Women’s Integrative Oncology
Empowering patients to take charge of their health with confidence, courage, and compassion
Our integrative oncology approach provides comprehensive, patient-centered support that complements conventional cancer treatments. We are here to support you in choosing an integrative treatment plan that aligns with your needs, ensuring you feel safe, empowered, and well cared for. Our commitment is to guide and encourage you every step of the way, helping you maintain strength, confidence, and vitality throughout your cancer journey and beyond.
How Integrative Oncology Supports You
Supporting You Through All Stages
Active Cancer Support
Providing naturopathic and integrative therapies alongside conventional treatments.
Survivorship
Helping individuals restore their strength, improve their immune surveillance and navigate the long-term effects of treatment
Mind-Body Medicine and Trauma Recovery
Addressing emotional well-being through mindfulness, stress management, and trauma-informed care
Prevention
Empowering patients with lifestyle and natural medicine strategies to reduce cancer risk and promote lasting health. Through this holistic framework of providing comprehensive integrative oncology, Amber Wellness Group is here for you.
Active Cancer
Amber Wellness Group offers integrative oncology care to support patients undergoing active cancer treatment. Our approach complements conventional treatments with personalized naturopathic therapies aimed at improving quality of life, managing side effects, and enhancing overall well-being. Services include oncology nutrition, botanical medicine, mind-body therapies, IV therapy and collaborative care with oncology teams. The goal is to help patients feel stronger and more in control of their treatment journey. Initial visits involve a comprehensive medical review and a 90-minute office visit to create an individualized care plan. Amber Wellness Group is dedicated to empowering patients to thrive every step of the way.
Survivorship
Amber Wellness Group’s Cancer Survivorship Care program supports patients in transitioning from active treatment to a life of renewed health and vitality. Their integrative approach addresses the physical, emotional, and psychological effects of cancer, helping survivors manage long-term side effects, reduce recurrence risks, and restore overall well-being. Services include regular office visits and lab work, adrenal and energy restoration, pelvic health therapies, and lifestyle optimization through nutrition, sleep, and stress management. These personalized care plans aim to enhance resilience, improve quality of life, and empower survivors to thrive with confidence and purpose.
Mind Body Medicine and Trauma Recovery
Amber Wellness Group’s Mind-Body Medicine program helps cancer survivors heal from the emotional and psychological trauma of their diagnosis and treatment. Through trauma-informed care and mindfulness practices, our practitioners guide patients in reducing anxiety, fear, and grief while restoring balance and emotional resilience. Survivorship support focuses on mindfulness meditation techniques that empower individuals to navigate stress, improve adrenal health, and enhance overall well-being. By strengthening the mind-body connection, patients can move forward with greater ease, acceptance, and inner peace, fostering long-term healing and recovery.
Prevention
Naturopathic medicine emphasizes a holistic approach to cancer prevention by addressing the root causes of disease and supporting the body’s natural healing processes. It integrates evidence-based lifestyle interventions, including nutrition, exercise, stress management, and detoxification, to create an internal environment that discourages cancer development. If you have a family history of cancer and are looking to reduce your cancer risk, our team of naturopathic providers focuses on optimizing immune function, balancing hormones, and minimizing exposure to environmental toxins, all of which play crucial roles in cancer prevention. By promoting overall wellness and identifying individual risk factors, Amber Wellness Group empowers patients to take proactive steps in reducing their cancer risk while enhancing their long-term health.
Our Focus Areas
Breast Cancer
Uterine and Endometrial Cancer
Ovarian Cancer
Cervical Cancer
What to Expect
An essential part of your cancer journey is advocating for your health and wellness goals. By clearly defining your priorities, working with a supportive team, and understanding each step of your care plan, you can move forward with confidence, knowing you are well cared for every step of the way.
Initial Consult
Initial consultation includes personalized support, covering a comprehensive review of your chart, pathology and lab review; a detailed review of your health goals and treatment options; and follow-up coordination with your oncology team.
