Gregory
Parfianowicz - Neurovisual Integration Coach
There are times when conventional, cookie-cutter options are not effective. There are injuries, surgeries, and cardiovascular events that leave the body feeling disconnected, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unwell.
Medical providers have been at a loss for what to prescribe to help a patient to recover pre-physical therapy basics, like eye-hand coordination and balanced slow gait. Neuro-visual integration is exactly that. A descriptor rather than a field of practice (for now), Gregory synthesizes his six years of vision therapy experience with his education/experience in postural restoration, physical therapy, physical education, and professional sports.
Gregory has helped athletes regain coordination post-concussion. He's worked in stroke recovery, post-surgical rebalancing for cross-patterning in gait, hyper and hypo-mobility challenges, and much more.
Education and Background
Gregory graduated in 1992 with a Master's degree in Physical Therapy from the University of Physical Education in Warsaw and an undergraduate degree in Physical Education and Coaching (European Handball).
Gregory has several CEU certificates in biomechanics and postural education.
Helena
Helena Prieto, DO - Holistic Psychiatrist
Dr. Prieto studied anthropology at Vassar, where she learned to pay attention to larger pictures of meaning in people’s lives. She then broadened her interest to learn about various traditional healing modalities before deciding to focus on learning conventional medicine. Before starting medical school she was introduced to anthroposophic medicine which resonated well and she has been studying since. She thought she would become a primary care doctor, but then discovered psychiatry while rotating as a student and fell in love with the field. It allows for all the different fields of a person’s live to converge and be valued.
During medical school at Touro University in California, she was selected as an Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine pre-doctoral fellow that gave her an extra year of training in OMM. She then completed post-graduate residency training in Elmira, NY in general psychiatry where she finished in 2025.
Currently she continues to work in Elmira in conventional outpatient psychiatry and teaching medical students and residents, along with having a small private practice in Ithaca for expanded holistic psychiatry.
