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Our Unique Approach

Our Cedars Functional Medicine Roadmap is a unique, comprehensive approach to support families with children who have mental health issues like ADHD, Anxiety and PANDAS.

We work hand in hand to help families better manage these conditions, so that their children can finally thrive and do well in school without the lifelong dependence on costly stimulant medications and their side effects.

We deliver care and guidance in nine specific areas, starting with the Reveal Phase:

During the intake, we'll review your child's full health history and any previous lab tests, so we can assess neurological, immune, and gut-related patterns and uncover what other providers may have missed.
Next, we'll determine the need for additional precision lab tests to help pinpoint the real root causes behind your child's symptoms, including gut health, immune function, nutrient levels, and nervous system stress markers that standard testing often overlooks.
Using targeted nutritional support, lifestyle strategies, and evidence-based interventions, we begin calming an overactivated nervous system, helping your child feel safer, steadier, and more able to engage in the healing process.
We'll begin optimizing your child's nutrition and diet to repair key nutritional deficiencies that may be driving their symptoms — because what a child eats directly shapes how their brain and body function.
With foundational nutrition and nervous system support in place, we turn our focus to brain function, using targeted supplementation and gut-brain strategies to sharpen focus, reduce mental fog, and support clearer thinking and emotional regulation.
A healthy gut is the foundation of a healthy brain. Using advanced functional testing and personalized protocols, we work to restore your child's gut microbiome, reduce inflammation, and heal the gut lining. So many neurological and behavioral symptoms trace their roots back here.
We address cellular health and metabolic function, including blood sugar balance and insulin regulation, to ensure your child's body is producing energy efficiently, reducing inflammation at the cellular level, and building the biological foundation for lasting recovery.
Next, we focus on detoxification, helping your child reduce their toxic burden from environmental exposures like mold, heavy metals, and chemicals, while replenishing the nutrients their body needs to feel energized, resilient, and truly well.
In the final phase, we focus on mindset and mood. We help your child with emotional resilience, behavioral regulation, and mental wellness so your child can show up fully in school, relationships, and daily life. This is where the work comes together, and where families often see the transformation they've been hoping for.

How Our Approach Is Different

At Cedars Functional Medicine LLC, Dr. Juliana Nahas brings a comprehensive, root-cause approach to every child and family she works with, ensuring a complete system of care that goes far beyond managing mental health symptoms. Her integrative approach focuses on:

Using a variety of evidence-based treatment modalities, including food as medicine, targeted supplementation, and advanced functional lab testing tailored to your child's unique needs.
Looking holistically at all the areas that impact your child's health, including brain function, gut health, immune balance, environment, and emotional wellbeing.
Teaching families how to take an active role in their child's health, so they can finally see real progress and reduce dependence on costly prescription medications over time.
Identifying the root causes behind your child's symptoms and using clinical expertise to craft a personalized treatment plan that addresses what other providers have missed.
Using natural, non-toxic therapies that support the body's remarkable ability to heal itself, giving your child the best possible foundation for long-term health and resilience.
Providing busy families with practical, real-world strategies for weaving healthy habits, dietary modifications, and new routines into daily life. Lasting change doesn't require a perfect schedule, it requires the right guidance and a plan that actually fits how your family lives

How It Works

Dr. Nahas works with you to provide a personalized, root-cause treatment approach that addresses your child's chronic symptoms, behavioral challenges, and mental health concerns, going far deeper than a standard pediatric visit allows. Cedars Functional Medicine is not a replacement for your child's regular pediatrician, but rather a specialized layer of care focused on uncovering what conventional appointments often don't have the time to explore. Most families begin noticing meaningful improvements within a few weeks, with even greater progress in focus, mood, behavior, and overall wellbeing within three months of starting their treatment plan.

Free Breakthrough Consultation

A focused 15-minute discovery call with Dr. Nahas to identify your child's most pressing health concerns and determine whether Cedars Functional Medicine is the right fit for your family's needs.

Initial Appointment

An in-depth 75-minute intake visit where Dr. Nahas takes the time to thoroughly review your child's full health history, previous labs, and current symptoms, so she can build a truly personalized treatment plan.

Health Optimization

Experience meaningful behavior changes as we work together to resolve your child's mental health issues through Dr. Nahas's comprehensive, integrative care approach.

A collaborative care approach designed to get your child's health back on track, combining the right functional lab testing with evidence-based nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle strategies. Dr. Nahas also works with your family to build lasting habits across all areas of your child's health, so that progress made in the clinic translates into real, sustainable improvements at home and at school.

Discover what many doctors may be missing about your child's health and why a one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn't work. Every child's biology, history, and environment is unique, and that's exactly how Dr. Nahas treats them. When we stop chasing symptoms and start asking why, the answers that have been missing finally begin to emerge.

TESTIMONIALS

In Our Patients Own Words

  • “Dr. Nahas has been my children’s trusted pediatrician since 2006. She is extremely knowledgeable and caring. She always creates a safe space for my children to feel included and heard at each appointment, which makes visits automatically easier and not a stressful experience… even for sick visits. I appreciate her commitment to natural solutions (vitamins and a balanced diet) as the primary method to address health concerns so I never have to worry about my children being over medicated or second guess her recommendations. Thankfully she has also built her entire staff and nurse practitioners to also be a reflection of the same welcoming and knowledgeable atmosphere. We are blessed to have found this office.”

    Andrea
    Happy Parent

  • “Dr. Juliana is One of the only few doctors in Georgia that actually care about your child wellbeing. Educate you on healthy nutritional support to provide your child with the best care. Honestly !! Being a medical expert myself!! I was so happy to find her!! She understood my child’s special diet and was supportive and available. Thank you for all you did for my daughter and my son. Also the office staffs were easy to work with!! She deserve more praise for all her sincere care.”

    Laugh W.
    Happy Parent

  • A few years ago,my daughter suffered from a pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infections ( PANDAS) , and under the care of Dr Nahas, we’ve experienced significant improvement! We’re so grateful for Dr Nahas’ expertise. After some extensive testing, we changed her diet and removed foods that she was allergic to, started a few supplements, and a preventative antibiotic, and within a month,her anxiety, emotional turmoil and odd behaviors all resolved! She is now a happy, well-adjusted and self-confident child, and that means the world to us a s a family! We’ve got our child back without using any psychiatric medications, and that was important to us as parents!

    Aimee O.
    Happy Parent

  • My daughter was struggling with ADHD and failing her classes. She had side effects on the medication she tried ,so after a few years we decided to try natural treatments instead. Dr Nahas directed me to modify her diet and put her on a few supplements. She was able to stop taking medications, gain weight, sleep better and function normally in school and at home.

    Lauren E.
    Happy Parent

  • Dr. Nahas was Very helpful, patient and she answered all our questions. Her staff was so nice to us. We could get an appointment easily and fast which works great when you have an emergency. They didn’t have us waiting, in less than..

    Keaton I.
    Happy Parent

Areas Served

Dr. Nahas’s private practice is 100% virtual and serves patients across the entire state of Florida. While the practice is registered in St. Petersburg, care is delivered remotely, allowing access to individuals and families throughout Florida without geographic restriction.

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