Meet Chelsea
Lead Practitioner
About Me
I am a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP), and Mind Body Spirit Release Practitioner (MBSR-P) who helps women overcome chronic illness by integrating the physical with emotional and energetic aspects of healing. In addition to nutritional therapy, I have been trained in functional blood chemistry, muscle testing, and emotional healing techniques. I am passionate about identifying the underlying root cause(s) of people’s chronic health issues, which I have discovered go far beyond simple nutrition and lifestyle changes. Together, we will address root causes such as pathogens, toxicities, nutrient deficiencies, and emotional trauma so that you can heal from your chronic symptoms once and for all.
Chelsea’s Health Story
For most of my teen years, I struggled with severe acne, painful periods, chronic fatigue, and digestive issues. At the time, I thought all of this was “normal,” but as I entered my adult years, my symptoms only grew worse. I developed such extreme brain fog that I struggled to finish sentences, had severe insomnia, felt like I had the flu ALL the time, and suffered from debilitating anxiety. Within a few years, I became so fatigued that my body felt like it weighed 1,000lbs, I had migrating pains throughout my whole body, and I was so sensitive to all sensory input that I felt like I was hungover 24/7. I went from being a straight-A student and avid weight lifter to having trouble thinking of words and being unable to participate in any form of physical activity. It was at that point that I knew I needed to find some answers.
After working with multiple doctors over the years who weren’t able to help, I was determined to fix my health issues on my own. I tried everything I could find, from diets and prolonged fasts, to exercise routines, to drinking bone broth and celery juice. While some of my efforts provided temporary relief, nothing truly cured my growing list of symptoms. Although I was already in school to become an NTP, I started working with a practitioner who helped me discover the true root causes of my symptoms. Just a few weeks into working with her, my symptoms began to improve for the first time. Since then, I have greatly expanded my knowledge and understanding of the true root causes of chronic disease, the role of emotional trauma, and I now use that knowledge to help others find the answers that I wish I had during my own healing journey.
Meet My Team
Laura Miller
Senior Associate Practitioner
Laura’s Story
As someone who has felt the far reaching impacts of chronic health issues, I have discovered the important role trauma and trapped emotions play in regard to one's health. I have experienced a lifetime of health struggles that only got worse as I entered my 20s. After experiencing a significant trauma in 2018, my health issues became debilitating and I spent the next five years searching for ways to regain my quality of life. My health steadily continued to decline with more alarming symptoms popping up each year, the worst being anaphylactic shock related to MCAS. Between this and the other symptoms I was experiencing such as those related to lyme and lyme co-infections, severe fatigue, muscle weakness, brain fog/ confusion, digestive issues, and alarmingly low white blood cell count, just to name a few, I became mostly bed bound.
By this point, I had already been to several doctors, including a Functional Medicine Doctor, but no one was able to help me heal. I finally reached out to Chelsea and signed up to work with her in her Root Cause Program. I had recently become aware of the impact that trauma could have on one's physical health, and as I began to have regular MBSR sessions with Chelsea, I realized just how much a lifetime of different types of trauma had played on my own declining health. I started to see dramatic improvements with my health since working with Chelsea, and I believe incorporating the emotional with the physical is why I have seen so much success.
MBSR has helped uncover emotional blocks that were stuck in my body causing dysfunction and allowed them to mobilize and be released. Addressing these emotional blocks allowed my body to start to heal from what felt like years of emotional toxicity that had built up in my body, and it became clear what a vital part of my healing was related to emotional trauma.
MBSR has given me the emotional capacity to start to make changes in my life required for healing. After experiencing what a difference MBSR has made in my life, I have recently become a MBSR practitioner myself and am looking forward to being able to share this healing modality with others.
Elizabeth Doudna
Associate Practitioner
Liz’s Story
My entire life I had always been ‘the sick kid’. I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis as a young child and always dealt with high inflammation and pain in my body. I was put on hardcore immunosuppressant drugs, and stayed on those until my mid 20’s. It was around that time that I became interested in figuring out how to manage my health more naturally. I was able to get off immunosuppressants through a strict autoimmune protocol diet and lifestyle. I thought I had my health well figured out. Unfortunately I was very wrong about this.
After the birth of my first child my health came crashing down with all sorts of new, debilitating and terrifying symptoms. I became bedbound and unable to walk, I couldn't take care of myself or my baby. I saw countless western medicine doctors and none of them could offer me any help. I was often brushed off as just being an anxious new mom, but this was far from true and so dismissive to hear. I then began going down the naturopathic route. I spent thousands of dollars on expensive tests, IV therapies and every protocol you could think of. These things did begin to give me some improvement, however it never lasted. I would always rebound back to my symptoms after a couple weeks.
Having seen myself make progress gave me hope. I knew I had the potential to heal. I just had to figure out why it wasn't sticking. What was holding me back? It was at this point that I began learning about emotions and the impact they have on the physical body. I had never taken into consideration the mind body connection before, but now it made so much sense. Once I began slowly unraveling my trauma and using MBSR, I began to see the progress stick. Continuing with MBSR and emotional work was the missing piece that helped me to completely heal and live a life beyond what I could have imagined. This is why I am now so passionate about helping others find the same healing I was able to through MBSR. I am so grateful to get to do this work and be the one to now encourage others on their healing journeys.