You don’t have to go on this journey alone. At Faithfully Guided, you will have a team of health and wellness professionals beside you every step of the way.
Founders Medical Team Counseling Team Restorative Team Administrative Team
With over fifty years combined working in the medical and health industry, we are a team of dedicated and passionate individuals who love guiding and encouraging you to become your best self. We aim to change the way you think about health care by making it accessible and effective.
Our StoryYou don’t have to go on this journey alone. At Faithfully Guided, you will have a team of health and wellness professionals beside you every step of the way.
Founders Medical Team Counseling Team Restorative Team Administrative Team
Dr. Ashlee Seek, DNP, AGNP-C, IFMCP
Co-Founder, Executive Officer
Dr. Ashlee Seek is the co-founder and CEO of Faithfully Guided Health Center, LLC as well as the co-executive director of the Faithfully Guided Foundation 501(c)3. She obtained her Doctor of Nursing Practice and Masters of Science in Nursing with a focus in adult-gerontology. Her qualifications also include board certification through the Institute for Functional Medicine. Ashlee’s passion is to create a culture of health through generational change. Employing a whole-person approach to address root causes for dysfunction and utilizing an inter-professional approach she endeavors to connect the spirit, mind, and body.
As a health enthusiast, Ashlee believes optimal health should be available to everyone and that in fact, most diseases can be reversed, eliminated, and prevented through modulating responses to stress and making lifestyle changes. Since this is a tall order, a guide is necessary!
Ashlee has been involved with outreach programs within her community for many years and feels best when she is giving back. She is an entrepreneur, a lifelong learner, and a creative leader. She has completed thirteen marathons and enjoys rigorous cycling vacations with her family (a passion that is not always shared by her children). Her goal is to make Marion County one of the healthiest places to live and is working diligently to share resources and inspire others to do the same.
Jamie Schofield, MA, CAMT
Co-Founder, Executive Officer, NCCA Licensed Clinical Pastoral Counselor and Certified Story Informed Trauma Therapist (SITT)
Jamie truly desires to help others feel seen, discover hope and healing, and better understand how our personal stories can infuse a greater purpose in life. She believes that God can reveal his divine providence amidst our pain and loss. God has a design for our health; spiritual, emotional, and physical. When we are healthy and whole, we can be present, connected, and joyful though life is full of twists and turns. She believes abundant life is available to each of us, therefore, it is her personal mission to serve as a bridge between where one may be standing, and the place God may intend for one to go.
Married to her best friend, she practices daily how to be a God-honoring wife, now for 18 years. She has learned to lean into the challenges, discovering the importance of surrender, play, and margin in her life. She is a mother of three boys, and they remind her often that it is okay for everything to not always appear okay, and that ministering to the heart is most important. They demonstrate firsthand how uniquely created we all really are in God’s image. She restores by consistent movement that is enjoyable like Hot Yoga with her long-standing best business partner, with laughter at the table with her boys over a healthy meal, through quiet moments at home reading and reflecting, and through the ongoing creative outlet of making her house a home for family connection and fun! She looks forward to adventurous times each year spent on the water, hiking, exploring, and camping with family and friends!
She holds a master’s degree in pastoral studies with a focus in Christian spirituality from Loyola University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Central Florida. She is an ordained minister of pastoral care and continues her training each year with certifications that you will find in detail below.
For nearly two decades now, Jamie has been blessed with the honor and great privilege to mentor, teach, counsel, and lead individuals and families to discover a deeper sense of who they were made to be despite the unexpected turns and trauma faced. It is through her own healing journey that she finds the deepest level of compassion for others on their journey as they bravely face the pain and brokenness and courageously accept the hardest work, they will ever face — choosing to heal. She has come to experience firsthand how doing the work can allow God to edit our stories so we can live more fully each day and perhaps given the chance, inspire healthy generational change.
