About Elizabeth Eckert
Elizabeth Eckert, PhD, LMT, CNMT, FDN
Elizabeth Eckert is a functional health practitioner who can help you discover a place of resilient wellness, come to trust your gut’s inner knowing, and find an authentic connection with your creativity and joy.
She says, “It’s fascinating to look at each person as an individual and unravel the complexities of their challenges to optimal health. I want you to be able to tap into your inner guidance system. To listen for the cues that you’re on the right track, and shift readily when it’s time to course-correct. It’s hard to find that stillness when your physical body isn’t well. If you feel challenged now, take heart. We have so many opportunities to make things better!”
Elizabeth draws into your experience a diverse background that includes academic degrees in energy medicine, developmental psychology, and music. Her professional experience includes 26 years as a neuromuscular massage therapist bringing mechanical balance to persons with pain and soft tissue dysfunction and ten years as an administrator in the production department of a major opera company.
Her functional nutrition training includes: Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN) certificate; Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis with Dr. Rick Malter; continuing education in nutrigenomics with Michael McEvoy, microbiome balance with Dr. Jason Hawrelak, and nutritional biochemisty with Dr. Brian Walsh. Additional areas of in-depth training include Tellington TTouch for companion animals (mainly dogs) and people, breathwork, medical intuition, outdoor skills and tracking, and martial arts. Each discipline adds its own unique color to the matrix that informs our options.
Elizabeth lives in spacious North Dakota, where she offers functional health consultation, shares an amazing device that enhances microcirculation (BEMER), grows a vegetable garden, and plays with her three dogs. She is the author of Word Cures: How to Keep Stupid Excuses from Sabotaging Your Health.
Media
GoodTalk Minot podcast June 5, 2019
Spotlight on Wellness Images: Hybrid Rasta Mama blog January 3, 2015
Training Disclosure: Credentials for Elizabeth Eckert
Academic
• PhD degree in Energy Medicine granted by Holos University, Springfield, MO (2001).
• MA degree in Psychology: Human Development granted by Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (1991).
• BM degree in Music Education and Composition granted by Bowling Green State University, OH (1980).
Functional Nutrition / Health Coaching
• Stool Analysis Masterclass & Meet Your Microbiome with Dr. Jason Hawrelak (2018)
• Methylation, MTHFR & Biochemistry Master Course; Mastering Functional Lab Test Analysis; Blood Sugar and Insulin Resistance Master Course with Michael McEvoy (2016-17).
• Nutritional Biochemistry with Dr. Bryan Walsh (2016).
• Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis training with Dr. Rick Malter (2014).
• Functional Diagnostic Nutrition training program with Reed Davis (2014).
Therapeutic Bodywork
• Teaching staff, St. John Neuromuscular Therapy Seminars (1994-2005).
• North Dakota state license to practice massage therapy (2001-present).
• Researcher, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI (1999-2000); investigating St. John Therapy and headaches.
• Physical Therapy Center (Rochester, MI) 1995-2001 (part time): neuromuscular therapist.
• Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (beginning 1994).
• Neuromuscular therapy certificate; St. John Seminars, Pinellas Park, FL (1994).
• Self-employed DBA Wellness Images 1991-present: owner, functional health educator / practitioner, neuromuscular massage therapist.
• Massage therapy certificate (1000 hr); Health Enrichment Center, Lapeer, MI (1990).
Additional Certificate Programs
• Tellington TTouch for Companion Animals Practitioner I (2017).
• Five courses in medical intuition with Drs. Caroline Myss and C. Norman Shealy (1996-2001).
• Two certificates in Transformational Breathwork; Transformations, Inc, Milwaukee, WI (1999- 2000).
• Eleven courses in applied philosophy of living with the earth with Tom Brown, Jr.’s Tracker School (1994-2000).
• Shodan rank (1st degree black belt) in Koei-Kan Karate-Do (1998) and 3 additional years of study.
Employment and Community
• Western Plains Opera Company 2009-present: board member, Business Manager 2010-2012, Secretary 2019-present.
• North Prairie Farmer’s Market – Minot 2007-2013: vendor.
• Minot Area Council of the Arts 2002-2008: board member, served a term as Secretary.
• Bally’s Vic Tanny: ACE-certified aerobic fitness instructor 1991-93.
• Michigan Opera Theatre 1980-1990: Production intern, Production Administrator, Director of Productions, Director of Artistic Administration.
