Your Physician
Lisa Preston, DO
Osteopathic physician dedicated to whole-person healing.
Meet Dr. Lisa Preston
Dr. Lisa Preston is the primary physician at Vital Balance Osteopathy. She is a highly skilled osteopath who focuses on the whole patient, identifying the root causes of discomfort and relieving them.
Through gentle, powerful manual techniques, as well as energy work like cranial-sacral therapy and biodynamic osteopathy, Dr. Preston helps relieve pain, improve range of motion, and improve patients' ability to heal.
Whether disorders are chronic or as a result of trauma, injury, emotion, or disease, Dr. Preston's ultimate goal is to balance body systems and optimize health in all of her patients.
Dr. Preston is also trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, allowing her to address the emotional and psychological dimensions of pain and illness alongside the physical.
Education & Training
Dr. Lisa Preston received her doctorate from NYIT-COM with a fellowship in traditional osteopathy. Hoping to combine western medicine with traditional osteopathy she went on to Christiana Care Hospital System in Delaware and completed a combined residency in emergency medicine/internal medicine (EM/IM.)
Frustrated with the limitations of western medicine and curious about the root causes of disease and healing, Dr. Preston apprenticed with osteopaths and studied biodynamic osteopathy. She also studied the role emotions play in our physical health and became certified in Internal Family Systems (IFS.) She further studied how our habitual movements affect our health through Nutritious Movement with Katy Bowman.
A Philosophy of Whole-Person Care
Dr. Preston believes that true health is about balance — when our body systems are in harmony with each other and our environment, we are able to achieve genuine healing. She takes the time to listen, understand, and treat each patient as a unique individual.