Leading the Way in Functional & Integrated HEALTH-Care!
Carly Willeford, DNP, MS, FNP‑C, RN, BSN, BSW
Founder, Co‑Owner – Coastal Carolinas Integrated Medicine (NC & SC)
About Carly
Carly Willeford is a doctorate‑prepared, board‑certified Nurse Practitioner with more than three decades of clinical, entrepreneurial, and leadership experience. A trailblazer in functional and integrative medicine, she has built a network of successful ventures with her husband Ken Willeford M.D. including:
Coastal Carolinas Integrated Medicine – integrated functional medicine clinics in NC & SC
Coastal Carolinas Interventional Spine – minimally invasive spine‑care centers
Coastal Carolinas Addiction Medicine – evidence‑based outpatient medication assisted therapy, counseling and recovery programs
Education & Research
Bachelor's Social Work/Bachelor's Nursing; Carly began her career in the healthcare space specializing in Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) at UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, and later adult ICU at Memorial Medical Center, Modesto, California.
Master of Science in Nursing, MS, FNP University of North Carolina Wilmington
Master Thesis: Integrated Self-Management Program for Type 2 Diabetes - Nutrition, Exercise, Lifestyle, Spirituality
Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP University of South Carolina– Doctoral Dissertation: Benefits of CoQ10 in Hypertension.
She pursued advanced coursework in genetics, nutrition, epidemiology, health‑policy and health finance, shaping a precision‑medicine approach rooted in nutritional genomics and root‑cause analysis.
Clinical Focus
Carly's life motto is when you jump out of bed to get back to your passion, you'll never work a day in your life! Carly delivers a Health & Wellness program through a reimagined model of Primary Care—one that blends science, soul, and strategy. Her approach integrates advanced gut microbiome, hormone, genetic, and metabolic testing, along with VO₂ and exercise-metabolic profiling (PNOĒ). Clients benefit from precision biomarker tracking, functional lab analysis, and personalized prescriptions for nutrition, movement, and lifestyle. For those needing deeper support, Carly also offers mind-body-spirit counseling to help facilitate true neuro-change. Patients are served both in-house and telehealth across the Carolinas receiving deeply personalized, data-driven care designed to prevent disease and restore lifelong vitality.
Personal Life & Passions
Married 35 years, Carly and Ken have six grown children—three daughters are physicians, one son is a Navy Special Operations corpsman, and her two twins are currently university students.
A lifelong athlete, she enjoys tennis, golf, cycling, running, and gardening! A self‑described “plant science nerd,” Carly’s library spans wheatgrass to seagrass, neurotransmitters to nootropics. She is an outspoken advocate for reducing toxic burdens in our food, products, and environment. She teaches chronic‑disease reversal begins in the home by raising each generation of children with an understanding of health by modeling healthy diets, exercise and spirituality. It must be woven into the family lifestyle. Carly has always maintained and integrated higher standards in her home from the time her crew could eat; food choices, water quality, personal care products, exercise, stress reduction strategies, and creating a cultue of love and diversity. Carly teaches the absolute highest call in life is being a parent. You become who you hang around with and it is the parents who are their child's first best friend for life!
Carly believes it is the family unit that will change the course of mental health, cardiovascular disease, dementia, obesity, diabetes and cancers by raising a generation of healthy lifestyle seekers; diet, nutrition, exercise, love and spirituality. We must never "normalize" endless medications to solve symptoms, chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery as the only answers, or marginalize those that suffer with addictions, depression, and chronic diseases.
Redefining Primary Care:
Carly champions a model in which preventive, data‑rich functional medicine replaces the “15‑minute, symptom‑silo” status quo.
Affordability & Access:
Her business model tackles the U.S. medical‑debt crisis by offering transparent, membership‑based care outside traditional insurance barriers.
Education:
From community talks to social media, she illuminates concepts such as phytonutrients, gut‑microbiome balance, and healthy aging—translating complex science into actionable steps that the average person can afford.
Spiritual Health:
Carly believes that no personalized health journey is complete without cultivating inner spiritual peace that reconnects with the natural world. Her lifelong study of scripture and passion for botanical medicine inform her conviction that the body’s innate capacity to heal is amplified by time in nature, mindful reflection, and the daily choice to nourish both soil and soul!
Carly Willeford’s mission is to help individuals—and the healthcare system itself—break free from a “sick society,” mindset and reclaim vibrant health through science, nature, and purposeful long-life living.
Future Plans? When and if, Carly Willeford ever retires from what she calls her "retirement" practice you will still find her chasing after those rare and exotic medicinal herbs and preaching the soil-soul connection of plant science to her family. She is passionate about the study of the ancient hebrew language and traveling to biblical archeological sites.
What is a Retirement Healthcare Practice?
Its the best ever! It's not work its passion and I'll show up around noon-ish (that is if I am not traveling) to meet with my "appointment only members" after I have EXERCISED and prepared my gut microbiome food for the day. Early mornings is coffee and hanging out with two cats & dog and most importantly I'll spend early hours in the garden and never miss spiritual meditational time. Neurological health is critical as we age and stress is not your friend!
I put "health" back in healthcare for myself and for my clients! I am just getting started with teaching the biohacking aging gut microbiome principles and teaching my clients how to grow biologically younger each birthday! It's so much fun to measure the results....and you can come and join in all the health care fun. We make the work fun! Lifestyle changes work and chronic disease steals your joy, time and money..
All my adult children know that even at the end of the end of days - they'll still find me following in the footsteps of Isaac Newton's greatest interest "engrossed in interpreting the book of Daniel which has fascinated me since youth! In mid September, we'll be doing a community bible study on Friday nights of this facinating book of Daniel!
