Dr. Shannon Curtis Naturopathic Doctor (ND)

Biography

Dr. Shannon Curtis is a holistic naturopathic doctor and women’s health specialist in Boulder, Colorado with a focus on holistic acne treatment, fertility and preconception support, natural hormone balance, and whole-body healing for women of all ages.

If you’re here, you might be feeling frustrated, confused, or even discouraged by symptoms that no one has truly connected the dots on. Maybe you’ve tried multiple approaches, only to be told that your labs look “normal” even though you don’t feel like yourself. Perhaps you’ve dealt with acne, irregular periods, fatigue, anxiety, PCOS, fertility struggles, or post-birth control symptoms and you feel like you want to understand why you’re experiencing these issues. You want answers that make sense and a plan that helps your body heal instead of just managing symptoms.

Imagine working with a doctor who listens to your entire story, sees the whole picture, and helps you understand what your body is trying to communicate. Imagine feeling supported, understood, and guided every step of the way as you learn how to restore balance in your hormones, skin, digestion, mood, and overall vitality.

If this is you, you are in the right place!

My Approach

I help women shift from symptom-chasing to true healing by understanding the deeper patterns that link their physical and emotional symptoms. Your body is wise and will heal itself given the right conditions, but first you have to unearth what’s keeping your body stuck with these symptoms and what it’s asking for to heal. My goal is to be your guide in this process, and help you understand why your symptoms are happening and how to support your body naturally as it heals.

I use conventional, functional, and holistic diagnostics to get a complete picture of your health. This includes standard physical exams and labs, functional medicine testing, and a deep dive into how your symptoms create patterns in your body that relate to your internal organ systems. I look at your body as an interconnected system, so the plan we create addresses the whole person, not just one symptom at a time.

My Personal Healing Story

I didn’t grow up with holistic medicine. Instead, I was raised taking ibuprofen for every headache and antibiotics every time I was sick. As a teenager, I went on the birth control pill to manage heavy menses, and shortly thereafter experienced the intense side effects of depression, anxiety, and weight gain. Conventional medicine didn’t seem to have an answer for this. I tried medication after medication for my mood, only to suffer from each drug’s side effects without experiencing any true relief. I eventually got off the birth control pill in my mid-20s after realizing it was the cause of my symptoms, but then I broke out in severe cystic acne (a common post-birth control side effect) and spent several years afterwards clearing my skin, rebalancing my hormones, and reregulating my menstrual cycles.

During this time, I felt deeply flawed and broken as a human being. But my symptoms were necessary in order to open my eyes to holistic medicine, and start to understand that nature has all the tools that I could ever need to heal myself, and that as a human being intricately woven into the fabric of the natural world, this meant that I too had the power to heal myself.

And that’s exactly how I ended up as a naturopathic doctor. It was a long healing journey, but it entirely transformed my life for the better. That is the power of your symptoms: they can be a potent catalyst that transforms your whole life if you allow them to be.

Specialties and Who I Work With

Holistic Acne Treatment

Acne is more than just a skin condition - it’s an outer sign of internal imbalances. I specialize in helping women clear their skin from the inside out by addressing these inner imbalances that are causing acne. This includes support for:
     • Gut health and digestion
     • Blood sugar and metabolism
     • Hormone imbalance
     • Inflammation and detoxification support
     • Nervous system regulation (as stress is a driver of breakouts)

Holistic Fertility and Preconception Support

I provide comprehensive support for women who want to optimize fertility, prepare for pregnancy, or heal after miscarriage or pregnancy loss. This includes:
     • Menstrual cycle regulation
     • Hormone balance
     • Post-birth control recovery
     • Nutrition and lifestyle optimization
     • Nervous system and emotional support
     • Maya uterine massage and pelvic floor therapy

Women’s Hormone and Reproductive Health

I work with all ages of women navigating:
     • PCOS
     • Endometriosis
     • Irregular or missing periods
     • Painful periods
     • PMS and PMDD
     • Perimenopause transitions
     • Post-birth control symptoms (acne, hair loss, missing periods, mood shifts)

Women deserve to have non-pharmaceutical, non-hormonal options for their healthcare. I help women learn how they can feel balanced in their bodies with natural therapies, including nutrition and lifestyle coaching, herbal medicine, and homeopathy.

Mental and Emotional Wellness

I specialize in the connection between emotional health, your nervous system, and your physiology. Many women experience physical symptoms that are closely tied to nervous system patterns, chronic stress, and unexpressed emotions.

My approach includes:
     • Nervous system regulating and rewiring practices
     • Somatic awareness
     • Emotional wellness support
     • Mind-body techniques
     • Craniosacral therapy and bodywork for nervous system support

Treatment Tools I Use

I use a wide range of holistic therapies, choosing the tools that best support your individual needs:
     • Nutritional counseling and lifestyle coaching
     • Herbal medicine
     • Homeopathy and drainage therapies for detoxification
     • Targeted nutrients and supplements
     • Mind-body practices and emotional wellness tools
     • Maya abdominal therapy
     • Craniosacral therapy
     • Pelvic floor therapy

My goal is not to fit you into a protocol. It is to help you understand what your unique body needs and support you with therapies that feel aligned and doable for your life.

I’ll leave you with this…

Your symptoms are not a sign that you are broken or need to be “fixed.” They are messages from your incredibly wise body that it’s trying to adapt to stressors and heal from something, but obstacles are getting in the way and your body is not getting what it needs to be fully healthy.

These messages (your symptoms) are invitations to reconnect with yourself and with nature, because in the end, all symptoms stem from a mis-alignment with nature and with ourselves and not being at ease in our bodies (hence the word “dis-ease”).

Healing begins when you feel seen, heard, and supported. So if you are ready to understand your symptoms, restore your health from the inside out, and reconnect with the radiant woman you are at your core, I would be honored to walk beside you.

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