Compass Providers
Dr. Laura Hudson DNP, APRN, FNP-C
Founder, Owner & Full-time Provider
Dr. Laura Hudson is Doctor of Nursing Practice, AANP Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner providing holistic health care in her comfortable office-based setting.
With over 17 years of college education, Dr. Hudson has studied at multiple institutions to achieve a broad knowledge base, allowing her to address many healthcare needs. As an independent Nurse Practitioner, she can be your PCP or someone you seek counsel from regarding your specific concerns. Dr. Laura enjoys focusing on individual wellness and believes someone’s mindset can greatly impact their health. Because of this Laura enjoys taking extra time with her patients to educate them on how the body operates in health and sickness. Dr. Hudson works with her patients to guide and empower them as they help their body function at its best.
Since beginning at the Journey to Wellness, Integrative Wellness Center in early 2016, Laura has been focused on providing women’s healthcare including gynecological care, along with managing several conditions with pharmaceutical, complementary and alternative treatment options. Dr. Laura has extensive knowledge regarding the use of Therapeutic Cannabis to help those of her patients who qualify and wish to certify for the NH and Maine Therapeutic Cannabis Programs. She also enjoys managing thyroid and gastrointestinal dysfunction and has attended courses to expand her skills with regards to nutritional counseling and management.
In 2020 Dr. Laura took a part-time position working at a local eye clinic, providing dry-eye treatments. The use of the devices at the eye clinic required Dr. Laura to receive training in radio-frequency and Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) treatments. These experiences lead to her love of aesthetic medicine. She has continued to learn many different aesthetic procedures and has completed injection procedure certification and training/certification with many medical aesthetic devices. Since 2021 Dr. Laura has expanded services provided at Compass, and now many Med-spa services are now provided through Compass Customized Health & Wellness.
Dr. Laura also has a passion for teaching and often hosts Nurse Practitioner & Physician Assistant Interns from several Universities. She believes it is important to mentor new Practitioners as they complete the clinical hours required for them to graduate before being eligible to take their certifying board exams. This allows for the future leaders of healthcare to be exposed to functional and holistic methods which they will hopefully integrate into the care they provide once practicing independently.
Experiences
2001 - 2004 3-year Associates Degree in science- Dental Hygiene *Cum Laude
2004 -2005 Bachelors Degree in Science - Dental Hygiene *Magna Cum Laude, -Minor focus in advanced coursework in nursing.
2004 Trained and certified to administer nitrous oxide
2004 National Dental Hygiene Honor Society: Sigma Phi Alpha Inductee
2005 Level 1 Therapeutic Touch Practitioner
2005 Trained and certified to administer local anesthesia
2005 Teaching Intern –community health
2005 Per diem University clinical instructor
2004 - 2013 Advance trained pediatric and adult dental hygienist and oral health educator.
2010 - 2012 Associates degree -Nursing *Cum Laude
2011 Nursing Honor Society - Phi Theta Kappa Inductee
2011 – Current Founder / CEO Seacoast Toy Towers, motivational and rewards program for kids
2011 Level 1 Reiki Practitioner
2012 - 2016 Pediatric, adult, disabilities & geriatric nurse with independent and management positions
2015 Infection Control Practice –research and implementation clinical internship
2014 - 2015 Bachelor's in science -Nursing *Summa Cum Laude
2014 American Nursing Credentialing Center, specialty board certification -Pediatric Nursing Specialist
2014 Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
2014 Golden Key International Honor Society
2015 Medical Mission –Dominican Republic
2015 - 2016 Masters of Science –Nursing: Family Nurse Practitioner *Summa Cum Laude
2015 – 2016 Clinical internships: Internal medicine, pediatrics, dermatology, gynecology and urgent care
2016 American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
February 2016 Joined My Friend’s Gynecologist and Primary Care for Women.
May 2018 Nominated and Selected as a Trademark Women of Distinction
July 2018 Formed Compass Family Health LLC -Owner
February 2019 BioTE Hormone Optimization Program -Certified Provider
2019 Inductee Society of Collegiate Leadership and Achievement
2019 Selected by Today's Nurse - as A Top Nurse Practitioner
2019 Awarded membership to Worldwide Leaders in HealthCare
2019 Honored Member: Continental Who's Who of Professionals
2018-2020 Doctor of Nursing Practice degree 4.0 GPA
2021 Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Clinical Placement Practitioner
2022 ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider
2023 Completion of the International Association for Physicians in Aesthetic Medicine, Injectables Training Program
2023 Nationwide Registries of Top Doctors of America – Selected Member for NH Family Medicine
2023 - 24 Marquis Who’s Who of America –Featured Member
2024 Certificate in Holistic Health
2024 Certified Mental Health & Nutrition Clinical Specialist
Dr. Hudson is not currently taking new primary care patients, but oversees all patient care in the clinic, and is available for established patient consultation at the request of the other providers. Dr. Laura is currently taking new Aesthetic and Hormone Health patients.
