Mold Illness & CIRS Support
You're Not Crazy… It's Mold.
UNF*CK YOUR HEALTH
UNF*CK YOUR HEALTH
If you've been told your labs are normal, your symptoms are anxiety, or you just need to manage stress better and you're still not getting better; mold and biotoxin illness might be the answer nobody has looked for yet.
Does This Sound Familiar?
You've done the diets. You've seen the specialists. You've got a stack of labs nobody can explain and a body that still doesn't work right.
Maybe your child is regressing. You start noticing odd behaviors, emotional lability, speech and developmental stalls. Every doctor tells you everything looks fine. Maybe multiple people in your home all have different symptoms and can't figure out why. Maybe you've been told it's anxiety, food sensitivity, perimenopause, eczema, PMOS, weight gain, or you’re just getting older.
Here's what nobody told you:
Mold illness affects every single system in the body. Every single one.
Which means it shows up looking like hundreds of other things, and gets misdiagnosed constantly.
You've been handed diagnoses like:
Perimenopause | Chronic Sinus Issues | Anxiety or depression | Chronic fatigue | Fibromyalgia | Autoimmune disease
Skin Disorders (Eczema, hives, psoriasis, acne) | Weight gain that won't budge no matter what you do
Hormonal imbalance | "You're just getting older" | ADHD, autism, or behavioral issues in your child | PANS/PANDAS
"Everything looks fine" “it’s all in your head”
When the real answer might be that your body has been colonized — by mold, by mycotoxins, by the organisms that thrive in environments exactly like us: warm, dark, and moist. We are incredible hosts. And mold knows it.
Mold and biotoxin illness — including CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome) — is one of the most underdiagnosed, misunderstood, and devastating conditions affecting families today. It hides behind other diagnoses. It's missed on standard labs, and it doesn't get better on its own, or with conventional treatment that doesn't account for what's actually happening in the body.
This Page Is For:
- Adults who've been sick for years and can't get answers
- Parents watching their child regress and being dismissed
- Families who've tried everything and are still stuck
- Anyone who suspects their home, their history, or their environment is making them sick
- CIRS warriors who need a practitioner who actually understands this work at a clinical level
What Is Mold Illness — And Why Is It So Hard to Diagnose?
Mold illness is not just an allergy.
For genetically susceptible people — roughly 25% of the population — mold and mycotoxin exposure triggers a whole-body inflammatory response that the immune system can't shut off on its own.
This is CIRS: Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome. Named and mapped by Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker, whose pioneering work gave this field its language, its labs, and its legitimacy.
The biotoxin pathway affects nearly every system in the body: neurological, hormonal, immune, cardiovascular.
It drives symptoms that look like dozens of other conditions:
— Fatigue that doesn't improve with rest
— Brain fog, memory issues, word retrieval problems
— Anxiety, depression, rage, or mood swings that come out of nowhere
— Unexplained weight gain or inability to lose weight
— Chronic pain, joint pain, muscle weakness
— Hormonal dysregulation
— Recurrent infections, immune dysfunction
— Sinus Issues, MCAS, Skin Issues
— PANS/PANDAS, Autism and neurodevelopmental regression in children
— Sensitivity to everything (light, sound, food, supplements, chemicals, fragrance
— Interstitial Cystitis, Kidney issues, Liver issues
— Constipation, Bloating
Standard labs often come back normal. Conventional doctors often miss it entirely. And standard detox protocols (even good ones) can make things far worse if the drainage pathways aren’t open, the right order of operations isn’t followed, the underlying cause isn’t clear and the biotoxin pathway isn't understood first.
This is not in your head.
Why Mold Protocols Fail — And What Actually Works
Here's what I've learned in 15 years of living and working in this:
There is not one single protocol… Not for mold, not for CIRS and not for the families sitting across from me carrying years of failed treatments and a child who still can't sleep through the night.
I trained under Dr. Jill Crista, ND (Break the Mold), Dr. Neil Nathan, MD (Toxic) and CellCore. I've studied and used Shoemaker's biomarker-driven protocols, CellCore's terrain-based drainage-first approach, and the worlds of functional medicine, complex homeopathic prescribing, herbal and biofilm busting Lyme + co-infection treatment, and nervous system regulation. Every one of these frameworks has contributed something essential. None of them alone is ever the whole picture for any one person.
What I know from
the trenches:
If drainage isn't open first, you cannot detox. Mobilized toxins need somewhere to go. Skip this step and you will make people sicker. I see it constantly.
The nervous system has to be part of the conversation.
A body stuck in fight-or-flight cannot detox, digest, or heal efficiently. Detox without nervous system regulation is like trying to drain a flooded basement while the tap is still running.
But here's what also drives me crazy in today's world of wellness influencers:
Being told that nervous system work is all you need
That if you just regulate, retrain, and rewire, the illness will resolve. That is not true for mold and CIRS. You cannot regulate your way out of a toxic body. The nervous system work is essential AND the toxins have to come out. Both. In the right order. Skipping the physical detox piece because someone on the internet told you it's all in your nervous system keeps people sick far longer than they should be; and it's being said by people who have not lived with this illness or treated it clinically.
Lyme, parasites, and biofilm are almost always part of the picture.
