Welcome, I'm glad you're here.
My name is Dr Courtney.
I specialize in systems-based, transformational medicine that restores communication between your metabolism, gut, nervous system, hormones, and immune system.
Rather than chasing symptoms, I identify the upstream patterns that drive:
Weight resistance and fat storage
Anxiety, depression, and emotional exhaustion
Chronic fatigue and poor energy production
Digestive and gut-immune dysfunction
Hormone imbalance across all stages of life
Care is delivered through precise functional lab analysis, clinical pattern recognition, and personalized nutrition and lifestyle medicine—so your healing strategy is built from your own biology, not generalized protocols.
The Epigenetic Shift
How did we get here?
Due to modern stressors not known even 50 years ago, patients now face health issues that have not been well defined in classic medical literature. Modern stressors include environmental toxins, dietary excesses of sugars and carbohydrates, GMO’s, pharmaceuticals, daily stress issues, immunological challenges including viruses, parasites, bacteria, and more.
Understanding the Health Approach
Functional (Systems) Medicine operates upstream—at the level of biological systems and mechanisms—rather than downstream, where symptoms are managed and diagnoses are assigned. When we intervene at the systems level—restoring communication, resolving inflammation, and stabilizing metabolic signaling—we can alter the trajectory of disease before it fully develops.
Health Trainings
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.