Lab Testing
We will order a comprehensive lab workup, including familiar lab values and specialized tests to monitor inflammation and other key markers that give us insight into the specific physiology of your cancer. These insights will help guide your diagnosis and treatment plan.
Personalized Treatment Plan
Our integrative naturopathic treatment plan provides compassionate, personalized support to help you feel secure, empowered, and well cared for through each phase of your cancer journey. We work alongside you to create a treatment approach that aligns with your needs, integrating naturopathic medical therapies with your conventional treatment plan.
Our Treatment Toolkit
Diet & Nutrition
Amber Wellness Group provides individualized oncology nutrition and dietary support tailored to each patient’s treatment and diagnosis. Recognizing that there is no one-size-fits-all diet for cancer, our approach focuses on creating personalized nutrition plans to help sustain strength, energy, and overall well-being throughout the cancer treatment process.
Supplements & Herbal Remedies
Amber Wellness Group offers naturopathic therapies, including supplemental and botanical medicine, homeopathy, and subcutaneous mistletoe therapy. Our team is trained to ensure that herbs and supplements do not interfere with the goals of radiation, immunotherapy, hormone blockers and chemotherapy. We carefully assess each treatment plan to make sure that what you take is the best choice for supporting your health, managing side effects, and, in some cases, improving treatment response.
Restorative Therapies and Mind-Body Practices
Amber Wellness Group offers Mind-Body Medicine services, including meditation, mindfulness, trauma-sensitive care, and stress reduction programs to promote holistic healing and enhance immune surveillance. By helping patients move out of stress, trauma and survival mode, these therapies support the body’s natural ability to rest, heal and begin to restore immune function.
IV Therapy
Amber Wellness Group offers IV therapy, including nutrient replenishment, high-dose ascorbic acid (HD-IVC), and mistletoe therapy. These treatments support immune system activation, and enhance overall well-being. HD-IVC is synergistic with most chemotherapies, aiding its effectiveness while protecting healthy cells and targeting cancer cells, thus providing a comprehensive approach to integrative cancer care.
Dr Lisa Dickinson, ND Integrative Oncology Provider
If you’ve been diagnosed with a female-specific breast or reproductive cancer, we’re here to listen, understand your unique needs, and help you find answers.
Dr. Lisa’s practice philosophy is rooted in compassion, integrity, and knowledge. She is deeply committed to guiding women through every stage of their health journey—from prevention to diagnosis, treatment, and back to living their healthiest lives again. She blends the heart and science of medicine offering compassionate, patient-centered naturopathic oncology care. She incorporates mind-body techniques, nutrition, and naturopathic therapies to meet each patient’s unique needs. Dr. Lisa is a trained mindfulness teacher and blends the approaches from her teachers Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield with the trauma recovery work of Jim Gordon from the Center for Mind Body Medicine.
Dr. Lisa’s care style focuses on honesty, compassion, and steadfast advocacy for women’s health. She authentically connects with patients during their most vulnerable moments, she provides unwavering support.
With a significant family history of cancer, Dr. Lisa intimately understands the physical, emotional, and mental toll that a cancer diagnosis takes on patients and their loved ones. Her work is inspired by courageous women who have fought through their cancer diagnosis and faced their diagnoses with strength and found hope, healing, and improved quality of life through integrative oncology care.
What our patients are saying
Dr. Lisa has been helping me with my condition for almost a year. She has given me a quality of life that I did not think would be possible. She is knowledgeable and also caring and a friend. Dr. Meghan is just as amazing and helpful! From the moment I walk in the door Michelle the receptionist greets me with a smile and is caring. Can’t say enough good things about Amber Wellness Group!
S.H.
“Courageous” … is a perfect word to describe what you do, every single day, and what your staff does, every single day, and what we, as cancer recipients, must embrace, every single day … I am so thankful I found my way to your clinic and that you are here in Portland, and you are looking at everything…everything…it is all I have wanted for five years.
Our integrative oncology blog posts
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