LIFESTYLE MEDICINE
We take a whole-body approach to health, healing and wellness at Release.
Our providers are skilled in the disciplines of functional and lifestyle medicine, determining the root cause of symptoms and illness by looking into multiple contributing factors such as your lifestyle, your environment, and your genes. Treatment is then developed based on individual results rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Lifestyle medicine helps individuals wanting to eliminate chronic symptoms & illness, those looking to make lasting changes by keeping their metabolic, hormonal, & gut health in balance, and anyone hoping to improve the way they feel inside and out
Comprehensive Assessment
Prior to meeting your Care Provider for the first time, you will complete a detailed intake form with questions about your past and present health and well-being, family history, significant life events, dietary choices, movement regime and other self-care practices. This may also include other tools that will help to provide a comprehensive health overview, such as lab work.
Meetings with Care Provider
You will then meet with your Care Provider three times over the course of a three-month period. During these 1-2 hour visits, your Provider will take the necessary time to uncover the root cause of your symptoms. Visits will include:
- A review of all information gathered
- The selection of additional tools, as needed, to get to the underlying cause of any issues you are experiencing and inform strategies for resolution, such as laboratory assessments
- Working together to create a personalized Care Plan, which will encompass the five pillars of well-being—physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual—with targeted strategies to attain your desired health outcomes.
Your Care Provider will continue as an active participant throughout your engagement with Release, including consulting with your Wellness Coach to implement and sustain your Care Plan. You will also have the option to add supplementary visits with your Care Provider as desired.

Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness Coaching Package
Our Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness Coaching Package is a comprehensive program where our experts work closely with you to determine the root cause of symptoms and co-create a plan to reclaim good health by nourishing and balancing the 5 pillars of wellness: physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual. We provide guidance and encouragement, as well as hold you accountable to achieving your goals. At Release, our Coaches treat lifestyle as medicine.
Our Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness Coaching package includes three visits with a Lifestyle Medicine Care Provider, as well as six bi-weekly sessions 1:1 with a Wellness Coach, and one transition visit including the client and Care Provider. If you wish to do so, you may choose your providers based on their bios on the Release website, and our Care Manager would also be glad to assist you with the selection, based on our Care Provider’s and Coach’s areas of expertise.
We believe in bio-individuality, and understand that everyone’s path to optimal well being is unique. Our genetic, biochemical, and lifestyle come to play in determining the best path to optimal health.
Your visits with the Care Provider will include the following, and will be personalized to your specific needs:
- A detailed health history, which includes questions about personal information such as diet and lifestyle (both current and historical), social information, health concerns and goals, medications and supplements taken. It also includes questions on exercise habits and any prior trauma. During this information gathering stage, lab tests may be recommended. All labs are optional, and costs are not included in package pricing.
- When utilized, all lab results will be reviewed with your Care Provider. The lab results will be taken into consideration for your second meeting with your Care Provider where together you will co-create a comprehensive, personalized Care Plan. The plan may include lifestyle suggestions as well as dietary and supplement recommendations.
- The third meeting will include you, the Care Provider and the Wellness Coach. The Care Plan will be reviewed, including next steps, and you and your coach will be well prepared to launch into your three month coaching engagement where you will benefit from their support and accountability to assist you in reaching and maintaining your individual health goals.
Areas of focus will be based on recommendations from your Care Plan and may include the following:
- Stress, sleep and their impact on health and well being.
- Spirituality, relationships and areas that bring you joy.
- Exercise, nutrition and a whole foods lifestyle.
- Grocery shopping and recipe exploration.
- Meditation, mindfulness and goal setting.
- Self confidence and empowerment.

