Theresa ("Terri") Pinder holds a Master of Science in Nursing from Florida Atlantic University, where she completed her academic preparation as a Family Nurse Practitioner in 1997. She has completed additional formal training as an Integrative Health Coach at Duke Center for Integrative Medicine (2010). She has accumulated much of her herbal know-how through her family's business (a nursery and Garden Center) as well as through various formal herbal studies programs. Terri is a Health Care Disrupter! Disillusioned with the current state of affairs in conventional medicine, she achieved Certification through the Institute for Functional Medicine in 2021, was one of the first nurse practitioners in the State to obtain her “autonomous” status and is about to open both a Direct Primary Care Practice and a Clinical Coworking and Practice Incubator Co-OP for clinicians here in Port Saint Lucie. Her aim in adopting these models is to create an ecosystem to deliver meaningful results for both the practitioner and the patient- one relationship at a time.