Your greatest days are ahead of you! #BeThere
Carly Willeford, DNP, MS, FNP‑C, RN, BSN, BSW
Founder, Co‑Owner – Coastal Carolinas Integrated Medicine (NC & SC)
About Carly
Carly Willeford is a doctorate‑prepared, board‑certified Nurse Practitioner with more than three decades of clinical, entrepreneurial, and leadership experience. A trailblazer in functional and integrative medicine, she has built a network of successful ventures with her husband Ken Willeford M.D. including:
Coastal Carolinas Integrated Medicine – integrated functional medicine clinics in NC & SC
Coastal Carolinas Interventional Spine – minimally invasive spine‑care centers
Coastal Carolinas Addiction Medicine – evidence‑based outpatient medication assisted therapy, counseling and recovery programs
Education & Research
Bachelor's Social Work/Bachelor's Nursing; Carly began her career in the healthcare space specializing in Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) at UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, and later adult ICU at Memorial Medical Center, Modesto, California.
Master of Science in Nursing, MS, FNP University of North Carolina Wilmington
Master Thesis: Integrated Self-Management Program for Type 2 Diabetes - Nutrition, Exercise, Lifestyle, Spirituality
Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP University of South Carolina– Doctoral Dissertation: Benefits of CoQ10 in Hypertension.
She pursued advanced coursework in genetics, nutrition, epidemiology, health‑policy and health finance, shaping a precision‑medicine approach rooted in nutritional genomics and root‑cause analysis.
Clinical Focus
Carly's life motto is when you jump out of bed to get back to your passion, you'll never work a day in your life! Carly delivers a Health & Wellness program through a reimagined model of Primary Care—one that blends science, soul, and strategy. Her approach integrates advanced gut microbiome, hormone, genetic, and metabolic testing, along with VO₂ and exercise-metabolic profiling (PNOĒ). Clients benefit from precision biomarker tracking, functional lab analysis, and personalized prescriptions for nutrition, movement, and lifestyle. For those needing deeper support, Carly also offers mind-body-spirit counseling to help facilitate true neuro-change. Patients are served both in-house and telehealth across the Carolinas receiving deeply personalized, data-driven care designed to prevent disease and restore lifelong vitality.
Personal Life & Passions
Married 35 years, Carly and Ken have six grown children—three daughters are physicians, one son is a Navy Special Operations corpsman, and her two twins are currently university students.
A lifelong athlete, she enjoys tennis, golf, cycling, running, and gardening! A self‑described “plant science nerd,” Carly’s library spans wheatgrass to seagrass, neurotransmitters to nootropics. She is an outspoken advocate for reducing toxic burdens in our food, products, and environment. She teaches chronic‑disease reversal begins in the home by raising each generation of children with an understanding of health by modeling healthy diets, exercise and spirituality. It must be woven into the family lifestyle. Carly has always maintained and integrated higher standards in her home from the time her crew could eat; food choices, water quality, personal care products, exercise, stress reduction strategies, and creating a cultue of love and diversity. Carly teaches the absolute highest call in life is being a parent. You become who you hang around with and it is the parents who are their child's first best friend for life!
Carly believes it is the family unit that will change the course of mental health, cardiovascular disease, dementia, obesity, diabetes and cancers by raising a generation of healthy lifestyle seekers; diet, nutrition, exercise, love and spirituality. We must never "normalize" endless medications to solve symptoms, chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery as the only answers, or marginalize those that suffer with addictions, depression, and chronic diseases.
Redefining Primary Care:
Carly champions a model in which preventive, data‑rich functional medicine replaces the “15‑minute, symptom‑silo” status quo.
Affordability & Access:
Her business model tackles the U.S. medical‑debt crisis by offering transparent, membership‑based care outside traditional insurance barriers.
Education:
From community talks to social media, she illuminates concepts such as phytonutrients, gut‑microbiome balance, and healthy aging—translating complex science into actionable steps that the average person can afford.
Spiritual Health:
Carly believes that no personalized health journey is complete without cultivating inner spiritual peace that reconnects with the natural world. Her lifelong study of scripture and passion for botanical medicine inform her conviction that the body’s innate capacity to heal is amplified by time in nature, mindful reflection, and the daily choice to nourish both soil and soul!
Carly Willeford’s mission is to help individuals—and the healthcare system itself—break free from a “sick society,” mindset and reclaim vibrant health through science, nature, and purposeful long-life living.
Future Plans? When and if, Carly Willeford ever retires from what she calls her "retirement" practice you will still find her chasing after those rare and exotic medicinal herbs and preaching the soil-soul connection of plant science to her family. She is passionate about the study of the ancient hebrew language and traveling to biblical archeological sites.
What is a Retirement Healthcare Practice?
Its the best ever! It's not work its passion and I'll show up around noon-ish (that is if I am not traveling) to meet with my "appointment only members" after I have EXERCISED and prepared my gut microbiome food for the day. Early mornings is coffee and hanging out with two cats & dog and most importantly I'll spend early hours in the garden and never miss spiritual meditational time. Neurological health is critical as we age and stress is not your friend!
I put "health" back in healthcare for myself and for my clients! I am just getting started with teaching the biohacking aging gut microbiome principles and teaching my clients how to grow biologically younger each birthday! It's so much fun to measure the results....and you can come and join in all the health care fun. We make the work fun! Lifestyle changes work and chronic disease steals your joy, time and money..
All my adult children know that even at the end of the end of days - they'll still find me following in the footsteps of Isaac Newton's greatest interest "engrossed in interpreting the book of Daniel which has fascinated me since youth! In mid September, we'll be doing a community bible study on Friday nights of this facinating book of Daniel!
Your greatest days are ahead of you! #BeThere
Coastal Carolinas