I'm Heather McKenzie, an integrative health nurse who reads the whole chart and the whole body. Therapeutic massage, Ayurvedic lifestyle coaching, and clinical advocacy — for people worn down by stress, pain, and care scattered across too many offices. And for the ones managing it on someone else's behalf.

Finding the root means seeing the history, context, and patterns others may have missed. The regimen is what you can actually do next.
Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork, Ayurvedic Lifestyle Coaching, and Clinical Advocacy & Navigation—grounded in your priorities and the life you are actually living.
Advisory, education, research, and collaboration where nursing, health systems, AI, integrative health, and evidence meet practice.

Some pain needs pressure. Some pain can't tolerate any.
Therapeutic Massage
For stress and pain that have settled into the body.
An hour or more where nobody needs anything from you. I'm a licensed massage therapist and a registered nurse, which means when I find the thing under your left shoulder blade I'm also thinking about your sleep, your medications, and what the last six months have asked of you. Not just the muscle.
We talk first. Then you get quiet and I get to work. You're draped the whole time, you can fall asleep, and you never have to make conversation.
Good starting point if you're carrying stress physically, in pain that hasn't responded to the obvious things, or you want to know whether we work well together before committing to anything larger.
From $120. Longer sessions and packages available.
Marma Point Therapy
For when movement and deep work aren't the answer.
Marma points are the junctions where Ayurveda maps prana — life force — gathering in the body. The work is light, precise, and held rather than rubbed. There's nothing to brace against.
This is the bodywork for people who can't have bodywork. If deep pressure isn't safe or bearable — anticoagulant therapy, fragile bone, pain that's everywhere with nothing on the scan, too depleted to be worked on — this is what I'd do instead. It's also for anyone whose real reason for never booking a massage is that they don't want to undress for a stranger.
Sessions run from 30 minutes, fully clothed with just your shoes off, to a full-body session of 75 minutes. Traditionally used to support sleep, stress, and recovery.
From $75. Session lengths and pricing at booking.
Not sure which one? Book a free 15-minute call and I'll tell you.
You already know a lot about what you “should” be doing. The problem was never information.
We start with what matters to you: what you want to change, what feels realistic now, and where you are actually willing to put your attention. From there, I use Ayurveda and Lifestyle Medicine to help you understand patterns in your daily life and build changes that can work within it.
We focus on a few meaningful changes, build from what is already working, and adjust as your needs and priorities change.
You'll leave with three things to do. Not thirty.
Good starting point if you're burned out, tired in a way sleep doesn't fix, or you'd rather prevent the next thing than repair it.
Pricing: Initial 90-minute whole-person assessment, $300. Follow-up sessions $135. Packages available.
When healthcare is organized around providers, someone still has to see the care from the patient’s side.
I help individuals and families keep track of the whole picture across practices, specialists, appointments, tests, medications, recommendations, and follow-up—especially when no single provider sees all of it.
Sometimes you’re the patient. Sometimes you’re the daughter, son, spouse, or parent trying to remain family while also managing the healthcare system. I help organize the information, identify questions and gaps, and prepare you to navigate conversations and decisions with your care team.
I'm not replacing anyone's doctors. I'm making sure they add up to something.
Good starting point if there's a complex or long-running condition, a new diagnosis you're still reeling from, multiple specialists, or a parent's care you've become responsible for.
Advocacy is priced by scope — a medication review is different than a full health record portfolio build. Start with a free 15-minute call and I'll tell you what your situation actually needs, and what it costs.

I work with healthcare organizations, professional groups, practitioners, researchers, and health innovators on projects where clinical practice, systems, and human experience intersect.
Advisory & Systems
Nursing, clinical workflow, care management, AI, governance, and implementation.
Research & Education
Evidence reviews, research briefs, professional education, workshops, and evidence-to-practice translation.
Integrative Practice
Ayurveda program development, clinical toolkits and practice resources, and professional collaboration.
Projects are individually scoped. Fees are based on project requirements, complexity, and deliverables.
Let’s discuss your project.
Some questions extend beyond individual care.
My professional work explores what happens where clinical practice, health systems, technology, and different ways of knowing meet.
Current areas of inquiry include
nursing and AI, clinical judgment and accountability, health-system workflow and care coordination, integrative health, Ayurveda in the U.S. clinical environment, and evidence-to-practice translation.'
I write about these questions in Before the Question, my Field Journal on Substack.
Read → Before the Question
I’m a registered nurse with more than 30 years of experience in healthcare. Nursing taught me how to assess the whole picture, recognize patterns, ask what does not fit, and translate what I find into practical next steps.
A decade in healthcare executive leadership expanded that view from individual care to the systems around it—how workflow, organizational decisions, technology, and care delivery shape what happens in practice.
Today, my work brings together nursing assessment and clinical judgment, Ayurveda, Lifestyle Medicine, and systems thinking. I work with individuals and families through Root & Regimen, and with organizations and professionals through advisory projects, research and evidence translation, professional education, and collaboration.
Across both, my work sits at the intersection of clinical practice, health systems, and the realities of how people actually live and work.

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