ABOUT
Dr. Sam's decades of experience as a Doctor of Chiropractic and Certified Somatic Practitioner have given her a deep understanding of how trauma lives in the body - and how gently it can be released when we work with the power of the subconscious mind and the body's nervous system.
Although she is a Doctor of Chiropractic, her coaching services, including Anxiety Unwound™, are not chiropractic or psychotherapy. Instead, they combine holistic processes focused on personal growth and transformation.
Here's her story:
For years, I practiced as a Doctor of Chiropractic, helping people whose lives were limited by chronic pain, muscle tension, and physical stress. While many experienced relief, I began noticing something that changed the course of my career.
The same people often returned with the same patterns of pain.
My patients became my greatest teachers. Over time, it became increasingly clear that the tension living in their bodies wasn't simply mechanical. Beneath the tight muscles and recurring pain was something much deeper—unresolved emotional stress that had become embedded in the nervous system.
I realized I wasn't just treating backs and necks. I was seeing the physical expression of emotional experiences that had never been fully processed.
Determined to help people at a deeper level, I spent the next two decades studying and integrating approaches that could calm the nervous system and the mind to support genuine healing. I trained in neurofeedback, microcurrent therapy, frequency therapies, light and laser therapies, and many other holistic approaches. Each offered meaningful benefits, but none consistently addressed what I believed was the true source of chronic emotional reactivity.
Then my own life took an unexpected turn.
After losing someone I loved deeply, I found myself facing a level of grief that traditional approaches simply couldn't help me with. My own healing journey became the catalyst for an even deeper search for a gentler, more effective way to release emotional pain.
Eventually, I found profound relief through Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery® (SMGI®). Rather than trying to think my way out of emotional pain, this work gently helped release the emotional charge that had been stored in both my nervous system and subconscious mind.
The experience was transformative.
It inspired me to become credentialled in SMGI®, Zach Bush, MD's Holistic Health Coaching Program and an additional Life Coaching Program which, along with decades of clinical experience, forms the foundation of Anxiety Unwound™—my structured, private process for helping people gently release the unresolved emotional patterns that are the root cause of anxiety, emotional overwhelm, chronic stress, and reactivity."
