Holistic Gynecology New York

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Holistic Gynecology New York is a pioneering sanctuary for truly holistic female health throughout the life cycle where personalized, innovative care cultivates authentic wellness, activates the healing process, and unravels chronic and complex gynecological, hormonal, painful, structural, functional, and autoimmune issues. We specialize in an empowering, holistic approach to female health, gynecology, and fertility, judiciously integrating complex diagnostics and state-of-the-art OB/GYN with a gentle, caring focus in an expanded functional and structural medicine context. We seek to empower you, the patient, with meaningful information, cutting edge research, alternative perspectives, and a range of holistic options that offer you the tools that you need to heal and feel well in your body while avoiding the potential risks and side effects of synthetic hormones, pharmaceutical medications, and surgery. This includes everything from Pap smears, functional medicine lab work, and bioidentical hormone prescriptions to restoration of the microbiome, personalized nutrition, plant medicine, osteopathic structural medicine, visceral manipulation, fertility awareness, somatic movement and yoga therapy, and incorporating the principles of connective tissue biology, fascia research, midwifery, indigenous healing traditions, and more...

DR. EDEN FROMBERG

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Dr. Eden Fromberg is the Founder and Director of Holistic Gynecology New York. As a Board Certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist who is also Board Certified in Integrative Holistic Medicine, Dr. Eden Fromberg is fully trained, credentialed, and has over 30 years of clinical experience in a broad spectrum of traditional and holistic medical and wellness theory and practice. An osteopathic physician, clinical professor, and Founding Member of the Fascia Research Society, who directed a NYC yoga studio for 13 years, Dr. Eden Fromberg researches, develops, and teaches clinical applications of yoga and manual and movement therapies for female health, and is a midwifery-supportive OB/GYN. She teaches professional courses and lectures to international societies, appeared in the film The Business of Being Born, works intimately and teaches with midwives including Ibu Robin Lim and Ina May Gaskin, has been on the Medical Review Board and written for the Huffington Post, and is a featured speaker and teacher. She is a true Gyn-Ecologist in that she truly emphasizes and values the ecological aspects of female health and the interconnected nature of our bodies, and is a passionate advocate for informed consent and bodily integrity.

With over 30 years of clinical experience, research, and innovation, Dr. Eden Fromberg has been on the frontier of developing and gaining mainstream acceptance for many of the current holistic perspectives and approaches that were previously viewed (if not disparaged) as the domain of hippies, midwives, and folk healers. With the healing potential of these holistic and indigenous practices increasingly becoming recognized by modern science and medicine, a sea of “functional medicine” and celebrity-driven wellness trends have arisen, many using similar marketing terminology and Instagram-ready imagery. Dr. Eden Fromberg cultivates a fresh perspective and is an independent (yet always interdependent) voice of wisdom and clinical effectiveness in holistic medicine, staying well ahead of and deconstructing the trends. She cuts through the noise and uncertainty, and takes the time and thought to seek out and treat the root causes underlying symptoms.

Her personal journey healing autoimmune, structural, arthritic, fatigue, pain, neurological, and microbiome issues in her own body gives her particular insight into unraveling the complex challenges that women face when symptoms are overwhelming and healing feels elusive. Dr. Eden Fromberg is a passionate advocate for informed consent and bodily integrity, values the wisdom and rhythms of nature and the interconnectedness of the body, integrates the sacred with the scientific, and cultivates environments, relationships, and experiences that potentiate the emergence of deeply healing biological intelligence, creativity, and self-expression.

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What to expect

A visit with Dr. Eden Fromberg reaches beyond the typical GYN office visit to truly delve into any issues of concern and keep patients healthy for years to come, including the essential underlying nutritional, metabolic, hormonal, structural, functional, and emotional aspects of women’s health. Generous time and focused attention are devoted, with the goal of providing comprehensive, meticulous, personalized, truly holistic care.

Dr. Fromberg’s extensive and diverse background, years of clinical experience, dedication to caring well for her patients, and active interest in current research and innovation give her the opportunity to sort out complex issues and develop customized treatment plans incorporating a multifaceted range and depth of biologically intelligent options to meet her patients' needs. Patients are given the information, time, resources, and ongoing support that they need to achieve true health and well being in any or all aspects of their lives.

