Patient Stories
Health is a journey, not a destination
Each client’s journey to a healthier, fuller life is unique. However, we’ve found that most patients have one of four starting points when they begin their journey.
Select the starting point you would like to learn more about:
Health Journey #1: Referred by a practitioner
In this case, you are probably already on a plan with your health including diet, nutritional supplementation, exercise, and some other modality such as chiropractic, acupuncture, naturopathic care, etc. However, there may be specific triggers or general stresses that hold you back from healing as fully as you want. In cases like this, the focus here will be on N.E.T., and allowing your primary practitioner to do the job you are under their care for.
As an example, if you are under the care of a chiropractor, then your chiropractor will do all the physical adjustments and if you are seeing a naturopath they will continue working on your nutrition. The work we do together usually assists your other practitioners’ modalities to work better and faster.
Eunice is a 31 year-old who has been seeing a chiropractor for headaches and neck pain. Her symptoms have improved a lot, thanks to the good care. However, every time her family comes to town her adjustments don’t hold and the neck pain gets worse until it moves upwards to her temporal muscles and into a full blown headache that barely responds to Tylenol. The headaches generally continue until her family leaves, and she’s had a week to recover.
Her chiropractor recommended she try N.E.T. Following a targeted treatment program of 5 intensive N.E.T. sessions, she learned that the stress came from a persistent feeling from childhood where she never really felt seen, listened to, or understood. The N.E.T. treatments were able to release the stress, and she stopped having the symptoms when her family arrived and also was able to enjoy her family in a way that she previously had not.
Health Journey #2: Need body-focused healthcare
In this case, we do a complete consultation and evaluation to make sure nothing else is contributing to the issues, and then we focus on removing the physiology of your issues with N.E.T. By removing the physiology of the issue (the fight and flight responses) most people find they can follow through with the steps they need to live the life they want and achieve the goals they set for themselves.
Often, the patient can then move on to deeper issues with their therapist or discuss what they learned in N.E.T. to help move forward. We may do some other techniques or nutrition as needed, but the focus remains N.E.T.
Gil is a 46 year-old office worker that sought out a therapist because she has not made the progress she wanted in her job, and worries that she has some ADHD and neurodiversity. She has found that her emotional state has a big impact on her health and times of stress makes her other health issues worse. A friend told her about N.E.T. and she wanted to try it to find more efficient ways to access the underlying causes of her stress-related health challenges.
She started receiving N.E.T. care, and through the process, discovered not only the emotional roots of her stress, but also that a previously overlooked physical component –her digestive distress– was compounding the emotions of low self esteem and over caretaking of others. We combined N.E.T. with supporting the digestive system nutritionally and structurally. Gil was able to greatly improve her health, which also resulted in a boost to her work status and career advancement. Gil’s treatment path started as a series of 5 intensive N.E.T. sessions, followed by ongoing periodic (about every 2 weeks) tune-up sessions to help monitor overall progress and continue to move forward.
Health Journey #3: Completely new to body-work
In this case we will do a complete consultation to figure out if we think we can help or if we think another type of care would be a better first step. If we do think we can help, we will do a full exam that includes checking structure, nutrition, emotions, toxicity, and some neurological tests. Then we will create a treatment plan that gets to the heart of your issue in the most efficient way possible.
Phil is a 35-year-old nurse. He always felt healthy and never worried much about his health as it was better than 99% of the people he worked with. However lately he hasn’t had as much energy after work as he used to, and he picked up more colds this year than he ever had before. His low back has started aching by the end of some days, and he has a nagging anxiety about getting older. While getting up from a chair recently he felt a twang in his back and had to stay home from work for three days. He can’t understand why this is happening and the anxiety is getting worse. His BF pointed out that most low back pain has a stress component and maybe it could be the stress of new changes coming so rapidly at work that he didn't feel comfortable with or have time to master as fast as he thought he should. Phil decides he wants to figure out how to get his health back.
After a detailed consultation and comprehensive exam (which included sending Phil out for some x-rays and lab work), Phil started on a care plan that included 2 visits a week for 4 weeks and once a week after. Phil also needed to make some changes to his diet and nutrition. After 8 weeks, he went through a re-evaluation process and new changes to treatment plan, reducing the number of visits and adjusting his diet again, with some changes to the nutritional supplementation. He feels much more relaxed and energetic and is now pain-free. He also feels more emotionally grounded. After another 6 weeks at the reduced schedule, Phil will go through another re-evaluation, likely having reached a stable place, and then will decide whether he wants to shift to an “as needed” frequency for symptomatic relief or as a “preventative” routine of monthly tune-up style visits with occasional intensives as needed.
Health Journey #4: Need great results in little time
This option is not for everyone. It’s a private half day or full day session. The in-office version may include meal and snack breaks, and the out of office version usually involves going to your home or other places around the city where specific triggers and memories occur. N.E.T. can be done safely in longer sessions with the right tools.
There are several reasons to do these sessions. Sometimes the client is in a time crunch. Perhaps they need to master their fear of public speaking before a big speech. Sometimes they have specific issues that occur in a specific place and we want to be in that place to clear the stress more efficiently.
Due to the intense nature of these sessions, they may not be booked more than once every 6 weeks, and we often need a longer consultation and screening process. The cost varies with the amount of time and location, but they generally range from $1000 to $3000.
Janice is a mortgage agent but lately her procrastination has gotten worse and worse, to the point that she doesn't complete her work on time, and though the customer still gets the loan, Janice forfeits the commissions due to company policy. Basically she ends up working for free. She schedules a half day session in the office and brings her laptop and all the work with her. She attempts to work, but every time there's something “difficult” she immediately wants to tune out and play games on her phone.
We do N.E.T. every time this pattern and many others arise and clear a ton of old issues of feeling like a loser. Not only does she get caught up on a lot of work, but in the following year she never forfeits a commission again, and the number of loans she gets increases and she feels comfortable handling it.
Ambrose is a 58 year old successful therapist, who’s partner cheated on him and then left him and got primary custody of their kid. Ambrose is left alone in a house that carries so many memories with a partner he loved and didn't want to leave. He comes home and spends as little time inside as he can and ends up in the backyard in a chair covered with a sleeping bag until he’s practically asleep, and only then does he go inside and conk out. As winter comes this gets more and more impractical but he doesn't stop. He's also drinking more than he ever did before and is worried about that as well.
I arrive at his house a little after he gets home for the day and we go from room to room clearing all the memories that come up. By bedtime he's exhausted and is able to fall asleep in his bed. In the weeks that follow he finds he can peacefully stay in the house when he gets home, and the persistent loneliness is greatly reduced. While his drinking has reduced, he is still drinking more than he wants and 6 weeks later he schedules a follow up session where we clear a lot of stress from childhood where one parent was an alcoholic, and the other thought drinking any alcohol at all would surely send a person to hell. He is able to stop drinking completely for three months and after that he sticks to a manageable and minimal number of drinks each week.