Lifestyle Medicine Package
Our Lifestyle Medicine Package is a comprehensive plan where we work together from the initial phase of determining the root cause of symptoms, to creating a plan to reclaim good health by nourishing and balancing the the 5 pillars of wellness: physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual for each individual.
Our Lifestyle Medicine package includes three visits with a Lifestyle Medicine Care Provider. If you wish to do so, you may choose your providers based on their bios on the Release website, and our Care Manager would also be glad to assist you with the selection, based on our Care Provider’s and Coach’s areas of expertise.
We believe in bio-individuality, and understand that no single plan suits everyone. Our ancestry, blood type and many other factors come to play in determining the best path to optimal health.
Your visits with the Care Provider will include the following, and will be personalized to your specific needs:
- A detailed health history, which includes questions about personal information such as diet and lifestyle (both current and historical), social information, health concerns and goals, medications and supplements taken. It also includes questions on exercise habits and any prior trauma. During this information gathering stage, lab tests may be recommended. All labs are optional, and costs are not included in package pricing.
- When utilized, all lab results will be reviewed with your Care Provider The lab results will be taken into consideration for your second meeting with your Care Provider where together you will co-create a comprehensive, personalized Care Plan The plan may include lifestyle recommendations as well as dietary and supplementation recommendations.
The third meeting with the Care Provider will include review of your tailored plan, as well as steps to be taken to assist you in reaching and maintaining your health goals. At the conclusion of your Lifestyle Medicine Package, the choice is yours to move forward on your own, or you may choose to engage in a Wellness Coaching package.

Wellness Coaching Package
Our Wellness Coaching Package will help you to determine what goals you want to achieve and formulate attainable action plans. We will support you by providing guidance and encouragement, as well as holding you accountable to your goals.
At Release, our Wellness Coaches treat lifestyle as medicine, and focus on nourishing and balancing the 5 pillars of wellness: physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual.
This package includes 6 bi-weekly visits with a Wellness Coach of your choosing, and can be utilized on it’s own or following sessions with a Functional Medicine Care Provider. Our wellness coaching encompasses the many areas of our lives that impact our health and well-being. It includes and goes far beyond nutrition and exercise.
As with all of our packages, we believe in bio-individuality, and understand that no one plan suits everyone.
Topics which may be covered during your wellness coaching sessions may include the following, based on your current situation and goals for your future health:
- A detailed health history, which includes questions about personal information such as diet and lifestyle (both current and historical), social information, health concerns and goals, medications and supplements taken. It also includes questions on exercise habits and any prior trauma. During this information gathering stage, lab tests may be recommended. All labs are optional, and costs are not included in package pricing.
- When utilized, all lab results will be reviewed with your Care Provider The lab results will be taken into consideration for your second meeting with your Care Provider where together you will co-create a comprehensive, personalized Care Plan The plan may include lifestyle recommendations as well as dietary and supplementation recommendations.
The third meeting with the Care Provider will include review of your tailored plan, as well as steps to be taken to assist you in reaching and maintaining your health goals. At the conclusion of your Lifestyle Medicine Package, the choice is yours to move forward on your own, or you may choose to engage in a Wellness Coaching package.
For more information email or call our Lifestyle Medicine Care Manager, Heather Vroman at heather@releasewellbeingcenter.com and 508-523-6143.
Providers
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Drew

Kathleen

Donna

Heather

Drew
Functional Medicine Practitioner Drew Pearlman has studied many healing disciplines over the past decade. He’s trained in functional medicine at the world-renowned School of Applied Functional Medicine. He’s also received certification from the (GAPS) Gut and Psychology Syndrome Practitioner program as well as the Heart Math Practitioner program.
In his work with clients, Drew takes a holistic approach by diving into the various layers of health, including nutrition, movement, breathwork, mindset, sleep and stress.
To help put the pieces of the health puzzle together, he utilizes a detailed health history and symptoms questionnaire, recent lab work and personal health goals. He works with his clients to design a plan that is unique for each person.
His philosophy is to address both the foundational components of health such as diet and lifestyle, plus the more specific biochemical drivers of dis-ease and dysfunction in the body such as nutritional deficiencies, imbalances in the gut and toxicity.
His areas of expertise include some of the following: gut health, autoimmune issues, anxiety/ depression, cancer support, weight loss, headaches and more.
Drew sees functional medicine and health coaching as both a science and an art. His job as a practitioner is to educate, empower and hopefully inspire his clients. In the words of Albert Schweitzer: “We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.”
What guided him on this path is an unquenchable thirst to heal his own health challenges as well as health issues in his family. He has been on this path of discovery most of his life.
He looks forward to sharing his passion with the Release community by educating and empowering patients and clients with diet, lifestyle and functional medicine principles and tools to achieve greater wellness.
In addition to functional medicine health coaching, Drew has made a series of documentary films about natural healing and hosts the new podcast The Drew Pearlman Show.
For fun, Drew loves to spend as much time as possible outdoors in nature, soaking in the sun, hiking, swimming, and even playing in the snow.

