What Is Seasons?

At Seasons, our focus is wellness, not just treatment of disease. In this video, Dr. Nathan Goodyear talks about his vision for Seasons and our revolutionary approach to women’s health care.

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Looking Good Helps You Feel Good

We have two Medical Aestheticians working for Seasons Women’s Care, Lisa Best and Terri Grayson.

That’s a fun word to say—aesthetician. (You can hear the pronunciation by going here and clicking on the speaker icon.) But don’t let the word scare you. Aesthetics is just a big word that means something has a pleasing appearance. Merriam-Webster defines aesthetics as “a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste and with the creation and appreciation of beauty.”

At Seasons, we may not be philosophers, but we are concerned about the aesthetics of our patients. You want to look your best. You want to look youthful. You want to look full of life. And we want to help.

Because looking good is important. When you look good, you feel good.

Think about when you were in High School and you dressed up for a big date. You knew you looked good, and you were certainly feeling good about yourself! You had confidence. That confidence and the wellbeing you get from looking good is beneficial to your body. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it is actually healing to you, but I believe it is very good for your body.

Positive thinking is healthy. That means we want to help you think positive!

We Want You To Look Your Best

At Seasons, we love helping people look their best. We want every patient to be beautiful.

Our aestheticians are trained in microdermabrasion, chemical peels, electrolysis, permanent makeup, and Intense Photo Light therapy or IPL. (IPL is a way to use very strong flashes of light in place of lasers—for hair removal, acne, skin rejuvenation, hyper pigmentation, and very small spider veins.)

I have to stop there for a moment.

Most of this stuff wasn’t around when I was a kid suffering from acne. My brother and I just dealt with our zits. I think we had some medicated wipes for our faces or something. Even though we weren’t “greasers,” we were terrified by commercials like this one…

…but we had to wait until after acne before we found our miracle girls. (And we’ve both been married to our original sweethearts now for many years.) But back to medicine and skin care.

Over-the-counter skin care isn’t enough for many people. Seasons uses treatment like microdermabrasion, chemical peels, facials, electrolysis, and IPL to address all aspects of a patient’s skin care.

Take acne. Forget the commercial. At Seasons, we might first do a chemical peel to get down to that healthiest layer of skin. There are three layers to your skin—the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis. A chemical peel takes off the top layer of skin—the old dead layer. This leaves you with a more youthful layer of skin, so you look more youthful. (Obagi Blue Peel is one of the brands that we use.)

Then we look for a skin product line that best fits the patient’s skin type—like deep cleansing facial products that gets into those pores and clean things out. IPL will actually kill the bacteria in those pores with acne.

We’re just looking at a multi-prong approach to acne—or any skin disorder.

There’s so many different skin types, you have to be careful what kind of product you use on your face. This is why I am cautious about over-the-counter cleansers for acne. You may be getting something that dries your skin out. If that’s not what your skin type needs, you could be making your acne even worse. The professionals at Seasons are able to evaluate each patient’s skin type and work through our protocol of skin care and product lines and treatment options.

Skin treatments are hardly the only thing we do, though. I am a doctor after all! If my patients need medicine, I can prescribe what they need.

On the other hand, if people just need an old fashioned pore extraction, we give them that, too.

Seasons Offers Massage Therapy

That’s right. We do massage therapy for relaxation and internal healing. It’s one of the many ways we seek to help our patients’ through total wellness.

So how does massage therapy contribute to internal healing and total wellness?

It relieves stress. And stress kills, you know?

But more than that, we believe there’s healing in touch. That’s a lot of why massage therapy is so powerful. I believe human touch helps to heal us.

That’s why Seasons offers different types of massages. Traditional Swedish massages for relaxation. Hot stone massages. Essential oil massages. Athletic or deep tissue massages to help repair damaged tissues and muscles from athletic injuries and other kinds of injuries.

We cover the gamut—from helping people who come to us with strained muscles to relaxing people who are just stressed out and need a relaxing Swedish massage.

Spa Treatments Can Restore Confidence

A lot of my patients want to look better. So naturally, I want to help them with that. At our spas, Seasons Medical Aesthetics and It’s Permanent, we help restore a woman’s youthful appearance and so restore her confidence.

We are a full service medical spa with a wide range of offerings: facials, microdermabrasion, chemical peels, acne treatment, hair treatment, hair removal, treatments for hyper-pigmented areas of the face, even a natural lift of the face without any kind of surgery. We address wrinkles with botox and dermal fillers.

We’re a visual society. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to change elements of your physical appearance. For many women, looking better means having more self-confidence.

A visit to a spa can also be a kind of a spiritual renewal for many women. They walk away with confidence. They’re able to say, “I feel good about who I am.”

Get Your Smile Back with Radiesse!

Hello, my name is Anna Stephens. I am a Certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. I am so excited to have joined Dr. Goodyear and the aesthetic “team” in Ruston and Monroe.

The services we are offering are truly amazing, and you will be taken back by what a dramatic difference we can make to your appearance and your life.

We are now offering Radiesse. What is Radiesse you ask? It is a safe FDA-approved dermal filler that restores a natural, long lasting youthful look. Radiesse is made of unique calcium-based microspheres suspended in a natural gel that is injected into the skin through a simple, safe and minimally invasive procedure. Radiesse works with your body and forms a support that stimulates the growth of collagen. The results are immediate! Radiesse can last a year or more and is very safe.

Most clients are extremely happy with the results after the first treatment, but we usually schedule a follow-up visit within 2 weeks to allow for touch-ups if needed. Prices for Radiesse are individualized for each client but are very comparable to other procedures. So… what are you waiting for? Let Radiesse and the staff at Seasons Medical Aesthetics give you your smile back!

Contact us or call (318) 255-3223 to schedule an appointment or consultation today. Also ask about specials we may be offering.

Please visit the site regularly to see what new topics I have to discuss with you. I look forward to working with you and hope I can enhance your outer as well as you inner beauty!