Kara Nance specializes in Upstreaming and uses her expertise to uncover and treat unhealthy relational and psychosocial dynamics that lead to suffering for individuals and organizations. A physician with 25 years of clinical experience, Kara also is trained to guide psycho-spiritual healing and transcendence. Kara studied at Princeton, Penn, University of Chicago, and UMass Center for Mindfulness and is double board certified in internal medicine and obesity medicine. 

Kara is the founder of WellessenceMD, the Lead Expert in Cravings, Addictions, and the Science of Self Mastery for the Sharecare Digital Health Company, and is certified in Nonviolent Communication, Resonant Healing, the Enneagram and MBTI typing systems, and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Kara also produces a weekly podcast called The Blindspot An Enneagram Podcast. In addition, she is a co-author in the Women Gone Wild edition about Intuition. Kara is a mother to four children and uses her “training” from parenting and divorce to help individuals and couples to navigate complex family dynamics.