Rebecca Turner MSN, APRN, FNP-BC Full-time Provider
NP Rebecca Turner is an ANCC Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner. Prior to becoming a Nurse Practitioner, NP Turner worked as a Registered Nurse for 9 years. Rebecca has experience in medical-oncology, community health and most recently worked as an RN at a therapeutic boarding school for adolescents. With a goal of being more autonomous, and to impact a larger patient population, Rebecca decided to return to school and become a Nurse Practitioner. In 2021, she obtained her Masters’ of Science Degree in Nursing, graduating Cum Laude from Simmons University in Boston Massachusetts.
Rebecca is a qualified independent provider, but due to the team approach at Compass It is common to see NP Turner working alongside Dr. Hudson. Rebecca enjoys evaluating and treating acute and chronic health problems along with providing yearly physical exams and common mental health medication management. Rebecca looks forward to educating her patients and guiding them to reach an optimal level of health. When Rebecca isn’t working, she enjoys spending time with her 3 children and her husband of more than 20 years.
Experiences
2010 - 2013 Associates’ Degree in Science-Nursing
2014 - 2017 Registered Nurse & Charge Nurse -Hospital Medicine
2017 - 2018 Registered Nurse -Community Health
2017 - 2019 Bachelors’ Degree in Science -Nursing *Cum Laude
2018 - 2020 Registered Nurse -Oncology & Chemotherapy
2020 Registered Nurse -Therapeutic Boarding School
2020 Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Inductee
2019 - 2021 Masters’ of Science –Nursing: Family Nurse Practitioner *Magna Cum Laude
2020 - 2021 Clinical Internships: Pediatrics, Family Medicine, OB-GYN, Functional Medicine & Hormone Health
2021 American Nursing Credentialing Center, Board Certification -Family Nurse Practitioner
October 2021 Joined Compass Family Health as a full-time primary care provider
2021- Current Nurse Practitioner Fellowship: Externships in Internal Medicine, Physical Therapy / Pain Management, Dermatology
Rebecca feels that she was fortunate to intern with a variety of providers during her time in school, including a rotation with Dr. Laura Hudson at Compass Family Health. After learning a great deal about functional medicine during her rotation with Dr. Laura, Rebecca applied for a Nurse Practitioner Fellowship position at Compass Family Health. Rebecca Started with Compass in October 2021, and compleeted her fellowship training in 2022 where she built on her knowledge and experience though specialty clinical experiences and advanced training programs.
NP Rebecca is welcoming new patients to the practice.
Susan Gosselin FNP-C, APRN, MSN Part-time Provider
NP Susan Gosselin is a AANP certified Family Nurse Practitioner. She started her Nursing career as a Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Research Nurse at the Children’s Clinical Research Center at Yale New Haven hospital in 1988. Here she specialized in infusion therapy administering chemotherapy and training other colleagues in venous access devices and was recognized as a certified IV/Chemotherapy therapy nurse (ONS). This is where her love for knowledge in complex life threatening blood disorders, cancers, rare genetic, metabolic, neurologic and general medical problems was cultivated. In the Summer’s, She worked in the infirmary at Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Camp where children from around the world were allowed to experience a normal Summer camp experience despite having a life threatening blood disorder.
In 1992, she enrolled in a Pediatric Master’s Program at the University of Virginia, where she focused on Oncology and specifically the bone marrow transplant (BMT) process. She participated in a pilgrimage to other hospitals BMT units in grad school (UVA, Washington Children’s, Sloan Kettering, Boston Children’s, Maine Medical Center). She graduated Magna Cum Laude.
After starting her family, Sue began a career in Adult Oncology, becoming involved in the National Oncology Nursing Society. She rose from staff nurse to many other leadership roles ranging from an infusion nurse specialist, Clinical leader, Breast Cancer Nurse Navigator, Manager and ultimately Director of Hematology and Oncology for a local NH hospital, building cancer centers and supporting patients and their families in the local community. During this time, she served on some prestigious non-profit organizations on their Board of Directors and participated in many cancer fundraising efforts.
In 2011, she entered into a Family Nurse Practitioner Post Master’s Certificate program at Regis College. It was an important transition to focus on improving patient’s lives as a skilled practitioner. This was encouraged by her Mother who had passed away from Pancreatic cancer. After Graduation, she started as the only Family Nurse Practitioner in a Primary care office for over 7 years, where she had the pleasure of caring for many families and their children, in a practice with over 6000 patients. The many years of cancer care served her well, allowing cancer prevention, knowledge about blood disorders and primary care knowledge to flourish in a holistic manner. She also worked in Urgent care settings, Community Health settings, and other primary care offices part-time where she acquired minor surgery and emergency skills.
