The Alternative Touch
Verified listingAbout The Alternative Touch
What is The Alternative Touch?
The Alternative Touch is a medical spa at 2066 N. Valley Mills Dr. in Waco, Texas, serving Waco and nearby Central Texas communities. Its main business is skin and body treatment, including facials, fillers, microneedling, laser hair reduction and body sculpting. Medical weight management and hormone replacement therapy are two of its services, along with peptides, IV therapy and NAD+ injections. It is open Monday to Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, and closed on weekends.
The clinic names one prescriber, Paula Snokhous PA-C. The weight management program is called Lean & Fit, and the one medication it names is semaglutide. Its hormone therapy is through Biote, which places small pellets under the skin in the office. The clinic has no published start date, and it has a 5 rating on Google from 121 reviews.
What does it cost?
The clinic does not publish prices for weight management or hormone therapy. It also does not say whether medication is included in any price, and it publishes no consultation fee. The only prices it gives are in its FAQ: a facial can start at $50, and body sculpting can cost as much as $3,200. It takes no insurance: "We do not accept insurance for services and treatments." It names Cherry Payment Plans as a payment option but publishes no terms. Ask for the full cost of your first visit, lab work included, before you book.
What should you ask before you book?
Ask who signs the semaglutide prescription, since Paula Snokhous PA-C is the only prescriber the clinic names. Ask whether the program fee includes the medication, and whether the semaglutide is brand-name or compounded. For hormone therapy, ask whether the pellet insertions and the hormones are priced together. Pellets need to be replaced about every 3 to 5 months, so ask what each insertion costs. Its hormones are compounded, so ask which hormones in your plan are compounded.
Ask what bloodwork costs. Lab tests may be needed, and some may be covered by insurance, even though the clinic takes no insurance for its own services. Ask whether any follow-up is done by video, since the clinic does not address this. Anti-aging language appears on the site without being tied to one service, so ask which treatment is meant if that is what you want. Finally, ask how to cancel or pause if you stop.
Who is it a good fit for?
This is a good fit if you want a Waco medical spa that also offers weight management and hormone therapy, you plan to pay cash, and you are willing to get prices and prescriber details in writing before your first visit. It is a weaker fit if you need published prices, a fixed monthly program price, or care you can do by video.
Sources: thealternativetouch.com, thealternativetouch.com/about, thealternativetouch.com/weight-management, thealternativetouch.com/hormone-replacement-therapy
Services Offered
What we confirmed
Read off The Alternative Touch’s own website on 2026-10-16. These are their words, not ours.
- ✓Medical weight loss — listed on their site as “Lean & Fit is The Alternative Touch’s medically supervised, science-based program that targets the underlying cause of weight gain and obesity: metabolic dysfunction.” source
- ✓Hormone therapy — listed on their site as “Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) is a method of restoring the balance of your hormones and aiming to relieve these symptoms, using compounded hormones that are identical in structure to those your body naturally produces.” source
- ✓Peptide therapy — listed on their site as “Paula focuses on optimizing health through advanced therapies such as peptide protocols, hormone balancing, and personalized wellness plans.” source
Hours
Monday – Friday: 8 am – 5 pm