A personalized approach to your healthcare.
Empowering individuals and families to make lifestyle choices that fit into their lives, address their unique biochemistry, and allows them to be in the driver seat on their health journey.
I’m Ashley.
I know what it is like to want to feel better or to want to help my child feel better. I have been there and helped hundreds along the way, and now I want to help you or your family learn how to use your daily lifestyle to restore your health.
I am functional medicine provider, Certified Nutrition Specialist, and educator who works with adults, teens and children.
In my clinical practice, the work I do with patients and parents is collaborative, compassionate and comprehensive. I take the time to understand the full health history, previous diagnosis’s and review all body systems. I evaluate prior lab results and at times order evidence- based comprehensive labs to identify biochemical imbalances. In addition, I enjoy partnering with others providers to understand or advocate for your needs.
I help you identify and address digestive issues, inflammatory triggers, nutritional deficiencies, microbiome and immune health concerns and work to reverse chronic disease states and symptoms. My specialties include gut health, digestive disorders, reversing autoimmunity, mitigating future autoimmune events, inflammatory conditions, hormonal imbalances, weight management, pain, and mental health.
There is no one who knows your body or your child’s body better than you. Together we can explore symptoms and personal goals. I can help you identify the missing pieces when it comes to nutrition and lifestyle to help you achieve your desired outcomes and longterm health. My goal is to help you take the driver’s seat in your health journey and provide education that you can take with you beyond our time working together.
Ashley Koch, MS, CNS
Your symptoms tell a story.
Your symptoms are your body’s way of communicating where there is dysfunction in your body. As a Functional Medicine Provider, our work begins by understanding your symptoms and making connections to where they are signaling imbalance.
Are you experiencing digestive symptoms? This points us towards dysfunction in the digestion, absorption, and the excretion of your food. Your digestive system and gut microbiome are vital to maintaining the health and optimal function of your body.
How is your sleep? Are you falling asleep easily, waking often, or rising for the day feeling rested? This can tell us about the state of your body’s ability to heal and detox. Restoring balance in your sleep can improve your day-to-day wellbeing.
Your symptoms are the pieces of the puzzle that will help us identify ways to help you achieve optimal health.
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Together let’s write your story.
What I love most about my work one-on-one with adults, parents and teens is helping understand their personal story. This story can’t be told in a 15 minute appointment with your healthcare provider and for many conventional medicine hasn’t found a solution for their ongoing discomfort. What makes my work meaningful is the chance to get to know someone. At times, that means asking the questions about where you have been along your journey to understand how you arrived at this moment.
The core of functional medicine and functional nutrition, is understanding a person’s story. That story begins with the people who came before you (family health history) and your experience from in utero to today. This story helps guide and inform your care coupled with in depth laboratory testing. It is the twists and turns of your life and the choices made along the way can help us understand the root of ongoing symptoms and find the path forward.
Your care plan isn’t always about food and supplements, sometimes it’s about breathing, sleeping, and moving. It could be about exploring why you eat the way you do and the rituals you have around meals. Finally, it might include exploring the relationships in your life, facing past pain you have overcome, exploring the way you show up for yourself, and acknowledging the stress in your life. There are endless tools that an individual can call upon in aiding someone in supporting their own healing from symptoms, sometimes it starts with what you put on your plate and sometimes it starts with the stories deep in our souls.
I look forward to having the chance to hear your story and helping you write the next chapter of your health journey. You deserve to feel vibrantly healthy.
“What you find at the end of your fork is more powerful than anything you’ll find at the bottom of a pill bottle.”
— Dr. Mark Hyman
Kind words
“Ashley Koch has helped me tremendously. My doctor had been urging me to try an elimination diet for years, to address my chronic headaches and eczema. I was reluctant due to my busy lifestyle and fear that I lacked the knowledge or willpower to complete the diet successfully. My doctor connected me with Ashley and I have found great success with her. Ashley educated me on exactly what an elimination diet is, and together we created a clear plan for me to follow. With regular meetings she helped me track my progress and navigate getting my nutritional needs met. I am now happy to say that my symptoms have subsided, and I successfully quit drinking coffee which feels like a miracle. I am so grateful to Ashley and highly recommend working with her.”
— Ann in Portland, OR
“Ashley is amazing! I recently worked with Ashley to get advice on my son's picky eating. I've seen a complete transformation in my son's eating in 2-3 days from our initial meeting. Her recommendations have helped me be more confident and excited in expanding my son's food palette. They have also encouraged my son to be an adventurous eater!
My husband and I are still shocked on his complete transformation and continue to see positive results after 6+ weeks implementing her recommendations. We felt like we had tried everything before meeting with Ashley and she helped us structure a plan that met our busy schedules and still provided healthy foods for our son. If you are struggling at meal time I highly recommend you meet with Ashley to see where she can help!”
— Kristina in San Francisco, CA
“I can't tell you how much the information you have provided me over the last few years has helped. Realizing that your child has food sensitivities and having to change the way your family does things is daunting. Eliminating dairy, soy, and gluten was a huge change for us and having you as a resource has been such a blessing. You have a way of breaking things down that made it possible. Small changes at a time. Mostly you have made the changes that I needed to make within my reach. Your encouraging support and ideas have made the last few years so much easier for me and my family.”
— Jill in Mill Valley, CA
Your genes are not your destiny.
“You can turn on and off genes within three to six hours by what you eat, what you do, what you think, by how you sleep, how you move, and how you have relationships. It is by this that you can create a healthy life and reverse a disease condition.” - Dr. Michael Stone