The words “medical” and “spa” evoke 2 completely opposite associations.
The word “medical” often triggers feelings of anxiety about your health and wellness. These facilities are usually cold, sterile, and impersonal. You may feel more like a number than an actual patient or guest.
The word “spa” on the other hand, elicits a certain feeling of luxury and pampering. The tranquil environment evokes a sense of peace and relaxation. With such a strong emphasis on self-care, you feel like a valued and cared-for client.
At Regain Functional Medicine + Aesthetics we are redefining the word medical, because we understand the importance of your health and want you to feel comfortable in our space. That’s why, at our KC medical spa, you get educated medical professionals who offer a spa to relax and enjoy your treatments.
To learn more about our treatment philosophy and process, read this article.
Medical Spa: Combining Wellness and Aesthetics
A medical spa combines the health and wellness aspects of aesthetic medical centers with a spa-like environment. According to the American Med Spa Association, these 4 key components make up a med spa:
- Offers non-invasive, non-surgical aesthetic medical treatments.
- Operates under the supervision of a licensed physician or independent practitioner.
- Ensures appropriate supervision by a qualified healthcare professional.
- Has services delivered by skilled, certified practitioners.
While a traditional day spa can offer services that rejuvenate your skin—like facials—they can’t offer treatments like laser skin resurfacing or injectable treatments. These options do more: targeting facial aging and preventing lines and wrinkles from forming.
Just like a medical facility, a med spa can teach patients how to improve longevity and restore cognitive function, mobility, and energy. Med spas often align with functional wellness, which teaches us that the body is an interconnected system.
With this understanding, we recognize that your external appearance acts as a window into your internal health. This guides us to dig deeper and target the root causes of hair loss, acne, scarring, fine lines, or even brittle nails. We may discover that a hormonal imbalance or nutritional deficiency is at fault. These discoveries help us improve patients’ mental and physical health.
Welcome to Regain
Our KC Medical Spa, Regain, has gone through quite a few changes in the last year. But one thing remains the same: our dedication to our patients.
That’s why we were voted Best MedSpa in Johnson County. Here’s what you can expect when you visit our team in Leawood or Lawrence.
Comprehensive Consultations
Every consultation at Regain is free, but that doesn’t mean it’s not thorough. Unlike most medical facilities, we take our time to get to know you, because you are our top priority.
While this includes an extensive review of your medical history, we also ask about your lifestyle. Knowing your job, hobbies, activity level, and diet helps us understand the root causes of your health and aesthetic concerns.
This consultation is the start of a long-term relationship, based on trust, transparency, and care. After our initial conversation, we work with you to develop a personalized treatment plan to address skin health and wellness concerns.
Personalized Treatment Plans
At Regain, you’re not just a number: you’re a patient, a priority, and most importantly, a person. We recognize that your concerns are specific to your unique biology, and treatments require tailoring.
With that in mind, we prioritize everything from facials to injectables to wellness services to fit your specific needs. At our KC medical spa, we don’t simply mask your symptoms; we address them.
Ongoing Care
We build relationships with our patients, so we aren’t often ready to say goodbye so quickly. With our range of treatment options, we can support you through all of life’s transition and phases. This extends far beyond giving you clear, radiant skin (although we recognize the importance of that as well). We make sure to offer treatments that improve your mood, concentration, sleep, energy, and recovery.
To make our treatments and our care more accessible to you, we also offer Telehealth to our patients in Lawrence and Leawood. Now you can speak to your provider from (almost) anywhere.
Our Team
Our team includes nurse practitioners, medical assistants, certified nurse injectors, and licensed medical aestheticians. Each member has completed extensive training to provide you with quality care, and they continue their education as the health and aesthetic industries evolve.
The owner and medical director of our KC med spa, Dr. Kathy Gaumer, MD, FACOG, has earned an impressive reputation for delivering personalized health, wellness, and aesthetic care to the residents of Leawood and beyond. In fact, she was named a 2024 American Heart Association Kansas City Leader of Impact for her work in advancing equitable cardiovascular health.
Our Services
Now that you understand how dedicated we are to the Kansas City community, let’s inform you on our services. We’ll break these up into Aesthetics and Wellness.
Aesthetic Treatments
From minimally invasive injectables to non-invasive skin rejuvenation treatments, we customize your care.
Injectables
We offer plenty of injectable treatments aimed to target, reduce, and prevent fine lines and wrinkles.
Wrinkle Relaxers
Wrinkle relaxers like Botox, Dysport, and Daxxify prevent the formation of dynamic wrinkles, which appear with facial expressions. These injectables use a purified protein called botulinum toxin type A, which blocks nerve signals responsible for muscle contractions.
