Plum Spring Clinic

"My experience with Kathleen’s coaching has been transformative and grounding. Her warm presence combined with her guiding intuition helped me move from conditioned reactivity to compassionate and skillful responsiveness. She creates a trusting relational environment that allows one to explore inside with courage, creativity and care. I highly recommend!"

"My experience at Plum Spring Clinic has been wonderful! The clinic is the antithesis of corporate medicine: it is a place of highly skilled, intelligent, and respectful healers who utilize the very best of science to help their patients. They also understand the role of beauty, attitude, intuition, and compassion in promoting wellness. For decades, I had experienced chronic fatigue and I seemed to catch every virus that wandered my way so that I was sometimes bedridden for up to 6 months annually. Dr. Sharpe, Nate and Kathleen were all very helpful in turning this around. Dr. Sharpe listened attentively to my narrative and recommended tests that I had never heard of. The results of his analysis--and the supplements that were recommended--have improved my health enormously. Thank you Dr. Sharpe and thank you Nate for taking the time to educate me about the internal processes that support a healthy human. Thank you Kathleen for recommending the awesome book about implementing mindfulness to change one's mind and body. Your team provided me with treatment that was more comprehensive than any I have ever received in a medical setting. Because of your care I feel ALIVE AGAIN and I am deeply grateful."

"I can say with confidence that Plum Spring Clinic restored my health and my wellbeing. I went to see them after having had unexplained digestive issues on-and-off for at least a year and a half that eventually landed me one day at the nearest ER with sharp abdominal pain. I had a CT scan and was diagnosed with colon inflammation and given a bunch of antibiotics. At that point I had completely lost confidence in trying to get better by going through the regular channels (seeing doctors and getting “medication” treatment at one of the two main medical centers in the area). Knowing what I was after, a friend mentioned Plum Spring Clinic. I immediately read every word they had in their website, but what made me call and make the appointment was the little video of Dr. Sharp explaining the process he himself went through, that led him to abandon traditional occidental medicine, do research on other ways of healing and open his own health center. The minute I stepped in their beautiful Medicine House, set in a gorgeously landscaped large yard, I felt that this was the right place for me. Immediately after my initial appointment with Dr. Sharp, where he proposed what he considered the right length of treatment and the cost and briefly described it, I made my decision to go ahead and sign the contract. I had such confidence in him and Nate (who I also met that first day) that I made a really big commitment of time and money without major hesitation. I knew that the nutrition part and the supplements were a big part of it and that there would also be health coaching and sessions of Somatic Experiencing. I knew that they were going to look at my whole lifestyle - physically, mentally and spiritually and try to show me better ways of going about things, but I didn’t know how they were going to do it. And they delivered. The care I got from Dr Michael Sharp, Nate Kelly (Nutritionist) and Kathleen Williams (Health Coach) was exceptional. My gut is completely healed. But the process was so much more than that. I was at a very crucial time in my life when I started the program, right in the middle of a very difficult personal crisis that I’m sure contributed greatly to my digestive problems. With their expertise and compassion they gave me the tools to have the strength -physical and mental- I needed to go through my crisis and come out on the other side a changed, healed person, inside and out. I will be forever thankful to them."

"Dr. Sharp worked together with me to save my life. I had severe problems with my digestion, had been brushed off and demeaned by a condescending GI specialist at UNC, and had wasted away from an active, vibrant person to a skeleton (less than 100 pounds at 5'9"!!) with a miserable, painful existence in which I was unable to work, see friends, or enjoy life. There was no indication it would ever change, which was terrifying. Dr. Sharp listened to me, treated me like a human being with a contribution to make in the healing process and a life worth saving. The testing he ordered showed very plainly that the GI specialist was wrong - I had contracted a few different parasites and an h pylori infection. This diagnosis saved me - from there I worked with Dr. Sharp to come up with a treatment plan that I was comfortable with and immediately began my journey back to life and health. I am certain if I continued the conventional route, I would have ended up with unnecessary surgery on my intestines and a host of new problems resulting from the side effects of the aggressive pharmaceutical and antibiotic treatments typically prescribed for my condition (and for which Dr. Sharp knew I was a poor candidate in the condition I was in). Instead, I chose a slower route of diet and supplementation, and am all the better for it now. Throughout, Dr. Sharp treated me as a collaborator in my health plan. The new service model at Plum Spring would have been ideal for my situation, and I'm glad it's available to others."