Meet Dr. Hawkins
I take a hands on approach with your health and make sure to give the highest quality service that I can provide. I believe and have experienced that through an active and collaborative process with an effective support system, a person can heal and overcome many of these limiting factors that are standing in the way of their health and wellness.
Patient Care
Hi, I’m Dr. Hawkins! In my practice as a board certified osteopathic family medicine physician with over a decade of healthcare experience, I began to recognize a recurrent pattern in my patients presenting for common physical health problems who often had an accompanied underlying and unaddressed psychological condition. Upon further investigation, I discovered that these were frequently related to life stressors that impacted their sleep, nutrition, activity, work, mood, and interpersonal relationships. Utilizing my background and education in psychology, I integrated this therapeutic approach to patient care by emphasizing healthy lifestyle modification. In my work with patients, I recognize the strong association between diet, exercise, sleep quality, stress management, family bonds, cultural background, use of positive coping skills, and environmental influences on health. I was trained in the philosophy that the individual person is a unit composed of the mind, body, and spirit and the health of the individual is contingent upon the integration and the harmonious functioning of these three component parts. In my practice I offer the following services:
- IV Therapy
- Ketamine Therapy
- Medical Weight Loss
- Therapeutic Injections
- Rx Mental Health
- Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM)
Medical Philosophy
I am a proponent of the tenet of osteopathic medicine which states that structure and function are reciprocally interrelated and dependent on each other. I expand on these principles and believe that the anatomy and physiology of the human-being are intimately connected to and affected by the individual’s understanding and awareness of the internal sense of self in relation to the external surroundings – sensory perceptions we use to “make sense” of the stimuli and provide a contextual framework of self-identification, distinguished from others.
