Welcome to Dr. Godenick Wellness Center
Where Patient Centered Care is Valued & Embraced.
The heart and soul of my Naturopathic care is centered on getting to know my patients, as if I am joining them on a healing journey, empowering my patients to make informed decisions about their health, assisting my patients to find the underlying causes of their health concerns, identifying and removing obstacles to healing and optimal wellness, promoting their body’s innate healing ability, and recommending safe and effective personalized natural therapeutics to achieve their optimal vitality.
About Dr. Godenick
A Naturopathic Doctor (N.D.) and Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac.), Dr. Godenick is nationally certified acupuncturist in the state of New Jersey, and a licensed Naturopathic Doctor in the District of Columbia. Dr. Godenick focuses on Metabolic Syndrome (weight management, obesity, prediabetes, diabetes), cardiovascular diseases, chronic fatigue, thyroid disorders, chronic pain, digestive disorders, anxiety, depression, allergies, autoimmune diseases, and chronic disease prevention. Following the adage “give a man fish, he eats for a day; teach a man how to fish, he never goes hungry”, Dr Godenick teaches his patients how to LIVE differently–how to buy, cook, and consume foods, how to choose clinically proven nutritional supplements, how to sleep better, how to think better. In short, how to become vibrantly healthy!
Services
Dr. Godenick Wellness Center (DGWC) offers full-service holistic primary health care with several natural treatment options including clinical nutrition, botanical medicine, lifestyle counseling, physical medicine, acupuncture, hydrotherapy, to name a few. At DGWC, we offer an individualized comprehensive evaluation and treatment approach to health & wellness for each patient, using a combination of ancient Eastern Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Western Naturopathic Medicine. With the use of modern comprehensive laboratory tests, Dr. Godenick can provide you with an in-depth view of your overall health status and will be able to uncover and treat the underlying causes of your health issues with an individualized comprehensive natural treatment plan.
The Mission
To educate individuals on health care options, their risks and benefits; to empower the individual to accept full responsibility for his/her own health; to assist in the healing journey afforded the individual by his/her particular health needs; to “walk the talk” in my own life, modeling healthy behavior for mind, body, and spirit to my patients, co-workers, and colleagues. If you would like to gain massive mental clarity, outrageous energy, increased strength, optimal weight, excellent digestive health, freedom from aches, pains, and stiff joints, improved immunity, and strive to achieve optimal wellness, then Dr. Godenick Wellness Center (DGWC) wants to help you today! Dr. Godenick has over 10 years of clinical experience in Naturopathic Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and has helped thousands of patients over the years.
My Approach & Values
I can help your body reach its maximum potential. Your body is made for optimal health and will strive for that state when it is allowed to function freely in its natural environment. You can restore and re-align your body's natural balance if your body receives the right nutrients that it needs. Our natural metabolic and enzymatic processes have been developed over thousands of years to function in harmony with the ecology of our planet. Unfortunately, the current health care and food production systems do not promote this natural harmony. In fact, they have profoundly disrupted it for most Americans.
For the past thirty years, health care costs have been doubling every five years. During this time, the health care model in this country has been based on an allopathic, or drug treatment/germ theory of medicine. This model, with an emphasis on antibiotics and chemical drugs along with non-rotative, intensive chemical agriculture and livestock practices is at the foundation of our current health care cost crisis. Medical clinics and pharmaceuticals are not providing the answer to this pressing health crisis.
However there is a better way to live. You can feel better each morning and achieve optimal wellness. One of the most important things you can do is to get your body the nutrition it needs to live a happy, healthy lifestyle, including over 90 essential nutrients your body requires (but probably doesn't get) each and every day. Comprehensive laboratory workups can also help address the underlying causes of health concerns. To aid my patients futher, I have found and recommended several superior quality supplemental product lines available to help you live a long, healthy, and happy life.
Principles of
Naturopathic Medicine
The Healing Power of Nature (Vis Medicatrix Naturae)
Naturopathic medicine recognizes an inherent self-healing process in people that is ordered and intelligent. Naturopathic physicians act to identify and remove obstacles to healing and recovery, and to facilitate and augment this inherent self-healing process.
Identify and Treat the Causes (Tolle Causam)
The naturopathic physician seeks to identify and remove the underlying causes of illness rather than to merely eliminate or suppress symptoms.
First Do No Harm (Primum Non Nocere)
Naturopathic physicians follow three guidelines to avoid harming the patient:
- Utilize methods and medicinal substances which minimize the risk of harmful side effects, using the least force necessary to diagnose and treat;
- Avoid when possible the harmful suppression of symptoms; and
- Acknowledge, respect, and work with individuals’ self-healing process.
Treat the Whole Person
Naturopathic physicians treat each patient by taking into account individual physical, mental, emotional, genetic, environmental, social, and other factors. Since total health also includes spiritual health, naturopathic physicians encourage individuals to pursue their personal spiritual development.
Prevention
Naturopathic physicians emphasize the prevention of disease by assessing risk factors, heredity and susceptibility to disease, and by making appropriate interventions in partnership with their patients to prevent illness.
Contact Us
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For emergencies call 911 or visit your nearest hospital
Clinic Hours:
Tuesday and Friday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
NOTE: Dr. Godenick currently offers only virtual visits.