Med Spas in the Somerset Hills: A Verified Guide to Who Is Licensed to Treat You in Basking Ridge, Bernardsville, Bedminster, Far Hills and Peapack-Gladstone

The Guide: Med Spas in the Somerset Hills, NJ

In New Jersey, putting a needle of Botox or filler into someone’s face is a medical act, not a beauty service. The State Board of Cosmetology’s own rules say so in as many words: a licensed skin care specialist may not perform “laser hair removal and injections of Botox®, Restylane® or other similar medications for purposes of skin enhancement” (N.J.A.C. 13:28-2.15). Those treatments belong to physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, and registered nurses working under a physician’s written order.

Almost no local guide tells you which of those licences the person holding the needle actually holds. Search for a med spa in Basking Ridge, Bernardsville or Bedminster and you will find a dozen businesses described as “medically supervised” or “physician-led” — phrases that cost nothing to write and carry no information at all. This guide names the provider each business puts forward, and reports what the New Jersey licence register says about that person, on the date we checked. Where a business names nobody, the guide says that too.

How We Selected These Med Spas

This guide covers Bernardsville, Bernards Township (Basking Ridge, Liberty Corner and Lyons), Far Hills, Bedminster and Peapack-Gladstone.

Every business on this page provides medical aesthetic treatments — injectables, energy-based devices such as lasers and radiofrequency microneedling, or medical-grade skin treatments — delivered under a licensed medical provider. That is the test, and it is the only route onto this page. It is a description of what a business does, not a verdict on how well it does it.

Businesses that offer medical-grade skin care without a medical provider are not excluded and not hidden. They are real options for real problems, and they appear in their own section at the end, labelled for what they are.

Businesses are listed alphabetically. Six businesses meet the test in these towns. Every one of them names a provider, and every one of those providers holds a current New Jersey licence.

About This Guide

This guide is produced by Garden State Circle. Businesses appear here because they meet the criterion described above — they provide medical aesthetic treatments under a licensed medical provider in the towns this guide covers. That is a test, not a judgment, and it is the only route onto this page. No business can pay to be included in this guide, to be listed higher, or to change what the comparison table says about it. Businesses are listed alphabetically, and every detail in the table was checked against each business’s own website and against the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee record in September 2026.

Everything under the heading that begins this guide is governed by the rules above, on every guide we publish. Where a sponsor’s message appears above that heading, it is paid for and labelled, and it buys nothing in the guide. Garden State Circle is supported by the businesses that participate in it. Participation pays for our ongoing work: keeping a business’s entry accurate, re-checking its record, and publishing a page of its own details that the business maintains. There is no paid placement in this guide. Participation does not buy a place here, a position here, or anything the comparison table says. Nothing on this page is medical advice. Every treatment described here carries risks that depend on your own health and history, and the person to discuss them with is a licensed provider who has examined you.

The information here is general information about how med spa care works in New Jersey. It is not medical advice, and it is not a substitute for a consultation with a licensed provider. Talk to one about which treatments are right for you.

Garden State Circle is published in New Jersey by Jake Slowinski and covers Bernardsville, Bernards Township (Basking Ridge, Liberty Corner and Lyons), Far Hills, Bedminster and Peapack-Gladstone. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com.

The Med Spas, Compared

Listed alphabetically. The third column is what the business publishes about itself. The fourth is what the State of New Jersey publishes about that person.

Med Spa	Town	Who Performs Treatments	New Jersey licence, checked September 2026	Known For
AgeWell Medicine & Aesthetics	Bedminster	Tara Hibbett	Physician Assistant · 25MP00479800 · active	Injectables, biostimulators and medical-grade skin care
Glo Esthetics	Far Hills	Coralie Palek	Advanced Practice Nurse · 26NJ00468000 · active	Medical-grade skin care and aesthetic treatments
Marée Aesthetics & Longevity	Basking Ridge	Mary Sheerin	Advanced Practice Nurse · 26NJ14902000 · active	Facial mapping, collagen stimulators, Fraxel, laser hair removal
Perpetual Aesthetics and Wellness	Basking Ridge	Katelyn Peterpaul	Registered Nurse · active · two records share this name, so no number is printed	Sciton BBL HEROic laser, Xeomin, dermal fillers
Rejuv Cosmetic Center	Bernardsville	Dr. Richard E. Marki	Medical Doctor · 25MA05208400 · active	Injectables, lasers and cosmetic surgery in one practice
Thrive Med Spa	Basking Ridge	Michelle Herasme	Advanced Practice Nurse · 26NJ14949400 · active	Emface, Emsculpt NEO, IV therapy, medical-grade facials

How to Read the Licence Column

The fourth column is the one no directory carries, so it is worth thirty seconds of explanation.

