About Us
Meet Heather
Founder of Teleios Functional Wellness
Bio
Meet Heather, Founder of Teleios
Heather Bertolero didn't set out to build a functional medicine practice. She set out to figure out why conventional medicine kept treating symptoms and calling it care.
She started her career in 2008 as a dermatology-certified nurse practitioner at a high-volume private practice in New Jersey, eventually stepping into the role of Director of Nursing for the practice's surgical center. It was there, inside a system built for speed and volume, that she saw the gap firsthand: patients leaving with prescriptions but no answers, symptoms managed but never actually resolved. That gap is what sent her looking for a different way to practice medicine — one that asked why before it reached for a prescription pad.
More than a decade of advanced training later — in hormone optimization, longevity medicine, and root-cause healing — that search became Teleios Functional Wellness: a virtual and hybrid practice built around personalized, whole-person care for hormone optimization, metabolic health, chronic fatigue, gut dysfunction, and healthy aging.
Heather's approach is grounded in science, not trends — and in the belief that the body is designed to heal when it's finally given what it actually needs.
She holds advanced certifications including:
- Institute of Functional Medicine: IFM Certified Practitioner
- Advanced Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy (WorldLink)
- SEEDS Scientific Research and Performance Peptide Certification
- Integrative Health Practitioner (Levels 1 & 2)
along with additional training in mold-related illness, mineral balance, precision nutrition, fitness, and nervous system regulation.
Off the clock, she's a wife, a dance mom, and a competitive NPC Bikini athlete — showing up for her own health the same way she asks her patients to show up for theirs.
Our Approach
We don't just treat labs — we treat you
Every patient gets a real exploration of their history, lifestyle, and biology, backed by advanced testing that shows us what's really happening beneath the surface.
From there, we build a plan around your goals — whether that's more energy, better sleep, fewer symptoms, or just feeling like you again.
No templates. No guesswork. Just personalized, science-backed care built to last.
What We Specialize In
Personalized, whole-person care
IFM Certified Practitioner
Worldlink Medical BHRT Certified
Care delivered by a provider dual-certified in the gold standards of root-cause functional medicine and evidence-based bioidentical hormone therapy.