better aligned with real life.
Change doesn’t come from doing more of the same—it comes from looking differently and working together. By approaching health with curiosity, collaboration, and a broader lens, new options and more sustainable outcomes can emerge.
Pricing reflects not only time spent in visits, but also the preparation, review, documentation, and clinical work required to support your care. When additional time beyond a scheduled appointment is needed, it is billed transparently based on time spent. Time-based pricing supports fairness, clarity, and the ability to provide thoughtful, unrushed care tailored to each individual—rather than relying on standardized protocols or one-size-fits-all approaches.
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The First Step of Your Journey - a Free 15 Minute Consult Free
The first step in getting started is a free 15-minute consult with me. This brief video call serves two purposes: it is both a discovery call to ensure we’re a good fit to work together and the start of your onboarding process. During this call, you’ll receive a link to complete a series of Google Symptom Forms. These forms are essential to your care — they allow me to gather a full picture of your health history and symptoms so we can do the deep, detective-style work that functional medicine requires.
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Initial Functional Medicine Fusion Appointment $398
The initial appointment is a 2-hour session. If your visit runs longer than 2 hours, additional time will be billed in 15-minute increments at $49.75 per interval. A non-refundable deposit of $199 is required and will be applied toward the total cost of this visit. Please note: Your full initial appointment will be need to cancelled / rescheduled if the Google Symptoms Forms are not received or the Self Check-in is not completed. See the Office Policies below.
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Follow-Up Functional Medicine Fusion Appointments $199
These appointments are usually scheduled for 1 hour. If the appointment duration is shorter or longer than 1 hour, the cost will be adjusted in 15-minute increments at a rate of $49.75 per interval. Select either Follow-up or Telehealth Follow-up when scheduling on the portal.
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Core Healing Program $425 / month
The Core Healing Program is 6 month program designed for clients who want high-touch, ongoing support with savings built in! It includes one 60-minute visit per month, plus up to five secure 15-minute time block messages or refill requests each month. Members also receive 15% off any additional clinical services or visit time beyond the monthly allotment. Over the six-month period, new clients save $328 and established patients save $129, not including the additional savings from the 15% discount on extra services. And you can renew as often as it works for you! Talk to Deb or send a message about this option!
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Focused Integrative Visit (For step-by-step or episodic care outside the full Functional Medicine Fusion deep dive) 149.25
A time-limited visit designed to address one specific health concern using a functional and integrative, root-cause approach. This visit focuses on one issue at a time, is limited to 45 minutes, and is best for those who want to address a specific concern or are not yet ready for the deeper dive of the full initial consult. Select Problem or Telehealth Problem when scheduling on the portal
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Assistance Gathering Medical Records $99.50
A brief appointment with Deb to collaborate on gathering necessary records from your various portals. This appointment is typically only needed for those with extensive medical histories or those who do not have the resources to gather records themselves. Please have your login information available for each portal. Please contact Deb through the portal to set up a time to gather records.
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Extensive Medical History Review $199 / hour
This fee is typically necessary for medical record reviews exceeding 30 mins particularly for individuals with very extensive medical histories that require thorough review before or after the scheduled session. For example, clients who have been struggling for years with many debilitating health issues or who have seen many different specialists. Most clients will not require this extra time, and Deb will discuss this with you beforehand as well as provide an estimate of time needed and cost.
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Care Between Appointments $49.75
Deb welcomes brief questions through the Patient Portal at no additional charge. Messaging offers a more direct and real-time healthcare experience, enhancing your well-being between visits. While clarifying questions are encouraged, there will be a charge for messages involving complex issues, medications, supplements, treatments, additional laboratory tests, refills or new health concerns if you want to proceed via a message format versus scheduling a visit. These messages will be billed at a rate of $49.75 per 15 minutes, prorated based on the time spent addressing your concerns. Please be aware that certain issues may require a full visit, and Deb will notify you if that is the case. Individualized healthcare goes beyond prepackaged, generic responses—you deserve a tailored approach to your well-being.
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Analysis of Comprehensive DNA Panels $149.25
Deb can analyze DNA profiles after being processed through Promeathease to look for root cause issues and possible other avenues for treatment. There is a ton more information to be obtained beyond what services like 23andMe can report. Results will be discussed during a follow-up appointment.
Choose “Telemed Consult / Referral” for the first step – the FREE 15 min consult.
Payment Options
Understanding Insurance & Payment Options
Effective December 1st, 2021, Instinctive Wellness transitioned to a fully self-pay practice due to substantial changes in insurance reimbursement rates that no longer support extended visit times. However, depending on your plan, you may have out-of-network benefits that can help offset the cost of visits.
Please review your insurance plan to determine if you have any out-of-network benefits and if so, you will be provided documentation that you may submit to your insurance for potential reimbursement. This will include all necessary information for the insurance company to assess eligibility for reimbursement. It’s important to note that Instinctive Wellness cannot guarantee the receipt or amount of reimbursement. For any reimbursement-related inquiries, your healthcare plan administrator is best equipped to provide accurate information.
If you have any questions about this, Deb can answer those during your
Free 15 Minute “Discovery and Onboarding” Call.
Important Information About Medicaid Coverage
Please note that, unfortunately, Instinctive Wellness cannot provide functional medicine services to Medicaid beneficiaries, as Deb Reid is not a Medicaid Network provider. In Maryland, it is illegal for non-Medicaid providers to offer medical care to Medicaid recipients unless it is a life-threatening emergency. Doing so could result in legal action, fines, and loss of benefits for both the provider and the Medicaid beneficiary.