Staff

Deborah Sellers-Mooney, FNP-BC

I have been a nurse for nearly 28 years with the last 10 working in integrated wellness medicine. This is very near and dear to me due to a significant health issue I had in 2011. I found myself with adult onset asthma in the hospital on oxygen with a saturation of 83%. And those of you that know nurses know they are the WORST patients. I could not figure out how I arrived at this place at the young age of 44 and neither could my late husband, a critical care pulmonologist. I went to several specialist, my own PCP, and did a ton of research on my own. After being told by the specialists that I had a psychiatric problem not asthma, I began to do my own testing with the help of my PCP. I knew I did not have a psychiatric issue as I had been tested for a variety of psychiatric issues that were prevalent in my family. Turns out that what I had was leaky gut syndrome from years of Diet Coke consumption and the use of artificial sweeteners. From that I had developed several allergies to my favorite foods which impacted my daily life. I then began my own healthcare plan that took five years of strict nutrition to heal the gut. After that, I decided that patients, especially women, need an advocate to listen to them and help them heal from the root causes of their diseases and ailments. We don’t need a Band-Aid on a symptom. I continued my training and studied daily implementing that information into my late husband’s practice before he passed from cancer. I then went to NP school so that I could continue to help others. This is how I end up here with my own practice. The greatest lesson I ever learned from my late husband was this: “The patient will tell you what is wrong with them 99% of the time if you will just listen to what they are telling you.” I implement this on a daily basis. And if I cannot find the answers, I consult others who I know can help me uncover what someone else missed.

Tracy Barnes, Medical Assistant

 My name is Tracie Barnes and I am a certified medical assistant. I originally went to school for this profession to help others after my own family’s experiences with cancer and sickness.  After graduating the program, I was referred to Deborah’s clinic by another physician and I have been working with her for the past eight years.  Since the first time I experienced clinic with her and her late husband Dr. Matt Sellers, I saw the importance of building these personal relationships withpatients.  I am an extension of the practice, but I am also the first person the patients meet upon on arrival to our clinic.  I feel a burden to make our patients feel welcome and to ease their mind by re-enforcing to them that we will help them feel better.  My goal is not to simply see one patient and move on to the next as if they were numbers, but to build a relationship with each person in order to better provide them with the level of care they seek and desire. A good practice focuses on the individual and what they need.  At DMS Wellness, that is our priority.  And my priority is always the patient.