Practitioner I · Founder & Nurse Practitioner
№ I/III
Anastasia Andrew
NP
Board-certified Nurse Practitioner and founder of Anastology, a studio of aesthetic medicine in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.
In Practice
Anastasia founded Anastology to build the kind of practice she would want to walk into herself: small, quiet, and run by the people doing the work. She still sees patients every week.
Her letter and her full register are below.
“My favorite compliment is: you look rested.”
Questions
- Why the same practitioner, every visit?
- Because whoever you start with is who you finish with — the consult, the injection, the follow-up. There is no front desk handing you to a tech. When one person carries your whole history, nothing gets lost between visits, and nobody in the room is paid to sell you anything. This is the practice.
- What will you refuse to do?
- Anything that makes you look done. I decline work more often than people expect — a trend that will read as a mistake in five years, filler on a face that doesn't need volume, a treatment someone wants for a reason we haven't talked through yet. If you don't need it, I'll say so. If something I offer isn't right for what you want, I'll say that too.
- How do you keep your training current?
- Deliberately, and with some skepticism. This field moves fast, and not everything new deserves a place in the room. I keep studying — advanced coursework, hands-on training, time with colleagues whose judgment I trust — and I watch a technique long enough to see how it holds up before I offer it. By the time something reaches my hands, it has earned its way in.
- What is a first visit actually like?
- Unhurried. Plan for about an hour. We sit and talk before anything else — your history, your face, what has been bothering you and for how long. I'll tell you what I see, what I'd suggest, and in what order. Some people treat the same day; plenty leave with nothing but a plan, and that is a perfectly good outcome.
- How do you think about aging?
- As something to work with, not against. A face earns its character, and my job is to keep it looking rested and cared for at every stage — never frozen at one. I prefer small adjustments made patiently over years to any single dramatic correction. The best compliment my patients hear is that they seem well, not that they seem different.
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