Testimonials

When I first met Andrea I was hopeful that I had met someone who would be able to unlock the symptoms that had plagued me for most of my life. I cried as I drove home that day and scheduled my first appointment as soon as I walked in the door.

I originally started going to Andrea for help with Menopause symptoms that triggered issues that had been intermittent since my teen years. Issues included unexplained inability to lose/maintain weight, increasing frequency of hot flashes and prolonged periods of mood fluctuations and/or depression. Within 3 months of working with Andrea I was seeing and feeling dramatic changes taking place. It is a process but I am feeling much more balanced and in control.

I had tried talking with traditional medical doctors as well as other holistic and nutritional routes before but none of these professionals listened to my history or my symptoms as seriously or as deeply as Andrea. I never felt as if I was taken seriously or with the kind of empathy or understanding that I received from Andrea.

Andrea is the special combination of being both a highly skilled practitioner who is passionate about what she does and a very caring individual committed to her patients. I feel at ease, connected and know that Andrea is in this with me – willing to see it through. I am much more balanced in mood and energy and it has affected my entire life.

Trust Andrea to truly hear what you are feeling and experiencing. Know that she will work with you and beyond conventional norms to find answers to your questions and unique set of circumstances. Don’t give up because she WON’T!

“Before I started working with Andrea Evans, I had a case of psoriasis on my body and throughout my scalp. I had gone to two doctors in our area and one doctor in Houston. After having no luck with my doctors, I went to several dermatologists. My answer was the same from all of them. There is no cure, I would have to learn to maintain the condition. I was given a steroid cream which I used and it turned the pigment of my skin to white spots. I also used the hair oil they prescribed for my hair. After sleeping in a cap with the prescribed oil on my hair for a night, I was shocked when taking a shower the next morning. I literally had clumps of hair falling out. I had never been to a nutritionist before, but a friend of mine recommended Andrea saying she had great results for other matters she was dealing with. At this point I had nothing to lose.

My first visit with Andrea was on August 12, 2014. Today is November 19, 2014. As of today I have no psoriasis on my body or in my scalp. My hair is starting to grow back which is a process all in itself. She is now working on my thyroid condition and in the future I will be off my thyroid medication that I have taken for 20 years. This will be a slower process, but I have 100% confidence that I am working with the right person for me. I have the highest regard for Andrea as a person and as a professional.

Was it worth taking 52 nutrients a day to this point? Absolutely! If I had to do it all over again I would not hesitate. How could I not recommend Andrea to anyone after getting such positive results for myself. She has given me a new outlook on alternative methods to cure conditions one might have.

Andrea helped me heal my Interstitial Cystitis and my stomach lining without pharmaceuticals, so I can eat grapefruit and apples again today – onward! (Anyone who has ever suffered with IC knows what a huge accomplishment this is!) Little did I know I would also need her for adrenal fatigue and hormone imbalance. Andrea is the reason I can still work and care for my family. She is a great listener, and helps you rebuild your health, starting where you are. There are more solutions than your doctor knows!

My daughter, age 6, was experiencing “abdominal migraines” for about 4 months. She would report a bad headache and then within minutes start throwing up. The pediatrician said it is very difficult to determine the source, though diet was often the culprit. She suggested starting a daily regimen of anti-nausea drugs and hope that my daughter would eventually grow out of it. That wasn’t a sufficient answer for me. So I sought Andrea’s help. The severe symptoms we originally came with are gone! We haven’t had a headache in over a year. We began seeing an improvement within 2 weeks of beginning treatment. We made modifications to my daughter’s diet, which were hard but Andrea was really reasonable about it, and we started on several supplements to support my daughter’s digestion.

Making dietary changes with a 6 year old is challenging! Andrea was very supportive and reasonable about the approach, if she had been “hard core” about it, I don’t think we could have done it. Taking dietary changes slowly, consistently monitoring progress and making adjustments has really worked for us. It is more work than traditional medical care, where you get a prescription and go on your merry way, but in the end we’ve learned how to modify our diet to promote improved health for my daughter, which has also helped the whole family.

Approach the process with an open mind and willingness to change. Take steps that are reasonable for your family and communicate honestly with Andrea where you’re struggling and where you’ve won, then work together as a team. And don’t forget to celebrate your accomplishments!

