Testimonials
Resilience Naturopathic came into our lives when I felt like all hope was lost, and I couldn’t possibly be more thankful! My son has had Pans/Pandas symptoms since at least age 3 or 4. In 2020, at age 8, the symptoms became overwhelming and undeniable. Anxiety, panic attacks, severe eye blinking tic, compulsions, nausea, sleep issues, hallucinations, and more. Doctors & specialists locally proved to be mostly uninformed and unable to help us. Through my own research, I learned my son likely had Pans/Pandas, and through the grace of God, I was able to find Resilience Naturopathic and begin treatment using homeopathy. In 9 months, he was 95% symptom-free and a completely different child from the previous year. He is now 12 years old and thriving! He would never be considered for the diagnosis anymore, and we are living a normal life. I’ve even started homeopathy for myself!
C.B.
Our provider at Resilience has met us right where we were at, with open arms. At a point when all other doctors were telling us it wasn’t possible to have three children with PANDAS/PANS, after trying multiple routes for improvement, and all of those going south. At the same time, our PANS symptoms controlled our family’s lives, missing multiple days of school per week, hardly eating one meal a day, and many more individualized symptoms. After just 1 month of beginning our healing journey with our daughter, we scheduled both of our sons as well. The amount of progress I’ve seen in such a short year assures me we are right where we need to be. With the help of Resilience, we are truly getting our lives back, better than before. The process of healing has been life-changing and life-giving, and we owe so many thanks to our provider and the community of PANS moms behind them.
Anonymous
Our son is eight, and we have been struggling since he was about 3.5. We listened to all the “experts” and still couldn’t find any stable ground. We had our first appointment in January of 2025. Our provider is compassionate, understanding, and “gets it.” We have been so fortunate to have seen a major improvement from beginning his first remedy. Of course, we have setbacks, and they can be hard, but our family is starting to heal and feel like a family again. For that, we are forever grateful to Resilience Naturopathic and all that they do.
Katie
My daughter, at 12 years old, developed PANS, although we were unaware of this at the time. She suddenly went from a social, thriving young girl to an unrecognizable child riddled with a wide array of symptoms, including seizures. We spent 3 years searching for answers and solutions to her medical puzzle. We went to countless doctors, tried numerous medications, and spent many thousands of dollars on treatments that did not work and even sometimes made things worse. When my daughter was 15, we were desperate as her symptoms were so severe she could not attend school on most days, and her seizures were almost daily, which made her future seem very bleak. This is when we found Resilience Naturopathic and sent them an email asking if they could treat complex PANS cases. The reply was yes, and right from the beginning, we began to see a shift in my daughter’s symptoms. When we began treatment with Resilience, my daughter was taking more than 30 supplements per day and seeing multiple providers to try to keep her functioning. Within the first month, we noticed a glimmer of our daughter that had been hidden behind the symptoms of PANS. With every passing month, the severity of her symptoms began to decrease, as well as the frequency of her seizures. Her need to see other providers and supplements also decreased, and this is where true healing began for her. It did take time, and there were days that symptoms would re-emerge but then would disappear permanently. She was able to attend school once again, get together with friends, keep up with school work, and most importantly, start living her life once again, which had been put on hold. My only regret during this process is that we had not found and started treatment with Resilience sooner. My daughter slowly regained her life and started achieving things that I thought were not ever attainable because of her PANS illness. She attends college across the country and is healthy and thriving as a young woman, currently seizure-free. We are forever grateful to Resilience Naturopathic for being the catalyst in my daughter’s healing journey. We know now that her immune system is strong and her possibilities in life are infinite thanks to the knowledge of her doctors. PANS is a diagnosis that can make you and your child feel isolated, hopeless, and desperate for answers. Please don’t give up hope; permanent healing can happen, and you can get your child back. We are a testament to this and are confident that the team at Resilience Naturopathic has the expertise to make this happen.
D.P.
When we began our PANDAS journey with our 9-year-old son, I remember staying up late for countless nights on end, searching for answers about treatment plans. I recall the many Facebook posts about homeopathy and my past feelings and beliefs that “we couldn’t do it” or “it’s not strong enough or real enough” to make our child well again. After eleven months of hell that were full of psychiatric hospitalizations and psych meds, antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, and IVIG, we were facing a dead end. As a former critical care nurse, I had a deep appreciation for mainstream medicine, but that nagging voice inside me was saying it was time to step away from what I knew and lean into the fear of putting my faith into an older system of medicine that had proven to be so powerful for many other children and families that were suffering. The call to Resilience Naturopathic was one of the most pivotal phone calls of my life. It was that call where the healing process for our child and family began. From the first call, we felt totally supported and cared for. Everyone from the office staff, advocacy officer, our doctor, and up to the CMO has been truly amazing! Resilience Naturopathic offers an incredibly valuable service and it’s worth asking yourself what it will cost you to NOT make the call. They’ve helped to bring our son back, they’ve supported us through the process, and as a parent, they’ve also improved my health with treatment. This to me is priceless and I will be forever grateful for their work. Resilience Naturopathic has transformed our lives and my hope is that parents will make this important call that can offer more than just hope.
