1st Step Family Wellness focuses on total body wellness through wellness chiropractic, pediatric care, women’s health and fertility, prenatal and Webster Technique, nutritional strategy and enzyme therapy, acupuncture and chronic stealth infection diagnosis and treatment.
We offer educational classes about optimal healthy living, breastfeeding support and so much more!
Dr. Ryan and Dr. Jeanne Sandheinrich are a husband and wife chiropractic team. They opened 1st Step Family Wellness together in the summer of 2013, in Kirkwood, MO.
Dr. Ryan experienced chiropractic care as a child for his asthma. The relief he gained was astounding! After experiencing such a magnitude of success with his own results, Dr. Ryan knew he wanted to devote his life to helping others through chiropractic.
Dr. Jeanne received chiropractic care in high school. She had amazing results as well. Once she learned what chiropractic can do for children, and pregnant women, Dr. Jeanne knew this was what she was meant to do in life.
Dr. Jana Flora, a Saint Louis native, joined the 1st Step Family Wellness team in 2017. She began her journey in health following a severe knee injury in high school. The arduous recovery process led her to study chiropractic, as it proved to be an astounding way to facilitate natural healing and even prevent injury and illness.
In Dr. Jana’s first year of practice she developed a deep passion for caring for pregnant and pediatric patients, both from the enjoyment of treating them as well as from seeing the lifelong consequences of moms and children not receiving chiropractic care. As a result, she has relentlessly pursued opportunities to further her education in pregnancy and pediatrics, sifting through textbooks, attending seminars, and corresponding with mentors. She is currently working on her pediatric certification through the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association.
Steffanie is blessed to be a mother to two amazing young boys. Through raising them, she has come to know the benefits of holistic living and truly taking care for one’s body. Steffanie left the corporate world in early 2017 to pursue work that was more aligned with her holistic lifestyle. While Steffanie works reception at 1st Step Family Wellness, she has worked as a birth doula since 2015. It has always been her passion to normalize physiological birth.
Alissa began her holistic journey when she became pregnant with her first child. After exploring and researching about pregnancy and birth, she decided a hospital birth wasn’t for her, and she opted to have a home birth. Holistic well-being has been an integral force across all sectors of her life (even her dogs receive chiropractic care and massage therapy!). Since experiencing the wonders of breastfeeding in her personal life, Alissa became an enormous advocate for breastfeeding, and continued to become a La Leche League leader in 2014, in hopes of offering a support system for other moms trying to breastfeed.
Renee initially fell down the holistic health rabbit hole in 2013 learning about native herbs; which led to her passion for essential oils. Since completing over 100 hours of essential oil education from the Center for Aromatherapy Research and Education, she teaches regular essential oil classes at the office in Kirkwood. While experiencing the joys and struggles of exclusively breastfeeding her son, a new passion began to burn in her—a passion to serve new moms. In 2017, she received her Lactation Counselor Certification, as well as completed Postpartum and Labor Doula training.
Take your 1st Step to Health with First Step Family Wellness!