NP Sue joined Compass Family Health in November, 2019 and has become a valued part-time provider. She provides functional medicine with an appreciation for the importance of patient-centered to help patients feel their best. Sue is certified as a BioTE bioidentical hormone optimization practitioner and provides pellet therapy for Compass Hormone Health. Sue is also a certifying provider for the NH Therapeutic Medical Cannabis program.
Sue is married to the love of her life and they share two children now serving in the Air National Guard. She spends her time off traveling and enjoying spending time with family and friends.
NP Sue is not taking new Primary Care patients, but does see existing Compass patients for acute visits.
Sue does take new patients for Hormone Optimization.
Jade Letourneau PhD, LCMHC, ACS Part-time Mental Health Therapist
Dr. Jade Letourneau is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who has been practicing since 2013. She holds both Doctoral and Masters Degrees in counseling and is an Associate Professor of counseling at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. Jade has been an Approved Clinical Supervisor since 2016, offering clinical supervision for interns and newly licensed counselors. As a clinical mental health counselor, Jade’s work is firmly rooted in humanistic approaches, with cognitive-behavioral and post-modern interventions integrated as needed. She believes the best therapy is client-directed; she values maintaining collaborative, therapeutic relationships. She has clinical experience with clients of all ages in a variety of settings, including corrections, community mental health, and private practice. Jade is a qualitative researcher who has multiple pubished journal articles, and regularly presents at regional and national counseling conferences.
Jade is currently taking Compass patients for Therapy!
Jenni Knowles, BS, RDMS Part-time Sonographer
Jenni has a Batchelors Degree in communications with a minor in psychology. She later went to school to learn sonopraphy, and has been a Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer since 2005. Jenni holds accreditations in Abdominal and OB/Gyn sonography, and has spent most of her career providing ultrasound imaging services in the hospital setting. In 2024 Jenni founded Diagnostic Imaging: on-site ultrasound, so that she could bring her passion for ultrasound to the smaller setting within the medical office.
Jenni works at Compass per-diem to provide our patients with non-vascular ultrasound imaging. Her work is supervised and billed to insurance by Dr. Laura and all images are reviewed and interpreted by Radiologits at USArad. Final results are usually available within 2-3 days, and patients are notified via their Compass Portal.
Jenni's schedule is booked as needed for Compass patients who would prefer to receive diagnostic ultrasounds at Compass vs receiving imaging at one of the local hospitals.
Meet Our Support Team
Samantha, MBA
Sam is our Practice Manager. You will likely meet her at the front end during check-in and check-out. She has two batchelors degrees, the first in Psychology and the second in Envoronmental Sustainability. Sam is currently working on her MBA Degree. Sam will often be your point of contact on the phone, and is happy to transfer any questions she can't answer, over to the clinical team.
Sam is also Lucky's Mom
Alex, BSN
Alex is a Registered Nurse and our Clinical Director. She has a Bachelors degree in Nursing Science and is currently pursuing her Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Masters Degree. Alex handles many of our consultations, education visits, triage questions and prior authorizations while over-seeing the clinical staff. As an intergral part of the clinical team, Alex is often scheduled with patients for Pellet & Aesthetic Treatments
Kelly, MA, LE
Kelly is one of our part time Medical Assistants, working with us 3 days a week. Kelly is also a Medical Esthetician, and the owner of Luminous Skin Care (in suite 226-2) where she is happy to see patients for facials, microdermabrasion and many other services. You might see Kelly at the check out desk, for an injection, assisting procedures or as a provider for one of our aesthetic procedures.
Hope
Hope is one of our Medical & Administrative Assistants. Hope works at Compass part-time when she is not working as a Certified Optician the rest of the week. Hope is happy to help patients check in & out, and she enjoys administering injections. Hope is often answering the phone to help patients with scheduling questions.
Candace, CMA
Candace is one of our friendly and knowledgable Medical Assistants who has worked at Compass in a variety of capacities since 2018. Candace is most often seen seating our patients and assisting our providers during patient procedures. Candace is available to help answer clinical questions, and send out your medication refills.
Aimee
Aimee has worked at Compass in multiple capacities since we opened in 2018. Aimee used to welcome everyone at the front desk when the office was on the 1st floor, but due to running her own family business, she is in only in the office a couple times a month. There are also times where Aimee works remotely helping with insurance claim resolution.
Marney
Marney has worked at Compass part-time for several years as one of our administrators. She mostly works behind the scene processing insurance claims and helping out with billing questions. Because she is only in the office periodically, if you leave a message for her, it might take a little time for her to get back to you.
Abby, MA
Abby is one of our Medical Assistants assistants who works with us part-time while enrolled in the health science program at UNH. Abby enjoys the flow of working in a private medical practice, and is wonderful with patients. She is eager to learn practical knowlege in the field, as she hopes to work as a Nurse Practitioner or Physicain Assistant in the future.
We pride ourselves on being a tight knit group of ladies that share the same goal to help others. To ensure we function well as a team we often share lunch most days and engage in team building activities monthly. These are a few photos of us engaging in some team activities over the years.
