Inside Health Institute

Mission

Bringing the model of integrative healthcare to all, because everyone deserves excellent health!

Description

Inside Health Institute (IHI) is a 501c3 non-profit organization that was founded in 2015 to create an innovative and affordable model of healthcare. Our aim is to address chronic illnesses for all patients. We integrate holistic approaches (nutrition, counseling, mind-body practices, etc.) into all areas of healthcare with an emphasis on offering these approaches to underserved populations as well as partnering with people and organizations that support these populations.

Our Programs and Services:
Counseling: Holistic counseling for individuals, couples, families, or groups. Our counseling department currently partners with the Salvation Army to offer counseling and mental health assessments for people experiencing homelessness in Snohomish County. The programs that we are hoping to get funded in 2022 are: 

1) a counseling residency program and 

2) a mobile mental health services RV that would enable us to bring services to the people who need them but are unable to come to our clinic location or use telemedicine. 

Naturopathic Medicine: Naturopathic doctors help patients understand what is going on with their health and seek to help people understand why their body is out of balance and restore that balance naturally. Our clinician specializes in IBS and other digestive disorders. 

Recognition

Our Director of Counseling, Eileen Bowen, has been providing excellent and compassionate counseling to under-served populations for over 30 years. In addition to counseling patients, Eileen also supervises 2 student counselors each year. She has been supervising and training clinicians at IHI for 3 years now but has been supervising clinicians in general for decades. 

Our founder, Dr. Christine Bowen, is a Naturopathic Doctor who has specialized in treating complex cases, digestive ailments, and autoimmune diseases for decades.

We are currently a 100% volunteer-run organization but would prefer to transition into having core paid employees in 2022, including the wish to hire our student clinicians into a residency program upon their graduation. 

Our legacy donor, Christa Bellefleur, donated the $30,000 that it took to open and run our nonprofit for the first 5 start-up years. Our gratitude to her is immense because she saw and believed in IHI's mission from the very start.