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Chronic Disease & Complex Health
Individualized care for people living with chronic disease, bringing together Chinese medicine, relevant physiology, and practical support for daily function and quality of life.
Explore chronic disease careAN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO HUMAN HEALTH
Inner freedom.
Meets medicine.
Personalized, one-to-one care for people navigating chronic disease, persistent pain, injury recovery, and the pursuit of better physical function.
Wesley Kress, DAOM, L.Ac, MSOM, MBA, brings doctoral and master’s training in Chinese medicine together with direct-current rehabilitation technology, movement, and physiological insights. When relevant and welcomed, sessions also make room to explore emotional experience, learned protective patterns, and how you relate to yourself and life. Your history, symptoms, lived experience, and goals guide the care.
New here? Begin with a conversation about your history, concerns, and goals. Returning patient? Continue your care ↗
WITH WESLEY KRESS, DAOM, L.Ac, MSOM, MBAYOU DO NOT NEED TO CHOOSE A TECHNIQUE BEFORE BOOKING.
YOUR PRACTITIONER / SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA
Meet Wesley Kress.
DAOM, L.Ac, MSOM, MBA
Board-certified acupuncturist · One-to-one integrative care
Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine · Master of Science in Oriental Medicine
My foundation in Chinese medicine informs individualized care for chronic disease, pain, rehabilitation, and complex health concerns.
I bring 23 years of personal experience with direct-current technology, beginning with Therastim from PhysioDynamics and continuing today with NEUBIE from NeuFit.
You work directly with me throughout your care.
Explore my background & approach01 / AREAS OF FOCUS
Many dimensions.
One individualized session.
These areas describe the breadth of care available within your individualized session.
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Rehabilitation & Performance
Movement, rehabilitation, and tools such as NEUBIE, VOLTRA I, and BFR may support your physical goals.
Explore NEUBIE & performance
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Regulation & Integration
Explore how physical sensations, emotions, and protective patterns relate to your experience, supporting greater awareness and more choice in how you respond.
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Physiology & Personalization
Relevant physiology, lifestyle, and genomic context may help personalize the work.
Explore genomics & personalized planningYou can begin with one concern. The emphasis can change as your needs change.
EXPERIENCES / IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Personal experiences.
In their own words.
Personal perspectives on individualized care, meaningful activities, and the experience of working together. Read additional experiences on Google.
“Wesley is incredibly knowledgeable, patient, and adaptive with helping you reach your goals and maximize your results.”
“I have gone from not being able to lift weights any longer to training for triathlons and lifting again.”
“From the first visit you know he is doing his best to help you! … Wes is super knowledgeable and a great problem solver.”
Selected excerpts from individual testimonials. Ellipses indicate omitted text. Individual experiences do not predict another person’s results.
GOOGLE REVIEWS
Read their experiences.
Visit our Google listing to read reviews, see the latest rating, and explore individual perspectives on the clinic.
Read reviews on GoogleReviews reflect individual experiences. Your care and response are personal to you.
02 / THE IDEA
The most useful question is rarely “which service?”
It is, “What is actually happening here, and what would be most useful to explore?”
I attend both to what needs care and to the experience of living with it. When relevant and welcomed, we may also explore how a difficulty becomes a statement about you, something you must control, or a requirement about who you must be.
Medicine attends to physical health, pain, injury, and function. Regulation supports the capacity to meet experience without becoming overwhelmed. Unwinding means gently exploring habitual bracing, avoidance, and protective responses. Unbecoming explores a less compulsory need to define yourself through learned patterns, roles, or outcomes. Further inquiry into the felt sense of a separate self is optional.
These questions can inform one another while calling for different responses: physical treatment, practical support, attention to present experience, or deeper inquiry. Childhood adversity and chronic stress can influence physiology and autoimmune disease risk, but emotional inquiry alone cannot establish the cause of an individual's illness. Contemplative exploration does not promise realization.
Explore the approach & four ways of knowingEXPERIENCE / EXPECTATION / POSSIBILITY
The past can shape
what feels possible now.
Our responses are influenced by what is happening now and what we have learned to anticipate. Prior experiences can become encoded as learned expectations, including how we interpret sensations, relationships, and signs of safety or threat.
