Alice is a nurse practitioner with advanced training from the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), the Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs (MAPS), and the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy (FMCA).
She built Journey Pediatrics because she kept seeing the same thing: bright, wonderfully complex kids falling through the cracks of conventional medicine. Parents told "they'll grow out of it." Labs that never got run. Fifteen-minute appointments for problems that needed sixty.
Alice doesn't do band-aids. She runs the panels, reads the data, and stays with families until the picture makes sense.
With over 26 years of clinical experience and a deep personal investment in getting this right, she's also a mother of three, Alice didn't create another medical practice. She created the one she wished existed. When she’s not in the office, you’ll find her in the bleachers at baseball games or trying to keep up with her kids on a mountain bike trail.
From your first phone call to every follow-up visit, the people you talk to will know your child's story. Alice doesn't do this alone, and these are the people beside her.
Clinical care
Nurse Practitioner
Janie has cared for kids in the pediatric ICU in Atlanta and for underserved families in rural Georgia. Both taught her the same lesson: know the kid, not just the chart. She’s a mom of four (yes, four), so nothing about the state of your car will faze her. She met her husband, a physician, on a medical mission trip, which is about as on-brand as a love story gets. A former florist, she still can’t walk past a good garden. Home is four kids, two golden retrievers and plenty of happy chaos.
“I will advocate and do all I can to help your child feel cared for and loved.”
Medical Assistant
Anna is the one getting your child settled in the exam room, and she’ll probably have them laughing before the visit starts. She’s a proud recent University of South Carolina grad with a degree in public health (with leadership distinction, if anyone’s asking), where she learned how much of a kid’s health happens outside an exam room. She’s loved being around kids for as long as she can remember, and she says her favorite part of Journey is learning from the providers here. Off the clock, she’s at the beach or on the boat.
“I’m dedicated to taking the time to make sure every child and parent feels heard, valued and respected.”
Family support
Patient Experience Lead
Rosanne has more energy in her pinkie than most people have in their entire bodies. If you call us, she’s probably the first voice you’ll hear, and you’ll hear the smile through the phone. Before Journey, she ran her own formal-wear boutique, helping people feel taken care of on their biggest days. Then she spent several years teaching preschool at St. Andrew’s in Mount Pleasant. After a classroom full of preschoolers, there’s not much left that rattles her. Today she guides families from the first phone call through every visit after. On weekends she’s at the golf course, where her kids compete and she cheers louder than golf etiquette technically allows.
"I'm here to help you feel confident and at ease."
Head of Operations
John is the one person on the team you don’t want examining your child, because he’s not a clinician. He makes sure the scheduling, systems and everything behind the scenes work, so everyone else can focus on your kid. He’s worked in healthcare operations and technology, and as a parent of young kids, he knows the parent side of the clipboard well. Before all that, he lived in Costa Rica and taught Spanish at Wando High School. These days he’s happiest in the water surfing... and his perfect trip is good waves with the whole family along.
“I want to do everything I can to help you feel heard and understood.”
Traditional pediatrics asks: What symptoms do we see? Functional medicine asks: Why are those symptoms there in the first place?
We use the IFM framework — symptoms are the branches, and we work our way down to the roots: genetics, gut health, inflammation, environmental triggers, nutritional status. This isn't alternative medicine. It's thorough medicine.
Advanced lab panels and comprehensive evaluation to understand what's driving your child's symptoms — not just managing them.
Nutrition, environment, gut health, immune function, sleep — we look at every system because they're all connected.
You know your child better than anyone. We bring the clinical expertise. Together, we build a plan that works for your family.
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