Group Medical Visits

Integrative Health Weight Group Medical Visit

Are you struggling to lose weight? This group visit program offers you clinical and peer support for your journey to improved health and well-being, along with access to integrative treatment modalities that foster weight loss.

Over a series of group visits, you will join other patients who are on the same journey as you to meet with clinicians for care and information. You will be introduced to strategies and integrative health treatments for weight loss that will help you shape your personal approach to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. Participants benefit from extended time with clinicians and learn from the experiences of others.

This group visit program takes a whole-person approach to weight loss, utilizing both conventional and complementary tools such as healthy nutrition, culinary health and cooking skills, health coaching, acupuncture, Tai Chi, mindfulness, and recommended supplements that are safe and supported by science. You will be introduced to expert clinicians who will guide and accompany you on your path to healthier living.

Benefits

• Make this medical journey with others who share similar health goals and concerns. Learn strategies for losing weight.
• Realize the health benefits of weight loss, which can include improvements in blood pressure, blood cholesterol and blood sugar levels.*
• Get more time with integrative health clinicians than would be possible in an individual medical visit.
• Gain personal insights from the questions and comments of others.

Participate

Consider participating in this program if the following describes you:

• Body mass index of 27 or greater (if you do not know your BMI, it will be calculated for you)
• Looking for group support for weight loss
• Open to integrative healthcare
• At least 18 years of age
• Can participate in all sessions

Prospective participants will meet with an Integrative Healthy Weight Group Medical Visit clinician for a private medical visit prior to the first session. Together, you will determine whether this is the right program for you.

Schedule & Location

This is a 12-week program. Meetings are in person at UCI Health Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, 856 Health Sciences Road, Irvine, CA 92617.

Cost

Many shared medical visits are covered by health insurance. Check with your health plan administrator prior to participation.

For registration and more information: 949-824-7000

^* Managing Overweight and Obesity in Adults. Systematic Evidence from the Obesity Expert Panel, 2013 [PDF-5.89MB] — U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health.