Christine Boudreau, LPC, AFMCP
Integrative functional medicine practitioner & psychotherapist in Frisco, Texas specializing in complex, chronic gut, brain, & pain cases.
Founder of DOTS Wellness and Creator of the DOTS Method™
I help people make sense of complex health problems that don't fit neatly into one diagnosis, one specialty, or one part of the body.
My work combines functional medicine, psychotherapy, and decades of systems thinking to uncover connections that are easy to miss when symptoms are treated separately.
That's why I created The DOTS Method™ — Discover. Organize. Treat. Simplify.
Complex Health, Simplified.
Why I Do This Work
Like you, I spent years and thousands of dollars chasing answers to my health issues.
I saw doctors, specialists, and therapists who gaslighted, dismissed me, or over-medicated my symptoms.
The problem was every practitioner only looked at their part of the body. Neurologist for the brain. GI doctor for the gut. Therapist for the mind. No one looked at the body as a whole, connected the DOTS, and considered how the systems affected each other.
As fate would have it, I have decades of experience solving problems tangled in a web of complex systems.
I applied my insight and background in systems thinking to the human body and finally cracked the code on my own healing.
That’s when everything changed.
I asked the same questions of my health that I asked when solving complex tech systems:
"What connects all of this? What is the root cause?"
That question changed the direction of my health, and eventually, my career.
I didn't create the DOTS Method™ from a textbook. I created it because I needed it myself.
Now, I help you do the same for your misunderstood, complex, and chronic health conditions.
Healing is possible when you ask the right questions and connect the DOTS.
I've Always Been a Systems Thinker
Before working in healthcare, I spent decades solving complicated problems in technology.
Complex systems don't usually fail because of one isolated problem. You have to look at the whole system, identify patterns, understand how the pieces influence one another, and determine where intervention will make the biggest difference.
I eventually realized the human body demands the same kind of thinking.
Gut health can affect the brain.
Hormones can affect mood.
Stress can alter digestion and immune function.
Nutrient deficiencies can affect energy, cognition, and mental health.
What looks like a collection of unrelated symptoms may actually be a pattern.
That way of thinking became the foundation of The DOTS Method™.
Discover the clues.
Organize the patterns.
Treat the root causes.
Simplify the path forward.
Why I Blend Functional Medicine & Psychotherapy
One of the biggest problems I saw in healthcare was the artificial line drawn between physical health and mental health.
I don't believe that line belongs there.
The brain is part of the body. The nervous system, immune system, gut, hormones, metabolism, environment, emotions, stress, and life experiences constantly influence one another.
That's why my background in both functional medicine and psychotherapy matters.
Functional medicine helps me investigate the biological side of the story — nutrition, gut health, inflammation, metabolic health, hormones, environmental exposures, and other contributors.
Psychotherapy allows me to understand another part of the system — stress, trauma, behavior, thought patterns, nervous-system regulation, and the lived experience of chronic illness.
The DOTS Method™ brings those worlds together.
Not because every symptom is psychological.
And not because every symptom can be explained by a lab result.
Because you are one interconnected system.
When Doctors Don't Have Answers
I specialize in helping the patients most practitioners can't help...
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Patients with “normal” labs but who don't feel normal.
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Patients who are told “it’s all in your head,” but know in their bones that it’s not,
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Patients with multiple diagnoses that nobody has connected.
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Patients who treated one symptom only to have another appear.
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Patients who struggle with unwanted side effects of medication.
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Patients who bounced between gastroenterology, neurology, psychiatry, gynecology, primary care, therapy, and other specialists, with each practitioner looking at one piece of the puzzle, and no one providing answers or results.
Those are exactly the patients I built the DOTS Method for.
The goal isn't to chase every symptom independently.
The goal is to connect the DOTS.
Let's discover what happened to your health, identify the patterns that lead to root cause, and create a clear path to better health.
“I was recently diagnosed with fibromyalgia. I felt hopeless. No one understood me. Christine got me. She is kind, compassionate. I'll forever be grateful to her.”
—Heather, Frisco, Pain & Fatigue Free
Credentials & Clinical Training
My training spans functional medicine, psychotherapy, trauma, behavior change, brain health, business, and complex systems. That combination shapes the way I approach health problems that don't fit neatly inside one specialty.
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Texas
Applied Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice (AFMCP)
Completed Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) training for FMCP
Functional Medicine Certified Professional (FMCP) Candidate
Certified Trauma Professional (CTP)
Triple-Certified Coach in Brain Health, Change Management, Executive Function
Masters (MA) in Counseling
Masters in Business Administration (MBA)
Former Project Management Professional (PMP)
Certified Change Management Provider
Verified by Psychology Today
Member, Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM)
Member, American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM)
Member, Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine (AIHM)