Dr. Mel Seek, MD
Medical Director
Melvin Seek MD is the Medical Director for Faithfully Guided Health Center. As a youngster growing up in a very small town in Missouri, he was fascinated by the lifestyle of the native American, studied all things science, loved athletics and enjoyed designing and building things. He was on track to study architecture in college when he took a sharp career turn to be a physician when he was accepted into the six-year BA-MD program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The program was intense but by seeing patients early in the educational process he gained empathy for patients and a perspective of the true mission of a physician.
He furthered training at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill doing Internship, Internal Medicine Residency, Nephrology Fellowship and additional research in Metabolism and Critical Care and Emergency Medicine. Moving to Ocala, Florida he joined Dr. Fuller and Dr. Ulland in the Ocala Critical Care and Kidney Group. As the practice grew there was less emphasis on critical care and it was renamed Ocala Kidney Group, but Dr. Seek maintained his involvement in critical care as well as cardiovascular intensive care for open-heart surgical patients. His Nephrology interests focused on upstream chronic renal failure management and home dialysis resulting in the development of one of the largest home dialysis programs in the country with 70% of his patients dialyzing with a home modality compared to a usual 12%. These patients enjoy a higher quality of life at lower global costs for care and reduced hospitalizations.
Frustrated with the poor outcomes and inefficiencies in our broken healthcare system, Dr. Seek has struggled along with others to redesign our local delivery system and has experienced the difficulty of misaligned incentives. With involvement in the Faithfully Guided Health Center, he finds it invigorating to embrace the Five Pillar Model focusing on Spirit, Lifestyle and the integrated approach applying functional resources, counseling and coaching to improve healthspan and fulfillment in life. As he reinvents himself in this new direction he hopes to continue to bring the discipline of science, the perspective of a physician caring for incredibly sick patients, and the perspective of boundless innovation while seeking daily to demonstrate the unfailing empathy and grace of Jesus Christ.
Kelly Tingler, PA-C
Medical Provider
Certified Physician Assistant through the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
Kelly Tingler completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Florida and holds a Master’s Degree in Physician Assistant Studies. Kelly has been practicing medicine since 2009 and has an extensive background in both adult and pediatric emergency medicine as well as women’s health. She became passionate about functional medicine several years ago during her own health crisis when she recognized the body’s amazing ability to heal itself when given the right elements. For the past several years, Kelly has been diving into the world of functional medicine by learning, speaking, and blogging on various aspects of health. Her aspiration has been to work full-time in the field of integrative medicine and she’s excited to join the team at Faithfully Guided Health Center to make this dream a reality.
Nicole Heller, APRN-BC
Medical Provider
Nicole obtained her Associate’s Degree in Nursing through the College of Central Florida. She later went on to achieve her Bachelor’s in Nursing through the University of South Florida and later her Masters in Nursing through Nova Southeastern University. She has worked in the nursing field for over 7 years with experience in critical care, medical-surgical, orthopedics, and health care administration. She is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Board certified through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Her interest in functional medicine began during an internship with Faithfully Guided Health Center. Realizing that the conventional method doesn’t always get to the root causation, her interest in the whole person approach expanded. With an extensive background in inpatient hospital care, Nicole has made it her career goal to help others achieve optimal health in the outpatient setting.
Nicole grew up in Ocala and moved to South Florida for a few years. She recently returned to serve those in her hometown. When she is not in the office, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, traveling with her husband, and snuggling their new baby girl and their two miniature dachshunds.
Cody Geller, CMA
Certified Medical Assistant
Cody Geller comes to Faithfully Guided with a background in phlebotomy, medical assisting, and administrative leadership. He has spent time in various specialties including orthopedics, oncology, and hospitalized medicine. He has 6 years of experience drawing blood and 4 years of experience being a medical assistant. He is enthusiastic and aims to provide excellent patient care in a functional medicine environment. In his spare time, Cody enjoys spending time with his wife, new puppy, and being outdoors.