I have had many health challenges and some for more than 25 years which is why I sought out a
Nutritionist/holistic health practitioner who specializes in Kinesiology such as Andrea. I was in need of some real support in the areas of allergies, food intolerances, hormonal imbalances, pre-menopause, chronic sinus, weight control, and many other chronic conditions. I have seen consistent improvements in nearly all aspects of my health since the first month. I have spent 25 years exploring everything traditional physicians and specialists have to offer from medications, allergy shots, hormone therapy, diets, provocation/neutralization testing, and some invasive testing. Maintaining a consistent support system with Andrea has truly contributed to my success. I live a fuller life now than I could 6 months ago because of the progress I have made! I don’t need to rest so often in the afternoons like I used to, or stay in every Friday night because I was out all day and too tired to have some fun, and I am buying some new clothes because I have lost 20 pounds! I think more clearly, and I have learned how to make long-term lifestyle changes that will continue to impact my life so I can be more active and less sleepy in my future.

Maintain regular communication with Andrea. Sharing any difficulty with her that you are having, will further infuse the individualized care you will receive with even greater precision. This is the single most important element Andrea brings to our relationship: it is evident how much she cares and wants to see me get better. I appreciate the time she takes to listen to me and she respects what I bring to the discussion about my health. She is definitely a partner in my health.

“My work with Andréa has transformed my life. ”

“My relationship with food has always caused frustration as far back as I can remember. Between dieting or thinking about dieting, and trying to eat healthfully, I always end up feeling deprived and depleted of energy. I could never seem to find a balance, there always seemed some elusive answer and if I could find it, I would have the key to meet my goals, feel healthy and fit, and get my strength back. Eventually all foods started to bother me, and I was diagnosed with a stomach that that wasn’t working properly and a very sluggish digestive tract that spent days digesting food, all leaving me in pain. After several GI doctors and a couple of expensive medications later, I could tolerate foods better, but unfortunately, I felt more and more lightheaded and fatigued.

In just my first visit with Andréa, I learned quickly that recommendations made by my doctors, weren’t necessarily the healthiest for me. Even from the first visit, it was like Andréa was uncovering clues to why my body was struggling and what I could to help it heal. With her vast knowledge of foods and kinesiology, Andréa could determine what areas in my body needed support and why all my efforts had failed. She explained that the reason the medications my doctor prescribed were helping me tolerate foods was because they were preventing me from digesting them and absorbing the nutrients. I also learned that there were foods that were toxic to my body, and that the flax seed that I was eating for fiber contained estrogen and was causing other symptoms. No wonder I had been feeling depressed, lightheaded and exhausted. Over the last few months we have been working together tailoring a program to meet my needs and my body, and during that time I have been able to go off all medication for my stomach, reduce the flax seed, and find foods that are supportive of what my body is going through. I am finding that I am getting my strength back.

Through her intuition, talents, compassion, and experiences, Andréa has helped me navigate that elusive path back to health that I never believed I could find. I am able to eat more healthfully with fewer cravings and increased energy, and the changes are not only cleansing my body, but also seem to be carrying over to other aspects of my life. I have hope and I feel great about the changes I’m making. ”

First of all I am not done yet BUT I want to say thank you. Thank you for listening to my problems, Thank you for paying attention to my requests. Finally thank you for getting me from 225lbs down to my current 207lbs with that diet plan. When my doctor did nothing but ignore me and insist I was “eating too much” you listened and were able to fix my problems on the spot. I am so happy to be under 220lbs for the first time in years and I simply never would have guessed what TYPE of diet would fix me.

Certainly I never could have realized that eating more was the answer or that I was struggling with insulin sensitivity. I’m running a half marathon next month and by then I should be approximately 2 lbs short of my goal to be 200lbs flat. Goal time is 1 hour and 50 minutes and I feel like lugging around 20 LESS pounds per step is going to make me a very happy camper. Again, THANK YOU!

“I first heard about Andrea from Deb, another patient of Andreas. She knew I was extremely ill and in chronic pain on a daily basis and was just muscling through and going through the motions just trying to get through my days. I was spending a great deal of money already on doctors and numerous amounts of medications. So, diving into alternative methods of fixing my multiple health issues that I was pretty sure were not fixable and not covered by our insurance was scary, overwhelming and out of the question.
I was not adverse to alternative healthier methods of treating health issues but I have been so sick for over 20 years with my doctors sending me to more doctors for more opinions, getting put on loads of medications that were not helping and making me sicker…..It had beaten me down. I felt there were no answers and did not want to throw more money we didn’t have away. I truly believed that feeling like absolute crap and chronic horrible pain was how I was going to live out my life.