E.J.
We spent time and money trying to heal our now 13-year-old daughter when she had a pandas/pans onset at age 8. It became my full-time job searching for something that would work, and I realized there was no set medical path so connected with other parents to see what was working for their children.
We came across RN in 2019 about 6 months after her onset. From 2019-2022 she wasn’t in school and was barely coming off her iPad or leaving the house. We dealt with rages, anxiety, hygiene issues, OCD, etc., and watched the daughter we had known disappear from us.
It took us longer than most and some mold remediation, but after 5 years with RN, I can now confidently say the remedies healed her. I will forever be grateful for the RN doctors/staff and the community of support from other parents.
Lauren
Dr. Jenn worked with both me and my six-year-old daughter. Katie loved going to see her, and she always made her feel safe. One time, after we left, she said, “She listens to me. I like her”.
Stevie
Dr. Bahr is an amazing individual and a great doctor. Her knowledge is built on a foundation of genuine warmth and care for others. Her ability to support those in their healing process, physically, mentally, and emotionally, is hard to find in the medical community. As a parent, I feel like she is connected with me heart to heart. She displayed her compassion both in character and poise, and she asked the questions other doctors had dismissed in order to find the reason why I was feeling the way I was. Her interaction is impeccable. I feel like she continually sought to understand me as a whole person and to formulate a treatment that was unique for me. She also explained what was happening within my body and how the treatment she was implementing would help address the cause of the imbalance I was experiencing.
Laurie
We began our journey with Resilience Naturopathic about three years ago, after an already long health journey with our kids. Prior to finding this group, we had traveled the country, both physically and virtually, seeing various doctors – from Western medicine doctors to hippie doctors and everything in between (DOs, holistic, etc.). We had changed almost everything about our lives during a several-year period, including our diets, supplements, cleaning supplies, and what we did and didn’t spray on our lawn. Our kids got a lot better. But not all the way. It was like there were about 10 pieces left to do in a big puzzle, and we just couldn’t find those remaining pieces. Then I read a book about homeopathy, and so many things clicked for me. I knew it was our answer. We worked with a general homeopath before we found this practice that specializes in PANS and PANDAS. Although the experience with the general homeopath did not allow us to achieve total healing, it showed me enough to know that homeopathy was going to be our key – because my kids had very clear responses to the remedies. So I was elated when I found this homeopathic practice that specializes in PANS and PANDAS. Our healing experience was not linear (they never are), and although there were periods that seemed rough, I always knew in my heart of hearts that our children could and would be healed through this care. After a couple of years, they were healed. We could not be more thankful and grateful for this wonderful group of doctors and staff. They gave us our children back and our lives back, and we will be eternally thankful.
A.M.
Our journey with PANDAS started when our daughter Alexis was 7 years old. A classmate of hers gave her strep, and while she successfully cleared the infection, she became a different kid overnight.
She began to have epic meltdowns that lasted anywhere between 30-45 minutes multiple times a day. It wasn’t uncommon for 4-5 hours of my day to be spent managing her meltdowns. Those meltdowns quickly progressed to rage. Her whole body getting red and hot. She lost the ability to control her emotions at all. She began to lose her executive function very quickly. My once super independent and gifted child was lost, and I didn’t know how to bring her back. She began to have trouble with every day tasks like picking out her clothes, putting dishes away, putting her backpack on… tasks she had mastered by the age of 3 were now out the window. She began to have sensory overload- everything was too loud and too annoying. Textures and tastes that weren’t expected would send her through the roof.
Forget driving ANYWHERE. She couldn’t handle the motion of the car nor the sound of the car touching the road. She lost her ability to sleep alone. Had tremendous separation anxiety, and I could no longer go anywhere. Our family was quickly plunging into a deep, deep darkness we didn’t know how to get out of.
Thankfully, we found a pediatrician who was able to diagnose her pretty quickly- but it took us almost a year of trying various functional. Medicine approaches, including dietary changes, supplementation, and even aggressive physical therapy, before we found Resilience Naturopathic. We had worked with a classical homeopath during the year before finding RN, and saw little to no changes – but when I saw the success other families were having with Dr. Bahr, I knew this wasn’t a matter of expense. We couldn’t afford NOT to do this.
Within one month of working with Dr. Pais, the rage began to significantly decrease from 5 hour long episodes each day to one. Then, it was one rage that lasted 5 minutes. She hasn’t had one rage episode in over 15 months and is now sleeping on her own, showering on her own, getting dressed by herself- she can even tolerate JEANS! She is no longer unable to complete minor everyday tasks like picking out her clothes or getting her backpack ready for school. She knows now how to regulate herself in the car while we are still working on the noise sensitivity- it is MUCH less disruptive. Last month, she had a low-grade temp with a cold, and our whole family rejoiced that her immune system is finally starting to work as it should. We are about 85% healed at this point, and I can say that all of that is due to the brilliant and compassionate work that Resilience Naturopathic has done. Because of them, we have our daughter back.
A.J.
