Dr. Charity Thiessen N.D., SEP
Naturopathic Doctor
Somatic Experience Practitioner
About Charity
Hi, I am Dr. Charity Thiessen, ND. I am passionate about every person becoming the healthiest version of themselves. The call to work in the healing profession has been strong my entire life and practicing as a Naturopathic Doctor has been the fulfillment of that calling. I am a lifelong learner (meaning a total nerd ), and am always seeking out the best tools and strategies to support my patients in their healing.
I am a huge proponent of lifestyle being a foundational component for all my patients, and believe that doing healthy things is necessary for being healthy. Lifestyle happens within a context, and I work with each patient to find what is already supporting them as well as what is undermining their health, to create strategic, individualized, and sustainable plans.
The focus of my practice is resilient nervous systems and healthy brains. Our autonomic nervous system influences our body’s function on every level, mainly through the balance between “fight and flight” and “rest and digest.” Our digestion, blood pressure, immune system, hormones, blood sugar as well as our mood, mental health, and every other system in our body is influenced by this balance. In order for us to access our body’s innate ability to heal we have to be able to move into our “rest and digest” or parasympathetic nervous system state more often than not.
The main tools I use for this are Somatic Experiencing® (SE). Somatic Experiencing®, is a powerful body based therapy that helps to restore flexibility to the nervous system. I also use homeopathy, plant medicines, nutrition, food intolerance testing, detoxification, nutrient supplementation, BEMER therapy, breathing behavior analysis, and restoring the foundations of health.
Some of the conditions that I emphasize in practice are:
- Concussions and Traumatic brain injuries
- Anxiety, depression, ADD/ADHD, PTSD and other mental health complaints
- Autoimmune conditions
- Fatigue
- Digestive complaints
- Cardiovascular health
- Acute complaints: urinary problems, sinus issues, vaginal infections, etc.
- Pediatric complaints: acute illness (i.e. ear infections), eczema, asthma, digestive issues, ADD/ADHD, etc.
Dr. Thiessen is currently accepting new patients via application process.
If you would like to see Dr. Thiessen please complete and submit her application form.
She will review these forms and our reception team will be in contact with you to book you with either Dr. Thiessen or one of our other Naturopathic Doctors in the clinic.