The final straw that made me make the decision to come to you was my annual OBGYN appointment in August of 2014. My IC was getting worse and worse. I was in so much pain and my doctor and PA could not understand why I wasn’t responding to the medications and procedures they had tried on me. I had gotten horribly worse after a few of the procedures they swore helped everyone else and they had not worked for me. I went in and broke down in tears. I cried all the time in the shower and when no one was around but tried to be the tough girl for the rest of the world. But I went in to that office begging for help. They wanted me to go to an OBGYN Pain Specialist. Great, another specialist who would put me through embarrassing tests and put me on what……another medication that didn’t work or made me worse. I went home with a novel of paperwork to fill out again feeling very defeated and worse than I had going in.

I sat on the floor filling out the paperwork in tears, answering questions that I had answered a million times that did not even pertain to what I had been going through for years. I started writing down very angry responses to the questions on the form and finished ready to go into my appointment the next week ready to rip someone’s head off.

The next day I was at the barn and Deb was there. She took one look at me and started asking me if I was ok. I told her about the pain specialist and told her I was pretty much just giving up, this was the way I was living out the rest of my life. She asked who they were sending me to and when I told her she immediately told me to cancel the appointment. She told me that she could give me numerous names of women who had gone to him and had terrible experiences and never got the help they needed. Again she brought up your name and asked me to consider just sending you an email outlining my issues and asking if you would be able to help in any way. Deb told me to please not give up and was sure you would change my life!

I think I was finally so incredibly angry I was ready to investigate what you could offer me. I canceled my appointment on my way home from the barn. Called my husband and told him I was going to send you an email. I sent you a novel…….like this right! You immediately got back to me and said you could fix me. I talked to my husband and told him that I needed to give you the chance to help me can we please figure out how to do this and the rest is history or her story 🙂

I was not totally sold on everything you said you could do for me and the Kinesiology made me skeptical I have to admit but I was hopeful after the first two visits that you could at least help me with maybe one issue I had out of the many.

The biggest surprise…….how quickly I felt changes for the better. You told me this would be a long process and because I had a laundry list of things wrong with me for so long it was going to take time. You were even shocked at how quickly I started feeling better. And I keep continuing to feel better. I think because I had been in chronic pain and so sick for over 20 years, never having a day where I could say “I feel good today” in those 20 years, any little change for the better was an improvement. Within days I was starting to feel better and continue to feel better and better.

What has pleased me about working with you……a few things for sure. First, you are actually fixing me! I am off all but one of my meds. My focus and memory are better. Second and probably more important, you get me. You truly understood my anger and my feeling of utter giving up myself. You understand what it really feels like to be as sick or as in pain as I have been because you have been there. You are brutally honest, pull no punches and are approachable. I speak my mind, you let me and listen to me. You truly believe in what you’re doing and believe in the people you are helping. Thanks for being a human being! I say that very sincerely because In the over 20 years I have been sick and in pain I have had doctors so called cold sympathy and understanding but none of them really I felt looked for a solution or treated me like an individual. It was one band-aid after another.

I have recommended you to everyone I know and I know some are going to you now. I am now taking my daughter to you and my husband will be going when you are done with the two of us. A girl who is like a niece to me that I love dearly has been horribly sick for a while now and we have watched her deteriorate over the years fearful that her frustrated and scared parents were going to lose her. I would not have recommended that she go to you if I did not with absolute certainly trust and believe in you! You know who I am talking about.

I mean this sincerely! I have to thank Deb because she never stopped nagging me to go see you until I made the decision that I had to do this for myself. You hands down saved my life!!!!!! I cannot thank you enough. I spent over 20 years just muscling through everyday not knowing what it felt like to feel good or not be in absolute pain. It does make me feel so sad that I lost so much time to my illnesses but finally at 51 I can actually say with certainty I know what a good day and a bad day are health wise. I have good days more often than bad and I owe that to you.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you xoxoxo. ”