Dr.
Laura Futterman is a graduate of the world-famous
National College
of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR, the oldest and most
prestigious Naturopathic Medical School in the nation. After
graduation, Dr. Futterman was selected from among many
candidates for a one-year teaching residency at National
College. She helped supervise student doctors at 8 different
clinics – all of them integrating natural and conventional
medicine - including a low-cost community clinic for homeless
youth; an alcohol and drug addiction and rehabilitation clinic;
as well as a conventional naturopathic medical clinic that
served families, women and children, and the full range of
general and family practice and natural internal medicine.
During this time, she worked with literally thousands of
patients, bringing them the best of both naturopathic and
conventional medicine. Dr. Futterman continues to be interested
in the full spectrum of natural medicine, and reads extensively
on health and healing.
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Dr. Futterman received her B. Sc.from the University of Illinois
at Chicago, where she majored in Biological Sciences and
Pre-Med. While a full-time student, she was medical receptionist
and Chiropractic Assistant at the Center for Integrative
Medicine, which is affiliated with Northwestern University. It
was here that her passion and interest in Naturopathic medicine
flourished.
Dr. Futterman’s interest in natural medicine came about as a
result of her own struggles with health and pain, and the
seeming inability of conventional medicine to help her. Dr.
Futterman suffered from chronic knee pain, resulting from an
injury, from the time she was a young girl. After ten years of
prescription pain medication, physical therapy, and surgery on
both knees, she was still in chronic pain. It was at this point
that she decided to pursue a different path, visiting both a
Naturopathic Doctor and a Chiropractor. By following a program
of natural medicine that included diet changes as well as a wide
range of other natural therapies, she finally began to
experience relief for the first time since she was a child.
Currently, she has been pain-free for 8 years and has returned
to a full exercise regime.
These experiences opened her eyes to what Natural Medicine can
do, and that there are ways to treat disease, and to get relief
from suffering, that are ignored by the world of conventional
medicine. Since that time, she has had wonderful success helping
her family and her two pet cats, as well as her patients, using
Naturopathic Medicine.
Dr. Futterman is an eclectic naturopathic physician, meaning she
uses a variety of natural methods, custom prescribed to fit the
needs of each patient. These healing modalities include dietary
and nutritional counseling; herbal medicines both ancient and
modern; homeopathic remedies; flower essences, which are used to
bring about emotional healing to help the body heal itself; and
physical medicine, an oft-ignored component of naturopathy that
recognizes that deep tissue massage, trigger point therapy and
spinal adjustments can help not only structural and pain-related
complaints, but can help the body heal and recover from all
manner of diseases and illnesses.
Dr. Futterman has found that a wide range of chronic diseases
respond to Naturopathic Medicine, including Diabetes, Allergies
and Asthma, Chronic Pain, Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS),
Depression, Insomnia, Chronic Fatigue, Gastro-Esophageal Reflux
Disease (GERD), digestive complaints such as Irritable Bowel
Syndrome, “gas and bloating”, Constipation, High Blood Pressure
and Thyroid Disorders - to name a Just a few! Her philosophy is
to always try to find the underlying cause of your illness; to
educate and counsel patients so that you will be able to take an
active and informed role in your own care; and to tailor her
treatments to your unique needs and situation.
Dr. Futterman is a native of Chicago, and returns there
frequently to visit friends and family. She enjoys spending time
with her husband; with friends and family; with her two cats;
and loves the outdoors.
ASSOCIATES
Robin Trotter, Licensed Massage Therapist & Certified
Reflexologist: Robin is a native of Fairfield County, CT, who
for many years has recognized the healing power of Touch. After
a business career as a Human Resources professional in the
Healthcare field, Robin has made a reality of her dream of
helping others to a healthier and more serene path.
Robin is an honors graduate of the Connecticut Center for
Massage Therapy, is nationally certified by the National
Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork and
holds a Connecticut license as a Massage Therapist. She is
certified through the Connecticut School for Universal
Reflexology and is a member of the Reflexology Association of
Connecticut and the American Massage Therapy Association.
In her high school days, Robin would help ease her friends and
classmates stresses by giving them a “back rub”. Years later,
after being reunited with a childhood friend turned
Aromatherpaist, Robin began exploring the benefits of natural
health practices. Having personally experienced the benefits of
massage therapy and reflexology triggered her desire to bring
the healing power of touch, in its many therapeutic forms, to
others.
Robin is mother of two adult children and one forever-young cat.
She contributes time and experience in sponsorship of a support
group for teenagers, and assists the visually disabled. She
enjoys reading, theater, boating, and bringing the joys of
relaxation and wellness to others through Reflexology and
Massage Therapy.
