April Bullock CPM, RN, FNP-C
April Bullock founded the Family Health & Wellness Clinic in 2018. After nearly 20 years of serving the Austin community as a midwife, April identified the need for a truly holistic family practice to serve her midwifery clients as their families grew. With a commitment to lifelong learning and continued growth of health care knowledge, she returned to the university for her second and third degrees as a Registered Nurse then Family Nurse Practitioner. Additionally, April holds a BA in Spanish from UT Austin, is a 300 hour vinyasa yoga teacher, co-founder of Women’s Wisdom Retreats, and an intuitive, holistic cook.
With decades of using homeopathy and herbal medicine in women’s health care, April is skilled at integrating western medicine & pharmaceuticals into health & wellness plans.
Languages: English & Spanish.
Integrative Health
An integrative approach to health combines western medical knowledge with a variety of other healing modalities including: functional medicine, herbs, holistic nutrition, and lifestyle interventions. Less invasive and natural therapies that have been proven effective are chosen prior to prescribing western pharmaceuticals.
The defining principles of integrative medicine are:
The patient and practitioner are partners in the healing process.
All factors that influence health, wellness and disease are taken into consideration.
The care addresses the whole person, including body, mind, and spirit in the context of community.
Providers use all appropriate healing sciences to facilitate the body’s innate healing response.
Effective interventions that are natural and less invasive are used whenever possible.
Because good medicine is based in good science, integrative medicine is inquiry-driven and open to new models of care.
Alongside the concept of treatment, the broader concepts of health promotion and the prevention of illness are paramount.
The care is individualized to best address the person’s unique conditions, needs and circumstances.
Practitioners of integrative medicine exemplify its principles and commit themselves to self-exploration and self-development.