Are You Ready To Feel Better?

Longing For Support That Truly Makes A Difference?

The Food Solution

By Dr. Cari Schaefer, DACM

Are You Ready To Feel Better?

Longing For Support That Truly Makes A Difference?

Your Menopause Midwife

Supporting You Through the Menopausal Change and Beyond.

The Food Solution

By Dr. Cari Schaefer, DACM

Dr. Cari Schaefer, DACM

Dr. Cari Schaefer, DACM provides holistic health care in person in Santa Barbara, CA & virtually worldwide, specializing in the root causes of chronic and complex health conditions, perimenopause and menopause, digestive health, hormone balance, nervous system regulation, and emotional wellness. As a seasoned practitioner, with more than 26 years experience, she has helped women, children and families unravel persistent and unexplained symptoms by connecting the dots between hormones, nutrition, digestion, stress, and emotional health.

Stop chasing symptoms and get back to feeling good again.

In person sessions in Santa Barbara and virtually!

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    Children's Health & Wellbeing

    Digestion, Learning, Emotional & Immune Support

    Discover what's behind your child's challenges—not just another Band-Aid. Explore personalized, natural approaches that go beyond relying solely on antibiotics, while supporting your child's health, development, and well-being.

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    Your Menopause Midwife

    Understand what's happening in your body during peri-menopause & menopause and why. Discover how accumulated stress and hidden stressors contribute to your symptoms, and what your body needs to move through this transition with greater ease, vitality, and confidence.

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    Chronic Health Issues & Difficult-to-Solve Cases

    Tired of trying everything and still not feeling better? Discover what's keeping your body from healing. Get the answers and personalized support you need to move beyond managing symptoms and get back to living your life.

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    Relationship Support & Stress Management

    Navigating conflict, relationship challenges, or divorce? Discover how to break free from old emotional patterns, build resilience, and move through life's difficult transitions with greater clarity, confidence, and inner peace.

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    Gut & Digestive Health

    Tired of bloating, digestive discomfort, or unpredictable gut symptoms? Go beyond temporary fixes to uncover what's disrupting your digestion. Through functional medicine and emotional re-patterning, discover a personalized path toward lasting digestive health.

  • Stress Management & Lasting Change

    Discover how to break free from old patterns, build resilience, and create lasting change.

    As a Dr. Joe Certified NCS Consultant, and a N.E.T. & HeartMath certified practitioner, Dr. Cari combines neuroscience-based tools with emotional stress-release techniques to help you create a new way forward.

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GET TO KNOW

Dr. Cari Schaefer, DACM

Dr. Cari Schaefer, DACM is a healthcare expert, provider, and lecturer on health and nutrition. With a Doctorate in Traditional Chinese Medicine and as a nationally certified herbalist and health practitioner, Cari has spent over 26 years helping thousands of people identify and remove the barriers preventing them from feeling their best.

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GET THE SUPPORT YOU NEED DURING MENOPAUSE

Menopause is a Transition, Not a Decline

Perimenopause and menopause are unique and powerful phases in a woman’s life, transitions that deserve the understanding and guidance of someone who truly specializes in them.

Too often, menopause is portrayed as something to dread, a time of uncomfortable symptoms, uncertainty, and loss. But what if this chapter of your life could become one of your most empowered?

If you're feeling overwhelmed, disconnected from your body, or unsure of what's happening to you, know that it doesn't have to be this way.

This transition isn't about losing who you are. It's an opportunity to discover who you're becoming.

With the right understanding and support, you can emerge from this chapter feeling clearer, stronger, more confident, and more purposeful than ever before.

You were designed to make this transition. You don't have to navigate it alone.

Your Menopause Midwife is here to guide and support you.

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I’m Here to Guide You Every Step of the Way!

Are you feeling exhausted, achy, or weighed down? Struggling to sleep, suffering with anxiety or depression? Managing an autoimmune or other medical diagnosis? No matter what you’re facing, your body is trying to tell you something—and I’m here to help you listen.

Using my 26 years of clinical experience, Functional Medicine and lab testing, combined with the wisdom of ancient tools like Muscle testing, intuitive body scanning, observation, and inquiry, we uncover the barriers preventing you from doing what you’re designed to do: heal.

Healing—true healing—is a deeply personalized journey. It requires more than just taking supplements or changing your diet. Let’s go beyond anything you have experienced before and support every level of your being.

I’m here to walk beside you on this journey, guiding you so you do not have to figure it out on your own.

Are you ready to start feeling good and living a life you love?

Success Stories

How We Support You

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    Teaching & Public Speaking

    Discover the trainings that can make a difference in your success. See our upcoming events or sign-up for our waitlist.

    Enhance your event with Dr. Cari’s expert insights. Learn more and invite inspiration into your next meeting.

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    Menopause & Weight

    What is really behind the weight gain.

    Claim your one-hour audio where Dr. Cari guides you through what's happening in your body and helps you take control of weight gain beyond GLP’s.

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