Purposeful Healing Direct Primary Care is a comprehensive direct primary care clinic offering holistic primary care services, weight management and urgent care. Affordable membership options give patients direct access to a primary care physician, physical therapist, registered nurse, personal trainer, psychologist and a reiki master.

Clinic founder and Doctor of Osteopathy Yaser Elqutub, from Katy, Texas, has modeled his practice to focus on a patient’s mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health, which are interconnected with overall wellness. “Mindfulness is important to our overall well-being. Optimal function of our body is achieved by connecting with our mind,” he advises.

Purposeful Healing is based on the direct primary care model, without insurance as the middleman. This gives Elqutub more time to build a better relationship and truly discuss patient wellness goals.

Direct primary care services include wellness visits, treatment for acute or chronic conditions, pain, colds, women’s care services, weight management and urgent care for illnesses or minor injuries. Elqutub estimates that direct primary care can meet roughly 90 percent of a patient’s medical needs.

Purposeful Healing memberships start at $149 per month, which gives unlimited access to Elqutub. Family discounts are available, and non-members can schedule individual in-person or virtual visits for as low as $75 per visit. “Patients often comment on how affordable this quality care can be,” Elqutub says. He sees patients that have private insurance and those with no health insurance. “If someone does have insurance, we use that to cover things such as medications, labs, imaging, and for specialty and emergency services,” he explains.

In an effort to keep all aspects of health care affordable, Elqutub contracts with local imaging services, labs and pharmacies that charge less than conventional facilities. For convenience, the clinic has a gym with direct access to physical therapy and personal training services. This, Elqutub emphasizes, helps motivate patients to get their recommended exercise in, as opposed to doing it on their own.

Building Health and Wellness Team

As a former professional athlete, Elqutub had always been interested in health and wellness. He played collegiate football at Northwestern State University, and professionally with the British Columbia Lions in the Canadian Football League. He later joined the West Texas Wildcatters of the Indoor Football League. Elqutub had ambitions to sign with the National Football League, but life had other plans. “I had to grow up, so I decided to be a doctor,” he quips, but the allopathic, pharmaceutical-based medicine curriculum didn’t resonate with him.

He completed his medical training at University of North Texas Health Science Center Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Fort Worth. There, he was inspired by how the medical school made bedside manner and a dedication to patient care a priority. “I was really impressed by how osteopathic medicine considers the entire holistic picture while treating patients,” says Elqutub. He also performed a residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Family Medicine Program, where he learned more about integrative medicine principles.

Elqutub formed Purposeful Healing Direct Primary Care in September 2022, and the staff includes Doctor of Physical Therapy Mark Anthony Rodriguez, Registered Nurse Jalessa Palmer, Certified Personal Trainer James Scott, reiki master Reem Elhossary and psychologist Margaret Moravec, Ph.D.

“Because our care emphasizes physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing, visits typically address things like diet, exercise, sleep, mindfulness and both physical and emotional traumas. The body can only handle so much before it begins to break. We focus on getting to the source of the problem and addressing any barriers that prevent the body from healing itself,” states Elqutub.

One of his specialties is performing osteopathic manipulative therapy, which consists of gentle hands-on manual therapy focused on aligning the body’s connective tissue, or fascia. “One of the tenets in osteopathy is that if the body is in alignment, then the body can heal itself.”

Purposeful Healing has grown exponentially in less than a year, primarily through word-of-mouth. “Our approach resonates with like-minded patients who want holistic and integrative care,” observes Elqutub. “My hope is that the integrative model becomes a standard of care in medicine.”

Purposeful Healing is located at 4300 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 280, in Dallas. For appointments and more information, call 469-949-2730 or visit PurposefulHealingDPC.com.