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A Compassionate Space for Healing and Growth.

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Choose Your Path

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Psychiatry & Mental Health

Comprehensive psychiatric care for children, teens, and adults.
Evidence-based evaluations, medication management, and compassionate support.

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Functional & Preventative Medicine

Personalized, whole-body healing that uncovers what’s driving your symptoms and supports long-term wellness from the inside out.

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Detox & Wellness Services

Gentle detox services including infrared sauna, colonics, and weight-loss support for a lighter, more balanced you.

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Welcome to NUA Wellness Institute 

Where integrative psychiatry, functional medicine, and ancestral healing come together to restore balance-mind, body, spirit.

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Why NUA Wellness Institute?

At NUA Wellness Institute, we believe life is meant to feel light — not weighed down, not carried in silence, but lived with ease.

That lightness is born from alignment — when your mind is steady, your body is balanced, your spirit is at peace, and your energy flows without resistance.

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When anxiety, depression, or unhelpful patterns take hold, the mind grows heavy. When the body holds onto inflammation, toxins, hormonal imbalance, or stress, that heaviness deepens.

But that is not where your story is meant to stay — healing is always within reach.

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At NUA, we guide you back to balance by supporting the mind, body, gut, and spirit as one. Through mental health care, detoxification, and root-cause functional medicine, we help you release what no longer serves you.

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As clarity returns to the mind and balance is restored in the body, the spirit finds room to breathe again — and with that breath comes a renewed sense of purpose.

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We meet you exactly where you are, honoring your pace and your journey.

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Through community education, group healing, personalized support, functional medicine, detox and weight management, and psychiatric care, we walk beside you as you reconnect with yourself — gently, steadily, and fully.

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If you’re ready to let go of the weight and step into lightness — come heal with us.

“Such a joy to talk with, had me thinking we knew each other for a long time.”

Santresa T., May 27, 2025

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Meet the Founder 

Ine-Ibiye Saka, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC

Ine-Ibiye Saka is a double board-certified Nurse Practitioner whose journey began with the creation of Empathy Wellness Center, a practice rooted in compassion, accessibility, and truly seeing the whole person.

 

Over time, her mission expanded as she naturally found herself treating not just symptoms, but the deeper emotional, metabolic, and spiritual causes beneath them. Long before beginning her formal functional medicine certification, Ine-ibiye’s work was already grounded in root-cause healing — a philosophy that continues to shape every service she offers.

 

As she advances her training in functional and integrative medicine, her vision has evolved into the NUA Wellness Institute — a sanctuary where the mind, body, gut, and spirit are aligned to help individuals live with clarity, purpose, and a heart that feels light as a feather.

 

Her purpose is simple:
to walk with you on your healing journey — at your pace, in your season, and in your truth.

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Featured Wellness Services

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​ADHD Testing

Computer-based ADHD testing that objectively measures attention, focus, and impulse control for accurate results.

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Hair Vitality Analysis

A non-invasive hair scan that reveals sensitivities, hormonal/nutrient imbalances, and hidden inflammation so you can understand the root causes behind how your body feels.

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Preventive Medicine

Personalized preventative care designed to uncover early imbalances and support optimal health before symptoms begin.

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Colon Hydrotherapy (Colonic)

A gentle, 45-minute cleansing therapy that supports detoxification, improved elimination, and a healthier gut environment.

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Your Wellness Journey Starts Here

Below a simple, guided path to feeling better from the inside out!

How it works:

1. Choose Your Path

Select the service that best supports your goals —Psychiatry & Mental Health, Functional & Preventive Medicine, or Detox & Wellness Services.

2. Book Your Session

3. Meet Your Provider

Easily schedule online and choose a day and time that works for you. You’ll receive any required intake forms shortly after booking.

Briefly describe your degree and any other highlights about your studies you want to share. Be sure to include relevant skills you gained, accomplishments you achieved or milestones you reached during your education.

4. Experience Your Service

5. Receive Your Personalized Recommendations

Whether you’re here for a colonic, psychiatry, sauna therapy, or functional medicine care, you’ll receive a professional, supportive, and personalized from start to finish.

Following your service, you’ll receive next-step guidance, wellness recommendations, and curated support options to continue your journey.

6. Continue Your Journey

You’ll have access to ongoing care, follow-ups, and wellness tools designed to help you maintain long-healing and transformation.

Contact

1518 Perry Street,

Richmond, VA 23224

804-877-8696

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