DR. DIMPI PATEL, ND

Meet Dr. Dimpi

Doctor — Mentor —Wife — Mother — Lifelong Learner

The Training Behind the Approach

  • Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM)

    • Four year, full-time doctorate program. CCNM is one of the seven CNME accredited Naturopathic Medical Schools in North America

  • Magna Cum Laude from UCONN with a bachelors degree in Biology (Hon) & Cross-Cultural Health Sciences

  • Published researcher in medicinal plant science: (Click here to view my Google scholar profile)

  • Ayurvedic coursework in the basics of implementing Ayurvedic lifestyle & intensive course in Kerala, India on the basics of Ayurvedic medicine

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine & acupuncture coursework under ND doctorate program

  • Competitive internship in Adjunctive Cancer Care at the Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic (RSNC)

  • Focus shift in general medicine at LAMP community health center & RSNC

  • Preceptorship with ‘Be Your Best Self’ – program empowering & educating clients on sustainable weight loss

  • Creator of the ‘Be Radiant’ class series — complimentary educational seminars

  • Practitioner training in The Intergenerational Trauma Treatment Model with Dr. Valerie Copping

  • Founder and creator of The Surya Method — a six month high touch functional health program

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I know what it feels like to search for something and not quite be able to name what it is.

I have been searching my whole life — for what lights me up, for where I belong, for the version of myself I could feel was in there but kept getting in my own way.

I am an overthinker. I have been since childhood.

As an adult who has done a lot of self-work, I can see that quality clearly now — it is both my superpower and my Achilles heel. It is the same part of me that can sit with a client's anxiety and truly understand it. And the same part that has, at times, kept me from showing up fully as myself.

The women who find their way to this practice tend to recognize that feeling immediately.

The feeling of knowing your life could be so much better — and not quite being able to get out of your own way long enough to let it be.

I understand that more than you might expect from a doctor.

I did not always know I would be a naturopathic doctor. I just knew conventional medicine did not tell the whole story.

When I entered naturopathic medical school I did not have a dramatic origin story — no single illness that changed everything or transformative moment of awakening.

I just knew this type of medicine made more sense.

My fourth year I walked into clinic and I lit up working with patients in a way I never had in a classroom. I was selected for a competitive adjunctive cancer care internship and what I learned there stayed with me: lifestyle factors shape health in ways that cannot be separated from the whole person. You can appear completely healthy from the outside and carry real dysfunction internally. The body tells the truth even when everything else says otherwise.

During medical school I continued to explore health practices outside the classroom. I went to India for two months to see Ayurvedic and homeopathic medicine practiced firsthand. I became deeply interested in trauma-informed care, guided meditation, and the intersection of mind and body in healing.

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What I know to be true

You are the brightest beacon of knowledge when it comes to your own health.

Not me. Not your bloodwork. Not an algorithm.

YOU.

My job is not to hand you a protocol and send you home. It is to walk alongside a journey you must ultimately make yourself — as your strategist, your investigator, and the one person in the room who refuses to dismiss what you already know about your own body.

I have seen what happens when a woman is finally seen and heard by a practitioner who takes the time to understand her whole story. The shift is not just physical. It is a reclaiming.

She looks in the mirror and recognizes herself again.

That is the work I am here to do.

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I know the transition personally because I’ve lived it.

Two and a half years postpartum after my second child I did not feel like myself.

The weight had shifted slowly and steadily. My hormones were changing in ways I recognized clinically. My nutrition had quietly become an afterthought — surviving on whatever was left on my children's plates.

I knew I needed support. Not information — I had plenty of that.

I needed to actually show up for myself.

I found a strength training gym nearby and committed to four months of learning to lift heavy with proper form. Learning to fuel myself instead of just my family. Showing up consistently even through sleepless nights with a toddler, imperfect nutrition, and only two to three sessions a week.

The results shook me.

I got a DEXA scan one month in and again three months later. The data confirmed what I was beginning to feel — body recomposition, increased lean muscle mass, hormonal shifts that were measurable and real.

The right support is transformative. This is exactly what I want for you.

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