FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE IN NEW YORK & CONNECTICUT

Holistic Health Care That Looks at the Whole Picture

Personalized, evidence-based care that goes beyond managing symptoms. We take the time to understand your labs, history, lifestyle, and goals to identify opportunities traditional care may overlook — and build a plan designed around you.

Virtual care throughout New York and Connecticut.

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FNP-BC — Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner

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IFMCP-M — Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Professional- Medical

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NYU-Trained · 20 Years Experience

What is The Mend Wellness?

The Mend Wellness is a boutique Functional Medicine Practice serving patients throughout New York and Connecticut. Founded by Kristin Brien, FNP-BC, FMCP-M™—a board-certified Functional Medicine Family Nurse Practitioner trained at NYU and Mount Sinai—The Mend Wellness was created for people who are ready to look beyond symptom management and explore the deeper factors affecting their health.

Health is more than the absence of disease. It is having the energy to engage with your life, a nervous system that feels safe enough to rest and repair, and space for joy, connection, meaning, and purpose. Physical, mental, emotional, and energetic well-being are deeply interconnected—and lasting healing requires caring for the whole person.

Many chronic patterns — hormonal shifts, stubborn changes in weight and metabolism, disrupted sleep, anxiety, fatigue that doesn't resolve with rest — are shaped by modifiable factors like nutrition, movement, stress, and environmental exposures. But health is never defined by lifestyle alone. Genetics, life experience, relationships, and your body's own history all shape what's happening beneath the surface, which is why hormonal patterns like perimenopause, menopause, andropause, and low testosterone, along with painful periods and PMDD — and metabolic ones like PCOS (now also recognized as PMOS), insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and thyroid imbalance — deserve real investigation rather than a standard checklist.

At The Mend Wellness, we combine functional medicine, comprehensive laboratory testing, and whole-person care to investigate the underlying contributors that may be keeping you from feeling your best. Together, we create a personalized, evidence-informed plan designed to address the root cause of your symptoms based on your health history and goals—so you can move beyond simply functioning and feel fully connected to yourself and your life.

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    Functional Medicine Services

    Your health story deserves more than a quick visit or a one-size-fits-all fix. During your comprehensive consultation, we explore your symptoms, history, lifestyle, environment, and goals to understand what's really driving your health — then build a personalized plan with nutrition, lifestyle strategies, supplements, medication, and nervous-system support as needed, guided by testing when appropriate.

    Because even the best recommendations only work when they fit your life, we help you turn them into sustainable daily practices. Personalized coaching and compassionate accountability help you adapt when life becomes stressful, routines shift, or circumstances don't go according to plan — without losing sight of your health or feeling as though you have to start over.

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    Nervous System Reset

    Healing that reaches beyond the surface. Chronic stress can leave your body feeling stuck in survival mode — wired, exhausted, overwhelmed, or unable to fully rest. Through breathwork, guided meditation, EFT tapping, and other personalized regulation practices, we help you create a greater sense of calm, safety, and connection within your body.

    Distance Reiki may also be woven in as a gentle, non-invasive complementary energy practice designed to support relaxation, restore a sense of balance, and create space for deeper rest. Together, these practices offer meaningful support for your physical, mental, emotional, and energetic well-being — helping you reconnect with yourself, your joy, and the life you want to create.

How It Works

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Decide

Choose yourself.

Meaningful change begins with one decision: your health deserves your time, attention, and investment.

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connect

Click the Button Below to Complete Our Contact Form or Call the office to schedule your initial consultation.

Before your visit, you’ll complete a comprehensive health history and upload any recent labs or testing.

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begin

During your comprehensive consultation, we’ll explore your story, symptoms, concerns, and goals.

You’ll leave with clear next steps and a personalized path forward, including comprehensive root cause lab testing. 

I can help you with…

Hormone Imbalance · HRT · Menopause & Perimenopause · Andropause & Low Testosterone · PMOS (PCOS) · PMS, PMDD & Painful Periods · Fertility Support · Postpartum Recovery  · Hormonal Acne & Hair Loss · Low Libido · Thyroid Dysfunction · Weight Loss · Insulin Resistance & Prediabetes · High Blood Pressure · High Cholesterol · Fatigue · Sleep Disruption · Mood, Stress & Anxiety Support · Chronic Stress & Burnout · Nervous System Dysregulation · Brain Fog

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Kristin Brien, FNP-BC,
IFMCP-M

Founder of The Mend Wellness

Kristin Brien spent years at Mount Sinai Hospital working in Cardiothoracic Surgery and as a Heart Transplant Coordinator — where she learned to see patterns before they became problems, pay attention to details, and work collaboratively across an integrative care team. Today, she brings that same precision and whole-person lens to her boutique functional medicine practice on Long Island.

She doesn't push cookie-cutter protocols or branded supplements. She listens, adapts, and meets you exactly where you are

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