Emotional Balance

Understanding Anxiety and Panic Responses

Anxiety and panic attacks can make it feel as if you have lost control over both your internal state and external life. However, effective treatment strategies can help restore a sense of balance, sense of safety, release from the paralyzing effects on your life, and emotional regulation that you feel in control of over time.

In many cases, anxiety is influenced by multiple factors working together. For example, triggering traumatic life experiences, chronic stress, dietary imbalances, toxin exposure, inflammation in the gut and nervous system, poor gut health, and unresolved physical or psychological trauma may all contribute.

The resulting patterns of hypervigilance, a numb feeling of being shutdown, crushing feelings of futility, and rumination can develop when your nervous system loops in a prolonged states of “fight or flight.” Your mind may feel stuck in cycles of worry or anticipation of “the other shoe dropping.”

Personalized Treatment Approach

Dr. Hackett has extensive experience supporting patients with anxiety, PTSD, and panic disorders from a multi-layered perspective. Additionally, care is designed to address both the physical and emotional components of nervous system dysregulation.

First, your diet and lifestyle patterns are carefully reviewed to identify potential contributing factors. Next, appropriate therapeutic techniques are selected based on how your body and mind respond individually to treatment.

Consequently, a customized protocol is developed with the goal of restoring balance, improving resilience, and supporting long-term emotional stability. Ultimately, the focus is on helping you move toward a healthier and more empowered state of well-being.

In this process, your highest expression of well-being is viewed as your true sense of freedom. Therefore, treatment is designed to help you gradually transform vulnerability into strength, stability, and self-awareness over time.

Understanding Depression and Emotional Exhaustion

Depression can quietly affect motivation, energy, hope, and the ability to fully engage with life. Additionally, people who have never experienced depression often struggle to understand how deeply it can impact emotional and physical well-being.

As a result, some individuals turn to self-medicating behaviors when standard treatments fail to provide meaningful relief. However, support and healing options are available for many forms of emotional suffering.

Situational depression, major clinical depression, dysthymia, agitated depression, grief, and despair each affect people differently. Therefore, Dr. Hackett develops personalized approaches designed to support emotional balance, nervous system regulation, and long-term wellness.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Approaches

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), diagnosis focuses on understanding how the body-mind system regulates within its environment. Consequently, treatment plans are developed according to each patient’s unique energetic and physiological patterns.

Therapies may include acupuncture, energy healing techniques, light therapy, herbal formulas, and nutritional support. Furthermore, these approaches are selected carefully according to your symptoms, goals, sensitivities, and overall health history.

Functional Medicine Support

Functional medicine approaches may also help support emotional wellness through science-backed nutritional protocols and targeted supplementation strategies.

Rather than recommending large numbers of supplements at excessive doses, Dr. Hackett carefully evaluates how your individual system regulates stress, energy, inflammation, and recovery. As a result, treatment plans focus on thoughtful and personalized support instead of unnecessary excess.

Energywork and Mind-Body Regulation

Energywork therapies may further support emotional healing and nervous system balance. In many cases, breathwork and gentle movement practices provide an accessible starting point for meditation instruction and emotional regulation.

Over time, guided visualization techniques and additional practices may help support deeper relaxation, emotional resilience, and a healthier relationship with stress, grief, and self-awareness.

Sometimes it is difficult to see how far you have come because you keep raising the bar. But raising the bar is the point to living your best life, right?

Reflect, project your next trajectory, break old barriers, and move into new territory to redefine your life and/or reinvent yourself. You want to do it, so do it…scared? Do it scared. You can grow into those new steps, which may seem imperceptible until the fruits of your work are obvious to all. Developing patience with process is the key.

Making major changes are more likely to stick if you build toward those changes incrementally. Understanding you “why” list is the start of creating that fundamental strategy for real change and growth.

If you tend to be more self-reliant, the shifts created by acupuncture and energywork can catalyze a viewpoint shifts that are quiet, internal, and align with creating a greater depth of understanding; honing and sharpening that uncanny insight that already guides your life.

Find a powerful set of tools and treatments that help you manage stress and grow your confidence in your ability to do so into the future. These are drug-free time-tested protocols that have worked for hundreds of other people under Dr. Hackett’s care.

Treatments:

Acupuncture

Meditation (guided visualization, journeywork, traditional Vipassana/mindfulness)

Herbal formulas and tailored supplements protocols. (low dosing, minimal number of supplements, intermittent dosing, hormone balancing)

Peptide therapy

The emotional stress surrounding fertility treatment can be isolating and overwhelming, especially if you are going through IVF treatments. Find a place of rest and comfort in the process with acupuncture and natural medicine that aligns with your treatment protocols.

It is excruciating to see your child in distress or their health not at its optimal level.  There are many reasons for children to experience significant emotional ups and downs. Dr. Hackett can help navigate the possible GI, nutritional, and other functional reasons for their problems.

She focuses on a primarily food-based approach with minimal supplementation from homeopathic, Ayurveda, TCM herbs, and orthomolecular supplements; all at low doses.

We can start your child’s better health journey with testing that you have already had done or strategically select tests so that the focus is on treatment outcomes, not racking up labs. Children tend to respond quickly and very well to the correct treatment.

Some children are open to acupuncture, but most others are shy of it. Dr. Hackett uses Toyahari techniques (Japanese blunt needle to gently stimulate acupuncture points at the skin surface), NIR (near infrared) canopy over the entire table with some cool sunglasses they can wear. You are welcome to share the experience with your child or they can rest under the light on their own. The treatment rooms are large enough that you can attend to your child the entire session. Cupping (10 yrs+) and GuaSha (6mos+) treatments are also available.