Predictive models offer one way to understand this: the brain draws on previous learning to anticipate what may happen next. A familiar response can arise before we have consciously considered the present situation.
When relevant, we explore these patterns through direct experience. Feeling what is present and trying a different response can offer complementary opportunities for new learning, with your comfort, circumstances, and choice guiding the work.
Explore feeling, expression & new learningUNDERSTANDING / DIRECT EXPERIENCE
Understanding a pattern.
Experiencing another possibility.
You may know you are allowed to rest, yet feel guilty when you stop. You may understand why you brace, withdraw, or put everyone else first, yet find yourself doing it again.
Understanding matters. So does what happens when you encounter the situation.
Top down work begins with understanding. We explore the beliefs, interpretations, and expectations shaping your experience: what a sensation seems to mean, what you anticipate, and what you feel you must do.
Bottom up work begins with direct experience. We attend to sensation, movement, emotion, and the impulse to respond. Depending on your needs, this may involve physical care, guided movement, or noticing what happens as you approach something differently.
My approach brings these together. We can understand a protective response, meet what is happening in the body, and explore whether another response becomes available.
Your physical condition, physiology, relationships, and circumstances remain part of the picture. The emphasis follows what is relevant to you.
Explore how understanding and experience work together →CHRONIC DISEASE / COMPLEX HEALTH
Chronic disease.
Care for the person living with it.
Living with chronic disease can affect your energy, movement, daily routines, and relationship with your body. I work with people navigating chronic illness and complex health concerns, bringing together Chinese medicine, relevant physiology, physical care, and practical guidance.
We begin with your medical history, current care, symptoms, and priorities. The aim is to support function, quality of life, and a more individualized understanding of what may help, alongside your ongoing medical care.
When relevant and welcomed, we can also make room for the emotional experience of living with illness. Your physical concerns receive attention whether or not you choose that exploration.
Begin with an initial consultationTHE PHYSICAL FOUNDATION
Understanding the body.
Supporting recovery.
Pain, movement, strength, and recovery are practical starting points. We consider what you are experiencing, how you move, and what you want to return to, then select care around those priorities.
The nervous system matters within this picture, alongside tissues, physiology, training, sleep, and the wider context of your life.
Explore physical assessment & rehabilitation ↗01 / ASSESS & MOVE
Direct current & guided movement.
23 years of personal experience with this foundational technology, from Therastim to NEUBIE. I was the first practitioner to bring NEUBIE to Arizona.
NEUBIE uses pulsed direct current, a different waveform from the alternating or biphasic currents commonly used by traditional stimulation devices. When appropriate, it is paired with selected movements. Your comfort, movement, and response help guide the activity and the next step.
Explore NEUBIE & rehabilitation02 / TREAT & OBSERVE
Acupuncture & physical care.
Fine-needle treatment may form part of care for pain and physical tension. Your history and response guide its use within the session.
Explore acupuncture03 / BUILD & INTEGRATE
Recovery beyond the session.
Movement, strength work, and relevant recovery habits give the work continuity. Relevant recovery priorities connect the work with your everyday activity.
See how a session unfolds03 / THE EXPERIENCE
The hour matters.
So does what happens after.
Your session brings assessment, appropriate care, and review together. Afterward, I prepare a personalized post-session integration: a summary of relevant observations and practical guidance.
You can tell me when something does not fit or is not helping. Your feedback helps us adjust the care together.
Explore session optionsHow we work together01
Begin with understanding.
Your history, goals, current concerns, and lived experience shape the direction of the work.
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One hour of individualized care.
Physical findings may call for treatment or progressive movement. Apprehension or bracing may call for tolerable activity and support. A felt requirement such as “I must fix this” may invite inquiry, if welcomed. Your priorities guide which direction is relevant; these are not stages to complete.
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Bring the work into daily life.
Your follow-up guidance connects the session with a manageable action or care priority. As care continues, we review what helped and what needs to change.
Your follow-up, in practical terms.
Depending on the session, your summary may connect what we noticed, what we worked on, a next step, and what to review. It is adapted to you, rather than a standard assignment.
No guarantee of any particular outcome. The work is individualized and evolves with you.
FROM UNDERSTANDING TO LIVED EXPERIENCE
A deeper understanding of what you feel,
and how you respond.
