This lovely creek sits in the Catskill foothills on the edge of the Mid-Hudson Valley — where my roots run deep.
Exhaustion. Pain. Discomfort.
Some level of misery — every day.
If your body feels unreliable, fragile, or unpredictable — and you know something is wrong even when your tests say otherwise — you are not imagining it.
I do not require your symptoms to fit neatly into a diagnosis in order to help you.
I work with whole-body physiology and operating systems — digestion, energy production, immune function, nervous system regulation, hormone signaling, detoxification and recovery capacity.
My clinical philosophy
I draw from a broad, flexible toolkit rather than a single method.
Depending on your needs, this may include:
nutrition as a signaling and regulatory tool
targeted supplementation
functional testing
nervous system regulation
pacing and capacity-building strategies
physiology-appropriate lifestyle adjustments
Tools are selected carefully, adjusted over time, and guided by your response — not by rigid protocols.
No symptom-chasing.
No trend-driven protocols.
No endless supplement stacks.
Just physiology.
Just enough.
Done well.
About me
Hi — I'm Ellen Nicholas.
I am a Board-Certified Holistic Health Practitioner and a Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN) Practitioner.
I live and practice in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York and work primarily online.
I support people who need a new path forward after months, years, or decades of chronic pain, disabling fatigue, and complex illness.
What drives me to do this work?
I know what it is like to be told:
your blood work is normal
your symptoms don’t make sense
and nothing more can be done
Recovery was not one dramatic intervention.
It was many small, physiology-aligned changes applied carefully and consistently over time.
That is the model I now bring to my clients.
I want to help people — who have similar health challenges to the ones I had — improve their lives. Specifically, I don't want anyone losing decades to these illnesses.
I don’t want anyone lying in bed when they should be living a life of their design.
I want every child to have present, engaged parents…
By changing the lives of sick parents, we can change the lives of children.
I don’t want people being forced out of the American workforce and dropping into poverty or unnecessary hardship. I lived with severe, multi-system illness for decades following tick-borne and post-infectious illness.
For many years I was largely house-bound and often bed-bound.
Where we begin together
The first step is always discovery.
Through the Roots & Wings Assessment and, when appropriate, functional lab testing, we identify:
which systems are under the most strain
where stabilization must occur first
and what support is most likely to help
From there, we build function gradually using:
nutrition
restorative sleep and pacing
targeted supplementation
stress-response regulation
and capacity-appropriate movement
A few truths I’ve gathered along the way
about healing and renewal…