Stephanie Center, founder of Stephanie Center Wellness, seated portrait

Meet Stephanie

I Know What It Feels Like to Lose Your Hair and Get No Answers.

That’s exactly why I built a practice designed to find the answers conventional medicine misses.

OTR/L | FDN-P | Functional Lab Expert | Franklin, TN (Virtual Practice)

The Story

She Had the Training. She Still Couldn’t Find the Answer.

When my hair started falling out in clumps, I thought I’d be able to figure it out quickly. I was a licensed occupational therapist. I knew how to research. I understood the body.

But my labs kept coming back normal. My doctors had no answers. The supplements didn’t work. And every time I pressed for something deeper, I was told I was fine.

I wasn’t fine. And I knew it.

It took years of searching — and eventually going back to school for functional medicine — before I finally understood what was actually happening in my body. When I started running the right labs, looking at the right markers, and addressing the right root causes in the right sequence, something shifted.

My hair grew back.

I believe our bodies were designed to heal. Sometimes they just need the right conditions — and someone who knows where to look.

That realization changed the direction of my entire career. I left my hospital job, built a functional wellness practice, and developed a system specifically for women with hair loss. Because I had been that woman. I knew exactly how dismissed, frustrated, and hopeless the experience felt. And I knew there was a better path.

Why It’s Different Here

This Practice Was Built Around What Actually Works.

Most hair loss advice — from doctors and the internet alike — treats hair loss as a single problem with a single solution. A prescription. A supplement. A topical treatment.

But female hair loss is almost never that simple. It’s a perfect storm of overlapping root causes — hormonal imbalances, gut dysfunction, nutrient deficiencies, thyroid dysregulation, and more — all compounding each other. And the conventional labs ordered in a routine blood draw aren’t designed to find them.

That’s why I use three comprehensive functional labs specifically chosen to surface what standard testing misses. And why every protocol I build is different — because no two women’s root causes are exactly alike, even when their symptoms look identical.

My job isn’t to give you a generic protocol. It’s to find your root cause and build your healing plan — in the right order, with the right support, until your hair comes back.

GI-MAP

Your gut health has more to do with your hair than most people realize. This test maps exactly what’s happening there.

DUTCH Test

A complete picture of your hormone patterns — not just your levels, but how your body is processing and clearing them.

Custom Hair Loss Blood Panel

A comprehensive panel I developed specifically to assess the markers most relevant to hair regrowth — markers most doctors never order.

Education & Credentials

The Training Behind the Work.

Before building this practice, Stephanie spent years working as a licensed occupational therapist in clinical settings — training that shaped how she approaches root-cause problem solving. When conventional answers weren’t enough for her own health, she went back to school for functional medicine and hasn’t looked back.

OTR/L

Licensed Occupational Therapist

FDN-P

Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner

Functional Lab Expert

Specialized training in functional lab interpretation

B.S. Kinesiology

University of Illinois

M.S. Occupational Therapy

Washington University in St. Louis

Virtual Practice

Based in Franklin, TN; serving clients nationwide

Stephanie Center with her husband and two young children, outdoors

A Little More About Me

When I’m Not in Client Sessions…

I’m a mom to two kids — a little girl and a little boy — and most days you can find me either in a Body Pump class at the YMCA or at Herban Market, our favorite local spot for organic, locally sourced food. Franklin, TN is home, and I love it here.

If I’m honest, I didn’t choose this work. It chose me. Losing my hair — and not being able to find anyone who could actually help me fix it — meant I had to figure it out myself. What started as necessity became a calling. I can’t imagine doing anything else.

One of my favorite John Wooden quotes says it better than I can:

“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be.”

John Wooden

That’s what I want for every woman who walks through this practice. Not just answers — but the willingness to try a different path to get there.

Client Love

In Their Words.

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Real Client Message
Screenshot of a real client testimonial message
Real Client Message
Stephanie Center in her kitchen, candid lifestyle photo

My Why

Healing gave me my life back — and I want that for every woman who walks through this door, too.

Ready to Find Out What’s Actually Going On?

Book a free Root Cause Assessment call. You’ll share what’s been going on, I’ll explain how I work, and together we’ll figure out if this is the right fit. No pressure — just clarity.

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