Rachel Petkus L.Ac.
Living Divine Design
Practicing Functional and Integrative Medicine
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Living Divine Design with Rachel Petkus
Practicing Functional and Integrative Medicine
Rachel Petkus L.Ac., has been practicing Functional Medicine with an Integrative approach for over 30 years. Through her extensive training and formal education, she has seamlessly integrated ancient and modern technologies to provide her patients, students, and clients with the highest quality care available.
Rachel practices Functional Medicine because it incorporates the best aspects of various medical models, offering a comprehensive and effective approach to 21st-century healthcare. Functional Medicine closely aligns with her formal training in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) (To learn more about how TCM can help you, pls see the Traditional Chinese Medicine tab for more information), as it involves a personalized and Integrative approach to healthcare that focuses on the prevention, management, and root causes of complex chronic diseases.​​
She believes that by identifying the "root cause" of "dis-ease," whether physical, emotional, psychological, or spiritual, we can apply appropriate therapies to heal and achieve freedom from disease.
Following her formal education in TCM and Hatha Yoga, Rachel spent seven years working closely with a master teacher to understand and address the emotional, psychological, and spiritual wounds that often manifest physically. Utilizing patented technology learned during these studies, she identifies root causes and treats them holistically with an integrative approach.
Rachel's methodology combines the ancient technologies of TCM and Yoga with modern advancements to support the whole person. Her integrative approach includes a range of therapies and lifestyle changes aimed at treating and healing the entire individual. Expect a comprehensive medical approach that incorporates practices not traditionally part of conventional medicine, such as Herbs and Supplements, Meditation, Wellness Coaching, Acupuncture, Massage, Movement, Resiliency, and Nutrition. To learn more about what to expect in a session with Rachel, click the link to book a FREE 30-minute consultation.
Dr. Andrew Weil, a leading proponent of Integrative Medicine, defines it best: "Integrative Medicine is a healing-oriented medicine that takes into account the whole person (body, mind, and spirit), including all aspects of lifestyle. It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of all appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative."
Rachel practices Integrative Medicine by combining various therapies and lifestyle changes to treat and heal the whole person. She refers to this approach as "LifeStyle Medicine," which she also employs in her Lifestyle Coaching. For more details, see the LivingDivineDesign: LifeStyle Coaching section.
Rachel Petkus, L.Ac., has lived, worked, and studied abroad in Europe and Asia, including a year in Korea and several months in China studying Acupuncture and Herbology. Additionally, she spent six months in India deepening her studies in Vipassana and Hatha Yoga. Since 2017, she has been studying transformational life coaching and earned her certification in 2020. She is a licensed practitioner of Oriental Medicine, a certified Hatha Yoga Instructor (RYT 200 hrs), and has been significantly influenced by Kundalini Yoga and 5 Rhythms dance therapy. With a B.A. in Art, Rachel also teaches a meditative, spiritual form of art expression both at home and through online courses.
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Testimonials
"During a time in my life when I was questioning my professional direction, Rachel worked with me as a Transformational Life Coach.
I had been working two jobs. I had a content marketing consultancy business and I was involved with a startup. The startup was an exciting opportunity, but it was demanding and there wouldn’t be a financial payoff for some time (if ever). I was getting concerned that the startup wasn’t going anywhere and that I was allowing each job to be a distraction from the other, yet I was reluctant to let either one go.​
Rachel worked with me to explore the complexity of my feelings about my professional life and why I was choosing to split my time between two competing roles. Through our work together I was able to see that I was approaching my work from a place of fear. Fear that I wasn’t good enough, fear that I would never be financially successful, and ultimately a fear of failure. I was allowing this fear to drive my decisions and prevent me from enjoying my accomplishments.
I sat with this for a while, then a couple months later I decided to stop working on the startup and to focus wholeheartedly on my consulting business. I took on a new client who was so impressed with the results of my work that they gave me a great testimonial. This boosted my confidence that I was on the right path, helped me to land my next client, and I’ve been on a positive trajectory ever since.
Do I still feel fear? Of course. But Rachel helped me to see how it was affecting my choices, face it, and move past it to make more productive and powerful decisions about my own business and when interacting with clients."