In addition to her expertise in integrative fertility, pregnancy, and birth, Dr. Fromberg applies a structural and functional holistic approach to addressing all areas of gynecology, and women’s health, and beyond. She creates unique, customized programs designed to encourage the body’s innate abilities and healing processes to flourish, addressing underlying causes and prevention in addition to symptoms. Dr. Fromberg takes a special interest in the complex areas of female pain, pelvic floor and sexual dysfunction from an integrative perspective. She helps women throughout the life cycle achieve optimal hormonal health, and has prescribed bioidentical hormones for over 30 years. She helps women with chronic pain, inflammatory, stress related, and autoimmune conditions regain structural and functional health, and avoid medications with serious side effects.

Dr. Fromberg’s ongoing commitment to keeping abreast of current research and clinical updates allows her to treat a range and depth of women’s health conditions. She listens carefully with an open mind and broad perspective, thinks outside the box, and is adept at diagnosing and sorting out complex problems that may be dismissed or not adequately addressed by conventional gynecological and medical care.

Dr. Fromberg is dedicated to caring well for her patients, and she provides detailed, personalized guidance in making informed choices with compassion and respect for each woman’s personal orientation and individual needs. Even problems that may seem straightforward are handled thoroughly, gently, and with kindness and care. 

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Offerings & Services

Dr. Fromberg offers:

Holistic gynecology, holistic pregnancy and fertility guidance, female structural and functional medicine, female pain, osteopathic medicine, pelvic and sexual health, somatic movement and yoga therapy, nutrition

  • Holistic, integrative gynecological and functional medical care for women throughout the life cycle

  • Integrative, holistic, functional, structural, and biointelligent medicine approach

  • Wellness & prevention: beyond gynecology

  • Pap smears, GYN & breast exams

  • Structural and pelvic floor assessments

  • Physical medicine and rehabilitation

  • Comprehensive osteopathic structural and functional pelvic health specialist

  • Holistic hormone health and endocrinology for women, including:

    • testing and treatment of hormonal imbalance

    • menstrual irregularities

    • abnormal bleeding

    • menopause

    • testing and restoring adrenal health

    • stress, fatigue, energy

    • blood sugar, weight

    • thyroid testing and natural treatment

    • PCOS

    • bioidentical, herbal, and metabolic approaches

  • Integrative fertility & reproductive endocrinology, including:

    • fertility evaluations, testing and treatment

    • fertility awareness & cycle charting

    • sonography (ultrasound)

    • natural ovulation enhancement

    • bioidentical hormones

    • prevention of miscarriage

    • gynecologic visceral manipulation (French osteopathic technique)

    • integrative care for women undergoing IVF

    • nutrition for fertility

    • single women and couples of all orientations welcome.

  • Nutrition & metabolism

    • Laboratory evaluation

    • Food as medicine

    • Integrative, personalized nutrition programs

    • Special expertise in optimizing vegetarian, vegan, autoimmune, and healing diets

  • Holistic prenatal guidance & reproductive support

    • Prenatal nutrition expertise: all types of diets

    • Supportive of midwifery and home birth

    • Miscarriage prevention

    • Holistic prenatal guidance and referrals

  • Abnormal pap smears, cervical dysplasia, HPV

    • immune support

    • naturopathic protocols

  • Abnormal bleeding & irregular periods:

    • evaluation and treatment of underlying causes

    • hormonal laboratory evaluation

    • perimenopausal bleeding

    • sonography (ultrasound)

  • Bioidentical hormones: used judiciously, expertly and with care. Dr. Fromberg has prescribed bioidentical hormones for over thirty years, and has been a pioneer in the field.

