About the Doctors
Marie Benkley, ND,
Dr. Marie Benkley believes in the inner healing intelligence and wisdom of the body. She utilizes therapies that promote the body’s innate capacity to heal, while supporting you in identifying and removing obstacles to vibrant health. Her approach is holistic, understanding the connection between physical, mental, and emotional well-being. She strives to listen deeply, understand your unique story, and work with you to develop an individualized treatment plan. She practices as a specialist in natural medicine.
Dr. Benkley has a passion for and clinical focus in mental & emotional health. Other areas for which people commonly seek her support include (but are not limited to) digestive health, cardio-metabolic health, and hormone health. Modalities that she uses include herbal medicine, homeopathic medicine, nutrition, counseling, and pharmaceutical medications, when appropriate.
Dr. Benkley earned her Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine (N.D.) from National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR, where she also completed 2 years of postdoctoral residency. Prior to medical school, she received a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University, where she double majored in Biology and Community Health.
Outside of her professional life, Dr. Benkley is an avid reader, backpacking enthusiast, leisurely gardener, and wannabe musician. She loves motorcycles and riding down long, open roads.
Dr Alicia Spalding, ND, LMP, Herbal Medicine Farmer
Nature Nurture Farmacy - Heal. Grow. Flourish.
Dr. Alicia Spalding was born and raised in Lewis County. After high school, she earned her undergraduate degree from Oregon State University where she studied Biological Sciences and Psychology. She then went on to graduate from Bastyr University in 2016 with a Doctorate in Naturopathy. She has been a licensed Naturopathic Physician in the state of Washington for the past four years. Dr. Alicia has been running her own private practice in Chehalis before joining Chehalis Naturopathic.
She believes the body is incredibly powerful and when we remove obstacles to cure and provide the foundations of health needed to thrive, amazing things happen. With this philosophy, each treatment plan is tailored to fit the individual who is seeking care. A main focus of Dr. Alicia's is on making sure foundations of health are strong which include sleep, nutrition, mental-emotional health, social support, and more.
Dr. Alicia also believes in order for individuals to be healthy we also must heal and support our earth and our communities. To support this belief, she founded Nature Nurture Farmacy (NNF) in 2018, a 501c3 non-profit located in Chehalis. The mission is to build the foundation of health for a stronger community through the use of herbal medicine, sustainable food cultivation and empowering health education. NNF currently supports individual and community gardens, grows herbal medicine, provides reduced cost and free nutraceutical and herbal supplements to the community, teaches educational health classes and more. NNF creates purpose for people in a sustainable, ethical, community-building model.
"My personal mission as your Naturopath is to guide you on your health journey. I believe we all possess inside us what we need to be our best selves; I am here to provide guidance and gentle reminders on how to bring your goodness to fruition." It is Dr. Alicia’s life mission to encourage kindness and happiness and ultimately make the world a better place for all of us to live. Her goal as your partner in your health journey is to provide the education and guidance needed to heal your mind, body and soul, to help you live the best life you can imagine.
Dr. Dawn M. Lamb ND
When you come in for a visit with Dr. Lamb whether it is for an annual exam or anxiety you will be treated with multiple modalities of healing. She uses Homeopathy, Herbs, Breathwork, Counseling, Exercise, Labs, Diet and/or Nutrition to help support your physical, mental/emotional & spiritual aspects of who you are. It is always up to you (the patient) if you wish to use any of the modalities she recommends. But please remember you will more than likely be asked to change some aspect/habit that is no longer worthy of hanging onto and is interfering with the goal of you being healthy. It is changing your life by changing the ways you make choices in your daily routines that lead to lifelong health.
Dr. Lamb has advanced training & certification in Intravenous Nutritional Therapy & Darkfield Microscopy. She also has taken additional training in alternative therapy for addictions, cannabis certification, and phytotherapy. She taught yoga in Alaska and has had a personal meditation and yoga practice for 15 years.
