Stefanie Jennings, FNP-C, IFMCP

12/04/2025

Jennings Health’s NEW OFFICE is open!

I’m so excited to share the new space with you! 🌊🤍

Online booking for established patients is open for December through February.

10/18/2025

Jennings Health’s new Office Assistant is hard at work 🤍🌊

His checklist between today’s patients:
☑️ Tummy time💪🏻
☑️ Milk break 🍼🤱🏻
☑️ Nap 💤

10/16/2025

Sometimes life throws a curveball — our sublease ended unexpectedly, and Jennings Health is looking for a new home 🌊🤍

If you know of a lease or sublease (~250–750 sq ft) in Alexandria or Arlington, available beginning Nov–Jan, please reach out!

10/08/2024

We’re getting ready for you at Jennings Health!
- Opening October 15th -

10/03/2024

✨ Waitlist Update in your INBOX ✨

08/01/2024

06/17/2024

Don't Give Up Your Dream -

They said you had to pay your dues working on a Med-Surg floor as a new grad.
I said "I'm only going to work in the ICU" and was offered a position in a Level l ICU.

They said it would be years before I would be confident in the ICU setting, especially in a regional referral center.
I took on a Charge Nurse and Preceptor role within 1 year. I certified as a CCRN a few months later.

They said I was crazy to have my baby at home; that I am "a nurse and should know better."
I went on to have a dream home birth with the best midwife. It was my gateway to all things integrative medicine. I never looked back.

They said it was crazy to apply to graduate school to become an NP when I had a toddler and one on the way.
I applied anyway.

I willed my second-born into existence 2 weeks early, because I *really* didn't want him to be born on his due date, the same day I had to start 2 new classes (Advanced Pharmacology and Medical Research).

They said going through functional medicine training during NP school was insane; that I needed time to get my feet wet before l'd ever be able to synthesize that level of complexity.
I big, fat did it ANYWAY!
I went for 5 days to The Institute for Functional Medicine's AFMCP and pumped during every lecture break so that my baby would have milk for the next day.
I'm certain I was the only NP student there.

I kept working part-time as a Unit Supervisor in a Neuro
ICU. Everyone there thought that I should be a Critical Care NP. A few nurses decided this made me no longer worthy of their friendship. "Family NPs are dumb and their jobs are boring," they said.
I continued cranking through IFM's advanced practice modules over the next 2 years, simultaneously working my way through school. I accrued 139 CEs in functional medicine before graduation.

With a lot of prayer & my husband cheering me on.
And a preschooler and a toddler.
And a miscarriage.
And a global pandemic.
A 3.9 GPA (damn that +/- scale).
And an integrative medicine job offer waiting for me.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't do something.
Don't give up on your dream.

🤍Stef, NP

04/26/2024

Kids Multivitamin ↓

I am a functional medicine nurse practitioner who sees a LOT of toddlers & kids in my practice.

I am so excited to have found a kids multivitamin that:

❇️ Has an ideal ratio of essential multivitamins, minerals, & trace minerals

❇️ Tastes great

❇️ Is sugar free

Most of all, it is from a brand that I TRUST!

04/20/2024

Get to Know Me ↓

Hi, I’m Stefanie Jennings; my friends call me Stef. I’m a nurse practitioner (NP) who takes care of families and specializes in integrative and functional medicine.

Since I’ve never written an intro before, here are a few things about me:

* Where am I from?
I grew up on the NY/NJ border, around 30 miles from NYC.

* Where did I receive my education?
I attended for undergrad degrees in Biology (‘10) and Nursing (‘12). I attended for grad school to become a Family Nurse Practitioner (‘20).

* Where have I worked?
I worked as an ICU nurse (CCRN) for 7 years at a level 1 trauma center in Northern Virginia. Once I became an NP, I joined a private family practice which specializes in integrative and functional medicine.

* Who are your people?
I’ve been with Robert since forever (together for 20 years and married for 12 years). We have 3 kids, ages 8, 6, and 2.75.

* What else do you want to know? 🙂

- Stef, NP 🤍