About

Dr. Blake Kovner ND is the owner and classically trained Naturopathic Doctor whose vision of holistic health guides the practice at Naturopathic House.  She employs the Naturopathic Principle of Docere, Doctor as Teacher, and those who know her can attest to her high standards of patient and public education. Using both education and community as medicine, Dr. Kovner offers you a chance to walk down a truly unique healing journey, together.  She is a Certified HeartMath Biofeedback Provider, Trauma-Informed Biofeedback and Counseling Provider and provides blend of Somatic Therapy, Botanical Medicines and Supplements as well as and Energetic Medicines.

She has worked in both allopathic and naturopathic healthcare settings.  She has experience as a Primary Care Physician, having previously worked at a busy, award-winning naturopathic clinic in North Seattle.  She has managed both acute and chronic diseases; pharmaceutical medications; herbal and botanical medicines; is familiar with herb/supplement-drug interactions and the safe use thereof; and is familiar with all aspects of Family Medicine, Primary Care and Naturopathic Specialist Services.  She has performed annual wellness exams for adults and young-adults and is well equipped to navigate the Allopathic Medical world, including familiarity with how insurance works she used to accept all major forms of insurance.  However, to provide you with better care, she no longer works with insurance companies. 

Dr. Kovner is unique in that she can manage musculoskeletal issues from acute whiplash to chronic migraines and sciatica.  She manages both men's and women’s hormone imbalances; gut health and metabolic issues like type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. 

She also ran one of North Seattle's most successful counseling programs for anxiety and depression, Mind Body Medicine. 

 Dr. Kovner graduated from Bastyr University and earned her Naturopathic board Certification by taking the NPLEX licensing exam and before graduation, she accepted an offer to join a beautiful clinical space as a solo practitioner.  Dr. Kovner was directly involved in helping Wake Forest University’s Hospital’s Clinic For Integrative Medicine design a clinical position for an ND.  This is the first program of its kind in a major North Carolina (or any southern state) hospital setting.   

Prior to medical school, she worked at LSU-New Orleans where she co-authored 2 publications in peer reviewed journals, one involving an NIH research grant looking at green tea extract in MS and gained clinical expertise in managing neurodegenerative disease with a focus on Multiple Sclerosis. It was here that her interest in neuroscience and the clinical relevance and application of botanical medicines took root. 

Unbeknownst to her Principal Investigator (PI), she began teaching yoga to MS study patients who subsequently began, in a group, experiencing statistically significant improvements in balance and memory.  Her PI rewarded her by having her trained to be a yoga teacher in order to properly study the positive effects seen and documented in our study population.  

This was where her integrated clinical approach was born having been trained to do precise neurological testing in a clinical and research setting by the same PI, a neurologist who then guided her clinical application of therapeutic yoga.  This contributes to the truly integrative and holistic nature of her clinical practice.  

During medical school, she participated in extensive training in the naturopathic  management of Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis.  She helped design Bastyr University’s pilot Parkinson’s Summer School Program and has helped design a handful of retreats since.  During her doctoral training, she also received her massage license (LMT) with a focus in gait assessment and craniosacral techniques.  This supports her interest in movement, myofascial, musculoskeletal and neuro-immune-gut-fascial work Visceral Synthesis.  

During her second year at Bastyr, Dr. Kovner elected to go to Germany for a summer to study with her colleagues and mentors at the Kneipp School in Bavaria. There they stayed and studied and enjoyed immersive Kneipp Therapy treatments at the Sebastiánium Bad Wörishofenin, a few hours outside of Munich, Germany.  She then traveled to Bad Sulza to meet with the owners of the Toskana Therme and then went to Bad Orb to experience their second facility. This experience inspired her clinical practice and fuels her dreams of a future natural health/eco-tourism packaged similarly to her didactic trip to Germany. 

Starting in her first quarter at Bastyr, Dr. Kovner completed a fellowship in naturopathic clinical herbalism under Dr. Sheila Kingsbury.  She studied and understands the FDA model of Good Manufacturing Processes (GMPs) and learned firsthand how to produce herbal medicine from seed to seal.  During this training, she studied various techniques used at both small herbal farms and large-scale herbal medicine production farms and laboratories in preparation for her own better understanding and application of good manufacturing practices and gold standards in herbal medicine.