When Protocols Plateau: Why Emotions Hold the Key to Lasting Client Transformation

Date: Friday, May 1

Time:  2:15-3:45 pm

Speaker Bio

Dr. Brandy Cummings, DCN is an emotional mastery and high-performance coach for clinicians who want to create deeper, more lasting client transformations by addressing the subconscious patterns protocols can’t reach. A Doctor of Clinical Nutrition trained in functional medicine, Brandy’s work blends clinical insight with advanced emotional and subconscious techniques that dissolve the blocks limiting both practitioner success and client progress. Her approach was shaped by her own recovery from severe mold exposure and chronic illness, where emotional healing proved to be the missing link. Today, she helps practitioners expand capacity, increase resilience, and unlock breakthroughs that endure.

Description

What do you do when the protocol is perfect, the labs make sense, the client is compliant… and they still aren’t getting results?

This session reveals the often-overlooked reason nutrition plans fail: emotional blocks and subconscious patterns that override even the most carefully designed protocols. In this transformative presentation, Dr. Brandy Cummings, DCN will show practitioners how emotional conflict, identity-level incongruence, and nervous system dysregulation shape client behavior, symptom expression, and their capacity to heal. You’ll learn how to identify when a client is stuck in a subconscious loop, why adding more supplements rarely works, and how emotional breakthroughs create momentum where protocols stall. Walk away with practical tools, a fresh lens for stubborn cases, and a deeper understanding of why lasting transformation requires more than biochemistry alone. 

Learning Objectives

• Apply one client-ready tool (e.g. journaling prompt, intake question, symptom-emotion reflection) that can help move clients through emotional plateaus. Focus: practical action in sessions
• Evaluate client cases for signs of emotional looping and distinguish when deeper work may be needed beyond nutrition protocols. Focus: skill of identifying emotional blocks in casework
• Communicate emotional-awareness concepts to clients in a scope-appropriate way to support healing without crossing into therapy. Focus: skill of integrating emotional insight ethically
• Use a practitioner self-inquiry process to uncover any personal patterns that may be mirroring client looping behavior. Focus: an introspective tool for practitioner awareness