Stephanie Smith, MS, LMHC
Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Certified Story Informed Trauma Therapist (SITT)
15 years experience in teaching and counseling individuals and families to overcome life challenges to become healthier in body, mind, and spirit.
Stephanie has always been captivated by finding beauty in brokenness. Prior to her training in counseling, she enjoyed the hobby of piecing broken glass and plates together to create beautiful mosaics. After teaching for several years she decided to tend to a dream that God planted in her heart as a child…to help the hurting heal. This led her to the pursuit of a dual Masters Degree with a two-pronged focus with extensive training in both Mental Health Counseling and Christian Counseling. Having the balance of these two disciplines equips her with the best knowledge and skills from both worlds: Christian and secular.
Stephanie’s work primarily focuses on helping adults overcome anxiety, depression, grief, shame, trauma, relational challenges, and stress-related difficulties. Her gentle style includes a balance between providing a safe, supportive space for processing pain and equipping with practical tools. She has a passion for helping people get unstuck, find God’s provision in their story, and re-engage with life empowered by the lessons from their unique journey. Stephanie has specialized training in trauma counseling and a God-given capacity to guide individuals through healing deep wounds from the past.
Stephanie is a native Ocalan and sixth-generation Floridian. She has a 19-year-old son in the United States Coast Guard and a 16-year-old daughter. Three things she loves are country music, her dogs, and coastal sunsets.
Caroline Kubin, M.A
Registered Mental Health Intern and Certified Story Informed Trauma Therapist (SITT)
Caroline holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Covenant College and a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from Richmont Graduate University. She is passionate about meeting people where they are and partnering with them to move towards abundant life. She highly values the therapeutic alliance and offers a safe, non-judgmental space. As a believer, her approach to counseling is centered on a Biblical framework as she applies evidence-based research. She seeks to reveal and refine the inherent beauty and dignity of humanity as established by God. She has experience in various counseling settings from intensive outpatient treatment, behavioral health hospitalization, and private practice working with individuals experiencing a range of anxiety and depression. Caroline loves working with children, teens, and adults.
After growing up in Florida, Caroline spent the last 8 years in Chattanooga, TN, before deciding to move back to the sunshine state to plant roots in Ocala. When she is not in the office, Caroline loves to travel with her husband and Weimaraner puppy. The beach is her happy place and made even better with a cup of coffee watching the sunrise or sunset.
Jenni Hughes
Master's Level Clinical Social Worker
Jenni is a Master’s level clinical social worker who has a combined 20 years of experience in the area of counseling children and families, adults and couples. She has worked in acute care behavioral health, the school system and private practice. Becoming a clinical social work was just natural for her as she is a natural encourager and empowerer. She believes in the beauty of a healthy self-including the psychological, physical and spiritual components. The healthiest people make for the healthiest relationships!
Jenni uses the Story Informed Trauma therapy (SITT) model to help identify how our past sculpts our present and how to process the painful experiences so that you can feel known, heard and accepted. She also uses cognitive-behavioral therapy, Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), family systems theory and play therapy for children. Jenni is a Christ follower and her professional, discerning counsel is rooted in the truth of God’s word.
One of Jenni’s strong passions is her volunteer work for Share The Love Ocala, the umbrella non-profit for Royal Family Kids Camp. She has volunteered her time for 12 years and loves the life changing care given to our local children in the foster care community.
Outside of the clinical setting, Jenni enjoys spending time with her amazing husband of 25 years and three active and hilarious boys on their 37 acre farm. A precious daughter in law was recently added to the family so now she gets to spend time with her son and daughter in law in North Carolina! Jenni is part mermaid and cannot get enough of the water. She loves swimming, scuba diving, boating, paddleboarding and fishing, just to name a few. In her quiet time, there is no beating a great book and a hot cup of coffee!
Melissa Cordell, MOT
Occupational Therapist and Interactive Metronome Practitioner
Meagan Foster
Restorative Specialist
Debbie Bowe, MA