Hi, I am Liz Monson. I created Integrative Medicine Options to address one of my biggest upsets throughout my training as a nurse practitioner. I always felt that there could be more to support a person in the healing process. In graduate school I was subjected to a great deal of stress and began to interfere with my sleep. A friend suggested that I try yoga. With hesitation, I rolled out my first mat and then reacquainted by body with breathing practices, mediation and stretching, My sleep patterns were restored and I began wondering why we were not teaching or recommending this therapy to our patients.

I began studying ancient medical systems, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, herbal medicine. These systems existed for thousands of years and emphasized food as medicine, exercise, and therapies designed bringing the body into balance. The wisdom of our ancestors was lost as Western medicine evolved into pressed tablets and surgical tools. While Western medicine is a miracle and saving lives, and is a world where I was raised as a practitioner and continue to work, my mission has been finding ways to bring medicine back to original whole person health , the roots of medicine.

I began my journey becoming a reiki master in 2004, learning a Japanese healing touch technique and became a certified yoga instructor. Having obtained a Master of Healing Arts through Maryland University of Integrative Health in 2008, as my final project began an inpatient healing arts program at the University of Maryland Medical Center. I moved to Oregon and became a Certified Clinical Acupressure Therapist in 2012 while starting an inpatient integrative therapy program at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center and developed a training program for other health care practitioners to learn holistic therapies. Our group published studies demonstrating acupressure as an effective nonpharmacologic therapy for the treatment of pain and anxiety.

Life moved me to Salt Lake City in 2015 where I serve as a member of the heart transplant team. I roll my integrative straining into my usual practice of medicine and continue to train healthcare practitioners in integrative therapies. With a multidisciplinary team, we created 5 points, 5 minutes to use acupressure points to treat and relieve common symptoms.

In February 2025, I graduated from the Andrew Weil Center of Integrative Medicine Fellowship at the University of Arizona, solidifying my dream to obtain formal education, training, and implementation of evidence based integrative medicine therapies. I immediately drew up plans to launch Integrative Medicine Options, a consultation practice that would allow me to use the education, training, skills, and mentorship I have received over nearly three decades.

What you can expect during our visit: a whole person individualized integrative consultation with attention to diet, exercise, sleep, and stress management and receive integrative medicine recommendations. My mission is to provide sustainable solutions for better health and bring healing back to medicine. By honoring the medicine of the ancestors and implementing time proven and evidence based strategies, we expand treatment options to support the body and mind’s innate ability to heal. By supporting whole person health, we create space for healing.