office hours:
Monday: 9:00am- 4:00pm
Tuesday: 9:00am- 4:00pm
Wednesday: 9:00am- 4:00pm
Thursday: CLOSED
Friday: 9:00am- 4:00pm
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED
Our Team
Dr. Sara Santelli, D.C & Functional Medicine
Dr. Sara Santelli has been surrounded by a conscious care of health ever since she can remember. Born into a family of nutrition and organic farming, her household has always been deeply rooted into holistic medicine.
Dr. Sara grew up with the strong foundation that “food is the key to your health”. She started visiting a chiropractor at a very young age as an alternative means to being treated by a primary care physician. Because of this unique mindset and care that was built within her, Dr. Sara developed a passion of looking into alternative ways to cure health ailments.
Debra Santelli, Functional Health Coach & Health Food Chef
Debra has worked as a functional health coach and health food chef for over 18 years, offering unique specialized meal planning and nutrition as a functional medicine provider. Within these years, Debra has helped thousands of people regain their health and wellbeing while meeting their goals through food first.
Debra works with clients all over the country and world through virtual appointments. She has been helping families, industry leaders and other practitioners and doctors who seek her unique and thoughtful food-as-medicine approach for themselves and their patients.
Debra favors traditional modalities that honor the whole person and combines this outlook with innovative functional and nutritional lab testing for the most individualized approach.
Desirée Yan Vasquez, operations manager + creative director
Desirée graduated cum laude from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance. There, she studied anatomy, kinesiology and nutrition as part of her academic training.
Finding herself burned out from dance following a summer of over seas workshops and local intensive training camps, she took the rest of the summer off from dance and decided to pick up a part-time job in retail. What started off as just a simple means to make some side money, actually opened up a new realm of opportunities.
A year and a half into working, Desirée climbed the coroporate ladder into various management positions and gained insight on how to open stores, how to run a business efficiently, and how to manage different personalities. After five years in retail and looking to find a position with a more stable schedule and fulfill a bigger purpose, she started working for Dr. Sara Santelli.
As much as Desirée would love to be hands on with patients one day, the thought of going back to school after so long is quite daunting... however, being in the position where she gets to help people day to day from an administrative and organizational front is still very much rewarding!
Having worked for Dr. Santelli for over four years, she has gained immense knowledge of what true health and wellness looks like and how to achieve it! She loves seeing patients on a regular basis and being a part of their health journey. Seeing the changes in each patient as they educate themselves and put in the work to achieve their individualized healing is the absolute best part of the job!
Utilizing all of the knowledge and experiences she's gained over the years, Desirée can't wait to see what the future has in store!