Twin Village Academy is a clinical mentorship for NPs, early-career physicians, residents, and medical students who want to practice integrative, whole-person medicine — especially in the communities that need it most and receive it least.
Your training split mind from body and called it specialization. It taught you to manage diseases in isolation — depression here, diabetes there — in patients who carry both in the same body, shaped by the same stress, the same poverty, the same history.
Then it sent you into communities where chronic physical and mental health conditions overlap in almost every patient. And gave you no framework for treating the whole person in front of you.
This isn't a gap in your knowledge. It's a gap in the system that trained you.
You don't need another CME credit. You need a mentor who's doing this work — in a real practice, with real patients, in real communities — and can show you how.
Family medicine and psychiatric NPs who want to integrate physical and mental health in their practice rather than referring everything across a divide that shouldn't exist.
MDs who finished residency and realized their training prepared them for billing codes, not for the complexity of actual patients. Especially those in primary care and family medicine.
You're still inside the system. You can already see its limitations. This is the training your program won't give you — integrative approaches, root-cause thinking, community-centered care.
If your patients are Black, brown, immigrant, queer, uninsured, or otherwise navigating oppressive systems — you need clinical tools designed for that reality, not extracted from suburban concierge medicine.
This isn't a lecture series. You bring your most complex patients — the ones who don't fit into a single specialty — and we work them together. You learn by doing, with expert guidance from physicians who practice at the intersection of conventional medicine, functional medicine, and psychiatry.
The patients you're struggling with are the curriculum. The ones with overlapping diagnoses, failed treatments, and complex social contexts. That's where the real learning is.
We'll teach you to assess the whole person — gut health, hormonal balance, nutritional status, trauma history, social determinants — alongside conventional diagnostics. Not instead of. Alongside.
Every case becomes a lesson in root-cause analysis, treatment sequencing, and knowing when conventional medicine is enough and when it isn't. You'll develop the judgment that no algorithm can replace.
This is mentorship, not passive learning. You'll implement, report back, adjust, and iterate. Your patients get better care in real time while you develop a new way of practicing.
The conditions your patients actually have — the overlapping, co-occurring, treatment-resistant presentations that single-specialty training never prepared you for.
Insulin resistance, diabetes, and obesity alongside depression, anxiety, and PTSD. The bidirectional pathways your training treated as separate problems.
H. pylori, SIBO, dysbiosis, and their direct relationship to psychiatric symptoms. The assessment your patients never got.
Thyroid, adrenal, and sex hormone imbalances driving fatigue, mood disorders, and weight changes — evaluated properly, not dismissed.
The inflammatory cascade from ACEs, racism, poverty, and ongoing systemic oppression. Clinical tools for what "social determinants" actually do to the body.
Micronutrient status, food access realities, functional testing interpretation — integrative tools adapted for patients who aren't shopping at Whole Foods.
How to build and sustain a practice that serves marginalized populations without burning out or going broke. The business of justice-oriented medicine.
Twin Village Academy is led by the co-founders of Twin Village Health — twin sisters, both physicians, who built an integrative practice from the ground up after years in safety-net medicine.
Board-certified family medicine physician. Over a decade in community health — from mobile health clinics to leading outreach for one of Chicago's most respected community organizations. She built Twin Village Health to practice the medicine she couldn't practice inside the system. Her work has been recognized by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and NBC Nightly News.
Psychiatrist and co-founder of Twin Village Health. She brings the other half of the equation — mental health expertise integrated with, not separated from, her sister's family medicine practice. Together they treat the whole patient, in one practice, with one shared framework. That model is what the Academy teaches.
Twin Village Academy is in early launch. Join the waitlist to be notified when applications open. Priority access for clinicians currently serving under-resourced and minority communities.