You may understand a pattern and still feel it arise: bracing, overthinking, withdrawing, or needing control. We can notice sensations, emotions, thoughts, and impulses without deciding in advance what they mean.
Sometimes a response carries a requirement: I must stay useful. I need certainty before I can act. I cannot let this feeling be here. We may explore both the response and what seems to be at stake about you.
The capacity to think, plan, care, and take responsibility remains valuable. Unbecoming explores whether these capacities can be used with more flexibility, rather than continually securing your worth, preventing uncertainty, or controlling what you feel. Further contemplative inquiry is optional.
Explore emotional integration & inner freedomConsciousness, self-consciousness & wholenessDIFFERENT STARTING POINTS
Your needs.
Your direction.
Three illustrative pathways, not patient stories or promised outcomes. The emphasis can change as your needs change.
01 / INJURY REHABILITATION
Return to what you do.
You arrive with an injury and a goal, such as returning to lifting or walking comfortably. We begin with your history, movement, and appropriate clinical assessment, then select physical care and progressive activity. Emotional or contemplative exploration is not required.
Explore rehabilitation & performance02 / PAIN & PROTECTIVE PATTERNS
Explore what accompanies pain.
You notice pain alongside bracing, apprehension, or avoidance. Physical assessment and care remain central. When useful, we also explore those responses and build confidence with tolerable movement. A protective pattern does not prove that emotions caused the pain.
Explore regulation & capacity03 / EMOTIONAL INQUIRY
Meet experience with curiosity.
You want to explore a familiar pattern of control, withdrawal, or self-judgment. We may attend to present sensations, emotions, and responses at a pace you choose. If welcomed, inquiry can also explore identification and the felt sense of a separate self. No release or realization is required.
Explore emotional experience & learned identityAll three begin within the existing consultation and individualized care process. These are not separate services or booking categories.
04 / WORKING TOGETHER
One approach.
Thoughtful continuity.
Rates reflect one-on-one clinical attention and individualized post-session integration, regardless of which techniques are used.
NEW TO THE CLINIC / START HERE
Your first step is an initial consultation.
Discuss your history, concerns, goals, and questions. Together, we consider whether this care fits and identify an appropriate next step, including further evaluation or another kind of support when relevant. You do not need to choose a technique or commit to a package.
$425 initial consultation
Open Patient BookingChoose an initial consultation if available. If you cannot find that option or a suitable time, email the clinic to arrange your first visit.
SINGLE VISIT / 01
Individual session
$325 / session
60 minutes of expert-guided, individualized care with a personalized post-session integration.
Explore AvailabilityCONTINUITY / 02
Five-session series
$280 / session
$1,400 total for five sessions. Save $45 per session, $225 overall, compared with individual sessions. Space for the work to develop across multiple visits.
Explore AvailabilityEXTENDED CONTINUITY / 03
Ten-session series
$250 / session
$2,500 total for ten sessions. Save $75 per session, $750 overall, compared with individual sessions. A sustained course of individualized care and integration.
Explore AvailabilityADDITIONAL REVIEW & PLANNING
Whole Genome Sequencing Review
& Personalized Health Plan
For those with completed sequencing who want a detailed review and written plan. Includes preparation outside the appointment, review of current blood work, nutritional supplements and diet, a full Genetic Lifehacks report, and a dedicated discussion.
Initial discussion about whether genomic testing or further review is useful is part of your guided care. The additional analysis and written planning are separately priced.
Understand the review & plan$699
Review, full Genetic Lifehacks report & personalized plan. Sequencing test purchased separately.
Explore AvailabilityInitial consultation is separate from follow-up packages. A series supports continuity and is not a guarantee of results.
CARE / CAPACITY / WHOLENESS
You can care for what was hurt
without treating yourself as broken.
Healing can quietly become another demand: regulate better, understand more, become stronger, finally get yourself right.
Sometimes that effort carries an old conclusion: “There is something wrong with me, and I must keep improving to become enough.”
We can care for pain, rebuild function, develop capacity, and explore difficult feelings while also questioning that conclusion.
A protective response deserves understanding. A physical condition deserves appropriate care. Neither determines your worth.
Part of my work is making room for change without making your acceptability depend on it.
Explore when healing reinforces the wound →THE GUIDING PRINCIPLE
The aim is not to do more to a person.
It is to see more clearly what matters.
