Healing Arts NYC

It has been such a pleasure to work with Dr. Alicia Armitstead and her team, at Healing Arts. In only two months I’ve lost 13 pounds, am sleeping better and have more energy! For many years I’ve suffered with inflammation, fatigue and sinus infections. With this guidance on nutrition, and supplement support, I’m back on track to living a healthy, energetic life! I’m so thankful and highly recommend this path to people struggling with their health!

Jen Props · December 16th, 2025

TLDR: She is careless in prescribing, does not care about her patients well being, and shows little diligence or individualized attention. FURTHER NOTE: Her staff at the front desk clearly HATE their job and that should have been the first red flag, given what a hot topic holistic wellness is in NYC. COMPLAINTS: OVERALL - 15+ weeks of hell, no further insight. Left worse, not better. 1. Allergic to wheat, saw Dr. Alicia, she gave me wheat pills and hardly apologized for the oversight despite setting me back exponentially in my health. 2. Told me all my symptoms were because of Aluminum and to continue cutting it out completely. After 8 weeks, she forgot to even mention it until I asked, she made up an answer on the spot and said she saw "little/to no improvement" and blamed me for continued symptoms for continued use despite no concrete thought or evidenced determination for this correlation. 3. I continued to have extreme breakouts of blisters/acne on my face with continued use of the other supplements. After doing my OWN research on the symptoms I came to her with, one of the major ingredients in it (IODINE) is a trigger. After stopping, I returned to the condition that I came into her office in. The long story: In an attempt to figure out how to lesson my severe gluten/wheat sensitivity reactions, I emailed with Dr. Alicia at length asking what her protocol was and even indicating I was fearful of a "supplement purchasing scam" prior to signing up. She responded that she could help heal my gut and reduce inflammation via supplements and that it is typical of the process. I proceeded to see her and she gave me 3 Standard Process brand supplements after muscle testing and discussing this was all related to my intake of & allergy to Wheat. After 3 weeks of religiously following her protocol (I cut out corn, sugar, seed oils, aluminum, amongst other things... I FELT HORRIBLE> I come to find out one of the supplements she gave me had WHEAT GERM IN IT> I had been actively poisoned by her and yet, her response to this was "I don't think that is the issue, sounds like detox symptoms" > Of course.... when I stopped taking those pills, the symptoms improved and i eventually recovered. After a total of 8 weeks and 4 appointments with her, I had sussed out shes a quack and I dont trust her at all. Dont waste your time or money.

Julia Teta · October 29th, 2025

I started working with Dr. Armitstead 4 years ago and am so grateful to have found her. She is a caring, wise and gifted healer/practitioner. She has helped me in so many ways: nutrition, digestion, energy and even with emotional issues that have manifested in my body. I feel so lucky to have her in my life, I feel truly supported.

Tamar Cohen · October 21st, 2025