  • Menopause: all aspects, including prevention and treatment of hot flashes, mood swings, lidibo, sexual pain & dysfunction, vaginal dryness, tightness, and discomfort, urinary leakage, pelvic floor weakness or tightness, osteoporosis, abnormal bleeding, weight management, nutrition, movement and exercise, breast changes, energy levels, cognitive and intellectual changes, cancer prevention, and more

  • Contraception & family planning: all methods including cervical caps, IUDs, and fertility awareness

  • Discontinuing birth control pills

  • PMS

  • Fibroids

  • PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome): restore cycles and fertility, improve metabolism

  • Ovarian cysts

  • Endometriosis

  • Sexual function, libido

  • Pelvic floor

  • Vulvodynia, vulvar pain, pelvic & sexual pain: Dr. Fromberg is an active member of the International Pelvic Pain Society and the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Diseases, and keeps up to date in this complex field while applying a holistic approach

  • Vulvar dermatology

  • Mircobiome expert: gynecology, pregnancy, birth, gut

  • Vaginitis: Yeast, BV, other and recurrent infections

  • Bladder infections, urinary tract infections, UTI

  • Sexually transmitted disease testing, treatment, and prevention, including HPV, herpes, and HIV

  • Chronic and complex illness, including the diagnosis and holistic treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, adjunct holistic treatment of inflammatory bowel, arthritic, chronic pain and autoimmune syndromes in women

  • Chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, myalgic encephalopathy, and systemic exertion intolerance disorder

  • Digestive disorders, inflammatory bowel disease including ulcerative colitis, intestinal parasites, irritable bowel syndrome, dysbiosis, microbiome and fecal microbiota transplant education

  • Organic supplements & botanical remedies

  • Osteopathic structural and connective tissue evaluation and treatment including gynecologic visceral manipulation

  • Functional and naturopathic medicine

  • Anthroposophic medicine: advanced training, mentorship and active member of Physicians Association for Anthroposophic Medicine

  • Somatic movement and yoga therapy: extensive training and experience, international certifications

  • Alternatives to surgery

Becoming a Patient

EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 1, 2021, THE HUDSON VALLEY AND MANHATTAN OFFICES ARE NOW BOOKING NEW PATIENTS

Holistic Gynecology New York’s main office is in the Hudson Valley, on a country road 15 minutes outside the river town of Hudson, NY. The NYC office is in Manhattan, on 27th Street at the confluence of the Chelsea and Nomad neighborhoods. Both offices are open by appointment only. All new patients must be seen in person for the first visit. Follow up visits that do not require an in-person visit can be conducted by telehealth.

Dr. Fromberg offers virtual women’s health consultations, somatic movement and yoga therapy, and birth guidance under education and therapy credentials for those who live outside the New York area and internationally. She also conducts workshops and retreats for regenerative female pelvic health and the healing process, and professional training courses. See www.dredenfromberg.com for details.

If you are interested in becoming a patient at one of Dr. Fromberg’s offices, please contact us at np@holisticgynecologynewyork.com to learn more about our services and fee schedule. In her medical office, Dr. Fromberg can diagnose, treat, order labwork and prescribe tests and medications.  Dr. Fromberg will provide a coded claim form to patients seeking insurance reimbursement.

Fee schedule and payment

Please contact the office for our current fee schedule. We are a fee-for-service practice and do not contract with any insurance company. Patients are responsible for full payment at the time of service, unless other arrangements have been made in advance. Dr. Fromberg will provide a coded claim form to patients seeking insurance reimbursement or for tax purposes. Holistic Gynecology New York's fees are based on the costs of operating an independent, female-owned, private medical practice with no corporate affiliations or obligations in the heart of the Hudson Valley and New York City, and are on par with the fees of functional medicine doctors and wellness practitioners who do not have the added expense of maintaining sterile instruments, specialized equipment, and trained staff.

Policies

Please contact the office for our current policies.

