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About Us

A Passion for Functional Medicine

Terri Peña, MD MBA IFMCP, is a board-certified Family Medicine physician with over 24 years of clinical experience. After graduating from medical school at the University of California, Davis, and completing a residency at the University of California, San Francisco at Fresno, she has continued her professional development with an MBA in medical administration from the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota. She has also completed a master's level health coaching certificate from the University of Minnesota's Center of Spirituality and Healing.

Dr. Terri has become one of a handful of physicians in the state of Minnesota who are also certified by the Institute of Functional Medicine, the premier educational and certifying body for functional medicine. Dr. Terri greatly enjoys her private practice focused on women aging powerfully and intentionally.

In Minnesota since 2000, Terri was born, raised, and trained in California. Before moving to the Twin Cities, where she now lives with her husband and their Australian Cattle dog - Gabby, Terri spent four years in Abilene, Texas, where she served in the Air Force. Dr. Terri, her husband, and Gabby are like the three musketeers and look forward to their annual trip into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Our Process

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To Lasting Wellness
Together, we'll uncover the root causes of your health concerns and empower you to make lasting improvements to your well-being.
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This Free 15 minute call with Dr. Peña is perfect for you to ask questions how your specific case would be approached. Or if you have questions about the practice in general and and how this might be different than other experiences you have had.
Please note: no direct medical advice is given at this appointment.
This one-time assessment offers an invaluable deep dive consultation where you learn about your unique imbalances that are impacting your symptoms.

Blood work is ordered prior to this appointment so that can leave with a personalized lifestyle and supplement prescription plan.

There are TWO separate appointments: a 90-minute appointment with Dr. Peña and a 45-minute follow-up with our health coach.

This appointment is necessary to establish care at Ruckus Wellness
Book a Discover Call to set this up.
This is where the deep work and transformation happens.With our 12 month membership, you will receive regular appointments with Dr. Peña as well as our health coach.

Not only will we peel back the layers to the drivers of your symptoms or disease with advanced testing, we will uncover how ourselves and our lives impact hour embodied wellness.