CLINICAL JUDGMENT. HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. DIRECT EXPERIENCE.
05 / IN CONVERSATION
Beyond the clinic.
Into the conversation.
Explore Wesley's conversations about health, nervous system patterns, healing, human suffering, presence, and the possibility of inner freedom.
Select an episode to watch here, or open it on YouTube. The conversation about separating from the ego opens directly on YouTube because that video does not permit embedding.
06 / ONGOING EXPLORATION
Ideas worth exploring.
As they unfold.
Reflections on physical health, performance, nervous system patterns, emotional integration, and inner freedom.
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A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
The experience
behind the approach.
From ages four to thirteen, I experienced sexual abuse. I also grew up within the Two-by-Twos religious group, an environment I experienced as a controlling religious cult.
Long before I could understand what was happening, I learned to suppress feelings, monitor myself, and adapt to what seemed necessary for safety and belonging.
At nineteen, my life unraveled into severe physical and psychological illness, including psychosis, depression, anxiety, agoraphobia, and multiple autoimmune conditions.
What followed was a long search through medicine, rehabilitation, nutrition, emotional healing, and contemplative practice. Some approaches helped. Others did not. Over time, I began to recognize how much of my life was organized around protection, control, and the feeling that something about me needed to be fixed.
Directly meeting those patterns changed my relationship with myself. I experienced meaningful improvements in physical health alongside a profound sense of emotional wholeness and inner freedom.
I continue to need medical care for a congenital thyroid condition. That experience taught me something central to my work: physical health and freedom from psychological suffering can influence one another while remaining distinct.
Today, I bring my clinical training and lived experience together in caring for the person in front of me.
Read my story and how it informs your care →
07 / QUESTIONS
Useful things
to know.
If you are unsure whether this approach fits your needs, reach out before booking.
Do you work with people living with chronic disease?+
Yes. I work with people navigating chronic disease and complex health concerns. Your medical history, current care, symptoms, and goals guide an individualized approach drawing on Chinese medicine, relevant physiology, physical care, and practical guidance. We focus on function and quality of life alongside your ongoing medical care. Explore chronic disease care.
How do I book a first or returning visit?+
Use Patient Booking to open the clinic’s UnifiedPractice booking portal. If you are new to the clinic, choose the new-patient option when available. If the portal does not show a suitable appointment or visit type, email the clinic for help with the next step.
Where do sessions take place?+
In-person sessions take place at 3295 N Drinkwater Blvd, Suite 14, Scottsdale, AZ 85251. Get directions on Google Maps. Review your appointment confirmation for arrival instructions.
What do the session and package fees include?+
Follow-up sessions include 60 minutes of one-to-one care and personalized post-session integration. An individual session is $325. A five-session series is $1,400 ($280 per session), and a ten-session series is $2,500 ($250 per session). The $425 initial consultation is separate from follow-up packages. Detailed genomic review and personalized planning are a separate $699 service; sequencing is purchased separately.
How many sessions will I need?+
Recommendations depend on your concerns, goals, history, and response. We discuss a starting plan and reassess as the work develops. A package is an option for continuity, not a required treatment course or a guarantee of results.
Do I need to choose a modality before booking?+
No. The session is guided by what is relevant to you. The use of acupuncture, NEUBIE, movement, physiological guidance, or experiential inquiry is determined together as appropriate. Detailed whole genome sequencing review and written planning involve additional work outside the appointment and are offered separately. Explore the genomic review.
Does every session include all these elements?+
No. Some sessions may be almost entirely focused on physical rehabilitation or performance. Others may emphasize physiology, regulation, or emotional integration.
What is included after the session?+
A personalized post-session integration: a summary and guidance that may include observations, rehabilitation or strength priorities, lifestyle considerations, somatic exercises, reflection prompts, and practical next steps. The content varies with the individual.
Is inner freedom a guaranteed outcome or psychotherapy?+
No. Inner freedom describes one area of experiential inquiry, not a promised treatment result. Emotional integration may form part of your integrative session when relevant and with your agreement. You can pause, ask questions, or decline an exploration. This work is not presented as psychotherapy or a substitute for indicated medical or mental health care. Learn more about this part of the work.
START WHERE YOU ARE
You don't have to know
what treatment you need.
Begin with an initial consultation.Start Your Journey