Harlem Chi Testimonials

I simply cannot sing Johanne’s praises and thank-yous highly enough. She has taken care of me through very frustrating, challenging, multifaceted, chronic illness...through the worst of it...even when my moods aren’t good... she has even helped me avoid coming down with this or that bout of things. She has helped so many of us afford consistent care. She has refused to charge me for large chunks of her precious time. The herbs she gives have been obviously helpful at least 80/90% of the time (despite the difficult to treat highly variable patterns inherent to Lyme/chronic fatigue...). She correctly guessed the Epstein-Barr viral component—then also helped encourage me to get reevaluated medically—after many years of discouraging medical experiences (both at walk-ins and by my former doctor who I later found out was writing me off as “anxious”??!) Johannes is virtually the only place I can walk in and be ~certain that when I walk out—the aching-all-over or fatigue or feverishness or cramping and pulling or all of the above will calm down. Her needling is so “on point” I can often instantly feel it in distal but referred/related parts of my body (eg, foot points in the head or torso, or arm/wrist points thru my back/leg...). She has spent cumulatively HOuRS calmly explaining and elucidating TCM for me (yes, after all these years I’m a student too...). She’s often been the ONE person that in my most run-down, estranged from myself moments—the ones ~no one even best intentioned friends understand?—who I can depend on to see (better than me!) where I’m at; for me to not feel alone at my literally weakest moments. She’s helped to ground me—both w the needling and sometimes just w her very presence (esp since I come so late so often...). But above all? She has given me hope—and a raw, un-sugar coated kick in the butt of reality that has already helped immensely to guide my healing/life. I may be a science geek, but ultimately the life we live is our medicine, and all medicine is soul medicine. Johanne lives this—patiently, devotedly—every day. She is nothing less than a community treasure.