About Olga · Why Rêverie Santé exists
Olga Klahm, MMS, PA-C
Founder · Physician Associate · Menopause-Certified Clinician
Born in Bosnia and shaped by Balkan and Mediterranean traditions of food, movement, herbs, community, and connection to nature, Olga’s perspective on health began long before her career in medicine.
A former NCAA tennis athlete, she developed an early appreciation for performance, resilience, recovery, and the relationship between physical health and quality of life. Her clinical career has since spanned oncology, urgent care, emergency medicine, correctional medicine, COVID units, hospitalist medicine, stroke care, and neurosurgery.
Personal experiences with significant spinal disease and surgery, injury and recovery, persistent nerve pain, and later perimenopause further shaped her philosophy. They led her to explore longevity science, regenerative approaches, peptides, hormone health, nutrition, herbs, and other modalities while maintaining a strong respect for evidence, modern medicine, and clinical judgment.
She founded Rêverie Santé to bring those worlds together: the rigor of modern medicine, the wisdom of foundational health practices, the curiosity to look beyond conventional boundaries, and the belief that every patient deserves to be heard.
In my own words · Where my resilience comes from
I know what it means to start over.
I was born in Sarajevo, in a country that no longer exists. Yugoslavia is gone; by today’s borders, my birthplace is Bosnia and Herzegovina. I was raised on olive oil, Mediterranean waters, sunshine, figs, and lots of garlic. When we were sick, it was garlic and local honey by the spoonful.
In 1992, ethnic cleansing tore my family apart. We were separated from my father and fled through several countries before finding refuge in Germany. With the help of a UNHCR group, we were reunited with him and started over once again, this time in Canada.
Tennis brought me to the United States, where I competed as an NCAA athlete and studied to become a PA. I chose the PA profession because it let me move between specialties and keep expanding what I know. Neuroscience has always been where my curiosity lives, but over the years prevention and longevity moved to the forefront.
Health began for me long before medicine: at the table, in the sea, in the remedies passed down in my family.
Those years taught me resilience, and they taught me that health starts long before a prescription, in what we eat, how we move, the people around us, and the wisdom we inherit. Today, practicing medicine in the place that became home, I want every woman who comes to Rêverie Santé to feel welcomed, understood, and never alone in navigating her care.
My recovery journey
When the traditional pathway stopped being enough.
After spinal surgery, I was dealing with persistent nerve pain and the frustration of not feeling like myself. I began doing what I naturally do as a clinician: researching, reading, questioning, and exploring every reasonable avenue that might support healing and recovery.
That journey led me into areas I had not been taught much about in traditional medical training. Over time — with persistence, curiosity, and a willingness to keep asking questions — I found my way back to feeling like myself.
That is my personal experience, not a promise of any particular result for someone else. But it changed how I think about medicine: it made me more curious, more open-minded, and more committed to using every appropriate tool available when conventional answers alone are not enough.
My perimenopause journey
Women should not have to fight this hard to feel well.
Then came perimenopause. Even as a medical professional — and now as a menopause-certified clinician — I found myself having to advocate far too hard for comprehensive answers. I had to research, ask repeatedly, connect my own symptoms, and push for a level of care that should not be so difficult to find.
I began recognizing the same experience in women around me and in my own patients: symptoms minimized, concerns compartmentalized, visits cut short, and women leaving appointments knowing something was wrong but without a meaningful plan.
Women should be heard, believed, taken seriously, and given the tools to succeed. Comprehensive care should not feel elusive, and advocating for your health should not feel like a second full-time job.
What I’m working toward
My actions now matter.
When I’m 80, I want to be independent. I want to garden, travel, and hopefully look after my grandchildren. That future takes strength: muscle, bone, balance, energy, and a clear mind. And it is built by what I do today, not someday.
That is what purposeful longevity means to me, and it is what I want for every woman at Rêverie Santé. Not just more years, but years you can fully live.
What I believe
Use the full toolbox of medicine thoughtfully.
That means conventional medicine when it is the right answer. It can also mean prevention, diagnostics, nutrition, exercise, hormone health, sleep, metabolic health, supplements, emerging therapeutics, specialists, and other appropriate approaches when they may add value.
I do not believe good medicine is about being “conventional” or “alternative.” I believe it is about understanding what is safe, what is supported, what is appropriate for the individual patient, and what we may not have considered yet.
