My name is Beth Luchesi-Komprood.
I am a registered nurse with over 22 years of diverse nursing experience in main stream medicine. I grew up just outside of Chicago, in Elmwood Park, Illinois. After graduating nursing school, in 2000, I started out my nursing career, practicing in long-term acute care and step down at RML Specialty Hospital in Hinsdale, Illinois.
In 2004, I decided to take my RN experience, and travel to various states around the US, as a contract travel nurse. For the next six years I enjoyed taking on new assignments, wherever there was a need in Step down or ICU. My most memorable and favorite locations I practiced are San Diego, Phoenix, and Clearwater. There I created memories that made traveling the highlight of my career.
During my travels in 2008, I decided to follow my long-time passion for skin care and wellness. I went back to school and graduated from Universal Spa Training Academy, in Downers Grove, Il, and became a Licensed Aesthetician. I gained most of my aesthetic experience over the next 3 years, when I was asked by one of her Cardio thoracic Surgeons to assist him in opening up, and running a popular med spa in Chicago. There, I became certified and proficient in Botox, fillers, and laser therapy, while building a substantial clientele.
In 2011, while still in love with the world of aesthetics, I accepted an irresistible offer at the University of Illinois, in Chicago, working in the Outpatient Ambulatory Care Center where worked for the next 10+ years. After a long run in a teaching hospital, practicing main stream, my desire for natural medicine was increasing, and I just knew I had more to offer.
In 2018, my thoughts and beliefs hit home. I witnessed how integrative medicine and prayer helped heal my very own father from inoperable stage IV metastatic kidney cancer. Currently, he is on zero medication, and still doing fantastic, after given only one year to live (4 years ago!).
This, and working through the Covid pandemic, brought to light the endless possibilities of how alternative medicine, or a “natural approach”, could in fact, optimize patient outcomes.
The camaraderie and long-term relationships were hard to give up, however, my faith in Jesus, prayer, and love for Integrative Medicine, have led me here to where I am today.
My husband Jeff and I reside in Rockford, where we have adopted our nieces Brooke and Olivia. We also have an Australian Labradoodle, Callie-Jean, who has become our family mascot. I am excited to be able to practice aesthetics again and walk along side you through your wellness journey.
I trust in God‘s word, and below, are two of my favorite verses , that I lean on!
With God ALL things are possible.
Matthew 19:26
I can do ALL things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13
Born and raised in Rochelle, I fell in love with nursing when I spent four years in Mexico as a missionary. My heart broke as I saw how simple interventions could change people’s lives. So, I felt God calling me to become a nurse in 2003. I spent 10 years in ER and ICU before becoming a family nurse practitioner in 2013. I have since worked mainly as a hospitalist and in palliative care. Recent changes in healthcare have brought me to be passionate about a more holistic approach to wellness. By supporting our environment and what we put in our bodies, we can greatly impact our health for the better. I have struggled personally with obesity my whole life and am on a journey to wellness myself as I learn to change my lifestyle. I am passionate about keeping people healthy and healing their bodies from the inside and through modalities that are proven through multiple studies and experiences.
I currently live locally. I am married with five kids who keep me active and running from activity to activity. I teach nursing part time as I feel it is imperative to impact the new generation of healthcare workers. I am certified in critical care nursing, hospice and palliative care as an advanced practice nurse, and in online teaching. I also carry a certificate in functional medicine and legal nurse consulting.
My goal is to redefine health by providing opportunities that aren’t readily available to the community that I have grown up in and have raised my children in. I am excited to bring these treatment options to those of you on the same journey as I. I look forward to meeting you and walking with you on your journey to health and wellness!
