Meet Carlee

Long before I became a healthcare provider, I knew what it felt like to be a patient.

My experiences navigating healthcare began early in life and shaped both the provider I became and the way I think about health today.

I’m Carlee Hutchinson, a Family Nurse Practitioner and the founder of Your Healthy Chaos.

Health happens in the day to day.

Medical care matters. Diagnoses matter. Labs, testing, and treatment matter. But so does nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, relationships, environment, purpose, community, and whether the recommendations we make are realistic for the person expected to live them.

I believe we can take an active role in building our health. That starts with understanding what’s happening in our bodies, getting the care and support we need, and making choices we can carry into everyday life. It doesn’t require a perfect routine or a life without health challenges. It means continuing to care for ourselves in the life we actually have.

That’s why I created Your Healthy Chaos.

We bring together personalized medical care, practical lifestyle support, and community because those parts of health belong together.

In medical care, that means asking thoughtful questions, investigating symptoms and patterns, using testing when it can meaningfully guide care, and helping patients understand what we’re looking at and why.

In lifestyle care, it means taking what we know and figuring out how to apply it to real life through food, movement, sleep, stress support, routines, behavior change, and the everyday choices that shape health over time.

Finally, through community, it means remembering that health isn’t only something we work on when something is wrong. It’s also something we build through connection, learning, movement, new experiences, and enjoying our lives.

My Story

I was nine years old when I was diagnosed with acute liver failure seemingly out of nowhere and received my first liver transplant. Healthcare became a huge part of my life at a young age and I knew I wanted to create a pathway to hope for others. I grew up learning what it meant to depend on medical care, live with a complex health history, and keep living a full life alongside it.

Many years later, I became a nurse and worked in transplant care. I knew how much those patients and families were carrying outside the hospital because I had been on the other side of those conversations. I loved caring for them, but I wanted to do more: to listen more deeply, look at the whole person, explore additional approaches to care, and help people get better. That desire led me to become a Family Nurse Practitioner.

My work in primary care and functional and integrative medicine has only deepened my curiosity. I’m interested in the patterns behind someone’s symptoms and in what testing or treatment might help. I’m just as interested in what happens when that person goes home. Can they understand the plan? Does it fit their life? Will it help them make changes they can keep making?

I’m still navigating my own health too. My faith helps me hold both the work of caring for my body and the uncertainty that can come with it. I believe in learning, making informed choices, seeking support, and taking an active role in our health. I also believe life is meant to be lived while we do those things.

Health was never the goal. Living was.

That’s the perspective I bring to Your Healthy Chaos. I want people to feel understood in the exam room and supported in the day to day, so they can build health in service of the lives they want to live.