Dr. Gaines is a Naturopathic Physician and Registered Herbalist. She completed a two-year Family Practice residency at SCNM after graduating from Bastyr University. Dr. Gaines developed and supervised a Naturopathic rotation at Sojourner Center, a domestic violence shelter for women and children from 2003-2007. Currently, she is the Chair of the Botanical Medicine Department and a supervising physician at the Southwest Naturopathic Medical Center. She has been a practicing physician for 15 years and treats adolescents and adults with acute and chronic illness using nutrition, supplementation, botanical medicine and diet/lifestyle counseling.

Botanical Medicine, Homeopathy, Women's Health

Bastyr University, Naturopathic Doctor (2002)

American Botanical Council, American Herbalists Guild