Integrative medicine for women who refuse to slow down.
Free Discovery Calls available now. Appointment scheduling opens October and care opens November 2026.
For women who expect more from their care and from themselves.
I combine functional, holistic and conventional medicine to help uncover what's driving your symptoms and create a personalized plan that helps you move forward.
Care designed to help you feel strong, think clearly, and perform at your best across every stage of adulthood through perimenopause, menopause and beyond.
Founder · Michelle Mullins · Dual certified nurse practitioner
Colorado licensed telehealth
Online and in house visits available based on geographic location
Free Discovery Calls available now. Appointment scheduling opens October and care opens November 2026.
How it works
A simple path into real care.
01
Discovery call
A free 15 minutes to see if Arete is the right fit for what you're navigating.
02
Initial evaluation
A comprehensive deep dive into history, symptoms, labs, and goals, followed by a written plan.
03
Membership
Ongoing care, follow-ups, and messaging access at the cadence that fits your needs.
My Approach
Whole-Person, Root-Cause Care
Areté combines the strengths of evidence-based functional, holistic and conventional medicine to take a comprehensive approach to understanding your health wherever you are in adulthood.
Rather than treating symptoms in isolation, I use a systems-based approach to identify patterns and contributing factors that influence how you feel and function, including sleep, nutrition, physical activity, stress, hormones, and other factors that shape overall health at every stage of life not only during perimenopause and menopause, but in the years leading up to it and beyond.
By identifying underlying contributors and addressing the full picture of your health, I create personalized care plans designed to relieve symptoms, optimize well-being, reduce chronic disease risk, and support long-term performance, healthy aging, and vitality. More on how I investigate root causes →
Common Areas of Focus
Care that looks at the full picture, some of the concerns addressed most often.
Hormonal & Reproductive Health
- Perimenopause & Menopause
- PCOS, PMDD & Cycle Irregularities
- Hormone Optimization & Replacement Therapy
- Sexual Health & Intimacy
Metabolic & Cardiovascular Health
- Metabolic Health & Weight Changes
- Heart Health & Cardiometabolic Risk
- Thyroid & Endocrine Health
Brain, Mood & Stress Physiology
- Mood, Anxiety & Cognitive Changes
- Energy, Sleep & Stress Physiology
Immune & Gut Health
- Gut & Digestive Health
- Immune Dysregulation & Chronic Inflammation
Longevity & Performance
- Healthy Aging & Longevity Optimization
- Performance, Recovery & Active Aging
PERIMENOPAUSE & MENOPAUSE
The symptoms that bring most women in.
Hot flashes. Night sweats. Disrupted sleep. Vaginal dryness or painful sex. Mood changes that feel tied to shifting hormones. Brain fog, fatigue, weight changes, low libido, irregular cycles, and a sense that your body is no longer responding the way it used to.
These symptoms are real, and they are not always simple.
IT'S NOT ALWAYS JUST HORMONES
Good care doesn't assume a single cause.
Hormonal shifts overlap with thyroid, sleep, stress, and metabolic factors. Areté evaluates the full picture, so care reflects what's actually driving your symptoms — more on how I approach it.
FOR THE ACTIVE WOMAN
You've trained through hard things. This is a different kind of hard.
This isn't a fitness problem. It's a physiology problem.
The changes of perimenopause and menopause affect strength, recovery, metabolism, and resilience. Sleep disruption and daily life demands add further strain.
At Areté, I look at training, recovery, nutrition, hormones, and metabolic health together, so you can understand what's driving change and move forward with clarity.
About the Clinician
Hi, I'm Michelle.
I'm a dual board-certified nurse practitioner (AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC), and I spent a decade in critical care and hospitalist medicine before building Areté.
Critical care and hospitalist medicine teach you to hold complexity, move fast when it matters, and never anchor too early on a single diagnosis. That instinct doesn't leave you, it just becomes the way you think through every patient.
I hold additional training through the Institute for Functional Medicine, the Menopause Society, and other specialized programs in women's physiology and hormone health, training that builds the clinical foundation this work actually requires.
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