Restorative, whole-body medicine

Conditions we support:

This care may be a fit for women experiencing:

• Endometriosis, pelvic pain, or other pain conditions
• MCAS, inflammation, and bodies that feel increasingly reactive
• POTS, dizziness, and autonomic symptoms
• Hashimoto’s and autoimmune concerns
• Hormone and cycle concerns, including PMOS/PCOS and perimenopause
• Metabolic concerns, including blood sugar imbalance and insulin resistance
• Fertility concerns, recurrent pregnancy loss, and preconception care
• Postpartum recovery and the early motherhood years
• Fatigue, brain fog, headaches, and mood concerns
• Overlapping symptoms involving hypermobility, inflammation, digestion, hormones, and nervous system function

If you’ve been told everything looks “normal” — or that this is “just the way your body is” — and still know something feels off, you’re in the right place.

A more connected approach to women’s health.

I’m Dr. Aerin Sembhi — an integrative and internal medicine physician with additional training in physical medicine and rehabilitation and a background in primary care medicine.

I work with women whose symptoms don’t fit neatly into one specialty alone.

Women dealing with things like:

• pelvic or other peristent pain,
• fatigue,
• headaches,
• hormone and cycle changes,
• digestive symptoms,
• reduced exercise tolerance,
• dizziness,
• inflammation,
• brain fog,
• autoimmune patterns,
• pregnancy loss or recurrent miscarriage,
• postpartum recovery,
• perimenopause-related symptoms
• or bodies that feel increasingly reactive and difficult to predict.

Often, these symptoms are treated separately — by gynecologists, endocrinologists, primary care physicians, neurologists, rheumatologists, gastroenterologists, or other specialists — because each symptom may fall into a different area of medicine.

My role is to step back and look at how the full picture connects.

That includes understanding how hormones, inflammation, metabolism, sleep, immune function, nutrient status, stress physiology, and nervous system function all influence one another — and how those patterns shape how women feel day to day.

I often work collaboratively alongside specialists, helping support the overlapping whole-body patterns that can accompany hormone, inflammatory, autonomic, reproductive, and chronic pain conditions.

The Restore Method

A three-phase framework I use with with my patients. The order matters more than most people realize.

Stabilize

The body becomes less reactive. Sleep begins to feel more restorative. Crashes become less frequent and less severe. The constant sense of pushing through starts to ease.

This phase focuses on calming the nervous system, reducing inflammation and pain, supporting sleep, stabilizing blood sugar, and addressing the most significant nutrient deficiencies — creating the physiologic capacity for deeper recovery.

Rebuild

Energy becomes more consistent. Mood steadies. Cycles often become more predictable. Many women describe feeling more resilient, clear-headed, and physically capable again.

This phase focuses on rebuilding what has been depleted through personalized lab interpretation, targeted nutrient support, hormone and metabolic support, gut and immune work, and restoring overall recovery capacity.

Strengthen

This is where resilience deepens. Exercise becomes more supportive than depleting. Stress feels less destabilizing. The body becomes more durable, adaptable, and able to sustain the demands of daily life.

This phase is about long-term strength — supporting energy, movement, hormones, nervous system resilience, and the ability to participate more fully in life again.

Most care starts at Strengthen. But when the body is still depleted, inflamed, or overwhelmed, it may not yet respond the way women expect it to. The order is what makes the difference.

What Makes This Care Different:

• Physician-led care from a double board-certified internal and integrative medicine physician

• Longer visits and deeper history-taking
• A whole-body approach instead of symptom-by-symptom treatment
• Functional and conventional labs used thoughtfully together
• Nervous-system-aware and trauma-informed care
• Collaboration with your existing specialists and care team
• Personalized, sustainable treatment plans designed around your physiology and life

One patient described a visit as feeling like she had finally found someone looking at the full picture.

How we work together:

Care is available in person at the Ballard office in Seattle, Washington, and via telemedicine across Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

If you are outside these states, you’re welcome to contact us about future availability.