Dr. Katinka’s method is based on one simple truth: the body cannot heal when the nervous system is stuck in survival mode.
Many chronic illnesses—especially those involving pain, fatigue, or neurologic dysfunction—aren’t caused by a single injury or infection. Instead, they’re the result of a dysregulated nervous system that’s been overwhelmed by years of stress, trauma, or unresolved inflammation.
At The Spero Clinic, Dr. Katinka and her team don’t just chase symptoms or prescribe temporary fixes. Instead, they work to gently retrain the nervous system so the body can begin healing from the inside out. Using non-invasive therapies that support brain and nerve function, the program is designed to calm the fight-or-flight response, restore proper communication between the brain and body, and activate the body’s natural ability to repair.
This approach is especially powerful for patients who have been told “there’s nothing more we can do” or who haven’t responded to conventional treatment. It’s a whole-person model that addresses not just physical symptoms, but also the emotional and neurological roots of illness—offering real hope for conditions like CRPS, POTS, Long COVID, fibromyalgia, and more.
Lasting healing begins with the nervous system. When it’s stuck in a chronic state of fight-or-flight, the body cannot regulate pain, inflammation, digestion, or immune response properly. The first step is calming and rebalancing the nervous system.
The body will always prioritize survival over healing. If your nervous system perceives a threat—whether from physical trauma, emotional stress, or long-term illness—it will block recovery. Healing happens when the body feels safe again.
The tools used in this program are gentle but powerful. By stimulating specific nerves, improving brain-body communication, and supporting cellular health, the body is guided back to a state where it can begin to self-regulate and heal.
True healing requires belief—not just in the body, but in the process. Patients are treated with deep compassion, respect, and individualized care. Many come after years of disappointment, and for the first time, feel seen, heard, and understood.
While the foundational tools are consistent, each care plan is customized. The approach is never one-size-fits-all—because healing isn’t linear, and every nervous system has its own story.
This isn’t about coping with symptoms—it’s about helping the nervous system reset so symptoms can fade or disappear. The ultimate goal is not just improvement, but transformation.
Most medical treatments focus on managing symptoms—numbing pain, calming inflammation, or masking fatigue. But these symptoms are not the root cause. They’re signals from a nervous system that has been pushed into a state of chronic overwhelm. If the nervous system remains stuck in that fight-or-flight loop, no medication, surgery, or procedure can create lasting change.
That’s where Dr. Katinka’s method is different.
Instead of suppressing symptoms, this approach targets the core dysfunction behind them: a dysregulated nervous system. By calming and retraining the brain and nerves, the body can finally shift out of survival mode and return to its natural state of healing. This is why patients who have spent years trying everything—often including invasive procedures, high doses of medication, and countless specialists—begin to see real progress here.
It also works because of how it’s delivered. The Spero Clinic combines neurologic therapies with a deep commitment to individualized care. No two patients receive the same protocol, because no two nervous systems are alike. And perhaps most importantly, patients are treated with respect, belief, and unwavering hope—something that’s often missing in traditional care.
This isn’t a miracle cure. It’s a strategic, science-backed reset for the system that controls everything else: the nervous system. And when that system heals, everything changes.
I knew at a young age that I wanted my life to matter and to make a difference to others. I knew that I had found my purpose when I treated my first Complex Regional Pain Syndrome patient, and he went into remission, not because I healed him, but because I helped his body to function correctly again. How was this possible? How do we support the body so that it can heal from within?
While other professions are concerned with changing the environment to suit the weakened body, we’re concerned with strengthening the body to suit the environment. When we treat a patient, our goal is not simply to get them out of pain.
Our goal is to figure out why this patient started suffering from chronic pain in the first place. Where did it all go wrong? What started interfering with this magnificent body and its ability to thrive?
You cannot mask symptoms. You cannot treat the body by dividing it into different parts, like a car engine.
Our system is very focused on treating the body as a whole organism. I cannot say this enough. If you move through the medical world, you’re sent from specialist to specialist. So, let’s say you have severe chronic pain in your spine, but you also have GI dysfunction. It is very rare in the medical world, in my opinion, for doctors to see that one symptom is connected to another, if it affects a separate system or organ. However, often, the same underlying problem is causing multiple seemingly unconnected symptoms. You must treat the body as a whole, where every single cell affects every single other cell. You have to find the root cause and support the body in healing from within. And to that end, you need a multidisciplinary center, all with the same goal: Removing interference to healing and ultimately to strengthen the central nervous system.
Last but not least by any means, you also have to create a loving, healing environment for patients. I think one of the fallacies of medicine today is that it’s isolating. It often treats the patient as just a body, and not as a human being sitting in front of the doctor who has stress at home, who has a certain diet that may be good or bad, who may be presenting with emotional stress and/or post-traumatic stress disorder from events that happened in the past.
You have to know what motivates your patient. Do they have children? Do they have grandchildren they cannot hold anymore? Do they feel free when they’re on the golf course, and that’s where they feel that they’re reconnecting with their soul? You have to deeply care about your patient. It is a science that has too often been forgotten in medicine (or chiropractic, for that matter). We’re taught not to emotionally connect with our patients because it’s too hard on the doctor. However, it is possible to have sympathy with the patient, even if you don’t feel empathy with the patient, without destroying your own health and sanity. If you’re a physician, you have to have this sympathy. You have to care about the patient in front of you. In our waiting room, we have opened our waiting areas so that our patients can support each other and celebrate each other’s successes. I pick my staff for their passion, not for their skills. Skills can be taught, compassion cannot. Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice, and it takes love. It doesn’t come from a device. It doesn’t come out of a bottle.
We understand that many people who turn to us for help have been disappointed many times before, and therefore, we try to do everything in our power to ensure that our center is a good fit for you. The only way to know for sure whether your body will respond to our system is to physically start our program. Most of our patients see changes within weeks, not months. While we cannot guarantee a successful outcome for anyone, the number of people that have achieved remission in our clinic is unheard of.
While we cannot guarantee any kind of specific success rate, we see many success stories and we try to share that on social media as often as possible. The definition of success is different for every person. Some people experience complete remission and some people find that it is now possible to lead a fairly normal life with manageable pain levels.