Integrative Primary Care
The Radical Healing Collaborative’s integrative care model is a client-centered, whole-body approach to health care that promotes optimal wellness through radically inclusive medical, behavioral, and mental health services. We partner with patients across the lifespan to provide culturally affirming and exceptional primary medical care, psychiatric medication management, and behavioral health care, tailored to each person’s unique needs.
Our Medical Care team is excited to support your health needs, beginning September 2024 – please sign up here to join our appointment list!
What We Support
Primary Medical Care
Our providers offer knowledgeable and welcoming support for acute medical needs, chronic illness support, psychiatric medication management, and preventive healthcare needs throughout the lifespan. We are Health at Every Size-aligned (HAES), trauma-informed, client-centered, and deeply rooted in racial and economic equity.
Behavioral and Mental Health Care
The Radical Healing Collaborative offers a full spectrum of mental health and social wellness services, including: psychiatric medication management; individual and group psychotherapy services for children, adolescents, and adults; educational community programming; and events that promote community wellness.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Care
Our providers support a wide range of sexual and reproductive health needs including but not limited to: comprehensive reproductive wellness checks, birth control options, IUD insertion and removal, emergency contraception, HIV testing, STI testing and treatment, UTI testing and treatment, PEP/PrEP prescriptions, PCOS treatment, and erectile dysfunction treatment.
Gender-Affirming Health Care
The Radical Healing Collaborative provides gender-affirming medical care, preventative care, and hormone therapy for our trans, gender-expansive, and gender-diverse community members. Our providers are inclusive, thoughtful, and knowledgeable in emerging approaches to ensure optimal health.
Flexible Appointment Options
In-Person and Virtual Care: We provide in-person visits in Durham, and remote care across North Carolina via a secure telehealth platform.
We offer evening hour appointments and weekend clinical hours to expand accessibility to inclusive health services.
Insurance and
Payment Options
- Insurance Coverage: The Radical Healing Collaborative accepts most in-state and out-of-state North Carolina insurance plans, including: BCBS plans, Aetna, United / Optum, Tricare, and Cigna.
We do not currently accept: Blue Value, Blue Local, & Blue Home plans in primary care or therapy
Stay tuned! We are in the process of becoming in network with Medcost, Medicare, & several Medicaid (Healthy Blue, WellCare, United, Ambetter, Amerihealth, & Alliance). - Self-Pay and Sliding Scale: To expand accessibility to care, we now offer options for self-pay clients, including a sliding scale fee option for services.
Our Medical Care Team
Rakhee Devasthali, MD
(she/her)
Dr Rakhee Devasthali is excited to join this group as a collaborating doctor for the medical providers. She is the owner and physician at Community Love Direct Primary Care and is glad to see more heart-forward healthcare structures being created here in Durham. She knows from seeing the system from the inside and from hearing terrible stories from countless patients that the system was not built for us – for poor people, for Black, Indigenous and People of Color, for women, for Trans folks, for fat folks, for queer folks and so we are forging something better ourselves. Dr Rakhee is committed to creating systems where both providers and patients are treated as the valuable full people we are.
“My hope is that primary care at Radical Healing will feel like a trusted partner in the health journey and a space our patients know they can come to for clear, compassionate and accessible care, health information and guidance.” -Rakhee Devasthali
Stephanie Martinez, PA-C MHS MSPH
(she/her)
Stephanie Martinez, PA-C, MHS, MSPH, is our Co-Medical Director and a physician assistant with nearly a decade of experience working in providing more inclusive primary care. She has been dedicated to providing compassionate care to populations that have been systematically marginalized and underserved. Throughout her career, she has been committed to community service with particular attention centered on efforts to help eliminate health disparity gaps by implementing quality improvement projects focused on the delivery of inclusive care.
Prior to her work with Radical Healing, she worked for Duke Health/Lincoln Community Health Center for nearly 10 years. Her scope of practice includes patient centered comprehensive care across the lifespan specializing in sexual health (PrEP/PEP) and hormone replacement therapy for gender affirming care.
Destry Taylor, FNP
(they/them)
Destry Taylor is a queer, genderqueer Southerner who has been working as a family nurse practitioner in North Carolina since 2013. While they are a committed primary care provider their clinical focuses include LGBTQIA+ health, gender affirming care, sexual health (including PrEP), and working with patients with chronic mental health conditions.
Prior to Destry’s work as a nurse practitioner, they worked in the biomedical research field with focuses including cancer therapies, food microbiology, and pulmonology. While living in Seattle, they began volunteering as an HIV Pre/Post Test Counselor at a drop-in clinic for homeless youth and as a Hepatitis C screening coordinator at a community-run needle exchange. These experiences ignited Destry’s interest in strengthening community focused healthcare and as a result, they enrolled in the University of Washington’s nursing program.
Mx. Destry Taylor is a 2011 Graduate of the University of Washington Nursing Program, and holds a Master’s Degree in Nursing from Duke University. Following their training, they have practiced in Graham, Durham, and Chapel Hill with the majority of their time being spent at federally qualified health centers. Destry is very excited to join the Radical Healing team and continue their work of expanding and improving health care for the LGBTQIA+ community in North Carolina.
“I want patients who access care at Radical Healing to feel affirmed in who they are, listened to, and partnered with in their primary care. We want to create a safe-r space where all patients can bring their authentic selves and healthcare needs and feel seen and heard” -Destry Taylor
Clinical Team
Summer Bowman, Medical Assistant
(they/them)
Summer is am a white, queer, nonbinary person born and raised in North Carolina. They enjoy cultivating an edge of unrelenting curiosity, an air of nonconformity, and a deeply rooted passion for social justice.
Their background is in community healthcare, cross-cultural comparative healing, and emergency services with a specialty in search and rescue. They have accrued nearly a decade of experience in search and rescue and currently serve the community through the South Orange Rescue Squad rescue team as well as the CPR division as an American Heart Association instructor.
They join the Radical Healing Collaborative as a Medical Assistant and assist and will provide radically affirming and empowering care at the Primary Care Clinic.
Novi Zheng, Medical Assistant and Patient Navigator
(they/them)
Anna Edwards, Medical Care Coordinator
(she/her)
Hey y’all, I’m Anna Edwards (she/her). I was born & raised in Durham. I’ve worked as a practice coordinator for six years & worked in hospitality for several years prior to that. My favorite part of my day is making patients feel empowered by helping them navigate the insurance maze and helping them liaise with their providers – it can be so overwhelming!
During my free time, I love spending time with my kiddo, knitting, & learning about astrology. I am very excited to join the Radical Healing team & to be of service & support to the collaborative.
Medical Care FAQs
What Is the Mission of Radical Healing’s Primary Care?
Our mission is to provide high-quality, accessible, identity-affirming, and inclusive care to all patients. Our diverse team of queer, trans, BIPOC, cis, white and allied professionals works to create a life-affirming space for all people to experience radical community care and wellness. Recognizing that folx with marginalized identities face additional challenges to receiving quality healthcare, we keep the needs of BIPOC folx, queer and trans people, and poor and working-class community members at the center of our approach.
What Can I Expect?
We model our care on a lineage of patient-centered healthcare practices – from community birth centers to small private practices. Expect a cozy, comfortable environment, staffed by knowledgeable staff using accessible language, with radical attention and care paid to your individual and cultural needs.
What Conditions Do You Support?
As a fully integrated health center, Radical Healing specializes in supporting a full range of physical, social, and mental healthcare needs across the lifespan including routine physical exams, same-day urgent care, treatment of minor illnesses, gynecological care, chronic illness treatment, hormone therapy, HIV testing and prevention, STI and UTI testing and treatment, community referrals, and so much more!
How Do You Approach Body Size and Weight?
We believe all bodies are good bodies and that all patients deserve respectful and inclusive care. Radical Healing Primary Care is body-affirming, fat-positive, and aligns with Health at Every Size (HAES®) principles in supporting our community of patients.
Do You Offer Low-Stimulation Settings for Medical Care?
Yes, we are glad to help accommodate individual sensory or environmental needs to help you receive the medical care you deserve. Please, indicate any specific needs and preferences on your initial intake form or call the office, at least three days in advance, and our team will collaborate with you to provide an accommodating environment for your visit.
Do You Offer Translation Services?
Yes, we offer translation services in 300 languages with HIPAA-trained medical interpreters to communicate with our non-English-speaking, English-as-a-second-language, and Deaf and hard-of-hearing patients.
If you need an interpreter for your appointment, please indicate it on your initial intake form or call the office at least three days in advance.
What Types of Appointments Are Available?
We offer in-person visits in our ADA-accessible Durham office at 2011 Chapel Hill Road and remote care across North Carolina via a secure telehealth platform.
Note: Some medications may require in-person visits.
What Insurance Plans Do You Accept?
We accept most in-state and out-of-state BCBS plans (except for Blue Value, Blue Local, and Blue Home plans), Aetna, United / Optum, Tricare, and Cigna.
Do You Offer Self-Pay or Sliding Scale Options?
Yes, we provide self-pay options, including sliding scale rates for all services, in an effort to expand access to inclusive care for all.
Can I Continue My Current Medication Regimen When I Join?
We will work with you to review your medical history and treatment plan, to better understand how to adjust or support your current regimen.
How Do I Request An Appointment?
To request an appointment, please complete this short form and a medical care coordinator will contact you and guide you through our new patient onboarding process. It takes less than 10 minutes to get started!
Please call us with your schedule handy, insurance information, and our team will get you started.
