Testimonials
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My favorite part about working with Wendy is that I can show up and be myself. I don’t have to worry about what I’m going to say or how the visit will go. I show up and everything flows. I know Wendy has my best interests and intentions in mind. I feel safe, supported, strong, deserving, hopeful, happy, seen, heard, and incredibly empowered when I am with Wendy. Like I can achieve anything and nothing can stop me. Since I have been working with Wendy, I feel a sense of calm and safety within myself. I have learned that I have a say and a choice in any and everything that involves me. I have tools (and have had these tools all along) but now I know how to use them and which ones to use at necessary times. I am more aware and engaged in the present moments. Working through past experiences has helped free me up and make space for the new and magical life I deserve to live. I feel free for the first time. As if I am living as my true self and in a new life. If a friend was on the fence about booking a session with Wendy, I would tell them to “just go”. You won’t regret it. See and feel the magical shifts that are out there waiting for you.
- Sarah Petre | Bowling Green, Virginia
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I am an anxious person by nature, but as an artist, that gets in the way of the positive energy flow necessary to create. Learning TRE helped me release nervous energy/ negative energy and become more relaxed. I learned from our sessions that if I make choices under stress, they are rarely good decisions. However, when I release the jittery, nervous energy, my body can relax and set my mind at ease. After teaching me how to do TRE, later sessions with Wendy focused on breathwork. Our goal in these sessions - help me become unstuck with a particular art project I was working on, an illustrated spiritual affirmation book filled with my watercolor illustrations. I was over halfway complete with the story and illustrations, but I couldn't figure out where to go next in the story; how best to let it unfold. With some very intense breathwork sessions that felt more like a mind map journeying through my illustrations, I was able to envision how the book needed to unfold. Wendy's breathwork sessions made me feel as if the cloud hovering over my brain had been lifted. My sky, or rather, my brain, opened up to inspiration, renewed energy and brand new ideas. I was able to think clearly. I was unstuck!
- Anissa New-Walker | Nyack, New York
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I have never felt more seen and held by a healing practitioner in my life. I was pretty nervous to open myself up and expose the trauma of my past. I was fearful of being vulnerable. From the moment I entered Wendy’s office, I knew this experience would be different. I was able to completely relax and trust the process because of Wendy’s ability to hold space for the experience I was having.
- Paige Lynch | Fredericksburg, Virginia
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I heard about Wendy's work through a functional medicine Nurse Practitioner and became very interested in adding TRE into my practice. Before trying TRE, I experienced the benefits of breathwork and how powerful a practice it was for healing and moving energy through the body. However, I came to a point in my journey where I became curious about what habits, experiences, emotions my body had held onto that needed attention. Wendy held space for me to feel safe to speak, feel, be seen and never judged. As one who is more reserved, I am still amazed how secure I feel with Wendy as she guides me through TRE, breathwork, and meditation. During sessions I am guided to discover for myself what I needed all along. There have been times of discovery. There have been times I’ve shed tears. I’ve also experienced overwhelming joy, and, in every session, I feel like I’ve grown. After TRE and breathwork, Wendy remains grounded and willing to continue processing the experience with me. She also encourages me to process on my own if that feels right to me. My favorite part of our session is the guided visualization. I feel as if I am in a deeper state of meditation since I am not holding resistance in my body, so energy is passing through more freely. I recommend sessions with Wendy to anyone I can. TRE has been such a surprising tool for me. The best thing I can say to one who is uncertain or nervous is to just take the plunge, especially with Wendy.
- Jenny Keyton | Falmouth, Virginia
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I tried TRE because I was looking for more of a somatic approach to healing my childhood trauma. Conventional talk therapy wasn’t working and finding an EMDR or EMI therapist who was accepting new patients seemed next to impossible. Before hearing about Wendy, I had reached out to several practices in my area and either their wait time was massive, or they just didn’t return my calls or emails. Wendy responded right away and was more than accommodating. Before TRE I was carrying around so much physical, mental, and emotional tension. I was spreading myself so thin to avoid facing these tensions head on. I felt a numbness that I now know was my body’s way of protecting me from my trauma and it was also keeping me from living a fully present life. With regular sessions those tensions were quite literally shaken loose. My shoulders began to drop from my ears, I saw more clearly how I lacked boundaries at work, and for people who drained me. Once I established those boundaries and created more space to care for myself, I began to exit the “fight or flight” mode I had been living in for so long. I have found more joy in “the everyday things”, my short fuse has lengthened, and I am more present and attuned to my body and what it needs. I would 100% encourage friends (especially those who are healers themselves) to work with Wendy. The experiences were so profound that I encouraged my husband to work with her. Even if you don’t have any resounding trauma; experiences, words, memories all get stored in the body. As a healer, I fully recognize that if I am not working on myself, I tend to hold the tension of others in my own body. Instead of being a sponge for all of my client’s issues, TRE taught me how to be more of a conduit for stuck energy. I believe that everyone can benefit from this modality. It is an experience unlike any other and the healing effects are profound. Wendy is special. She has a way of making you feel at ease. It’s easy to talk to and be honest with her. She is an intuitive healer that has created a space where one can let go and truly meet themselves. She encourages you to go deeper. She is soothing during the toughest moments of a session, and she is steadfast…never rushing your time. You truly have to experience her and her work to know.
- Kiersten Kennedy | Fredericksburg, Virginia (and more recently Argentina)
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Wendy is like the sun—a constant, shining presence who happily shares her light. Every session I've done with Wendy has felt like it was made just for me. Wendy is always loving and accepting, and I have never for a moment felt judged in her presence. I feel like she will receive anything I tell her with love and caring. She's willing to share my joys and also to dive into the depths of some really sticky situations with me, holding my hand all the way through. She helps me get out of my head and seems to effortlessly guide me to a new perspective.
- Sara Connolly | Placentia, California
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Wendy’s work with TRE is brilliant and peaceful. She encourages me as I move along in the exercises yet is supportive of my pace. She immediately shifts her guidance to align with me when I recognize my own need for a breath or a rest - or a big effort. I appreciate that Wendy brings her own intuition into the session, she is walking her talk as she helps me find a deeper place within myself that is freer and ever more expansive. I am reaching for ease of tightness in my body and also to reconnect with my creative process that has been a bit restricted from old trauma and more recent events. I recommend Wendy’s work to my friends and clients…. whether trauma responses come from active military experiences or betrayals from loved ones… when it gets stuck in us, trauma severely limits our freedom: to breathe, to move, to create and to connect. TRE works because the mind and body are engaged together in the healing process.
- Holly Elkins | Albuquerque, New Mexico
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I had the pleasure of working with Wendy for several breathwork sessions, and it was incredible. Wendy's gentle and compassionate approach helped me feel at ease throughout each session. Her knowledge and expertise in guiding breathwork allowed me to deepen my breath and connect with my body in profound ways. Wendy's soothing voice during guided meditations and breath instructions was so instrumental in helping through each session. I highly recommend Wendy as a breathwork guide for anyone looking to enhance their well-being and tap into the transformative power of breath. It's just amazing!!
- Lyn Anderson | Williamsburg, Virginia