New Jersey licenses individual people, not businesses. Every physician, physician assistant, advanced practice nurse, registered nurse and skin care specialist in the state holds a licence in their own name, with a number, a status and a town of record, and anyone can look it up in about ninety seconds at the Division of Consumer Affairs licence verification site. We looked up every provider named by every business in this guide. The column reports what came back.

The licence types you will see here, and what each one means for what that person may do:

Medical Doctor and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine — a physician. Full authority to perform, supervise and delegate med spa treatments.
Physician Assistant — may inject and treat when directed or delegated by a supervising physician (N.J.S.A. 45:9-27.16).
Advanced Practice Nurse — New Jersey’s licence for what most people call a nurse practitioner. May evaluate patients, plan treatment and carry out most med spa procedures under a collaborative agreement with a physician.
Registered Nurse — may administer injections under a physician’s or advanced practice nurse’s written order and protocol. An RN works by delegation rather than independent authority. This is entirely normal in a med spa and is how a great many excellent injectors practise.
Skin Care Specialist — New Jersey’s licence for an esthetician. Facials, peels and skin care, and by rule not injections or laser hair removal.

Two things this column does not do.

First, it does not report national board certification. Titles such as NP, FNP-BC, PA-C and MSN are awarded by national boards and academic institutions, and they are separate from a New Jersey state licence. A provider can hold one and not the other. This column reports the state register and nothing else, so where a business advertises a title that does not correspond to a New Jersey licence of that kind, the column simply shows the licence the register does hold for that person. That is a statement about a public record on a date — not a statement about anybody’s competence, and not a suggestion that anything is wrong.

Second, it does not guess. A licence number is printed only where exactly one record in the state matches the name the business publishes. Where two people share a name and we cannot tell which is which, the column shows the licence type and status without a number. Where a business names no provider at all on its own website, the column says so — and that is a fact about a website, not about a business.

If your business is on this page and the cell next to your name is thinner than it should be, that is a correction we want. The address for it is at the bottom of this guide.

The Med Spas

AgeWell Medicine & Aesthetics

2436 Lamington Road, Suite 1, Bedminster, NJ 07921
AgeWell publishes Tara Hibbett, PA-C as the provider leading its aesthetics team, and lists neuromodulators, dermal fillers, biostimulators and medical-grade skin care. agewellmedicine.com

Glo Esthetics

27 US-202 Suite 2, Far Hills, NJ 07931
Treatments performed by Coralie Palek, APN

The only med spa in this guide based in Far Hills, and small enough that you see the same person every visit. Coralie Palek holds an active New Jersey advanced practice nurse licence — a detail the business does not advertise anywhere on its own site, and one that matters, because it means the plan and the prescription come from the same person.

gloesthetics.net

Marée Aesthetics & Longevity

665 Martinsville Rd #218, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
Treatments performed by Mary Sheerin, APN

Facial mapping is the organising idea here — treating proportion across a whole face rather than chasing individual lines — with collagen stimulators such as Sculptra and Radiesse doing the structural work and Fraxel handling texture. Longevity programmes run alongside the aesthetic side rather than as an upsell to it.

maréeaesthetics.com

Perpetual Aesthetics and Wellness

24 W Oak St, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
Treatments performed by Katelyn Peterpaul, RN

The draw is the equipment. A Sciton BBL HEROic broadband light platform is a serious piece of kit for a practice this size, and it is what people book for — pigment, redness, sun damage — with restrained Xeomin and filler work alongside it. Downtown Basking Ridge, walk-in scale.

perpetualnj.com

Rejuv Cosmetic Center

59 Mine Brook Rd, Bernardsville, NJ 07924
Treatments performed by Dr. Richard E. Marki, MD

The one address on this page where a med spa conversation can turn into a surgical one without changing buildings. Injectables, lasers and body contouring sit alongside cosmetic surgery under a licensed physician, which makes it the natural stop for anyone who wants both options priced honestly against each other.

rejuvcosmetic.com

Thrive Med Spa

8000 Fellowship Rd, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
Treatments performed by Michelle Herasme, APN

Inside Fellowship Village, and the technology list is why people drive in: Emface and Emsculpt NEO for non-invasive lifting and body work, with IV therapy, injectables and medical-grade facials filling out the rest. Michelle Herasme holds an active advanced practice nurse licence in New Jersey.

thrivemedspa.org

Just Outside These Towns

Market boundaries are ours, not the reader’s, and the good practice fifteen minutes away is still fifteen minutes away. If you are closer to Somerville or Bound Brook, the Bridgewater and Somerville guide covers that side of Somerset County on exactly the same basis. West of Bedminster, the Clinton, Flemington and Whitehouse Station guide picks up Hunterdon.

