Rebecca Suess

Founded Refinery Skin Clinic in 2017

Treatments & Services I Offer

My practice centers around comprehensive aesthetic and wellness medicine, with a strong emphasis on natural-looking rejuvenation, facial harmony, and helping our clients feel like the healthiest, most confident version of themselves.

Services I provide include:

• Full-face facial balancing and rejuvenation with the JUVÉDERM® Collection of Fillers 
• Lip enhancement, structural support, and feature refinement with advanced dermal filler techniques 
• BOTOX® Cosmetic and neuromodulator treatments for wrinkle softening, prevention, brow elevation, eye opening, gummy smile correction, jawline refinement, and advanced facial balancing 
• Sofwave™ skin tightening for non-surgical collagen stimulation and rejuvenation of the face and body 
• Medical weight loss treatment, including individualized plans utilizing GLP-1 and other evidence-based pharmacologic strategies 
• Advanced body composition analysis, lab review, and phenotype-based treatment planning 
• Functional wellness optimization, including hormone support, inflammation assessment, micronutrient evaluation, insulin resistance management, and longevity-focused care 
• Comprehensive aesthetic treatment planning, integrating injectables, skin health, regenerative treatments, wellness medicine, and advanced technologies for natural-looking full-face rejuvenation 

What I’m Known For & My Areas of Expertise

After more than two decades in aesthetics, I’ve learned something important: the “best” treatment is rarely the trendiest one.

Clients often come to me feeling overwhelmed, and I completely understand why.

Between social media trends, aggressive marketing, celebrity treatment chatter, conflicting advice, and endless claims about the latest “must-have” procedure, aesthetic medicine can feel confusing at best and intimidating at worst. That’s one of the things I’m most passionate about changing.

I believe one of my most important roles is helping clients cut through the noise and return to what actually matters: their goals, their anatomy, their skin health, their lifestyle, and what will genuinely serve them in the long term. Not every treatment is right for every person. Not every trend deserves your attention. And sometimes the best recommendation isn’t necessarily the procedure a client anticipated when they first arrived.

My goal is never to sell a treatment. It’s to help clients feel informed, empowered, and confident in choosing the path that truly makes sense for them.

My expertise includes advanced injectable artistry, full-face rejuvenation, facial balancing, regenerative aesthetics, medical weight loss, and the integration of functional wellness with aesthetic medicine.

But perhaps even more importantly, I’m known for seeing the bigger picture. Beautiful, natural-looking results rarely come from a single syringe, a single device, or a single appointment. They come from understanding how the face ages structurally, how skin health evolves over time, how internal wellness influences outward appearance, and how to strategically layer the right treatments at the right time.

My clients know I’ll always be honest with them. Sometimes that means recommending treatment. Sometimes it means recommending patience. Sometimes it means redirecting the plan entirely.

Because trust is everything.

A Little Bit About Me

My path into aesthetic medicine has never followed a perfectly straight line, which in hindsight feels exactly right.

As a child, I saw a Pampers commercial featuring a nurse practitioner and confidently announced, “That’s what I’m going to do someday.”

The pediatric part didn’t quite stick, but apparently the nurse practitioner part did!

I actually began my professional life in a much more creative space, originally attending college for elementary education before realizing it wasn’t the right fit. I pivoted into cosmetology, spent eight years as a stylist, and discovered something that still drives me today: I genuinely love helping people feel better about themselves.

That passion eventually led me into dermatology, then aesthetic medicine, then nursing, and ultimately advanced practice nursing.

Today, I am a triple-board-certified nurse practitioner specializing in aesthetic and wellness medicine, but my background across beauty, dermatology, surgery, nursing, and wellness is a huge part of what shapes my practice.

I’ve always believed aesthetics should be approached with both artistry and clinical rigor. Founding Refinery Skin Clinic was born from a desire to create the kind of practice I felt clients truly deserved: one grounded in honesty, education, exceptional outcomes, and relationships that actually matter.

What began as an aesthetic practice has evolved into something much more holistic, because the longer I practice, the clearer it becomes:

Health and aesthetics are inseparable.

How I Approach Taking Care of Your Skin’s Health & Appearance

I don’t believe beautiful outcomes start with injectables. I believe they start with health. Full stop.

Skin is an organ. Hormones matter. Inflammation matters. Insulin resistance matters. Micronutrients matter. Collagen quality matters. Sleep matters. Stress matters. Your mental and social health matters. It ALL matters, and your skin keeps score!

You can absolutely place filler beautifully and soften wrinkles expertly, but if the foundation underneath is struggling, results will always be limited.

One of the analogies I often use is this:

Flowers can’t grow in poor soil. That philosophy has deeply shaped how I practice.

Over the last several years, I’ve become increasingly focused on functional wellness, longevity medicine, and helping patients understand the relationship between internal health and aesthetic outcomes. I also reject the idea that “normal” lab values automatically mean optimal health. To me, reference ranges often function like grading scales. If you brought home a D on a test, you wouldn’t wait until it became an F before asking for help! That’s exactly how I think about insulin resistance, thyroid health, hormones, inflammation, and micronutrient status.

