The Holistic Health Center in Steamboat Springs was opened by Doctors Criste and Halteman in 1980.

The mission statement was simply to provide non-force, instrument-based whole body Chiropractic techniques to humans and animals alike. The center was founded to employ these Chiropractic techniques; and to include nutritional counseling and supplementation, along with massage and acupuncture.

Although unusual in 1980, this has now become the model for providing comprehensive, whole body health care for structural injuries, and visceral dysfunction.

Current practitioners at the Holistic Health Center include Andrea Hyams, CMT, who does a wide range of massage techniques, and Dr. David Criste, DC CVCP, who provides instrument based and non-force Chiropractic techniques, along with Applied Kinesiology. Dr. Criste has over three decades of experience providing health care to women, children, infants, athletes of all stripes, and animals. Indeed, Dr. Criste is acknowledged as being the first equine Chiropractor in Colorado.