Holistic care · Lakewood, Colorado
Healing Isn't Something You Force. It's Something You Remember.
Your pain, your stress, your "mystery" symptoms — they're not a malfunction to eradicate. They're a doorway. I offer whole-person care in Lakewood for sensitive, awake people ready to walk through it.
The core belief
Your Symptoms Aren't the Problem. They're the Message.
Most care is built to make symptoms go away. Mine starts somewhere else: your body isn't broken, and what you're feeling isn't a mistake to be silenced. It's information — your nervous system trying to get your attention, asking you to wake up and pay attention to what's really going on.
Here's what most people don't realize: stress doesn't just pass through you. It gets stored — in your posture, your breath, your baseline tension — as your nervous system quietly adapts to whatever you've been carrying. Years of it. That tightness in your shoulders, that hum of low-grade anxiety, that fatigue no amount of sleep fixes — those aren't random. They're patterns your body built to cope, and patterns can be reorganized.
I don't chase symptoms. I listen to what they're trying to teach you, and I help your nervous system reorganize around that wisdom — so healing isn't something I force onto you. It's something your body already knows how to do, once it feels safe enough to do it.
Who this is for
This Care Is For Seekers
If you're highly sensitive, deeply feeling, or you've always sensed there's more going on beneath the surface of your life — you're the person I built this practice for. Many of my patients are what's known as HSPs (highly sensitive people), some empathic, most of them quietly exhausted from holding more than their nervous system was resourced to carry.
You may have already tried plenty of providers. Your labs may look "normal." You may be told there's nothing wrong — and yet something clearly isn't right. That gap is exactly where I work.
Chances are you've tried something already — medication that dulled the symptom without touching the pattern underneath it, a massage that felt wonderful for two days, a chiropractic adjustment aimed at your spine instead of your nervous system. None of it was wrong to try. It's just aimed at the surface, and what you're dealing with isn't a surface problem.
This isn't about symptom relief as the goal, though it often happens — most of my patients experience real, measurable relief. It's about something bigger: helping you get free of the old stories, stresses, and patterns that have kept your body — and your life — smaller than who you actually are.
A different kind of care
Care That Works From the Inside Out
I'm a chiropractor, but my focus was never on fixing or forcing the spine into place. My work centers on Network Spinal® (NSA) — a gentle, non-force method, backed by its own body of published research, that uses light, precise contact to help your nervous system release old tension patterns and reorganize itself, from the inside out. There's no cracking, no forceful manipulation. Just your body, given the safety and space to remember how to function the way it was designed to.
This isn't generic chiropractic with a softer touch. NSA is a distinct approach, and I bring years of focused experience in it — which is part of why patients who've tried "regular" adjustments and didn't get lasting change often find something different here.
I also draw on Functional Medicine and Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI) to work with the whole picture — nervous system, physiology, and breath, together. Every plan of care starts with an assessment of your nervous system specifically — how it holds tension, where it's stuck, what it's ready for — not a one-size-fits-all protocol.
Many patients tell me it's the first approach that ever really listened to them.
The path
What Changes Along the Way
This isn't a single visit or a quick fix — it's a process, built in a structured series of care, because patterns your nervous system spent years building don't reorganize in one session. What I've seen, again and again, is that this work tends to move in a shape patients recognize once they're through it — the shape of any real transformation.
Discover
You come in stuck — in stress, in pain, in old patterns you can't think your way out of. This is where I meet you, exactly as you are, no fixing required yet.
Transform
As your nervous system finds more safety and flexibility over your course of care, something shifts. You start to access parts of yourself that were buried under years of just getting through. You realize you have more capacity — and more choice — than you thought.
Awaken
You return to your life not because you finally fixed something, but because you remembered something. Less effort. Less struggle. More simply being who you already were underneath it all.
I call the whole thing, simply: Freedom.
Your first visit
What to Expect
From the moment you walk in, I treat you as a whole person, not a form or a diagnosis. Most paperwork is completed online ahead of time, so our first real conversation can go straight to what matters — your story, not just your symptoms. That conversation is where your care plan gets built around you, not applied off a shelf.
Visits are scheduled in advance, Monday through Thursday; I don't offer walk-ins or same-day appointments, so each session can be unhurried and fully present.
I'm an out-of-network practice and don't accept Medicare or Medicaid. You pay directly at time of service and receive a superbill you can submit to your insurance for possible reimbursement. Patients tell me the investment pays off in ways that are hard to itemize — more energy for the people and work that matter, a nervous system that isn't running on empty, a body that finally feels like an ally instead of a problem to manage. My second-floor office is a quiet, Zen-like space with natural light, free parking, and easy accessibility.
What patients are saying
People Like You Have Walked Through This Door
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Dr. Munn has changed my life for the better! I am feeling more connected with myself and able to handle the everyday stresses of life.
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Dr. Rick helped me release years of physical and emotional tension. I feel calmer, more balanced, and like my body is functioning the way it should.
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Rick is an amazing healer with an excellent sensitivity and wisdom about what your body and heart need to heal and be your best self.
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Dr Munn is one of most gifted healing art practitioners in Colorado.
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Dr. Munn has changed my life for the better! I am feeling more connected with myself and able to handle the everyday stresses of life.
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Dr. Rick helped me release years of physical and emotional tension. I feel calmer, more balanced, and like my body is functioning the way it should.
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Rick is an amazing healer with an excellent sensitivity and wisdom about what your body and heart need to heal and be your best self.
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Dr Munn is one of most gifted healing art practitioners in Colorado.
These are seekers, empaths, and sensitive people just like you — not just cases of "back pain fixed," but people who came in overwhelmed and found their way back to themselves.
You Have a Choice You May Not Know You Have
The patterns that brought you here didn't form overnight, and left alone, they don't tend to loosen on their own — they entrench. The first step is just realizing you have a choice. Schedule your visit, and let's find out what's on the other side of the doorway — before another year of "managing it" goes by.