In 2021 I began the training with the Klinghardt Institute in Sussex, England and in April of 2024, I was certified as a Foundation Level A.R.T. Practitioner. I have taken all the advanced classes offered in the past few years and am a member of A.R.T. Global Professional Community that meets biweekly to review new approaches in A.R.T. testing and treatment.

I have been practicing A.R.T. since 2021 and have been researching and experimenting with holistic healing for over 25 years. I started with research on nutrition, food sensitivities and gut healing in 2001, after my third child was born. I am a very experienced cook and einkorn sourdough baker. To avoid unwanted ingredients such as seed oils, glyphosate and preservatives, I make a lot of food from scratch. 

 

In 2008, I was first exposed to the work of Dr. Dietrich Kliinghardt, MD, PhD and "muscle testing." My son and I got very sick with Lyme Disease and we saw top "Lyme-literate" doctors and holistic practitioners, some of whom followed Klinghardt protocols.  I read every book on Lyme, Bartonella, and Babesia as well as on other aspects of healing. Some of the practitioners we saw used "muscle testing" to find out what infections a person has. Initially, the idea of pressing on one's arm to test for infections seemed very strange, but I came to depend on this type of testing for my son's treatment because it offered up to the minute insights for treatment. ​

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After I read all the Lyme books I could find, I started reading about other issues such as cancer, autism, ADD, and PANDAS. I was amazed by what I was learning about hidden infections, toxins and natural healing. I found it so interesting that there are so many common stressors in holistic healing. Dr. Klinghardt calls these the 7 Factors of Illness: structural problems, biochemical needs/deficiencies, toxins, biophysical stress, food, environmental and emotional allergies, and energetic perturbances. 

 

Over the years I coached many parents who came to me asking for help with their kids' mystery symptoms and I wanted to write a book to help these parents find healing alternatives. In 2021, after years of taking my family to be muscle tested by various healers, I took my first A.R.T. class with the Klinghardt Institute. I simply wanted to learn to "muscle test"my family but when I realized what they were doing with A.R.T. and how unique and advanced the Klinghardt method is, I knew I had to become a practitioner. We do not just push on the arm for a yes or no, we are doing advanced checks to be sure we get the right answer and to sleuth out stress. It is much more complicated than it looks and is like learning a foreign language. It is thrilling to be able to use it to get answers from the body.

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I am constantly upgrading my A.R.T. skills through Klinghardt Institute practice events and the A.R.T. Global Professional Community, started by Daniela Deiosso, Founder of the Klinghardt Institute. I have extensive experience helping people successfully detox covid and the vaccines. I do a lot of Applied Psycho Neurobiology (APN) to help clients clear trauma and unresolved conflicts.​​​​​ Clearing unresolved emotions lowers stress in the body and results in fewer remedies needed.

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Klinghardt Institute Training: 

• Our Health, Our Future International Conference Turin, Italy September 2025

• A.R.T. 3 Practical Training Workshop, Seattle, Washington July 2025

• MFT and APN Advanced Practical Training Workshop, Philadelphia May 2025 

• Applied Psycho Neurobiology, Sussex, England December 2024

• Advanced A.R.T. 2 and 3, Philadelphia, PA November 2024

• Klinghardt Institute Summer Healing Retreat, Forest Row, UK, August 2024

• ART 1 and 2 Practice, Seattle, Washington, July 2024

• Intermediate/Advanced ART practices - Sussex, England (Dec 2023)

• Post Covid-Medicine Conference - London, England (Sept 2023)

• Foundation Level Practice - Sussex, England (June 2023)

• On-line Practice Events (2022-2023)

• Advanced Practice in Philadelphia (2022)

• ART 3 repeat (2022)

• ART 1, 2 and 3 (2021)

Other Education:

• Reiki First Degree (Usui Shiki Ryoho) 2011, Reiki Level 2 (2014)

• Dynamic Body Balancing Level 1 with Carol Phillips, D.C. (2014), 20 hours Cranial Sacral Therapy and Myofascial Unwinding

• BA English, Boston College 1986