Meet Dr. María del C. Colón-González

• Medical degree at the University of Puerto Rico, Science Medical Campus 

• Family & Community Medicine residency (Hershey, Pennsylvania) - Board Certified

• Global Medicine rotation with INMED (Ecuador)

• Fellowship in Faculty Development for Global Health (Providence, Rhode Island)

• Board Certified American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (Texas)

• Training with the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine (California)

• Cornell Center for Nutritional Studies 

• Culinary Medicine training with Rouxbe

• Registered yoga instructor (with 200 hours) with trauma-focused program YogaFaith

• Certified HeartMath practitioner to help increase heart rate variability

• Japanese Acupuncture (Kiiko Style) Training at the New England College of Osteopathic Medicine

As a child, I grew up with bad asthma, diabetes, and chronic back pain. When I was diagnosed with diabetes, I started to have different school lunches. I couldn't have what everybody else was having. The kids at school would single me out. I started to struggle with obesity and body image issues. 

Slowly, I educated myself about food. I started to exercise. I did a lot of physical therapy and traditional medicine. However, my chronic pain was not improving. So I would go to bed at night and cry. 

I was not even 15, and my doctor suggested surgery. But it was too risky. That’s when I started taking yoga and learned new ways to care for my body and manage pain. Today, my life is different.

With food, movement, and nourishing habits for mind and body, I saw my quality of life radically change long-term.

This is why I believe in and do what I do. 

I tell my patients that a better life IS possible. And it is my joy to help them find what works for them to meet their health goals.