Mold and Lyme are deeply intertwined. Biofilm shields colonies from binders and the immune system alike. The sinuses and lungs are one of the most overlooked reservoirs. Mold colonizes there and reseeds the body even after treatment is working elsewhere.
Labs are a guide, not the gospel.
I've trusted and treated my family off incorrect labs. I've missed genetic pieces that would have changed everything. Even your best data today may be an incomplete picture tomorrow. Testing at the right time and throughout the journey matters, not just at the start. Wrong lab? Issues. Wrong timing? Issues.
The environment is the foundation.
The greatest stack of binders and supplements in the world cannot outpace an ongoing exposure. If you are still working or living in a toxic building, nothing holds. Finding and addressing the source is not optional.
And Above All:
Every case is its own journey. Every single one.
I Didn't Just Study This. I’ve Lived It.
My two sons, Tyler and Jaxon, and I have all been through mold illness, CIRS, late-stage Lyme Disease with co-infections (Borrelia, Bartonella, Babesia, EBV), PANS/PANDAS, MCAS, Hashimotos, CVID, and autoimmunity. We are about as genetically similar as three people in one family could be. We had the same exposures. The same diagnoses. And every single one of our treatment protocols ended up completely different, shaped entirely by what each body actually had the capacity to handle in that moment.
I needed neurofeedback, DNRS, some Joe Dispenza and trauma work before anything else would hold. One son needed the exact right sequencing, going painfully slow, with far more drainage support than anyone could have predicted by his age and size. The other needed high-dose IVIG every three weeks, hardcore triple-therapy Lyme treatment, for years, before he could even begin to think about crossing the finish line.
Same starting point. Three completely different roads.
Tyler is now an IB student with incredible scores in math and science. Jaxon is off IVIG, thriving in a gifted magnet program, one of the brightest kids I've ever seen. And I rebuilt my health, and my practice, from couch-bound and reactive to everything, in the middle of 14 moves, fighting for my kids and myself at the same time.
We've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on treatments over the years. I've lost homes, cars, RVs, and all of our belongings to mold, more than once. We have lived in an RV for over a year - also more than once. I've been accused of Munchausen by proxy and fled Oregon in the middle of the night with my PANS/Pchildren to protect them. I've been told everything looked fine when everything was quite literally falling apart.
Nothing I do with clients is textbook.
You are not a protocol or framework. It is bio-individual and comes from “in the trenches” knowledge. Earned one brutal layer at a time.
How I Work With Mold and CIRS Clients
I am an Advanced Root Cause Detox Practitioner, Certified Intuitive Homeopath, and CIRS Practitioner with 15+ years of lived and clinical experience. I trained under Dr. Jill Crista and Dr. Neil Nathan, and I am currently completing the most advanced certification in detox available through Toxin University.
I work with clients through:
— 1:1 Root Cause Detox Coaching
— Intuitive Homeopathy (1:1)
— Mold/CIRS Protocols
— PANS/PANDAS/ASD Family Support
— Group Detox: Terrain Foundational Programs (CellCore Foundational, 3x/year)
— Vaccination Detox Protocols
I work virtually with adults, children, and families navigating:
— Mold illness and CIRS
— Lyme disease and co-infections
— PANS/PANDAS / Autism / ADHD
— MCAS and histamine dysregulation
— Parasites and biofilm
— Heavy metals and environmental toxicity
— Neurodevelopmental regression
— Chronic illness that hasn't responded to conventional care
My approach is terrain-first, drainage-first, nervous-system-aware, and deeply individualized. I draw on Shoemaker's biomarker framework, CellCore protocols, complex homeopathy, nosodes, herbs, biofilm and nervous system regulation tools; using whatever each individual body can actually tolerate, in the right order, at the right time.
That part matters more than anything - right order, right time.
I work with labs: Vibrant Wellness, Mosaic OAT, US BioTek, Doctor’s Data and partner with CIRS-literate environmental professionals, IAQ specialists, and remediators who understand what "safe" actually means for a truly sensitized person.
I don't hand you a protocol. I build one with you, FOR YOU.
The Piece Most Practitioners Skip
You can have the right practitioner. The right protocol. The most personalized, thoughtful care plan.
And if you go home to a building that's still making you sick, none of it holds.
Most IAQ testers, inspectors, and remediators are not trained to understand CIRS-level sensitivity. A building can pass a standard inspection and still be completely unsafe for a genetically susceptible person. "Passed inspection" and "safe for a CIRS patient" are not the same sentence.
Over 15 years in this work, I've built relationships with mold professionals, IAQ specialists, and remediators who understand this distinction — who know how to dig deeper than a surface-level test, and who won't call a remediation complete until it's actually complete for this client, not just by a standard checkbox.
That network is part of how I support clients. Because no amount of clinical brilliance gets a truly sensitized person across the finish line if the source is still there.
Ready to Stop Guessing and Start Getting Answers?
If you've read this far, I hope that something resonated. Maybe it's the first time someone has described what you're actually going through without dismissing it. Maybe you're a parent who's been fighting for answers for years, knowing something is wrong and just needed to know that someone else understood.
I believe you. I've been there.
Mold illness is misunderstood, complex, layered, and deeply individual… but it is absolutely not a dead end. People recover. Children recover. It's all fixable. I've watched it happen on repeat — in my own family, and in the families I work with every single day.