You've Tried Everything. Nothing Worked.
Here's What High-Achieving
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I Know Exactly Where You Are
You're high-functioning, time-scarce, and frustrated. You've invested thousands—maybe tens of thousands—in specialists, therapy, protocols, and medications.
Antidepressants that worked for six months then stopped. Therapy insights that didn't translate to behavioral change. Hormone optimization that didn't restore energy. Pelvic floor PT that didn't resolve urgency. Gut protocols that didn't stick.
Some helped temporarily. Nothing lasted.
Your labs come back "normal" while you feel progressively worse.
Here's what no one told you: You were trying to build on a dysregulated foundation.
When your nervous system is stuck in survival physiology, nothing else can integrate. Your body struggles to metabolize medication, process therapy insights, or hold protocol gains—because it's operating in a state where survival trumps healing.
You weren't missing willpower. You weren't doing it wrong.
You were missing the prerequisite.
The Pattern You're Experiencing
You might be dealing with:
Sleep architecture breakdown — Despite exhaustion, sleep becomes increasingly unreliable
Chronic tension that your body won't release—jaw, neck, shoulders, pelvic floor
Gut dysfunction — Digestive issues that persist despite normal test results
Pelvic floor dysfunction despite "doing your Kegels" and trying PT
Getting sick frequently, especially when traveling or stressed
Antibiotics and supplements that used to work don't anymore
Accumulating pharmaceuticals without improvement in underlying function
Labs that come back "normal" while you feel progressively worse
The growing suspicion that treating symptoms individually is missing something fundamental
You recognize that something fundamental is being overlooked
You're ready to address the foundation, not just manage symptoms.
I've Been Where You Are—And Mapped My Way Out
Dr. Heidi Roberts, PT, DPT
Licensed Physical Therapist | Somatic Practitioner
For 40 years, I experienced dis-ease and distress getting medicated, managed through external intervention, or conquered through effort. Never resolved from the inside.
Birth control at 13 for hormonal imbalance. Accutane—twice—for severe acne. Antibiotics for chronic bronchitis that eventually stopped working. By my 30s, I couldn't travel without getting sick. My immune system had lost the capacity to function under even mild stress.
The medical response was always the same: More pharmaceuticals to mask what my nervous system was trying to signal.
My nervous system escalated from signals to crisis: hormone-positive breast cancer at 40.
My oncology team saved my life with surgery, radiation, and Tamoxifen. I'm not here to argue with conventional medicine—those interventions were necessary.
But here's what conventional medicine couldn't provide: The foundational nervous system regulation that would allow my body to integrate medical intervention without collapsing.
When Tamoxifen's side effects made me worse, the medical response was the same: more pharmaceuticals to manage symptoms.
I made a different choice. I stayed on Tamoxifen (for now)—because I'm interested in what works, not ideology—and used Somatic Experiencing® to address what additional pharmaceuticals would have targeted.
What shifted: My capacity to tolerate necessary medical intervention without system collapse. The restoration of immune function that had been offline for decades.
I've had my first year without illness in 30 years. Multiple cross-country trips. Intensive trauma work. High-stress clinical work. Away from home for 5 months. All things that would have flattened me before. Not anymore.
My body can finally do what it couldn't for three decades: maintain basic immune competence under normal life stress.
That's when I understood: The thousands I'd spent on specialists, protocols, and medications couldn't work because I was missing the foundation.
What Makes This Different
Previous interventions focused on individual symptoms without addressing why your system can't sustain the gains. This isn't talk therapy. It's not wellness coaching with breathing exercises you've already tried.
This is clinical nervous system work—targeted recalibration informed by diagnostic assessment.
I bring two decades of PT diagnostic training that most somatic practitioners don't have:
Assessment capability to identify compensation patterns before you're consciously aware of them
Precision in sequencing interventions in the order your system can actually integrate them
Clinical credibility to bridge the gap when your doctor says "everything is normal"
Combined with Somatic Experiencing® methodology to restore your nervous system's regulatory capacity—the foundation that makes everything else you've tried (or will try) actually work.
This is the work your doctor isn't trained for, traditional talk therapy wasn't designed for, and your PT doesn't have time for in a 45-minute insurance visit.
Your nervous system is treatment-resistant, not you.
This Work Is Most Effective When:
✓ You've invested in specialists, therapy, protocols, and medications—some helped temporarily, none created lasting change
✓ You recognize that addressing symptoms individually isn't resolving the underlying pattern
✓ You're pursuing this work because you recognize something fundamental is missing—not because someone sent you
✓ You understand that restoring regulation requires consistent practice between sessions, not passive receipt of intervention
✓ You can tolerate not knowing exactly how long this will take or what the path will look like
✓ You value diagnostic precision and sequenced intervention over generic wellness approaches
✓ You're willing to work with your medical team, not instead of them
This Work Isn't Designed For:
✗ You're experiencing active suicidal ideation or psychiatric crisis requiring higher-level mental health care
✗ You're managing active substance dependence that would interfere with nervous system regulation work
✗ You're seeking medical diagnosis/treatment, expect to discontinue care with your medical providers, or are unwilling to maintain active medical relationships—this work requires ongoing medical care and stays within nervous system optimization scope
✗ You're court-ordered, insurance-mandated, or partner-pressured rather than self-referred—this work requires internal motivation to sustain
✗ You require insurance reimbursement or medical necessity documentation—this is private-pay nervous system optimization work outside traditional healthcare billing structures
This Is the Prerequisite That Makes Everything Else Work
I work with a limited number of clients. This is intensive, personalized nervous system work—not group programs or cookie-cutter protocols.
Results don't come from knowledge—they come from a session series with intention and progression, shaped by what emerges for you specifically.
Not a predetermined program. Not aimless exploration.
Structured enough to create change, responsive enough to follow where your nervous system actually needs to go.
If you're ready to address what everyone else has skipped, let's talk.