For Referring Professionals

A Downstream Option When Care Plateaus

Many professionals work with clients whose bodies respond to care — but don’t hold.

Alignment improves. Symptoms ease.
Then the same patterns return.

When that happens, the issue is often no longer structural or educational.
It’s pattern-driven.

This page outlines when and how I support referred clients — and when I don’t.


My Role (and My Limits)

I work with adults who remain stuck in repeating emotional and nervous-system patterns after other forms of care have done what they can.

My role is targeted pattern intervention, not treatment.

I help determine whether an emotional survival pattern is influencing how the body repeatedly organizes itself — and whether focused work is appropriate.

To be clear:

  • I do not adjust, manipulate, or treat the body

  • I do not replace chiropractic, medical, or therapeutic care

  • I do not promise outcomes or resolution

  • Many people are not a fit, and the work stops there

When no relevant emotional pattern is present, clients are referred back to their provider.


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When a Referral Makes Sense

A referral may be appropriate when:

  • Physical care helps but does not hold

  • The body repeatedly reverts to the same state

  • Stress, emotional load, or past events clearly influence symptoms

  • The client understands what to do but cannot sustain change

  • Progress has plateaued despite consistent care

This is most common with recurring back, neck, shoulder, or nervous-system-related patterns.

When This Is Not a Fit

I am not a fit for clients who:

  • Are in acute physical or emotional crisis

  • Are seeking immediate relief or reassurance

  • Are unwilling to engage in paid, structured work

  • Are better served by continued or different clinical care

This work is selective by design.


Referral-Only Option

Targeted Emotional Pattern Intervention (3 Sessions)

Referred clients may book a short, referral-only series designed to work with one specific recurring pattern.

This is not a transformation program.
It is a bounded, focused intervention.

How the Work Is Done

  • All work is done energetically, not physically

  • No manipulation or adjustment is performed

  • The focus is on how emotional load expresses through specific areas of the body

  • Sessions are targeted, contained, and time-limited

What This Series Is For

  • Identifying and working with one dominant emotional pattern

  • Supporting nervous-system awareness and responsiveness

  • Clarifying why certain physical patterns keep returning

What Success Looks Like

Success is defined as clarity and shift, not cure.

Some patterns resolve.
Others become clearly defined.
In all cases, next steps — or limits — become obvious.

There is no automatic continuation beyond the three sessions.


Relationship to Ongoing Care

This work is designed to complement, not compete with, existing care.

Chiropractic and body-based work addresses structure and alignment.
This work addresses why the body keeps pulling itself back into the same patterns despite correction.

Clients often return to their provider with greater capacity to hold progress.


For Referring Professionals

You can expect:

  • Clean, professional handoffs

  • Clear scope boundaries

  • Respect for your existing work

  • No pressure to refer

  • No expectation of outcomes

This option exists simply to support cases where something non-mechanical is clearly at play.


Contact

If you’d like to keep this as a downstream option for specific cases, you’re welcome to reach out or request a short overview.

No obligation.
No referral expectations.

Shawn O’Leary
Sound Emotions Healing
Green Bay, WI
SoundEmotions.Life.