Matt West
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Welcome to Eat Love Nourish with Audra! I am a holistic nutritionist specializing in medical nutrition therapy, functional nutrition, food relationship and body image coaching, private and group cooking and nutrition classes, meal prep services, personalized plans, cooking parties and more!
My mission is to love and inspire people, to promote a high quality of life, optimal health and true wellness through a holistic practice. I encompass an approach that includes science based, whole food nutrition, herbal remedies, plant medicine, movement, self-love, food psychology, food relationship, consciousness, trauma healing and spirituality.
I hold a MScN degree from National University of Natural Medicine with a strong focus on medical nutrition therapy, herbal medicine and holistic healing to include food psychology, food relationship and intuitive eating.
My experience includes a clinical nutrition rotation at NUNM and a nutrition internship working with special needs clients in a group home setting. I was also fortunate to travel to Thailand and study herbal cooking and organic farming. I spent the first 4 years of my career in nutrition working in a clinical setting utilizing medical nutrition therapy and food psychology, both 1:1 and in the group setting.
My primary career, prior to nutrition, was as a police and fire dispatcher and emergency medical call taker. During my time in emergency services I instructed Tactical Combat Casualty Care and First Aid/CPR to our police officers.
I have a beautiful daughter who experiences multiple special needs, including a feeding tube. I have been using a whole food, organic, blenderized diet for her since 2007... I joke I was doing this before it was cool and now I specialize in blenderized diets! I have also worked diligently to wean her from pharmaceuticals and replace them with natural options whenever possible.
The medical journey I have been on with her, in combination with my career history and education has offered me a multitude of experiential knowledge in medical care, conditions, psychology and trauma, and ultimately is what brings me to you today!
While I have a heart for complex clients and enjoy offering medical nutrition therapy, my practice has shifted to focusing on the psychology behind food. I have found that until we address our relationship with food and our mindset around prioritizing ourselves, we are unable to successfully access treatment plans.
In my free time I love experimenting in the kitchen, hiking, wine tasting, stand up comedy, dancing, traveling, exploring other cultures, herbalism, hanging out with my kiddo, family and friends and volunteering at the women's crisis center and with special needs children.
My mission is to be an ambassador for these truths and to love and support each person who reaches out to me for help, with acceptance and an open mind.
**I lovingly and gratefully welcome all clients regardless of race, country of origin, age, ability level, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, body size, past personal history, religion or any other quality you have previously experienced as a barrier. I stand with you. You are safe here.
Matt West: Reviews
Fantastic experience: I highly recommend Dr. Matt West, ND and his team to anyone looking for a naturopathic doctor. His approach to healthcare is second to none, and he has proven time and time again that natural remedies can be just as effective, if not more effective, than conventional medicine. If you want to achieve optimal health and wellness, then look no further than Dr. West, ND and his team.
Fantastic experience: I cannot say enough good things about Dr. West and his staff. He truly cares about what is best for your health and not just looking to prescribe the next best pharmaceutical. Dr. West over the last 8 months has helped me thru exercise, diet and natural supplements, correct bad cholesterol levels, bad liver numbers, and an A1C number bordering on pre-diabetic. I'm healthier than I have been in at least 20 years and doing much better than when I first visited him. I highly, highly recommend Dr. West to anyone who asks!
Fantastic experience: Doctor West and his staff are the Best in the Willamette Valley. So glad I started going to him for all my Wellness needs! He's awesome.
Fantastic experience: Matt has been my primary physician for at least 15 years. I have nothing but the highest of praise for him. He listens, he evaluates and he is usually spot on with his diagnosis and treatments. He has provided prolo therapy for my knees; he has assisted in my battle with A-fib, he encourages me to exercise with specific ones to assist my sore back (at my age, almost everything hurts a bit); and he is generally one of the nicest, well grounded people I have ever known. I have referred multitudes of people to him, even though it was with the fear that he would be too busy for me. He is busy, you have to be patient, you have to be reasonable because Matt and his staff are not machines, but they care, they give of themselves and Matt is genuinely a great doctor. I consider him and his staff as my friends. Without qualification, I recommend Matt West to anyone.
Fantastic experience: I am a patient of this Doctor for over5 years. Simply amazing. Can replace a group of tradition doctors with his swift decisions and wast knowledge. Alisha & Sam are also awesome, prompt and courteous, always !!! Thank you Team for keeping me and my entire family healthy.
Fantastic experience: Great Dr!!! Genuinely concerned about your well being. Easy to talk to and takes the time to discuss your care. Definitely recommend.
Fantastic experience: Dr. West is by far the best provider I have ever seen. I am so grateful and blessed to have FOUND him after I had my son. I was a total hormonal and metabolic mess - and Dr. West truly did the digging to get to the bottom of what ails me. I am living so much of a fuller life now, so much healthier. His assistant Christine is AN ANGEL. The front office, Alisha and Sammie are equally wonderful. They work so hard! Thanks guys!!! xoxo
Negative experience: Total fraud!!! Where to I begin!! First, for the past year I have been playing a game with his office and billing department concerning services render at his location. My insurance every time I call continue to say they have not been billed. The billing company he uses tells me to call his office.... LMAO LMAO LMAO. They don’t return calls concerning billing. I have left more messages in a year for the office manager, NEVER to receive a return phone call. So here the bill sits waiting for his office and employees to assist in trying to resolve it. Total headache. Second issue. I saw a specialist who questioned the “natural” medications which are made and supplied to Mr. West by brothers-in-law (total conflict of interest). Two of the ingredients flush the medications that my specialist have been prescribing for years. The medication switched was difficult and consequently made the medications I was taking while under the guidance of Matt resistant to my body!!! Any true doctor would have looked at the counter actions between medications or pharmacist would have but these medications from West come directly from his staff who are not trained pharmacists with knowledge of counter actions. DONT GO HERE!!! He is a quack and the people he has working for him are not qualified!!!
Fantastic experience: He is great. Really easy to talk to
Fantastic experience: He is caring and experienced. Takes time to discuss issues and helps patients to understand conditions and options. Courteous and caring staff. Love this place!
Fantastic experience: BEST DOCTOR EVER!! It's been by far too long since I've had a doctor as great as Dr. West. He is absolutely amazing & I'm so impressed by him & his knowledge & his determination to give me the tools to get better & be healthy again....& believe me, I don't make it easy for him! He really is the best doctor & I highly recommend him whenever the subject comes up. If you have a lousy doc like I did before Dr. West, it's time to take that leap of faith & give Dr. West a try, I guarantee you won't be disappointed!
Fantastic experience: Dr West is very interested in his pts and their cares. He has an amazing knowledge of the human body and how food ,suppliment and the body interact. He always listens to his pts and is not dismissive. He seems to have an idea of what is wrong when other Dr's dont seem to know. That I why I brought my husban to him and we were both willing to drive from eastern oregon (Ontario) to Salem to see him.
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