EmpowerMed Team - Naturopathic Doctors
Women’s Health Specialists San Diego, CA
Built by Women with Experience & Expertise. Inspired by our founder’s journey seeking answers for her own body, EmpowerMed Clinic San Diego, CA provides personalized care designed to empower patients with holistic solutions.
In-Person appointments available at our clinic in San Diego, CA. Online (virtual) appointments available for California.
Our Patient-Centered Approach
EmpowerMed Clinic in San Diego recognizes that many patients, especially women, face too few options for health and hormone balancing and often feel unheard, misunderstood, or even pressured by a system that focuses on band-aid fixes and siloed symptom relief. We’re here to change that.
In response to Dr. Golightly’s own obstacles with conventional medicine, she founded EmpowerMed Clinic to offer a source of comfort and clarity in healthcare — going beyond the surface and building relationships on trust, respect, and shared experience.
You’re a whole person, and we believe you should be treated as one. Our comprehensive process, from intake to treatment, works to identify root causes of dysfunction and acts to correct them through personalized programs with lasting impact, setting a trajectory to meet your long-term health and lifestyle goals.
Our secret: simply to listen. the EmpowerMed Clinic Team takes time to get to know you, hear how you feel, listen to your lived experience, and understand the everyday impacts. It may not sound revolutionary, but it certainly feels that way.
Meet the Team
Meet the Team
Dr. Carleigh Golightly-Downing
Founder, Naturopathic Doctor
Conditions Treated: PCOS, Perimenopause/ Menopause, Fertility, Female Hormonal Imbalances
Dr. Golightly discovered naturopathic medicine through her own struggles with crippling anxiety, hormonal imbalance, and IBS. Frustrated with the pills and lack of guidance her doctors offered, she began to look outside the box seeking the truth about what it really means to be healthy.
Through years of personal research, a relentless pursuit of optimal nutrition and evidence-based supplementation, she was able to overcome her own health issues. It was that experience that inspired her to become a Naturopathic Doctor and help others do the same.
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Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine
Advanced clinical training in integrative endocrinology & regenerative injection therapies
B.S. Biomedical Science & Minor in Chemistry, Northern Arizona University
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California Naturopathic Doctors Association
American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP)
Endocrinology Association of Naturopathic Physicians (EndoANP)
Dr. Bianca Snead
Naturopathic Doctor
Conditions Treated: Autoimmune, Gut Health, Perimenopause
Dr. Bianca Snead is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor in San Diego, California. She obtained her doctorate at Bastyr University in San Diego, California. Prior to that, she received degrees in Human Biology and Sociology from Stanford and went on to graduate from Stanford Law School and practice law. She spent a large portion of her legal career helping youth in the foster care system receive the services they needed. Dr. Bianca made her way back to her passion for medicine after encountering her own health struggles with autoimmunity. She found that taking a whole body approach to treatment gave her the most successful results, and she wanted to share this approach with others. She strongly believes that healing the body should begin with finding the root cause and treating the whole person (mind, body, and spirit). She also believes that patient education is key to long term success, and strives to ensure that her patients feel empowered to regain their health.
In her free time, Dr. Bianca enjoys spending time with her husband and son, either playing board games or exploring San Diego. She also enjoys dancing, pilates, and going to movies, musicals and concerts. She is also a former Zumba instructor and is certified in Reiki.
Dr. Dawna Sweeney, ND
Naturopathic Doctor
Conditions Treated: Gut Health, Hormonal Imbalance, Autoimmune Disease, IBS
Dr. Sweeney came to naturopathic medicine as a way to blend her love of nature, science, and helping others. She began as a research scientist in molecular biology but became disenchanted with the limited approach of conventional science. She then obtained her doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine and learned how to restore health through a more comprehensive and vitalistic approach that takes into account mind, body and soul and a deep reverence for the body’s ability to heal itself.
Dr. Sweeney is passionate about addressing the root cause of symptoms with individualized dietary recommendations, homeopathy, herbs, craniosacral therapy, and evidence-based supplementation. When she is not helping patients, she enjoys whale watching with her daughter, camping, and working in her garden.
Jewel Gallagher
Holistic Esthetician
Jewel is a 20-year Holistic Esthetician. She has a strong passion for using only the cleanest products and is highly experienced in health and wellness. She is a Certified Nutritionist, and holds a Diploma as a Holistic Health Practitioner of Herbal Science and Traditional Chinese Medicine techniques. She understands the role unbalanced health and the American diet plays in skin appearance and has made it her adult life’s mission to counter that unbalance with traditional and ancient approaches. She understands how ‘beauty is not just skin deep’ and addresses this by utilizing sound therapy instruments to help read the energetic body, (where we store even forgotten traumas), then clears and rebalances specific regions of the body using these tools. This leaves clients feeling relaxed, refreshed, and with a glow on its own, but with the addition of her knowledge base around traditional anti-aging, skin health, and her nurturing touch, people leave her services having had an entire experience!
Merrily Medina
Life Coach
Merrily Hope Medina is a transformational coach and holistic wellness expert, trained by the renowned Deepak Chopra.
She specializes in helping women navigate life transitions, such as the empty nest phase, through her transformational coaching program.
Merrily also helps women rediscover holistic wellness through her expertise in integrative nutrition. With her guidance, you can achieve a healthier, more fulfilling life.
You listen to your body.
We listen to you.
Schedule a consultation with EmpowerMed Clinic in San Diego to share your concerns with one of our naturopathic doctors and plan a path forward.