The Wellsprings Spotlight Series
Connecting Our Community Through Expertise and Collaboration
At Wellsprings Health, we believe exceptional care extends beyond the walls of our practice. Building meaningful relationships with trusted healthcare professionals and wellness practitioners is an important part of our commitment to helping patients achieve their best possible health and well-being.
Our Spotlight Series, hosted by Dr. Leslie Wakefield, introduces you to local professionals who share our passion for improving lives. Through engaging conversations, we explore their areas of expertise, their unique approaches to care, and the ways their services can complement and support your health and wellness journey.
The series also celebrates the value of professional collaboration, bringing our community together through shared knowledge, mutual respect, and a commitment to excellence.
Discover the people, perspectives, and possibilities that make our local wellness community exceptional.
Explore our interviews below or watch the full conversations on our YouTube channel.
Five conversations, five practitioners.
Dr. Safa Maklad, MD
Board certified in family and obesity medicine, on functional and regenerative medicine: hyperbaric oxygen, IV nutrition and peptide therapy.
Olga Proskuryakova
Birth and postpartum doula, founder of MotheRetreat, on what real postpartum support looks like.
Dr. Andrea Orvieto
L.Ac., DACM, Fellow ABORM, on acupuncture for fertility and women’s health.
Ayelet Gottesman
Personal trainer and women’s health coach, on strength training and the pelvic floor.
Dr. Zulianna Ibrahim, MD
Functional and integrative medicine and hormone therapy, on women’s health when the blood work comes back normal.
A referral is only as good as the person behind it.
Most people have been sent somewhere by a provider who never explained why. You leave with a name, a number and no sense of whether this person will listen to you. That is the gap this series was made to close. Every guest is someone Dr. Leslie already trusts with her own patients, and the questions are the ones you would want asked: how do you work, who is this for, and what is outside your scope?
Two things to hold on to as you watch. What each guest describes is their practice, not ours. Wellsprings Health provides one thing, pelvic health physical therapy, one on one in a private room. And nothing said in these conversations is advice about your body. If pain, leaking or a postpartum symptom is what brought you here, Florida is a direct access state and you can book an evaluation without a physician referral.