Clinical focus & approach
How Dr. Lawrence practices
- Time to look properly. Longer visits leave room to hear the full history and examine what others may have moved past.
- The whole picture. Your physiology, history, labs and the context around all of it — the plan is built on the whole picture, not a single symptom.
- Labs in context. Results are interpreted alongside your story, not read off a printout in isolation.
- A plan that evolves. We form a working explanation, act on it, and adjust as new information and results come in.
Dr. Derek Lawrence is the founder and owner of Revive Naturopathic Medicine. He grew up around medicine — his father was a radiologist — and has spent his career helping patients take an informed, active role in their health.
His first priority is getting to know you: how you came to feel this way, the constellation of factors that brought you here, and what might be keeping you here. That means your physiology, your history, your labs, and the context around all of it — because the plan that follows should be built on the whole picture, not a single symptom.
From there, the work is problem-solving. Longer visits give him the time to look harder than a typical appointment allows — to connect findings others may have moved past, form a working explanation, and test it as results come in.
Beyond any single visit or plan, his aim is to be an ally and a resource for your health in totality — a steady, honest point of view on what is worth pursuing next.
“You should have a real relationship with your doctor — a professional one, but more than a five-minute exam and a lab printout.”