To schedule an appointment with Dr. Eden Fromberg or to learn more about how to work with her, please contact:

Holistic Gynecology New York
Phone: Hudson Valley (518) 249-5138, New York City (212) 343-8053

www.holisticgynecologynewyork.com

www.dredenfromberg.com

np@holisticgynecologynewyork.com

About Dr. Eden Fromberg

Dr. Eden Fromberg

Professional Credentials and Experience

Eden G. Fromberg, DO,  FACOOG, ABIHM is an osteopathic physician, Board Certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology by the American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (1999) and Board Certified in Integrative & Holistic Medicine by the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine (2003). She is a Fellow of the American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, a Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative & Holistic Medicine, and was appointed Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine (2000). Dr. Fromberg is the Founder and Director of Holistic Gynecology New York (est. 2016), and of Lila Wellness (2003-2016), and has been the Obstetrical Consultant to Yayasan Bumi Sehat Foundation and midwife Robin Lim (CNN Hero of the Year, 2011) since 1997. Dr. Fromberg holds an MA in Somatic Movement Education and Therapy from the University of Central Lancashire, UK, multiple yoga certifications, and International Yoga Therapy certification, and is a Founding Member of the Fascia Research Society. She has presented at the Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, World Congress of the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Diseases, Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Long Island College Hospital, Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York, Midwives Association of North America, Midwifery Today, and Oregon Country Fair.

Early influences

Born by natural childbirth in Brooklyn, New York in 1965, Dr. Fromberg was fully breastfed, weaned to a naturopathic diet, and raised as a third generation vegetarian. Dr. Fromberg’s grandparents owned and operated Hygiology, an organic vegetarian health spa in Rhinebeck, New York, the site of the First American Vegetarian Conference in 1948, where her parents met and married. Dr. Fromberg grew up with an awareness of the wholeness of all things and the goodness within people. Her research and experience with various diets, cultures, and healing traditions of the world confirms the importance of personalized nutrition and medicine to support the body through illness, childbirth, stress, and the cycle of life.

Education and training

Dr. Fromberg studied nutrition, yoga, midwifery and botanical medicine at Oberlin College, graduating with a B.A. in Biology in 1985. While volunteering at the Santa Cruz Women's Health Center, she apprenticed with midwives and bodyworkers, including Jeannine Parvati, pioneering midwife and author of Prenatal Yoga and Natural Birth, Hygieia, A Woman’s Herbal, and Conscious Conception. Eden completed the premed program at University of California, Santa Cruz while studying feminism with Free Speech Movement leader, Bettina Aptheker, then worked at Planned Parenthood and the revolutionary Booth Maternity Center in Philadelphia prior to attending medical school. She graduated from Southeastern University of the Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1991, and completed her residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1995. Following graduation, Dr. Fromberg worked at the Catskill Women's Health Center in the Hudson Valley, collaborating with midwives and seeing patients in vintage farmhouse offices.

Private OB/GYN practice

Before opening her independent practice in New York City and the Hudson Valley, Dr. Fromberg was integral to opening and operating the original Birth Center at The Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. In 2005, Dr. Fromberg established her independent holistic and integrative gynecology practice as a sanctuary for truly holistic women's health care dedicated to sorting out complex issues and offering a range and depth of options and treatments to meet her patients' needs while developing further diverse expertise including bioidentical hormones, functional medicine, alternative therapies, integrative fertility, female pain, sexual dysfunction, adrenal fatigue, and chronic inflammatory and autoimmune illness in women.

International childbirth work, midwifery and publications

In 1997 and ever since, Dr. Fromberg has worked intimately as an obstetrical consultant and midwifery educator with internationally renowned midwife, Ibu Robin Lim, CNN Hero of the Year 2011, and Bumi Sehat Foundation. Dr. Fromberg has also consulted for Birth India, and continues to work collaboratively with midwives and birth centers internationally. She wrote the forward to Eating for Two: Recipes for Pregnant & Breastfeeding Women by Robin Lim, and was an assistant researcher for Obat Asli Bali: The Synthesis of Traditional Herbal Medicine & Modern Medicine in Bali, Indonesia (Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali), in addition to professional publications. She was interviewed by Ricki Lake for the film, The Business of Being Born, and is featured in the Pregnancy Health Guru series on Fetal Development. Dr. Fromberg has discussed childbirth controversies and co-taught prenatal and childbirth preparation classes with friend and colleague, midwife Ina May Gaskin. Dr. Fromberg has also taught at Midwifery Today and Midwives Association of North America conferences, and at the Oregon Country Fair.

