Stephanie Jackson | By Design Wellness
Hi! My name is Stephanie Jackson. I am a board-certified integrative health practitioner, registered holistic nutrition practitioner, and provider of comprehensive wellness bloodwork in both Canada and the United States. Based in Ontario, Canada, I work with clients across provinces and the U.S. I am able to order custom and comprehensive bloodwork through accredited labs near you when appropriate.
For over a decade, I have worked one-on-one with clients to help them clinically understand blood chemistry, identify functional red flags long before disease develops, and uncover the root imbalances that often go unseen in conventional care. My work focuses on personalized, foundational healing — designing nutrition, lifestyle, and circadian rhythm-based protocols that fit real lives, real seasons, and real capacity.
I specialize in complex and persistent cases, including difficult gut health patterns, recurrent candida and SIBO, hormonal imbalance, metabolic stress, and foundational lifestyle nutrition. Everything I do is individualized.
My training includes integrative health practitioner certification (IHP Levels I and II), advanced holistic nutrition certification through the Global Association of Integrative Nutrition GAIN, NASM personal training, advanced phlebotomy, and advanced functional blood chemistry mastery. My approach bridges conventional, integrative, and functional frameworks — not to replace medical care, but to move toward more complete, whole-person healthcare that involves physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness.
Faith, Formation, and the Body
My work today is also shaped by faith.
After years immersed in both conventional and alternative wellness spaces, my path ultimately led me to Christ in midlife. What I discovered was not a separation between faith and the body, but a profound integration.
Scripture speaks often of light and darkness, seasons and waiting, rest and renewal. These themes are not only spiritual — they are physiological. The rhythms God established in creation shape our nervous system, our hormones, our metabolism, and our capacity to heal.
I now approach health as a formative process — one that includes emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being alongside biology. Circadian rhythm, seasonal living, and embodied practices are not trends to me; they are reflections of design.
This perspective informs everything I create — from one-on-one work to my courses — and invites people into a slower, more grounded way of caring for their health.
Mission
My mission is to help individuals take back control of their health without confusion or fear — restoring clarity, rhythm, and resilience so healing becomes sustainable rather than exhausting.
Whether through personalized consultation, seasonal frameworks, or structured courses, my work is rooted in one belief: the body is not broken — it is responding to its environment.
Healing begins when we align with the design that was there all along.
Why I Do This Work
On average, it takes over seven years for someone to receive a diagnosis for a chronic condition. Through my own health journey and through the experiences of people I love, I came to understand why.
I was searching for root-cause answers within a system that was not designed or trained to look for them.
Despite repeated appointments, referrals, and long waits to see specialists, the deeper questions remained unanswered. Lab work appeared “normal.” Symptoms persisted. The information available online was conflicting and overwhelming, creating more stress rather than clarity.
What I didn’t understand at the time was that conventional reference ranges are based on population averages — not optimal function — and that being told “everything looks fine” does not always mean the body is well.
I felt confused, worried, and powerless — not because anyone had failed me, but because I lacked a guide and a framework that could explain why my body was responding the way it was.
Instead of remaining stuck, I chose to learn. In my mid-thirties, I returned to school and trained under mentors who were doing the kind of work I had been searching for — work that looked at timing, patterns, environment, and physiology together.
That decision changed everything.
I am also a mother, living these rhythms imperfectly and practically — learning, adjusting, and returning to what matters season by season.