Dr Courtney Jonson, LAc, DFM
Functional & Systems Medicine
Established early 2000s
A Practice Rooted in Experience.
I began practicing functional and integrative medicine in the early 2000s — before chronic illness, metabolic dysfunction, and autoimmunity entered the mainstream conversation.
Even then, I was seeing the same pattern: fatigue, inflammation, gut dysfunction, hormonal imbalance, mood disruption, and immune dysregulation — often overlapping.
What became clear early was this: these were not isolated conditions. They were breakdowns in biological communication. That insight has guided my work ever since.
Five Seasons Medical laid the foundation for:
Systems-based pattern recognition
Root-cause clinical reasoning
Healing in sequence, not in silos
Today, this work has matured into Systems That Heal™ — the primary platform for my clinical work and educational framework.
Dr. Courtney Jonson, L.Ac., CGP, Doctorate of Functional Medicine
Dr. Courtney Jonson is a licensed acupuncturist and functional medicine doctor with over two decades of experience helping patients restore communication within their biology. As founder of the Kitchen Refuge eco-system and creator of The Systems That Heal™ Method, she blends science, nutrition, and ancient medical wisdom to reverse chronic patterns and renew the body’s natural intelligence to heal.