Repetitive muscle movement causes wrinkles, and over time, they stick around. These different formulas that Regain offers limit that movement, allowing for your skin to settle in a more even-level position.
There’s no need to worry about looking frozen when you trust this KC med spa. We use precision and conservative dosages when targeting the facial muscles. You’ll still be able to express joy, sadness, and anger, just with fewer wrinkles.
Dermal Fillers
Dermal fillers replenish lost volume when dynamic wrinkles turn to static wrinkles, which remain on your skin even when your face is at rest. However, they also boast additional benefits, like plumping lips and improving facial contour.
At Regain, we offer Juvederm, Restylane, and RHA. These brands use hyaluronic acid, a naturally occurring molecule in your body that is known for its moisture-retaining abilities, to add volume.
For collagen stimulation, we offer Radiesse and Sculptra, 2 injectables that stimulate collagen production to support your skin’s structure.
Vampire Facelift
There is no surgery required for a Vampire Facelift. Instead, we use the regenerative power of your own blood to replenish lost volume, tighten skin, and fill out wrinkles. By combining dermal fillers with PRP injections, we restore your youthful glow and promote natural skin rejuvenation.
Regain is the only KC Medical Spa provider of the Vampire Facelift and Vampire Facial in KC!
Non-Invasive Skin Rejuvenation
If you’re not fond of needles, we offer a range of facials and laser treatments to support your skin health non-invasively.
Laser Treatments
Laser skin resurfacing can reverse sun damage, calm redness, and tighten skin. Our CoolPeel ablative laser delivers short pulses of intense light to set off your body’s natural healing abilities. This promotes cellular regeneration (replacing old, damaged cells with new, healthy ones) and boosts collagen production.
We also offer the Motus AY, a broadband light (BBL) therapy, which emits visible and infrared light to improve your skin tone.
→ Want to learn more about these lasers? Read this article on laser skin resurfacing.
Facials
We are a spa after all, aren’t we? We offer personalized and custom facials designed to enhance your laser and injectable treatments and at-home skin care routine.
Here are a few of our facials:
- Hydrafacial: A 3-step process that involves exfoliating, extracting, and nourishing your skin.
- Fire & Ice Facial: This facial uses glycolic acid and retinol to exfoliate and resurface your skin, followed by hyaluronic acid and aloe vera to heal and hydrate.
- Oxygen Acne Facial: Oxygen is essential for repairing and replacing skin cells. After exfoliating, cleansing, and hydrating your skin, we infuse oxygen and a blend of vitamins to nourish your skin.
Wellness Services
Often, medical facilities use medicine to hide symptoms such as tiredness, low energy, or poor stamina. At our KC med spa we address them with the following services.
Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy
Our hormones are constantly fluctuating, but when you reach your 40s or 50s, they can dramatically impact your mental and physical health. With bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, we use naturally sourced hormones to replenish estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone. Not only can HRT improve the health of your skin and boost your self-esteem. It can also minimize hot flashes for women and improve muscle recovery for both men and women.
Kathy Gaumer firmly believes in and encourages BHRT because it’s rooted in science, deeply restorative, and life-changing.
IV Therapy and Vitamin Injections
You probably know the importance of vitamins and may take a daily multi-vitamin. And while we won’t tell you to stop taking them, we do want to let you in on a little secret: they aren’t as potent as you may think. As oral capsules pass through the digestive system, most of the components are absorbed in the digestive tract before they reach the cells.
IV therapy and vitamin injections deliver vitamins, minerals, and other ingredients like NAD+ and glutathione straight to your bloodstream. This means your cells can fully absorb and use the vitamins immediately.
→Regain was one of the first offices in the KC metro to offer NAD+ injections. Learn more about the powerful benefits from this coenzyme in this article!
The range of benefits you can experience from IV therapy includes improved sleep, enhanced muscle recovery, better skin health, and clearer cognitive function, among others.
Medical Weight Loss
At Regain, we understand that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all weight loss plan. That’s why we provide medical weight loss services that include nutritional guidance, exercise recommendations, and injectable forms of GLP1’s, GIP’s, and Phentermine.
Often, we pair semaglutide and our weight management services with BHRT to restore balance to your hormones. This can improve your sleep quality and energy levels, which significantly impacts your weight loss journey.
Introduce Yourself to Our Team at Regain
Our KC med spa is your one-stop-shop for wellness and aesthetics. We firmly believe that by improving your self-esteem and your health, we are also improving your quality of life. But enough about us! We want to get to know you! Request a consultation with our team or try our treatment planning tool to start your wellness journey and become you again.
