Dr. Sheri Erwin, DNP, MBA, APRN, FNP-C
Nurse practitioner and founder of BridgeWell Integrative Education.
Dr. Sheri Erwin is a nurse practitioner, doctoral-level clinician-educator, and the founder of BridgeWell Integrative Education, built specifically for licensed nurse practitioners who want to integrate functional and lifestyle medicine into real clinical practice.
My journey
I spent years practicing in the standard model - primary care, oncology, urgent care, post-acute, and university health. I was good at conventional medicine. I knew how to diagnose, prescribe, and follow guidelines.
But I kept seeing patients who did not fit that model. Normal labs. Multiple specialists. No answers. Presentations that crossed systems in ways that a single diagnosis could not explain. And I did not have a framework for them. Not because I was not a thorough clinician, but because my training never gave me one.
The turning point came during my years in oncology. A patient declined traditional treatment. Instead of dismissing that decision, I worked alongside a naturopathic doctor to find a way to support them within the structure of their care. It worked. And it showed me something I could not unsee - that conventional and integrative medicine were not competing approaches. They were meant to work together.
Why BridgeWell Integrative Education was developed
I did not want to leave conventional medicine behind. I wanted a way to think across systems while still respecting scope, documentation, regulations, and the reality of a clinical visit. What I found was that most functional medicine training was not built specifically for nurse practitioners and often included both licensed and unlicensed audiences.
I also found that many programs blended clinical training with significant business and marketing content. That knowledge has its place, and I will not pretend it is not useful. But it was not why I was there. I wanted the clinical science, the reasoning frameworks, and the systems-based thinking that would make me a better practitioner.
The integrative approach I built BridgeWell around is the same one I have applied in my own clinical practice, including my telehealth practice specializing in integrative care.
BridgeWell was built for nurse practitioners who are ready to move beyond conventional medicine without leaving it behind. It meets you where your training ends and builds forward from there, adding the systems-based reasoning, functional frameworks, and integrative tools that conventional NP education was never designed to include.
What BridgeWell Offers
BridgeWell Integrative Education offers three ways to build your integrative clinical foundation:
- Integrative Clinical Pathway - a structured five-course deep clinical training program covering Foundations, Hormonal Health, Gut Health and Microbiome Medicine, Metabolic and Cardiometabolic Medicine, and Brain Health and Neuroinflammation
- BridgeWell Monthly - ongoing clinical implementation for NPs actively integrating functional and lifestyle medicine into practice
- Focused Clinical Trainings - standalone training on specific clinical topics, including thyroid, hormones, GLP-1s, and more