Yoga and somatic movement

Studying yoga since 1983, Dr. Fromberg’s integrative teaching approach is based on her extensive training and experience in a range of yoga and somatic movement techniques and methodologies. Dr. Fromberg taught yoga on road trips and concert tours during college, and her in-depth studies of yoga revived in 1997 when Alex Auder opened the original Hudson Valley Yoga in Tivoli, NY. She completed Forrest Yoga teacher training there in 2003, while studying intensively at the Lafayette Street Jivamukti Yoga, with Alison West at her original Broome Street loft, at the original Kula Yoga and The Shala, Ashtanga Yoga with K. Pattabhi Jois, and Iyengar Yoga with Genny Kapuler, Jaki Nett, and Glenn Black. Dr. Fromberg is trained in Yamuna Body Rolling and Foot Fitness, and has studied with dancer Maureen Fleming, Judith Aston of Aston Kinetics, and trauma researcher Bessel van der Kolk, MD.

With Mia Borgatta, who developed the Ma Yoga Prenatal method at Jivamukti, Dr. Fromberg founded Lila Yoga, Dharma & Wellness, a pioneering studio on the Bowery, NYC from 2003-2016 that also hosted the Dharma Punx and the Interdependence Project. Dr. Fromberg produced many visionary workshops there, including Sue Hitzmann of MELT Method, Jill Miller of Yoga Tune Up, Glenn Black Yoga & Bodytuning, Katy Bowman of Nutritious Movement, Liz Koch of Core Awareness, NYC’s first Forrest Yoga Teacher Training with Ana Forrest, Robin Becker of Continuum, and raw foods innovator David Wolfe. Lila Wellness is now based in the Hudson Valley, and hosts yoga, movement, meditation, wellness, and healing programs and trainings for women and professionals internationally

Studying closely with Nevine Michaan and Abbie Galvin at Katonah Yoga since 2011, Dr. Fromberg is certified in Katonah Yoga, and helped Abbie coordinate the Katonah Yoga Bowery studio. Dr. Fromberg is certified in Kundalini Yoga and Kundalini Medicine with Guru Dharam, and holds International Yoga Therapy certification. She is trained in Continuum Movement and certified as a Continuum Wellsprings practitioner, having studied directly with Emilie Conrad, Susan Harper, and Mary Abrams, and holds an MA in Dance and Somatic Well Being from the University of Central Lancashire, UK. Angela Farmer is a beloved teacher. Dr. Fromberg teaches anatomy, physiology, prenatal yoga, fertility and women’s yoga, and biointelligent alignment for yoga and prenatal yoga teacher trainings, and teaches workshops, retreats, and trainings incorporating women's yoga practices and somatic movement internationally.

Fascia and connective tissue

Dr. Fromberg is a Founding Member of the Fascia Research Society, and connective tissue insights are integral to her holistic medical perspective and treatment concepts. As an osteopathic physician, her foundation in understanding how the body’s structure affects its function and her studies during medical school with the Upledger Institute led her to pursue postgraduate advanced studies in manual and movement therapies, including courses in visceral manipulation via the Barral Institute and advanced urogenital manipulation training directly with Jean-Pierre Barral, DO, PT, and with the Barral Institute’s pelvic and women’s health specialist, Gail Wetzler, PT.

Dr. Fromberg’s professional studies have included with phenomenological embryologist Jaap van der Wal, MD, tensegrity and fascia researcher Jean Claude Guimberteau, MD, fascia researcher Antonio Stecco, MD, tensegrity and prolotherapy expert Jon Trister, MD, American Holistic Medical Association past President and holistic pain management specialist Hal Blatman, MD, rolfer Don Van Vleet, and anatomist Gil Hedley. Dr. Fromberg conceived, produced and taught the popular, 2-day, professional level course, The Female Pelvis in the Cycles of Life, with Anatomy Trains author, Tom Myers

Dr. Fromberg has phased out surgery in favor of manual and movement therapies in her holistic OB/GYN practice, and her extensive anatomical knowledge and meticulous surgical skills now inform her application of specific manual and movement techniques that improve and restore connection and communication in organ and tissue relationships, having the potential to resolve pain and physiological issues without pharmaceutical drugs or surgery, and improving healing after injury or surgery.

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