Client Testimonial


July 7, 2009
Dear Madeline,

For quite some time, I have wanted to write a note of appreciation to you for all that you have done for my daughter. But, you have done so much; it has been difficult to find a place to begin!

From the moment that you met her, you have innately understood what my daughter has needed to move forward with her development. Over the last eight years, we have had more than our share of therapists, teachers, and doctors who seemed to only superficially understand her complexities. However, after your first meeting with my daughter, you shared the most accurate impression of her that I had ever received. How was it that you were able to pinpoint precisely what all the other professionals could not? You were able to explain with words something that I felt but could not describe. I believe it is because you do not look at the mind, body, and soul of someone as individual components, but rather as an integrated, delicate system that needs to be in balance. Not only do you understand how to address each part of the system, you also understand how to get them all to properly mesh with each other. This is what has been missing for my daughter all these years.

When you first began to explain some of your techniques to me, particularly the Access Body Talk protocol, I thought for sure that I had moved into the “land of fruits and nuts!” This approach was so new to me, so different than anything I had ever heard of before…what were we getting ourselves into? How could something that is non-verbal and non-invasive make a change in my daughter? But, by this point, I was already convinced that you truly knew and understood my daughter. What could it hurt to give it a try?

As we began our sessions with you, we learned more about the Body Talk System. We began to understand that the body knows how to heal itself (i.e. how it knows how to send clotting agents to a cut on the body or to fight infection), but sometimes this process can be interrupted when the body is not in sync with itself, the mind or emotions. We began to understand the physiologic responses that a body can have to different events and how these responses are remembered by the body (like when I start to feel queasy when I even think about being on a fast roller coaster with a big drop).

This made sense to me, particularly when I thought of my daughter's difficult experiences in school. All of my daughter's negative experiences with school were building up inside of her, compounding her inability to deal with tough issues. I believe that the Body Talk System allowed her to leave her negative past experiences and move forward in a positive way. Not by any measure did the system erase the experiences. Rather, the system allowed her to step away from the “fight or flight” mode she was constantly in at school. By being able to separate herself from her negative experiences and her poorly trained responses, she was finally able to learn how to better deal with her emotions and fears. She was finally able to re-train her responses to difficult situations to be more appropriate and effective.

We loved all the changes that we saw happening with our daughter. She was more responsive, more rational, more confident, more engaging…the list goes on. But, there was still just a cursory understanding of what happening to cause these wonderful results. I then had the opportunity to take a Body Talk Access class at your office. At this point, I began to understand more of what was the driving force behind the therapy protocol. Despite this, I still distanced myself from it. It just seemed too simple and too different for me to accept fully.

Then, one day you told me to be sure to do “switching” on my daughter because it was really effective for her. Ok, I say to myself, I will do what she said. Again thinking, “What can it hurt? Obviously something is working here.” When I finally witnessed for myself the vast improvement that such a simple technique could make instantaneously…time and time again… I began to see the sheer magic in this protocol. No longer did I think that I am in the “land of fruits and nuts” but rather, I thought that I am in the “land of geniuses!”

In addition to all of this, you impress me in other ways. You have a special talent for identifying what needs to be addressed and then addressing it. For years, we have struggled to get my daughter to be more organized. Her teachers have always told me that it was a great challenge for her, but that they were utilizing techniques that will help her become better at it. They have come up with systems of where to put her supplies, checklists for her to check, buddies for her to be with…I think all of it had all been tried. However, you were the first one to tell me the reason that Sarah is so poor at organization is because her brain has trouble with basic sequencing. So, you started teaching her basic sequencing skills. Within two weeks, I heard from her teachers, “Wow! All of the sudden my daughter is really doing a great job with her work.” For all the many special education teachers we have had, none have realized that you cannot expect a child to find order if the brain doesn’t recognize it when it sees it. Again, you have done something for my daughter in weeks what 8 years of schooling could not. You understand how the deficiency of a specific skill (such as sequencing) has far reaching influences (handwriting, organization, following directions, etc.). You understand that mastery is found when you address the cause (e. g. the poor sequencing skills) and not the effects (e.g. organization). While there is still work to be done for my daughter in this area, I now have the belief that she won’t always be in a constant state of disorganized chaos.

My impressions of your services do not end here. Your office is absolutely top-notch--both Brett and Kacey are perfect complements to your practice and an integral part of your success. I am also repeatedly struck by the depth of your compassion, integrity, and fairness. The support and encouragement you have given me are indescribable. (I believe that in many ways, you are helping me even more than you are helping my daughter.)

Truly, you have given me something so incredibly priceless. You have given me the hope that my daughter will fulfill her potential, follow her dreams, and be a loving, responsible, thoughtful human being. What more could a mother wish for?

Thanks so much for everything.