Know Yourself to Heal Yourself
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ABOUT WHOLESTORY HEALTH
Whole-person care from a doctorally trained, board-certified nurse practitioner, bringing together functional medicine, conventional medicine, and advanced practice integrative nursing. Someone to hear your health story and build a plan around how you actually live.
Serving patients in Minnesota.
See how care comes together
A 40-second look at what makes WholeStory Health different, and why Kate built it.
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A NOTE FROM KATE
If you've ever left an appointment feeling dismissed or unheard, I want you to know this will feel different.
I lead with listening and curiosity. You bring your history, your questions, and what you already know about yourself. I bring the tools, insight, and guidance to help you understand what's happening and decide, together, what comes next.
— Kate
MY APPROACH
Healing isn't a solo endeavor.
I see my role as a partner, not an authority handing down answers. Here's what that looks like in practice.
Partnership
Your history, needs, and lived experience shape the plan. You make the decisions; I help you see your options clearly.
Presence
Deep listening and real curiosity, with room for the whole story, including the parts that never fit into a fifteen-minute visit.
Simplicity
Better health doesn't have to be complicated. No perfectionism, no chasing every new protocol: Help cutting through the noise, and changes you can sustain.
Featured in Integrative Nursing: A Whole Health Perspective (Oxford University Press), part of Andrew Weil's Integrative Medicine series.
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THE FOUNDATION
Built on the WholeHealth Model
My care is guided by the WholeHealth Model, a framework Laura Sandquist, DNP, created in 2014. Laura and I have used this model to train clinicians in major health systems and internationally, and it is the guiding framework for our company WholeHealth NP.
Here's what it means for you in my practice:
Your whole story, not just the main complaint
Nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, relationships, environment, and purpose all shape how you feel. We look at how they connect.
Foundations first
Care usually begins with digestion, nutrition, and blood sugar balance, since a steadier foundation often helps other systems rebalance.
Context counts
Relationships, community, and purpose can support your health or stand in its way. They're part of the conversation, not an afterthought.
WHAT I TREAT
My areas of practice
I require that you provide the name and contact information for your primary care provider in order to schedule an appointment to address any of the following:
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Autoimmune conditions
Support for managing inflammation and immune system balance.
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Digestive health
Addressing gut dysfunction, food sensitivities, and microbiome health.
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Perimenopause & menopause*
Navigating hormonal shifts with personalized evidence-based strategies.
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Healthy aging
Protecting long-term metabolic, cognitive, and physical vitality.
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Advanced risk assessment and proactive cardiovascular optimization.
Heart disease prevention
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Hypermobile EDS
Comprehensive clinical guidance for connective tissue hypermobility.
*Perimenopause and menopause care does not include DUTCH hormone testing.
Conditions I don't treat
If one of these is your main concern, I'm not the right fit, and I'd rather you know now than after your first visit.
Active cancer
Mold-related illness
Epilepsy
Heavy metal toxicity
Lyme disease
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
Grounded, compassionate, & practical
MEET KATE
Kate Otremba, DNP, MN, APRN, A-GNP-C, FMCP-M
Kate is a doctorally trained nurse practitioner, board-certified in adult-gerontology care and certified in functional medicine through the Institute for Functional Medicine. She co-founded WholeHealth NP, which teaches the WholeHealth Model to clinicians. As Clinical Lead at the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing, she built many of the clinical tools and much of the training the program ran on. Kate has been ranked in the top 10% nationally for patient satisfaction for six consecutive years.