Garden State Circle publishes verified guides to these same towns in other categories, including heating and cooling contractors and interior designers.

What People Actually Ask Before Booking

These are the questions that decide where people go, and the ones almost nothing published locally answers. What follows is about how med spa care works in New Jersey generally. It is not about any one business on this page.

Who is actually allowed to inject me in New Jersey?

Injectables are prescription medications, so administering them is a medical service. In practice that means one of four people: a physician (MD or DO), a physician assistant working under a supervising physician’s direction, an advanced practice nurse under a collaborative agreement with a physician, or a registered nurse injecting under a physician’s or APN’s written order and protocol.

An esthetician may not. New Jersey’s cosmetology rules place “laser hair removal and injections of Botox®, Restylane® or other similar medications” outside what a skin care specialist licence permits (N.J.A.C. 13:28-2.15). That is not a grey area, and it is not a comment on anyone’s training or talent — it is the licence.

An RN injector is not a lesser option. Some of the most experienced injectors in the Somerset Hills are registered nurses who have done many thousands of treatments. What matters is that a physician stands behind the protocol and is genuinely reachable, which leads to the next question.

What should a first consultation actually include?

Before a prescription treatment, New Jersey expects a real evaluation: a medical history, an examination, a diagnosis and a discussion of the treatment plan, documented in your record (N.J.A.C. 13:35-7.1A). This is often called the good faith exam. It can be performed by the prescriber or by a professional in collaborative practice with them.

What that looks like in a good consultation: someone asks what medications and supplements you take, whether you have had injectables before and what was used, what you are actually trying to change, and what you want to avoid looking like. You should leave knowing which product is going in, roughly how much of it, what the total will be, and what happens if you do not like the result.

What it should not include is a decision made today. A consultation that ends with a syringe already drawn up and a discount that expires this afternoon is a sales process, not a medical one. You are allowed to leave and think about it. Good practices expect you to.

How does pricing usually work, and what does “starting at” hide?

Neuromodulators — Botox, Dysport, Xeomin, Daxxify — are normally priced per unit, and the number of units is what decides your bill. Fillers are normally priced per syringe. Energy treatments such as lasers and radiofrequency microneedling are priced per session or as a package, and almost always need a series rather than one visit.

This is why a “starting at” price tells you very little. Two practices can quote the same per-unit price and produce bills that differ by half, because one of them uses more units. The question that gets you a real number is: how many units do you think I need, and what is the total? A practice that will not answer that before you are in the chair is telling you something.

Unit counts are not comparable across brands either. Dysport is dosed in different units from Botox, so “nine dollars a unit” at one place and “four dollars a unit” at another can be the same treatment at the same price.

And at the other end: unusually cheap injectables are a safety question, not a bargain. Product bought outside legitimate distribution is a real problem in this industry. It is entirely reasonable to ask to see the box.

What aftercare should I expect, and what happens if something goes wrong?

You should leave with written aftercare instructions and a way to reach a human after hours — not a general voicemail, but a number that reaches someone who can make a clinical decision. Ask for it before you book rather than afterwards.

Two things are worth knowing because they lower the stakes considerably. Hyaluronic acid fillers are reversible. Juvederm, Restylane and their relatives can be dissolved with an enzyme called hyaluronidase, and any practice injecting them should keep it on the premises. Ask whether they do. Neuromodulator results are temporary. Botox and its equivalents wear off over roughly three to four months, so even a result you dislike is not permanent.

The genuine emergency in this field is a vascular occlusion — filler entering or compressing a blood vessel. It is rare, it is treatable, and treatment is urgent. The warning signs are severe or increasing pain, skin that turns white or dusky, or any change in vision. If that happens you call the practice immediately, and it is exactly why the after-hours number and the hyaluronidase on the shelf matter more than anything on the price list.

What are the red flags?

Nobody will tell you who is treating you. The name and the licence should be easy to get and freely given.
No medical history is taken, or it is a clipboard nobody reads.
Pressure to decide today — expiring discounts, a package sold before the treatment, a syringe drawn before you have agreed to anything.
Deep discounting on injectables. Group-deal pricing on a prescription medication is a question about the product, the volume, or both.
No written aftercare and no after-hours contact.
Before-and-after photos that do not share lighting, angle or subject, and none that resemble your skin or your concern.
An esthetician offering injections or laser hair removal. Whatever else is true, that one is a rules problem.

None of these is a judgment about anyone on this page. They are the questions to take with you.

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