Kathleen
Kathleen Quinton is the author of Strength Becomes You, Doubt to Confidence: Create Your Desired Life and Certified Life Coach. Along with her entrepreneurial mindset, her life’s purpose is to help people find and use their own amazing gifts to bring about their wellbeing, fulfillment, and success. Kathy believes that happiness resides in what we think about and how we pursue our personal and professional goals.
Kathy’s book Strength Becomes You focuses on how we can proactively shift our thinking from negative to positive as we work to create a fulfilled life. In addition she’s also developed a supplemental workbook of concrete actions to help cement the changes, as well as a Teen Journal to promote confidence building.
Along with her coaching books, Kathy is also the author of a children’s book series about a lovable bookmobile that comes to life and helps children discover mindfulness and the joy of reading. She firmly believes that the keys to knowledge should be available to all, no matter where they live.
Kathy currently lives in Massachusetts with her husband. She is a mother of three grown children and grandmother of six.
Areas of expertise:
- Life Coach
- Empowerment Coaching
- Finding Purpose
Credentials:
- Strategic Intervention Coaching
- Robbin
- Madanes Training Quantum Success Coaching Academy
I’m looking forward to sharing my passion with our community by:
Helping people to Transform their Doubts into Conviction and Pursue their Dreams with Confidence and Purpose. I love sharing my own Aha’s in life with others through stories and processes.
For fun I love to:
Read a good mystery. Walk in nature. Garden. Chocolate. Travel, especially in New England. The ocean is my happy place! I love to cook for my loved ones. Write for children as well as adults. I enjoy meaningful conversations and being creative. I love spending time with my family. I adore playing, reading, and talking with my grandchildren. And, last on but not least, I love to cuddle with our new kitten, Moxie.

Donna
“First move well, then move often.”
Donna lives her life by this principle, bolstered by her specialty in functional movement. Developing the correct movement patterns allow clients to reach their goals without risking future injury. Whether you wish to run a marathon, build muscle, or just move better, Donna can help you develop a program that will set you up for success. Donna loves to have fun in her classes; laughter and joy are as important as moving your body!
Certifications:
- Ace Certified Personal Trainer
- Functional Movement Systems
- Functional Movement Systems 2 Certified Professional
- TRX
- Tabata GroupX
- Beachbody PiYo
- The Movement Fix
- Spinning
- Ace “The 3D Approach to Finding Nutritional Balance”
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Heather
Heather is a passionate Certified Health Coach who helps her clients create happy, healthy lives in a way that is flexible and fun. By working with Heather, you can discover the food and lifestyle choices that best support you. She emphasizes making gradual, lifelong changes to help reach health goals. Heather can offer you guidance on how to shop at the grocery store, read nutrition labels, and master what foods to look for. Heather found her path to wellness at 32 years old when her health began declining. Many medications later, she tried a holistic approach to healing, changing her nutrition and introducing supplementation. She was symptom free in a month, and began to realize the importance of food and how it makes us feel. Heather enjoys running, trying new restaurants, and spending time with her family.
Certifications:
- AFAA personal trainer
- Group exercise instructor
- Spin instructor
- Core PaddleFit coach