Dr. Dacker

Dr. Dacker is a board-certified family physician with more than thirty years of experience caring for individuals and families. She now practices at Wild Woman Wellness Medicine in Salem.

Her training reaches well beyond conventional medicine. Integrative and functional study with Dr. Andrew Weil, the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, the Institute for Functional Medicine, and Dr. Mark Hyman's programs laid the groundwork. She built on it with sexual medicine training under Dr. Rachel Rubin and the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health, certification through the Menopause Society, and trauma-informed facilitation through The Field Model.

The STARS Talk, a framework she created for compassionate communication, has been featured in a TEDx Talk, on NPR's Life Kit, and in medical education programs at OHSU, Salem Health, and Pacific University. Before founding Wild Woman Wellness Medicine, she led Sex Positive Portland as Executive Director from 2018 to 2020. She was also Medical Director and owner of VIDA Integrative Medicine and Behavioral Health until it closed in 2024.