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Our Team

We truly have the best team ever! Every person on our team has chosen to be here for a reason, and we do our best to create a positive, healthy, fun culture in our office. Our goal is to have your visit to our office to be the best part of your day!

The core team at Creative Healing Solutions consists of Dr. Roxie Strand, Melissa, and Lauren. We are team on a mission. We are a team who likes to have fun. We are a team who believes in what we do. We are a team who is here to serve. 

We pride ourselves on our customer service, our compassion for our patients, and our authentic desire to know who our patients are.

Dr. Strand, NMD
Naturopathic Medical Doctor
About Dr. Strand
Dr. Strand was born and raised in Mitchell, South Dakota.  After graduating from high school, she moved to Arizona to attend Arizona State University where she earned a B.S. degree in Microbiology.  Shortly after graduating from ASU, she joined the Peace Corps and taught Math/Science in Cameroon, West Africa.  Upon returning from the Peace Corps, she worked with the homeless in central Phoenix for two years before attending naturopathic medical school.
Dr. Strand graduated from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine (www.scnm.edu) in 2002, where she graduated at the top of her class and received the Daphne Blayden Outstanding Student Award for her “commitment to naturopathic medicine, academic excellence, compassion, perseverance, loving sense of humor and positive, supportive outlook”.

Dr. Strand loves to educate & inspire people about their health & wellness…both inside & outside of the US.  She believes that her main goal as a physician is to be a teacher, which is what the word doctor (docere) actually means.  She is fully committed to teaching people what they need to know to create health and vitality…and empowering them with the knowledge they need to THRIVE!

In her free time, Dr. Strand loves to be outdoors, play in nature, hike, bike, garden (which she is not very good at), play golf (which she is REALLY not very good at), and travel.  In the past few years, Dr. Strand has traveled to Ghana, West Africa, and Mozambique, East Africa to offer humanitarian outreach to the people of those countries (see Humanitarian Outreach page for more details).  

Dr. Strand is a member of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (www.naturopathic.org) and the AZ Naturopathic Medical Association (www.aznma.org)
Melissa Monaco, NMA
Naturopathic Medical Assistant
About Melissa
Melissa Blankenship, NMA

Melissa is our very talented Naturopathic Medical Assistant. Melissa successfully completed her medical assistant training from Lamson College (Arizona) in 2008. She started working with Dr. Strand in that same year and has become a very valuable addition to the practice.

Even though she was trained in the allopathic medical arena, she quickly embraced and continues to learn our naturopathic philosophies and practices. She loves to see the ever-evolving progress of our patients and our office.

Melissa is one of the most compassionate people you will ever meet, and she goes above and beyond her duties as a medical assistant. She has even been known to personally climb a fence to drop off an herbal tincture to a patient who was unable to come to the office to pick it up. She has a wonderful sense of humor, which you will quickly realize once you get to know her. She values every one of our patients and feels like they have become a second family to her over the years.

In her free time, Melissa enjoys traveling and spending time with her husband and friends. She also loves to hike and experience all of the beauty our state has to offer…especially taking time to cool off in Flagstaff over our hot summers!
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Melissa is talented on so many levels and can accomplish anything she puts her mind to. She has been one of Dr. Strand’s most valuable treasures, and she is excited to continue her journey and ongoing learning experience with our office.
Lauren Williams, MA
Office Manager
About Lauren
Lauren completed her Medical Assistant training from Carrington College (Arizona) in 2014. She started working with Creative Healing Solutions in March of 2020, after starting out in the medical field working for an internal medicine doctor in Tempe.

Lauren is excited to learn about naturopathic philosophies and practices. She loves to learn and strives to take in as much information as possible so she can get familiarized with the naturopathic world. She is also very much looking forward to getting to know all of our patients and building lasting relationships within the practice.

​In her free time, Lauren enjoys spending time with her family, cat and friends. She also enjoys traveling and finding new and old treasures at thrift stores.
Our Top 12 Core Values
Practice self-responsibility in all areas of your life
Inspire people to choose a wellness lifestyle
Everything we do adds value to humanity
Constantly learn, grow, and expand
Communicate honestly & openly
Embrace positive change
Get the job done with teamwork and cooperation
Empower people to live a life worth living
You can never have too many hugs
Authentically listen
Balance
Joy

Other Providers

We at Creative Healing Solutions are blessed and grateful to work in the same office with so many other amazing doctors, healers, and providers. We all have our own practices and we each have a passion for different specialties and modalities. I strongly believe, that as a patient, you must feel comfortable and confident with your doctor/provider in order to achieve the best results.

​If our approach is not the right fit for you, we would be happy to facilitate a referral to one of the other practitioners in the office, or anyone else we think may be a better fit for you.
Dr. Jac Daccardi
Chiropractic Physician
About Jac
While some patients refer to me as Dr. Daccardi, many call me “Dr. Jac,” and sometimes “Jac” as I believe that it is our collaborative effort, rather than being separated by formalities, that will accomplish the sometimes Herculean task of repairing one’s health. As a second-generation doctor, I am dedicated to a patient- or client-centered approach to healing, understanding fully that one size truly does not fit all.

