A graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Nurse Midwifery and Family Nurse Practitioner program, Dani incorporates the art of medicine by balancing traditional and integrative therapies.  Dani encourages her patients to step out of the realm of “normal” and reach “optimal” health. 

Dani was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome in 1985. She struggled with chronic itching of her arms and legs for several years, diagnosed with lupus in her early 30’s and then not surprisingly prescribed psych medications to manage her emotions. Not once, was she ever told “your diet controls your pain” or asked, “what are your eating” by the 10 specialists she saw over 24 years. She continued eating a Standard American Diet as her symptoms progressed, and prescriptions to treat the symptoms of her conditions did as well. It wasn’t until she began practicing Integrative Medicine in her first job after graduating nurse practitioner school that she was educated on the importance of healing the gut. Her story of healing is an inspiration and source of hope to her patients. 

Dani owns Integrative Family Medicine in Franklin, TN. She focuses on gut,  autoimmune thyroid (Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is her passion), hormone and adrenal health with her patients. Her approach embodies a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual process to healing.  She believes that God designed our bodies to heal themselves, we simply must give our bodies what they need.  She teaches her patients that we are not designed to break down in our 40’s, 50’s, 60’s or even 70’s.  She stresses the importance of eating real food, as well as cleaning up the environment around us one step at a time.  She is a sought-after speaker at various conference and workshops where she leads discussions on gut, adrenal, thyroid, hormone and brain health. 

She is a single mother of two grown children and attends Brentwood Baptist Church.  She loves traveling and participating in medical mission work.  She runs a monthly support group for her Hashimoto’s thyroiditis patients, offers lunch and learns at her office on Friday’s for the community, she has a weekly Facebook Live show on Sunday Evening’s named Sunday Night Service and addresses various health topics. She is also is the founder of a Facebook community that continues to grow monthly with members from across the world that are dedicated to healing their bodies from the INSIDE OUT.  

Her first book is being released in the summer of 2020 on common sense ways to heal your body. She believes that your health is not rocket science, and healing shouldn’t be as well.  Please join her email list for her weekly newsletter and be the first to know when the book is released.