In 2001 Dr. Lamb & her two teen-age children moved up to Soldotna, Alaska and started a private solo practice. Her practice specialized in Family medicine with an emphasis on Women's Health. In 2017 with her children grown and a desire to come back to the west coast she closed her solo practice and moved back to the Pacific Northwest.
All of us can heal if we remove the obstacles to healing whether that be that a way of eating or a way of thinking or perhaps even a way of perceiving what is happening to this amazing gift called the human body.
Dr. Tabitha, ND,
Dr. Tabitha graduated from Bastyr University, School of Naturopathic Medicine in 2004. She completed a BA in Religious Studies, with honors, from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1997. While completing her undergraduate studies, Dr. Tabitha was a research assistant in multiple studies conducted in the Emergency Department at the SUNY Stony Brook Medical Center, and the New York Veteran’s facility located on the same campus.
While physical medicine is Dr. Tabitha’s favorite modality, she is a well-rounded naturopath with emphasis on nutrition, herbal therapy, strategic nutritive supplementation, and lifestyle counseling. Chronic pain, digestive disorders, autoimmune diseases, and neurologic conditions are frequently addressed and treated in partnership with Dr. Tabitha.
Docere is one of the six Naturopathic Principles where the doctor is presented as a teacher. This element of practice is critical, as patient education equals patient success. Dr. Tabitha most often finds herself in the role of teacher and student while learning about her patients and the life experience they bring to the office. This creates a partnership in which careful and thorough understanding leads to successful treatment.
When not in the office, Dr. Tabitha enjoys cooking, conversation, and pleasant surprises. Her hobbies include kung fu, salsa dancing, weight training and meditation. She lives in Seattle with her three fabulous children, various pets, and lots of friends.
Our Services
Naturopathic Medicine
Naturopathic doctors follow natural principles of healing. We believe in the power of natural therapies to help people enhance their self-healing process. We seek to identify causes of illness and to treat the whole person, not just to suppress their symptoms. We are primary care physicians trained to do physical exams, order lab testing and offer a wide variety of natural treatments such as:
Diet and nutrition
Supplementation
Lifestyle modification
Counseling and stress management
Physical medicine
Homeopathy
This is a profound yet gentle system of health care that is more than 200 years old. It is recognized by the World Health Organization as the second largest therapeutic system in use in the world. It is medicine that can treat people with both acute and chronic illnesses. It takes into account your individuality based on your physical, mental and emotional aspects and treats you by stimulating your body's own healing powers using very small doses of medicine.
Botanical Medicine
Also known as herbal medicine, this is a system of healing that uses plants as medicine. It is the therapeutic use of food and plants to treat illness and begin the process of wellness in a non-toxic and safe manner. Herbal medicine is a natural effective alternative to conventional medication. We have in our dispensary a variety of plant substances such as teas, tinctures, liquid plant extracts, herbal capsules and topicals.
Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy
These are hormones that are chemically identical to the hormones your body produces so are safer and have fewer side effects. Women are seeking a more natural approach to restoring hormonal balance without the risk of cancer. The hormones we prescribe are non-synthetic; they come from natural plant and animal sources which are minimally processed. We also work with compounding pharmacies to customize hormones for your individual needs.
Personalized Medicine
Personalized medicine is a rapidly advancing field of healthcare that uses an individual's unique clinical, genetic, genomic, and environmental information to guide decisions made in regard to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. Given these factors are different for every person, the nature of diseases—including their onset, their course, and how they might respond to medications or other interventions—is as individual as the people who have them.
Insurance
As a courtesy to our Patients, we will verify insurance benefits.
We value efficient handling of insurance claims.
We currently work with the following providers:
- All auto - PIP and 3rd party
- Premera Blue Cross
- Lifewise
- Aetna
- First Choice
- L&I
- Regence Blue Shield
- Uniform
- Group Health Options