Conditions & Specialties

A huge reason why pain won’t go away is that the body gets trapped in a pattern of feeling painful because pain itself can make a person’s brain hypersensitive to pain. When this happens, a pattern of reactivity gets imprinted in the nervous system and is repeatedly relayed in the body like an alarm that won’t turn off.  If this underlying pattern is not healed, pain invariably returns or won’t go away in the first place.

I believe a similar phenomenon of hypersensitivity underlies TMD and many other chronic, complex conditions that are worsened by stress. I have devoted my practice of naturopathic medicine to helping people heal these kinds of seemingly inescapable cycles. The key is to treat the whole of you, using subtle yet powerful energetic therapies that gently address patterns of reactivity at their core.  

The NIH-funded research team that I was part of found that tending to a person’s whole body-mind is essential in the treatment of TMD and other chronic, complex health conditions. This kind of approach also works well with, and can enhance, the care you may already be receiving from your conventional medical or dental provider.