About
Nurturing Wellness Consulting, “Partnering to Build Healthier Communities Where the Child in Each of Us Can Thrive” was born out of a desire to improve health outcomes in all communities. At Nurturing Wellness Consulting, we provide community-focused health and wellness consulting. We understand that the circumstances supporting and challenging a community are unique. We think critically and holistically about the challenges that affect groups. We identify and build on strengths, incorporate values, and design innovative ways to address challenges, improving outcomes that make the lives of individuals and families better, and help to build a stronger community. We collaborate with trusted partners in ever-developing relationships to meet these end goals.
Nurturing Wellness Consulting was born out of a desire to improve health outcomes in all groups and communities. Founder and CEO Dr. Kathy Anderson, a pediatrician by training, utilizes a developmental lens to assess communities, understanding that each community is at a unique point in their developmental process based on historical events, location, and resources. As a board certified Integrative Medicine physician, Dr. Kathy Anderson also applies a wholistic approach to partnering with communities to improve their health outcomes through looking at needs and developing solutions that are innovative and comprehensive.
Our Founder and CEO
Dr. Kathy Anderson has been practicing medicine in Bismarck, North Dakota for the past 10 years at Mid Dakota Clinic and St. Alexius Medical Center. She has served as Chair of Pediatrics at both of these institutions and launched her own pediatric telemedicine practice, Nurturing Wellness Pediatrics, with the commitment to optimizing child health through a wholistic model of wellness-focused, healing-oriented care. In addition to being board certified in pediatrics, she is also board certified in integrative medicine - which looks at health through a wholistic lens - considering the mind, body, spirit, and environment in understanding, health, disease, and healing. It is from this perspective that she comes to the table - with an understanding of the value of culture and tradition in health and healing, and the understanding that health needs to be supported within the mind, body, spirit and environment.
Throughout her career, Dr. Anderson has been committed to the responsibility of serving as an expert in child health and wellness through education and advocacy in addition to the clinical care she provides. She regularly teaches children, parents and caregivers, home visitors, colleagues, and legislators about how to keep kids healthy, decrease disease and injury, and optimize health and developmental outcomes for children. She has worked with the Department of Health to help train on using Bright Futures, the AAP recommended EPSDT tool in practice, Prevent Child Abuse North Dakota to improve systems around social emotional screening for children between 0 and 3yo, and in 2016, she served on the Senate Task Force on Substance Exposed Infants. Dr. Anderson began her term as President of the North Dakota Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics in July 2019 after serving as Treasurer and Vice President for this organization. She is also the Regional Champion of Diversity and Inclusion for the American Academy of Pediatrics. Both within and outside of this role Dr. Anderson celebrates the diversity of children, families, and communities worldwide and educates on the importance of building diverse and inclusive communities within which all of our children can thrive. She is excited at opportunities for education, advocacy, partnership and service that lie ahead especially in this time of great uncertainty and need.
Originally from New York, Dr. Anderson completed her undergraduate and medical studies at Brown University through the Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME) before obtaining residency training in Pediatrics through the University of Hawaii. She went on to complete her fellowship in Integrative Medicine through the University of Arizona. She is board certified in general pediatrics and integrative medicine.