Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, is the founder and medical director of Sophia Health Institute in Woodinville, Washington, as well as the founder of the Klinghardt Academy (USA), Klinghardt Institute (UK) and the American Academy of Neural Therapy. He is the medical director of the Institute of Neurobiology and Founder and Chairman of the Institute for Neurobiology in Germany and Switzerland. The Klinghardt Academy teaches about biological treatments and Autonomic Response Testing (ART) assessment techniques.

Dr. Klinghardt has been treating a wide variety of chronic and degenerative health conditions for more than 40 years and is internationally known for his successful treatment of chronic pain and illness. He combines non-surgical orthopedic medicine with immunology, endocrinology, toxicology, neural therapy, hypnotherapy, and energy psychology, and has a unique approach to diagnosing and treating diseases and disorders on both the physical and mental-emotional levels.

Dr. Klinghardt studied medicine (1969–1975) and psychology (1975–1979) in Freiburg, Germany, and completed his doctorate on the involvement of the autonomic nervous system in autoimmune disorders. His research and work have been documented in several publications. Early in his career, he became interested in the sequel-ae, or involvement of toxins (especially lead, mercury, environmental pollutants, and electromagnetic fields), in illness.

While working in India as a junior physician, Dr. Klinghardt learned about Eastern concepts of disease etiology and combined these with his Western training to better help his patients. This laid the foundation for his five-level system of integrative medicine, for which he is well known.

After immigrating to the United States, Dr. Klinghardt spent three years working as a full-time emergency physician before becoming the medical director of the Santa Fe Pain Centre. Increasingly aware of the limitations of conventional medicine for chronic conditions, he also trained in Ericksonian hypnotherapy and began to incorporate body-oriented psychotherapeutic and counseling approaches into his work, along with neural therapy, mesotherapy injection techniques and applied psycho-neurobiology (psycho-kinesiology and mental field therapy).

Since the 1970s, Dr. Klinghardt has contributed significantly to the work of understanding heavy metal toxicity and its connection to chronic infections, illness, and pain. He is considered an authority on this subject and has been instrumental in advancing various fields within biological medicine, including non-invasive pain management, injection techniques for pain and orthopedic dysfunction, anti-aging medicine, toxicology, pediatrics (particularly neurodevelopmental disorders), energy psychology and biological dentistry. He has also developed Autonomic Response Testing (ART), a comprehensive diagnostic system that has helped many practitioners to be-come accomplished holistic physicians.

Dr. Klinghardt has lectured at the universities of Illinois, Utah, Freiburg and Adelaide, as well as at Capital University in Washington, D.C., among others, and at Swiss medical schools in Geneva and Zurich. From 1996–2005, he was an associate professor in the Department of Applied Neurobiology at Capital University.

Dr. Klinghardt is regularly invited to teach workshops at the prestigious Medicine Week in Baden-Baden, Germany. Among his books is the groundbreaking Psychokinesiology: A New Approach in Psychosomatic Medicine, which is a comprehensive book about musclefeedback-guided psychotherapy.

To learn more about Dr. Klinghardt’s work, see KlinghardtInstitute.com. To schedule a consult at his clinic, contact Sophia Health Institute in Woodinville, Washington: SophiaHi.com.