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Tammy Ryan
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Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner | Certified Functional Medicine Provider | Certified Hormone Specialist
Tammy Ryan, MSN, FNP-C, CFMP, is the owner and founder of Balanced Wellness and a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner with more than 26 years of healthcare experience.
Her passion is helping women and men better understand what is happening in their bodies by looking beyond isolated symptoms and exploring the connections between hormones, thyroid function, metabolism, gut health, nutrition, stress, and overall wellness.
“I believe your symptoms deserve an explanation, not just another prescription. My mission is to bring a more personalized, holistic approach to healthcare—one that combines current evidence with functional medicine and looks at the whole person. When everyone else is treating one symptom at a time, I’m connecting the dots.”
— Tammy Ryan, MSN, FNP-C, CFMP
Tammy’s approach is highly personalized. She takes the time to understand each patient’s symptoms, health history, lifestyle, previous treatments, laboratory findings, and long-term goals before developing an individualized plan.
Her areas of focus include functional medicine, hormone optimization, perimenopause and menopause care, thyroid health, metabolic health, gut health, and strategies designed to support healthy aging and longevity.
Her goal is simple: help patients understand their bodies, make informed decisions about their health, and build a foundation for lasting wellness.
HER JOURNEY
From Critical Care to Functional Medicine
Born and raised in Hickory, North Carolina, Tammy began her nursing career caring for patients in neurology, progressive care, and intensive care. Her years in critical care gave her a deep appreciation for complex physiology and the importance of looking at the entire patient rather than a single diagnosis.
She later transitioned into plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine, where she gained extensive experience in anatomy, injectables, skin health, and wellness. Over time, her interests expanded beyond how people looked on the outside to a much bigger question:
What is happening inside the body that influences how a person feels, functions, and ages?
That question ultimately helped shape the next chapter of her career.
Tammy became a Family Nurse Practitioner and pursued advanced education in functional medicine and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. She founded Balanced Wellness to create the kind of healthcare experience she believed patients were searching for—personalized, comprehensive, relationship-centered care with the time to ask deeper questions.
HER APPROACH
Personalized, Root-Cause Care
Tammy believes symptoms are often pieces of a much larger story.
Rather than looking at thyroid function, sex hormones, metabolism, gut health, inflammation, nutrition, sleep, and stress as completely separate issues, she considers how these systems may be influencing one another.
Her approach may incorporate comprehensive laboratory evaluation, functional testing when appropriate, personalized nutrition and lifestyle strategies, targeted supplementation, thyroid management, hormone therapy, metabolic support, and other individualized treatment options based on each patient’s needs.
Your symptoms aren’t random. They may be revealing a pattern.
Tammy’s role is to help uncover that pattern and give patients the education and support they need to become active participants in their health.
WHAT SETS HER APART
Care That Feels Different
After more than two decades in healthcare, Tammy understands how frustrating it can be for patients to feel rushed, dismissed, or told that everything is “normal” when they still do not feel like themselves.
Balanced Wellness was created to offer something different.
Tammy combines clinical experience with a compassionate, down-to-earth approach. She listens to the entire story, asks deeper questions, and works collaboratively with her patients to create realistic strategies that fit their lives.
Her philosophy can be summed up in one statement:
“When everyone else is treating one symptom at a time, I’m connecting the dots.”
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
Family Nurse Practitioner
Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-C)
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board
Certified Functional Medicine Provider (CFMP)
Functional Medicine University
Certified Hormone Specialist
Advanced training in bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and hormone optimization
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
Appalachian State University
Sigma Theta Tau International
Honor Society of Nursing
A BROAD APPROACH TO WELLNESS
Tammy’s clinical background spans critical care, functional and integrative medicine, hormone health, thyroid care, metabolic wellness, medical weight management, aesthetics, and healthy-aging therapies.
Her additional training has included bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, functional medicine, aesthetic medicine, platelet-rich plasma (PRP), microneedling, IV hydration, exosomes, stem cells and other wellness therapies.
She remains committed to continuing education and incorporating current evidence into a personalized approach to patient care.
BEYOND BALANCED WELLNESS
Outside of caring for patients, Tammy enjoys spending time with her husband, Jason, their son, Timothy, and their chocolate Lab, Birdie, and white lab Beau. Many weekends are spent together at the baseball field.
Her family remains an important reminder of why health matters: not simply to add years to life, but to have the energy, strength, and vitality to fully participate in the life you have.
That same philosophy is at the heart of Balanced Wellness.
Tammy’s mission is to help women and men feel heard, understand their health, and have the tools and support they need to pursue greater vitality at every stage of life. - Email: tammy@balancedwellness.online
- Phone: 8032267371
- Website: https://www.balanced-wellness.com
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