About Us | Integrative Health Center

Our Mission

The IHC team's mission is to help you reach your full health potential & lose as much weight as you want in a healthy, sustainable way. Our methods and therapies are backed by various clinical and evidence-based holistic methods to make sure your outcomes last and your goals are achieved.

We have 50+ years of experience in patient weight loss care, and we've been where you are. We understand what it means to struggle with being overweight and have used our own methods to lose over 150 lbs in six months.

We've done the work and committed ourselves to finding the answers. Our research has hundreds of proven results, and we wrote the book on how you can manage the massive success you want on your weight loss journey.

150+ lbs lost in 6 months!

Drs. Sandra & Kirk Childers are on a mission is to help as many people reach their full health potential & lose as much weight as possible in a healthy, sustainable fashion. They focus on nutritional-based health care and life extension using various clinically evidence-based and holistic methods.

Drs. Childers have a #1 Best Selling book on Wellness, and combined, have 50+ years of experience in patient care. They know what it means to struggle with being overweight most of their adult lives. They’ve done the yo-yo diets & fad diets losing the same 20 lbs over & over, year after year.

Committed to finding an answer, they’ve done the research and want to share with everyone how to have massive success and keep the weight off for years.

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This program will work for you!

Dr. Sandra Childers

Dr. Sandra Childers is co-owner and director of Integrative Health Center of Charlottesville. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biology & Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin then Doctorate of Chiropractic at Palmer College in Iowa. Dr. Childers co-owned and operated a family wellness practice in Durham, NC, for over 25 years. Dr. Childers has known from a young age that she wanted to be a healthcare professional. She believes that nutrition is the cornerstone to achieving and maintaining the best health. Her mission is to help this community & country get healthy, lose weight, and extinguish preventable disease. Dr. Childers has personally lost over 90 lbs. and 13 sizes (66 inches total) on this exact program! Her life changed dramatically, and she is ready to show you how she did it. She enjoys travelling, especially to the beach, and being from Wisconsin, is an avid football fan. Go Packers!!

Dr. Kirk Childers

Dr. Kirk Childers is co-owner and director of Integrative Health Center of Charlottesville. He received his Bachelor's degree in Anatomy at Western Carolina University and Doctorate of Chiropractic at Palmer College in Iowa. Dr. Kirk has worked alongside his wife, Dr. Sandra, since they graduated together in 1994. They owned and operated University Chiropractic in Durham, NC, for 25 years. Dr. Kirk loves helping people achieve optimal health through natural, holistic approaches, restoring their youthful energy and vitality. His philosophy is simple: Life is too short to be sick and tired all the time. He and Dr. Sandra moved to Charlottesville in 2019 to help their friends of 20+ years, Dr. Francis and Wendi Francis, inspire the people of Charlottesville and surrounding area to take charge of their health.