Joya Family and Lifestyle Medicine

Holistic, Personalized Healthcare for the Whole Family: Family, Pediatric and Lifestyle Medicine

Empowering Wellness Through Direct Primary Care, Pediatrics, and Lifestyle Medicine

Our Lifestyle Medicine Approach

What is Direct Primary Care?

Direct Primary Care (DPC) is a healthcare model where patients pay a monthly or annual fee directly to their primary care physician, providing a healthcare experience that is not hindered by the limitations of the traditional model. This model offers numerous benefits, including more time with your doctor, reduced administrative burdens, and simplified billing processes. Patients enjoy unlimited office visits, same-day or next-day appointments, and personalized care tailored to their needs. DPC fosters stronger patient-physician relationships and allows for a focus on preventive care and overall well-being. DPC provides a more flexible, accessible, and patient-centered approach to primary care. To learn more about Direct Primary Care see this article.

We believe in addressing the root cause of health issues. Lifestyle Medicine is an effective and evidence-based approach that helps treat, reverse, and prevent chronic diseases by promoting healthy lifestyle choices for adults and children.

 

Our approach focuses on six pillars of health:

  • Nutrition: Emphasizing a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern.

  • Physical Activity: Encouraging regular exercise that fits your lifestyle.

  • Restorative Sleep: Promoting healthy sleep habits for optimal well-being.

  • Stress Management: Offering techniques to help you manage stress effectively.

  • Avoidance of Risky Substances: Supporting you in avoiding harmful substances.

  • Positive Social Connections: Fostering supportive relationships for emotional well-being.
     

By integrating these pillars into your care, we aim to enhance your overall quality of life.

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Accessible & Compassionate Care

Direct Primary Care (DPC) at Joya Family and Lifestyle Medicine provides you with the freedom to focus on your health. Your membership includes:

  • Access to Dr. Alexis and Mike Epperly via clinic visits, telehealth, email and text

  • Convenient and prompt appointments

  • Wellness exams: Thorough check-ups to assess your overall health

  • Lifestyle Medicine consultations: Screening and counseling

  • Sports and school physicals

  • Monthly Group Healthy Habits Empowerment Sessions

  • Acute Care: Treatment for common illnesses and minor injuries

  • Chronic disease management: Partner with you for a personalized care plan

  • In-office procedures

  • Discounted labs

Our patient-centered model fosters stronger relationships between you and your physician, ensuring your care is personal, preventative, and tailored to your unique needs.

Services to fit your needs

Patient smiling and waving at doctor during a telehealth video visit

 

  • Lifestyle Medicine Consults

  • Preventive Health Screening

  • Physical and Wellness Exams

  • Acute Illness

  • Chronic Disease Management

  • Minor Procedures

  • Women's Health

  • Teen Health

  • Skin conditions

Our Commitment to You

At Joya Family and Lifestyle Medicine, we are committed to delivering care that is patient-centered, holistic, and grounded in integrity. Our mission is to empower you on your wellness journey through compassionate treatment, collaboration, and clinical evidence. Together, we’ll continuously strive for improvement and guide you toward better health.

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About Your Team

At Joya, care has always felt personal. Now it runs in the family, too. Dr. Alexis Alexander-Epperly and her husband, Dr. Mike, have built a practice around the belief that good medicine starts with really knowing the people you're caring for. Together, they bring family medicine, lifestyle medicine, and now pediatric care under one roof, so your whole family, from the littlest ones to the grown-ups, has a doctor who actually knows your story.

Dr. Alexis Alexander-Epperly, MD

Dr. Alexis Alexander-Epperly is board certified in family medicine and lifestyle medicine, and treats every patient as a whole person, mind, body, and spirit. A Navy veteran and Johns Hopkins graduate, she brings the same care to her patients that she brings to her own family: unhurried, honest, and full of heart.

Dr. Mike Epperly, MD

Dr. Mike Epperly is a board-certified pediatrician with nearly three decades of clinical and military medicine experience, including years of service as a physician in the U.S. Navy. A husband and father himself, he knows firsthand what it means to care for a family, and brings that same patience and trust-building approach to every child he sees at Joya.

Curious if Joya is the right fit for your family? Book a free meet and greet call with Dr. Alexis or join the wait list for Dr. Mike.

Why Joya?

Joy is the antidote to stress. joy is my hope for you.

joy is my practice motto. (Psalm 100)