About Ashley

Ashley Shrader, DNP, is a Family Nurse Practitioner and IFM Certified Practitioner. Prior to functional medicine, Ashley worked in various conventional healthcare settings, which revealed the algorithmic and impersonal nature of the traditional healthcare model that leaves many patients overlooked and disempowered. Dissatisfied and in the midst of her own health crisis, she began researching other approaches and discovered functional medicine.

She pursued certification with the Institute for Functional Medicine and eventually established her own practice, Rise Functional Medicine. Ashley has a passion for gut and hormone health, especially as they relate to brain and mental health. As a Yoga Teacher, Ashley believes that mental, emotional, and spiritual health are the foundation for the path to healing.

Her career in healthcare reflects her own personal health and wellness journey, which includes getting diagnosed with autoimmune disease and learning she has a genetic predisposition to developing ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease).