Why Patients Choose Nabella Health

Patients come to Nabella Health for answers, but also for something bigger: the confidence of knowing their health is being looked at thoughtfully, proactively, and as a whole. With a personalized plan built around your body, your goals, and your life, you can feel informed, empowered, and confident in the decisions you make about your health.

Book a Consultation

Medicine That Takes the Time to Understand You

Healthcare should feel personal. It should connect the dots, look beyond isolated symptoms, and give you the time and attention needed to understand what is happening in your body. Nabella Health was founded by Gabriella Safdieh, MD, to offer a more thoughtful approach to medicine. After seeing how often patients felt rushed through appointments, left with unanswered questions, or given one-size-fits-all recommendations, Dr. Safdieh created a practice centered around something increasingly difficult to find in healthcare: time, access, and a meaningful relationship with your physician.

Here, conventional medical expertise meets the deeper investigation of integrative and functional medicine. We look at your health history, symptoms, lifestyle, nutrition, hormones, metabolic health, family history, diagnostic testing, and long-term goals together.

Explore Our Approach to Preventative Health

At Nabella, Your Care Begins with Listening

Our physician-led model gives Dr. Safdieh the time to understand your complete health picture before determining what comes next. Rather than relying on generic protocols, recommendations are personalized to your needs and may incorporate advanced diagnostics, preventative medicine, nutrition and lifestyle strategies, hormone optimization, supplements, medication, and other evidence-informed therapies when appropriate.

Just as importantly, your care evolves with you. Nabella Health is designed to provide ongoing guidance and a trusted medical relationship through changing symptoms, priorities, and stages of life.

Meet Dr. Safdieh & the Nabella Team

A Physician Who Can Do Both

Dr. Gabriella Safdieh, MD, trained in conventional medicine and practices integrative and functional medicine which means she can prescribe medication when it's the right tool, order the same diagnostics as a conventional physician, and also address the root contributors a standard visit often doesn't have time to explore. Patients frequently arrive expecting a "supplements and lifestyle only" provider and are surprised to learn she practices as a full physician.

  • A woman in a medical uniform participating in a video call with a woman shown on a laptop screen, sitting at a desk in a clinical setting.

    Time to be actually heard

    A Nabella Health visit is structured for depth with enough time to walk through your full history, symptoms, and goals, not just the item at the top of the list. This comprehensive approach helps us connect the dots and build a personalized plan that considers the full picture of your health.

  • Black and white photo of multiple hands reaching towards each other, creating a sense of connection and unity.

    Family Inclusive

    Nabella Health sits at the intersection: physician-led, functionally trained, with hormone and peptide expertise for both women and men, and health coaching that carries a plan into daily life for individuals and families alike.

  • A glass of water with a lemon slice on a marble surface and a bowl of capsules in the foreground, with a blurred background.

    A plan you can actually live

    Diagnosis and a prescription are a start, not a finish line. Our health coaching team works from the same plan Dr. Safdieh builds, translating it into nutrition, movement, and lifestyle habits that hold up in a real schedule often using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to make progress visible in real time.

The Nabella Method

Our Approach: Diagnose. Personalize. Implement. Sustain.

Every plan at Nabella Health follows the same four-step approach: a comprehensive diagnosis, a plan personalized to your biology, hands-on implementation support, and ongoing adjustments to sustain your results over time.

Person wearing a white lab coat and blue gloves using a pipette to transfer liquid into test tubes in a laboratory.

Diagnose

Dr. Safdieh starts with a comprehensive evaluation and advanced diagnostic testing including labs, hormone panels, and other targeted diagnostic testing based on your history to understand what's actually driving your symptoms, not just treat what's visible on the surface. Health is multifactorial and there are often many things leading to specific symptoms.

A doctor writing on a medical chart with a patient sitting across the table.

Personalize

As a licensed physician trained in both conventional and integrative medicine, Dr. Safdieh can prescribe medication and peptide therapy when it's warranted, recommend targeted supplementation, and build a plan shaped around your specific biology, goals, and life stage.

A person in medical scrubs and stethoscope reviewing brain scan images on a tablet at a desk with a laptop, medicine bottle, and white box.

Sustain

Through ongoing visits, lab re-checks, and regular coaching check-ins, Dr. Safdieh continues to monitor your progress, evaluate how your body is responding, and refine your plan over time. As your hormones, lifestyle, goals, and health needs evolve, your care evolves with you to build a sustainable foundation for long-term health and longevity.

Implement

A plan is only useful if you can live it. Our health coaching team works alongside Dr. Safdieh to translate your personalized plan into daily practice: nutrition, movement, sleep, and stress habits you can actually sustain. Frequent check-ins within membership programs allows her to track progress, adjust the plan, and safely minimize medication use whenever possible.

Close-up of a DNA double helix structure, with white spherical bases connected by red glowing bonds, on a gray background.
See Our Programs

What Our Patients Say

  • "My 18 year old daughter is a patient of Dr. Safdieh's and I can't say enough about how much she has helped her. Dr. Safdieh is an amazing partner in helping to get to the root cause of my daughter's symptoms and addressing them holistically."

    -Erin H.

  • "I have had such a great experience working with Dr. S. do far. She makes me feel heard and I can tell genuinely cares about the well being of her patients. It's a relief to finally work with a medical team who goes the extra mile"

    -Emily V.

  • "Amazingly attentive doctor. Dr. Gaby listens and customizes her protocols to get patients. She does thorough testing to uncover underlying causes of your changes. And she can prescribe both western medications and supplements."

    -Christina B.

  • "Perhaps the most important thing Dr. Safdieh has done for our family is teaching us how to live healthier lives and prevent health issues before they even begin. Her guidance on lifestyle changes has been transformative."

    -Jennifer E.

  • "Dr. Safdieh is a breath of fresh air in modern medicine. I grew tired of the old system. Dr. Safdieh's innovative, holistic approach is exactly what I was looking for - and I feel healthier each day because of it."

    -Josh P.

  • "Love working with Dr. Safdieh! She's so knowledgable and easy to work with. If you're looking to take control of your health, I highly recommend!"

    -Chantal K.

  • "Absolutely love Dr. Safdieh and the whole Nabella Health team. They have really helped me reach my health goals. Can't recommend them enough!"

    -Julie A.

  • "Dr. Safdieh is everything you are looking for in modern day general practitioner. She is not looking for temporary band aids, but helped me get to the bottom of my auto immune issues through blood work, attention and constant focus."

    -Dana P.

In-Person in New York. Virtual Care Beyond NYC.

Visit Nabella Health in Manhattan at 90th Street & Lexington Avenue or Long Beach, Long Island, with convenient access for patients throughout New York City and Long Island. Dr. Safdieh also offers virtual appointments for eligible patients in states where she is licensed to practice, including New York, New Jersey, California, Florida, and Virginia.

Locations & Virtual Care

Experience the Difference of Being Fully Understood

Start with a comprehensive evaluation built around your full history, not just your top symptom.

Book a Consultation

New York | New Jersey | California | Virginia | Florida