Holistic Health Solutions: Your Functional Medicine Doctor for Passaic County, NJ Residents
If you've been bouncing from one specialist to another without finding any solutions that make sense, a functional medicine doctor might be able to help you. At the Center for Integrative & Traditional Medicine (CITM) in Paramus, we help patients across Passaic County discover the underlying cause of chronic symptoms, not simply control them. We don't treat the diagnosis as an entity in its own right, but consider the complex interaction between digestion, hormones, immunity and lifestyle, and construct a treatment plan around the whole person.
About CITM - Passaic County, NJ
Our Passaic County Functional Medicine Team
- Dr. Roman Finn, Functional & Integrative Medicine Specialist – coordinates root cause treatment planning for chronic and autoimmune diseases
- Gastroenterology Specialist – assists with digestive and gut-health issues in the context of the overall functional medicine plan
- Certified Naturopathic Practitioner – adds natural and evidence-based therapies to your care plan
- Certified Nutritionist – develops an individual nutrition plan to support your treatment
Collaborative review of every case: your treatment plan will be based on multiple providers’ input, not just one person’s.
Conditions We Help Manage
Passaic County residents have a variety of functional medicine issues that our team of doctors address, such as:
- Digestive disorders – Irritable Bowel Syndrome, acid reflux, bloating, food sensitivities
- Autoimmune conditions – Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, celiac disease
- Hormonal imbalance – thyroid issues, adrenal fatigue, perimenopause and menopause symptoms
- Chronic fatigue and low energy – often associated with digestive, thyroid or nutrient issues
- Inflammatory and pain conditions – fibromyalgia, pain in joints, chronic inflammation
- Metabolic health – insulin resistance, unexplained weight changes
- Stress-related symptoms – anxiety, sleep disturbances, burnout
How Functional Medicine Compares to a Standard Doctor's Visit
| Standard Primary Care Visit | Functional Medicine Consultation | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Diagnose & treat the presenting symptom | Investigate root cause across body systems |
| Visit length | Typically 15–20 minutes | Extended intake, often 60+ minutes |
| Lab approach | Standard reference-range testing | Broader panel with functional interpretation |
| Treatment style | Symptom-targeted (often medication-first) | Personalized plan — nutrition, lifestyle, targeted therapy |
| Best suited for | Acute illness, routine checkups | Chronic, recurring, or unresolved conditions |
Functional Medicine at a Glance for Passaic County
- Approach: Root cause, whole body evaluation, not single symptom treatment.
- For whom it is for: Chronic, unexplained or multi-system symptoms
- Initial visit: Full intake including health history, lifestyle and lab review.
- Typical areas of focus: Gut health, hormone balance, autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue, inflammation
What a Functional Medicine Treatment Plan Might Include
Most treatment plans involve a combination of the following, although no two plans are the same:
- Internal medicine oversight of continuous surveillance and monitoring
- Directed lab testing in addition to hormones, gut markers and nutrient levels
- IV nutrient therapy for deficiencies and energy replenishment
- Nutritional counseling for your particular imbalance
- Stress management and lifestyle coaching to tackle sleep, cortisol & recovery
- Follow-up testing measuring measurable progress over time
Serving Passaic County From Our Paramus Office
CITM is located in Paramus, which is near communities within Passaic County, including Clifton, Paterson, Wayne, Passaic, Totowa, Little Falls, Hawthorne, Woodland Park, and Pompton Lakes. Our patients from Passaic County often reach out to us when traditional treatment is not working for their chronic problem – and they want someone to go the extra mile to examine the underlying “why” of their symptoms.
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Start Your Functional Medicine Evaluation Today
If symptoms were not resolved in the past, a root-cause evaluation could be the answer. Serving Passaic County, access your consultation on the web or by calling CITM at (201) 291-0401 from our Paramus, NJ office.
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Frequently Asked Questions: Functional Medicine Doctor Passaic County
A functional medicine evaluation can take a more holistic approach to your condition than your primary care provider may have explored if you’ve been diagnosed with a chronic condition that you still did not feel well about, or you had symptoms in multiple systems (gut, energy, mood, skin) that were unrelated to each other.
Take any recent laboratory work, any current medications/supplements and a general history of when symptoms began. It will allow our team to make your intake evaluation faster.
Not always. A few patients do have pertinent labs from a different provider. If further tests are required, we use panels that provide useful information about the particular symptoms, instead of ordering unnecessary tests.
Yes. Functional medicine is intended to supplement, not supplant, treatment by your current providers. Our team plans around your existing treatment, not requiring you to discontinue it.
Patients come to us for chronic or unresolved conditions, but functional medicine is used proactively – for energy, metabolic health and preventive care – by patients who feel “fine” but want deeper baseline knowledge of their health.
Availability is subject to changing depending on the type of visit. To determine if your particular consultation may be conducted by telehealth, please call our Paramus office at (201) 291-0401.
Treatment in the realm of functional medicine is not a one size fits all approach. Your plan can change because of follow-up lab results and the response to early changes at predetermined follow-up appointments.
Our functional medicine services are mainly geared towards adult patients. Check if a particular case is within our scope of care by calling our office.