Misty Watada, RN, PhD, FMP has spent nearly two decades at the bedside and, more recently, at the root cause — a journey that has taken her from conventional nursing into the deeper terrain of integrative and functional medicine. She holds a PhD in Integrative and Natural Medicine, is a Board Certified Functional Medicine Provider, and is a licensed Registered Nurse with almost twenty years of clinical experience. In Colorado, she also holds licensure to provide psilocybin-assisted therapy, bringing an evidence-informed, deeply human approach to one of the most promising frontiers in mental and emotional healing.

Misty's path into functional medicine wasn't purely academic — it was personal. As a competitive bodybuilder, she pushed her body to its limits, and in doing so, encountered firsthand the hormonal chaos and digestive dysfunction that so many women experience but few are given real answers for. Conventional medicine offered her prescriptions and reassurance that her labs were "normal." It didn't offer her healing. So she went looking for it herself, and in the process of rebuilding her own hormones and gut health from the ground up, she found her calling: helping other women do the same.

Today, Misty specializes in women's hormone health and gut restoration, two systems she sees as inseparably linked. She understands, both clinically and personally, that fatigue, mood swings, stubborn weight, irregular cycles, bloating, and brain fog are rarely isolated problems — they are downstream signals of deeper imbalance in the gut-hormone-nervous system axis. Rather than chasing symptoms one at a time, she works to identify the underlying drivers: dysregulated cortisol and blood sugar, estrogen and progesterone imbalance, thyroid dysfunction, gut dysbiosis, leaky gut, food sensitivities, and the chronic stress patterns that quietly undercut all of it.

Her clinical philosophy blends the rigor of nursing training with the whole-person lens of functional and integrative medicine. She reads labs the way a detective reads clues, looking not just at whether a number falls within a standard reference range but at what optimal function actually looks like for that individual body. Nutrition, movement, sleep architecture, nervous system regulation, and targeted lab testing all become part of the same picture. And because she has lived the extremes of physical performance and its cost, she brings an unusual depth of empathy to women who feel like their bodies have become unpredictable or unrecognizable to them.

Her work with psilocybin-assisted therapy reflects the same underlying belief that drives all of her practice: that true healing often requires going beneath the surface. Just as gut and hormone imbalances are frequently rooted in unresolved stress, trauma, or dysregulation, she recognizes that emotional and psychological healing can be a critical, often overlooked piece of physical restoration. Facilitating this work in a licensed, clinically grounded setting allows her to support clients who are ready to explore healing at that deeper layer.

Misty brings together the credibility of two decades of nursing experience, the specialized training of a functional medicine provider, the scholarship of a PhD in integrative and natural medicine, and the hard-won wisdom of someone who rebuilt her own health from the inside out. She approaches every client relationship as a partnership, one rooted in curiosity, root-cause thinking, and the conviction that feeling truly well, not just "fine," should be within reach for every woman.