I possess an intuitive gift for understanding complex health challenges, and to those who seek my care, I can in a common sense way bring clarity to the nature of the problem. My unique investigative and inventive approach is part healer, part teacher, part artist, part investigator and part mad scientist. My practice is a fusion of the disciplines of chiropractic, functional medicine, functional neurology, structural biomechanics, the energetic principles of acupuncture and the role of emotions in health.
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By taking these things into consideration, the whole person can then come back into balance and experience vibrant health. 
Dr. Adrian Fletcher
Licensed Psychologist and Certified Eye Movement and Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapist  
About Adrian
Dr. Adrian Fletcher works with individuals, couples and families who are high functioning & successful in many areas of their lives.  She works with people who are looking for assistance on their journey to have less stress and anxiety, improved relationships, and freedom from emotional pain and/or a past trauma. She firmly believes that collaboration, self-care & self-compassion are the necessary tools to heal.
 
People seek out Dr. Fletcher when they are not feeling well or when they want to take themselves to the next level of personal growth. You might feel stressed/anxious about a number of different things: a life change; career issue; college; self-esteem struggles; body-image/weight; a relationship/family concern; grief / loss; or you might feel stuck as a result of suffering a trauma. For the past 15+ years, in various roles and settings in the mental health field, Dr. Fletcher has assisted others on their path to creating a more fulfilling life. She offers a kind, empathic, relational approach to healing in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere.
 
Dr. Fletcher’s Mission Statement:
“My mission is to help people create their very best selves by assisting them in recovering from stress and other difficult emotions or situations, whether that stress is caused by excessive anxiety, self-doubt, shame, grief, depression, family conflict, past abuse or fear. To further be a guide in assisting people in accepting their humanness and creating boundaried healthy lifestyles while learning balance, grace, dignity, integrity and self-compassion”.
 
Please call her directly at (480) 448-5547or visit her website to learn more about her services or to request an appointment ​
Jordana Gainsworth, BD, DNM, CBP, ACIC
Bioenergetic Medicine and Research
About Jordana
Jordana started her journey at UCLA in pre-med. She then undertook advanced studies abroad with pioneers of energy medicine, and then she completed her studies with a degree in BioEnergetic Medicine. She was in private practice in New York City before moving to Scottsdale, AZ. After 22 years of experience, Jordana now specializes in cutting-edge Trauma Resolution using a unique modality she has developed.
 
From Jordana: "Medically we have no idea what emotional and physical trauma truly does to the body, except what can be seen through an MRI, CT Scan and other types of magnetic resonance imaging - none of which are able to show the effects of emotional trauma on the body (no matter the age) - there is no scanning device for that…. yet.  And physical trauma affects us at a much more diverse level than any of those devices are able to show at this time."
 
This is where Jordana comes in. She is able to find where those traumas are hiding in your body as, what she calls, “energetic encapsulations”, and remove them by tapping into the body’s innate wisdom. These encapsulations can cause interference in the over-all health and homeostasis of the body, which can lead to you aging faster and possibly developing illnesses unnecessarily. Basically you can have encapsulations lying dormant in your body for years, as the body is great at compensating until it no longer can.  It is then that you will start having symptoms “out of nowhere” such as: depression, anger, tremors, digestive issues, inflammation, cardiovascular issues, autoimmune disease, pain and so forth.
 
Jordana also uses an FDA approved German biofeedback device as an adjunct modality. It emits 33,000 different pulsating electromagnetic frequencies that entrain with the cellular communication pathways. Thereby helping to improve cellular networks throughout the body and jumpstarting our body’s own natural healing process. (NASA has done the greatest studies on this.) Jordana refers to them as HEMFs (Healing ElectroMagnetic Frequencies), as that is what they are. Resonant frequencies are a wonderful, non-invasive way of helping the body to return to a balanced internal environment.
 
With these combined tools, Jordana is very effective in getting results and allaying symptoms that have plagued individuals for years.  She is passionate about serving others in achieving their greatest potential through optimal wellness.

Please give her a call at (480) 272-3558to make an appointment or visit her website (under construction):
Suzanne Shadix
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
About Suzanne
Suzanne Shadix is a board-certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitionerthat has over 23 years of experience in acute medical and advanced practice mental health nursing. She works with adults providing psychiatric evaluation, psychotherapy, and medication management for a variety of mental health symptoms. Her areas of expertise include depression, bipolar, anxiety, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, grief, adult ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and life transitions.

Sometimes we have situations in life when medications are necessary to provide the needed support.  We are grateful to have Suzanne as a part of our team of providers at Creative Healing Solutions in order to help evaluate the need for and provide the management of medication in those situations as they arise.  Her first choice is to not use medications, but she is present to the needs of her patients and is skilled at determining if medications are necessary and which medications to use if they are.

Suzanne currently lives in Scottsdale, AZ with her husband and two kittens.  She loves reading, hiking, traveling, film and live music.

If you are interested in the services that Suzanne offers, please call her directly at (480) 616-9560, or visit her website to learn more &/or to request an appointment: