Services | Integrative Medicine located in Portland, OR | Seven Dragons Integrative Medicine

Exceptional Care

We are aim to provide high quality care for all our patients. We want you to feel held in the support of our team. We are incredibly knowledgeable in our fields and work hard to stay up to date on advancing research. We also feel comfortable pushing the boundaries of our fields, especially when they are limited in the breadth and depth of understanding the connectivity of health conditions and the possible paths to healing.

Individualized Medicine

We want to know you – your passions, hobbies, family members, hopes and dreams. This isn’t just about helping you feel better, but also supporting you to live your best life; have healthy relationships; have a good balance with work; and enjoy time with your family.

We care about the bigger picture and want to make a plan that is truly individualized for you. We have a deep bag of tricks, so if one treatment plan isn’t working well for you, talk to us about it, and we likely have at least 3 other options to explore, if not more.

Integrative

True integrative medicine, for us, means building you a team of experts specific for your needs. Within our clinic, we have expertise within a variety of areas, but we also have a network throughout the city of 100s of amazing providers that will also help with your goals and healing. We know them well and have close relationships to not just refer you, but to maintain care to make sure the new team member is the right match for you. This isn’t about transferring care; this is about true collaboration. We know we are better together! When working with us alongside IVF, for example, we help optimize those treatments and minimize side effects.

We are also good medical “translators” . We take the time to discuss all the options presented by other providers and look at those options with you to figure out the best plan forward.

Collaborative

What is it like to have a team that meets to discuss your case together? Our team meets every week and talks regularly in between to collaborate on your care.

Want to try out all of us or just one of us? No problem. Our feelings will never be hurt if you like one provider’s acupuncture style better than another or one person’s bodywork better than another, or just simply prefer one person’s schedule over another. Feel free to try us out. Also let us know if you need a different style of treatment than we provide or a provider that is closer to your house. We know many great providers and can help you find your right team. Remember, we want to decrease stress. So, we are happy to be part of your team in whatever way supports you best.

Creative

We believe that no two patients are the same, so no two care plans should be either. Creativity means approaching every case with curiosity, critical thinking, and an open mind. We combine the best available evidence with clinical experience and each patient’s unique story, to develop personalized solutions that address the root causes of illness. By embracing innovation, while remaining grounded in physiology, we strive to find new paths to better health, when standard approaches alone aren’t enough.

Flexible

There is not one right way to get pregnant, give birth, feed your child or raise your child. We see how the “natural” community can sometimes get lost in their opinions of the “best” way to do things. We do not agree that there is one best way. The best way is the way that achieves the best outcome with the least amount of stress on the family unit.

Need to have a C-section or use formula – No problem! We support you! Need to use IVF or buy your sperm – We are here to help!

Taking medication for mood support – wonderful! On a GLP-1 – great!

We are here to minimize judgement, even against yourself, to help optimize your joy and minimize your stress while improving your health.

Financially Conscious

While prioritizing your health is very important, we also aim to stretch your dollars wherever we can. With supplements, we focus on the most important ones specifically for you. With lab tests, we aim to only order the ones that will provide us the information that we can't figure out otherwise, and which will alter the course of our treatments. Whenever we can, we use a patient’s medical insurance for care.

Improving fertility and growing a family can be an expensive process, especially if you need to buy sperm, eggs or embryos. We do not take advantage of your deep desire to have a family. In fact, we try and even guard you from yourself when you spin.

We think about cost in a broader sense – not just financial but also mental emotional and future based. For example, it might be easy for someone to get pregnant now, but if they want a big family and their labs say that could be problematic in the future, we discuss how it might be best for us to collaborate with IVF now, for their future family building ease.

Family Focused

Whether there is 1 parent or 4, and 1 child or 5, we want the entire family unit to be as well as possible, throughout all stages of building, growing, and raising your family. For us, it is not just about getting you pregnant, but keeping you pregnant, and supporting you and your family members to have as much ease throughout the pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum recovery time as possible. We want you to enjoy all stages of your family building – conception, pregnancy, postpartum, and then back again. We want you to have the energy and balance of mood to maintain your mental and physical health, as well as your relationships.

Body Positive

We want you to feel good in your body, regardless of its size. We aim to support you to have enough strength and energy to enjoy any of the activities you want to engage in. We truly believe in the possibility of Health At Every Size. Our use of GLP-1's, for example, is focused on balancing blood sugar, cholesterol, and inflammation. For us, the focus is not on the weight. Pregnancy and raising young children can cause many body and lifestyle changes. We aim to support you in getting to a form that reflects all the changes your body has experienced, while incorporating new practices with a pace and perspective that protects your mood, pelvic floor, milk supply, energy, etc.

Queer Affirming

We love and support all types of families. The founders of Seven Dragons Integrative Medicine are a lesbian couple with 2 amazing children. They want anyone who wants the joy of family building to be able to experience it. They also want to minimize issues of access to care. Just because you don't have sperm in your house, for example, doesn't mean you need to use complicated fertility treatments to get pregnant. We are here to educate and support you about all your options for meeting your family-building goals.

Empowered

You know your body best. Your knowledge of your body and your intuition about what you need is important. We value your thoughts and your experience in determining the best course of treatment for you. We care about what you know about your body, your instincts, and what you have experienced. We aim to provide you with enough information to make empowered decisions for your health and wellness. We also support you in learning ways to advocate for yourself, with us and with other providers.

Humble

No one is perfect. We are always striving to do better, and we want you to be an active part of that process. If something isn’t right, talk to us about it. We value that honesty. We will never be mad. If you don’t feel like we are the right providers for you, let us know, so we can improve but also so we can get you to someone better matched for you. We listen well and care about improving the care we provide.

Trauma Informed

Many of our patients have experienced trauma within the medical community, through a body that carries pain, or through boundaries that have been violated. We care about your feeling of safety in our space, with touch and with procedures. We are very creative and can often arrive at the same goal through many options, so talk to us about your fears. We can help you know what is possible.

Educational

We love to educate and empower our patients about their body in health and imbalance. We believe that the more we understand about what is happening, the more we can support the body’s healing process.

As experts in the field, we often present at medical conferences, talk on educational podcasts, teach at medical schools or write informative articles/blogs. We recognize that we cannot be the providers we are without all we have learned from our teachers and mentors, as well as from the support of our colleagues.

We are also committed to training the next generation of providers. We often have at least one post graduate fellow in our group who is learning from us during a 2 year intensive. We also often have medical students shadowing us.

Outside of the clinic, Dr. Stefani also co-runs a 6 month mentorship group for providers wanting to improve their skills in fertility medicine (www.art-of-fertility.com)

Passionate

We love what we do! We believe that passion is the driving force behind exceptional care. We are deeply committed to helping our patients achieve their health goals and believe that genuine enthusiasm inspires better outcomes. Whether we are staying current with the latest research, refining our clinical skills, or celebrating each patient’s progress, our dedication extends beyond the exam room. We approach every interaction with energy, purpose, curiosity, and a sincere desire to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those we serve.

We aim to help you meet your goals and feel your best - whether that is accomplished through one visit of new insights and perspectives, integrating us into your already established team, or allowing us to help you build the right care team. We look forward to being on your team - whether that support is offered for 1 month or 10 years of working together!

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Integrative Medicine located in Portland, OR