Aesthetically, my philosophy is equally comprehensive. Natural-looking rejuvenation doesn’t come from chasing isolated concerns. It comes from addressing facial structure, skin quality, collagen support, movement patterns, wellness, and prevention as part of a larger strategy.

I build long-term relationships with patients because the most beautiful outcomes are rarely transactional. They’re collaborative.

My Favorite Treatments to Perform & Why I Love Them

Advanced Dermal Filler / Facial Balancing

Dermal filler is one of the most misunderstood treatments in aesthetics, which is exactly why I love it! When performed thoughtfully, filler is not about creating exaggerated features or changing someone’s identity. It’s about restoring structural support, softening harshness that develops with aging or weight loss, and creating harmony in a way that still looks completely natural.

Done well, it can be one of the most transformative treatments in aesthetics.

Learn more about dermal fillers

Medical Weight Loss

Helping patients transform how they feel in their bodies is one of the most rewarding parts of my practice. This is deeply personal work. Weight loss medicine is not about handing someone a prescription and sending them on their way. It’s about partnership, physiology, education, strategy, and helping patients feel seen, supported, and empowered through a very vulnerable process.

Learn more about medical weight loss

Functional Wellness & Longevity Medicine

This newer chapter of my practice has become one of my greatest passions!

As someone who has entered her 50s myself, I deeply understand how subtle physical changes start to whisper before they scream. The aches. The energy shifts. The brain fog. The changes in recovery, metabolism, sleep, and resilience.

This work matters to me because it’s never simply about aesthetics or wellness in isolation. It’s about helping people reconnect with themselves. I’ve seen firsthand how changes in appearance, health, energy, hormones, weight, and skin can quietly affect confidence, identity, and quality of life in ways people don’t always openly talk about.

Being able to use my experience, clinical knowledge, and strategic approach to help clients navigate those changes, feel supported, and ultimately regain a stronger sense of themselves is one of the most rewarding parts of my work.

Products I Love Recommending

SkinMedica® TNS® Advanced+ Serum

If you’re over 30 and asking me for one all-around powerhouse product, this is almost always in the conversation! TNS helps improve firmness, texture, radiance, and overall skin quality in a way that beautifully supports injectable, regenerative, and skin-focused treatment plans.

Shop TNS Advanced+ Serum online

SkinMedica® Neck Correct Cream

Your neck is one of the first areas to show the signs of aging and neglect. This lightweight cream is one of my favorite products for supporting firmness and improving the quality of neck skin, especially when paired strategically with BOTOX and Sofwave.

Shop Neck Correct Cream online

Plated™ Skin Science Eye Serum

I’m increasingly drawn to regenerative skincare that supports the skin’s own repair pathways, and Plated aligns beautifully with that philosophy. It’s an exosome-rich serum that repairs and transforms the delicate skin around the eye area from the inside out. I’ve seen fantastic results with this product on myself and my clients.

Education, Certifications & Leadership

• Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) 
• Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP-BC) 
• Certified Plastic Surgical Nurse (CPSN) 
• Certified Aesthetic Nurse Specialist (CANS) 
• International Society of Plastic and Surgical Nurses Fellow (ISPAN-F) 
• Triple board-certified nurse practitioner 
• President, International Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Nurses (ISPAN) 
• Chair, national aesthetic nursing education initiatives 
• Allergan Medical Institute Faculty 
• Allergan Key Opinion Leader 
• Advanced injectable training in facial balancing, regenerative aesthetics, and full-face rejuvenation 
• More than 20 years of experience in aesthetics, beauty, dermatology, and wellness medicine 

How Patients & Colleagues Describe Me

• Honest 
• Intensely knowledgeable 
• Strategic 
• Direct, but deeply caring 
• Thorough 
• Innovative 
• Exceptionally invested 
• The person who sees the full picture 

My Life Outside of Refinery Skin Clinic

If I’m being truthful, work IS one of my hobbies! I love it so much it rarely feels like work!

Beyond seeing clients, I genuinely love building Refinery Skin Clinic, teaching, consulting, learning, and staying immersed in the ever-evolving world of aesthetics and wellness medicine.

But I’ve also learned that rest matters. My Sundays are sacred!

That’s when I recharge with my two Morkiepoos, Thor and Loki, a new docuseries, and zero guilt about slowing down.

When I’m especially lucky, one (or both) of my sons will agree to lunch, shopping, or a little one-on-one time, which becomes increasingly precious as they grow older.

My husband Jeremy, who also works alongside me at Refinery, and I are also enjoying this newer season of life where spontaneous travel and the occasional quiet dirty martini are back on the table.

And a fun fact?  I’m a proud Lakeville Senior High graduate and former Lake-Liner! (Back when there was just one Lakeville high school, thank you very much!) Those roots run deep, and that sense of community has always stayed with me. Supporting local youth programs feels especially meaningful because I know firsthand how impactful those experiences and connections can be.

Today, Refinery Skin Clinic is proud to be a community-business sponsor of the Lake-Liners, as well as Eagan High School Football.