Getzwell Pediatrics

Counseling Home Visits for New Parents – Sharon Epel, an experienced licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and mother of two, offers house calls for new parents. Sharon provides education, support, and counseling in the comfort of your home to help with the emotional and physical demands of caring for a new baby. Sessions can [...]

Unrushed Office Visits – Our office visits are unrushed. This allows us to cultivate relationships with families and partner with parents in helping them raise healthy, happy children. We believe that spending quality time with our patients (approximately 30-45 minutes per visit) is the bedrock of an integrative medicine approach versus a traditional Western medicine [...]

Lactation Consultations in Your Home – GetzWell Pediatrics is committed to helping new mothers breastfeed successfully. Our pediatric nurse practitioner and lactation educator, Emily Waight, is available for visits in the comfort of your home in order to address your breastfeeding questions or challenges. Whether you have an issue with painful, inverted or flat nipples, latch issues, [...]

Routine Child Examinations – Whole kid care at GetzWell Pediatrics includes wellness visits at birth, 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months, 15 months, 18 months, 21 months, 24 months, 30 months, 36 months and annually after age 3. Routine wellness exams allow us to monitor your child’s [...]

Alternative Vaccine Schedules – We offer alternative vaccine schedules. Whether you choose to immunize on a conventional or alternative schedule, GetzWell Pediatrics is prepared to meet all of your child’s vaccine needs. We support childhood vaccination. However, we acknowledge that childhood immunization is one of the first major health related decisions that parents make for [...]

Newborn House Calls – Transitioning to your role as new parent can be both exciting and daunting. In order to help your family ease into its new rhythms, GetzWell Pediatrics offers newborn house calls* within 2 – 3 days of your child’s birth. House calls allow our board certified pediatricians to spend unhurried time (usually [...]

Integrative medicine – Integrative medicine blends the best of conventional, complementary and alternative medical approaches, addressing not only physical symptoms, but also psychological, social, environmental and spiritual aspects of health and illness. It believes in stimulating the innate human capacity for healing, empowering patients in their own care, while providing them with choices in healthcare [...]