Meet Dr. Dan Engle

 

Dr. Dan Engle, MD is a traditionally trained allopathic physician whose healing path has led him to embrace and practice medicine from the perspective of the American Holistic Medical Association.

 

The foundational principles of his work include a search for root causes of symptomatic illness and imbalance and treating the whole person – not a collection of symptoms. This approach honors love as life's most powerful healer, collaborating in partnership with clients to empower each of them to be the most important person in their healing and health.

 

Dr. Engle's training includes advanced teachings and practice as a holistic psychiatrist, where he assists individuals through post-medication healing on their way to being depression free. He sees himself as a bridge between traditional medicine and integrative, naturalistic health care. Having experience in both worlds allows him to assist patients in viewing presenting issues from a broader frame of reference, and also provides a valuable foundation for recommending effective and supportive treatment programs.

 

Neuro Emotional Technique

 

Dr Dan also provides this powerful modaility. Neuro Emotional Technique is a mind-body approach to releasing the stuck negative emotional trauma and stress from the body. Through recent scientific breakthroughs in neuro-research we are now aware of how extensively emotional factors affect our lives on the physical, mental and energetic levels. For example, emotions are not just psychological (mind-related) but also physiological (body-related), and the molecules (neuropeptides) associated with an emotional experience are released both in the brain and throughout the body. So, when the emotional field is charged the body feels it, and the effects of an emotional state in the body often last well beyond the immediate situation. Not only does this effect often linger, but the body can also learn to remember certain cues from the environment and react on a subconscious level at a future date. The experiments of Pavlov’s dogs and the habituated (or conditioned) response to a bell ringing that caused salivation made this phenomenon well known. Furthermore, the body can (and usually does) actually re-experience the same physiological state of injury or stress when confronted by a similar situation that stemmed from an earlier traumatic event. A classic example of this is a young child who is bitten by a spider and later grows into an adult who is deathly afraid of spiders. Often this effect generalizes further to include a fear of all insects or scary looking bugs. [In behavioral science this is classically called Stimulus Generalization.] One of the proven benefits from NET that has been validated in clinical studies (randomized control trials) is in this area of spider-phobic people.