Dr. Nikita Patel

08/18/2026

Your body is not broken. It is carrying something that has never been fully heard.

If you have spent years seeing specialists, completing tests, following protocols, and still feel like something essential is being missed, then this is for you.

Living with chronic illness when you are deeply sensitive, empathic, and someone who gives everything to others is a particular kind of exhaustion. Because you are not just managing symptoms. You are managing everyone else’s world at the same time.

My work combines shamanic healing, clinical hypnosis, EFT and more as the layer of healing that tends to what mainstream care often cannot reach for chronic illness.

The emotional patterns. The survival beliefs. The spiritual wounds that showed up in the body long before they showed up on any test result.

You do not need a spiritual background to begin. You only need a willingness to meet yourself with honesty and care.

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08/18/2026

Living with chronic illness can be exhausting.

You may have seen doctors and specialists. You may have completed testing, tried medications, changed your diet, taken supplements, and followed treatment plans. Some of those steps may have helped.

Yet you still feel that something important has been missed.

You may carry years of stress, caregiving, grief, fear, emotional pain, or the pressure to keep going. You are deeply sensitive to the emotions and needs of others. You are tired of managing symptoms without feeling fully seen.

Your body is not broken.

Your symptoms are real. Your body deserves appropriate medical care. And you are more than a diagnosis.

You are a whole person with a body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

My work combines shamanic healing with mind-body medicine, hypnotherapy, and Emotional Freedom Techniques, also known as EFT or tapping. It creates a compassionate space to explore the deeper layers of your healing experience.

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By Dr. Nikita Patel, Naturopathic Doctor specializing in mindbody medicine and shamanic healing. Living with chronic illness can be exhausting. You may have seen doctors and specialists. You may have completed testing, tried medications, changed your diet, taken supplements, and followed treatment p...

08/16/2026

If you have been living with eczema, psoriasis, hives, rashes, or acne that keeps returning no matter what you try, and if something in what I share here has been landing for you, then I want you to know that the door is open.

My 1:1 sessions are a space to do something different.

It’s not another supplement. Or another elimination diet. Or another topical solution.

This medicine is a genuine, guided journey inward, to listen to what your body has been trying to tell you, reconnect with your innate healing intelligence, and to begin healing it there.

If you feel called, the link in bio. Sometimes that first step is the only one that matters. ⭐️❤️

- Dr Nikki Patel, naturopathic doctor specializing in mindbody medicine and shamanic healing for chronic illness.

08/15/2026

I watched a documentary recently about a famous yoga teacher, master, guru. I felt drawn to him almost immediately: his certainty, his knowledge, the authority he carried. And then I found out he had been sexually exploiting his students for years under the guise of healing.

I was deeply saddened, and confronted by how easily I had been drawn in despite the signs.

This is not just about one man. This pattern shows up again and again, in yoga studios, in spiritual communities, in therapy rooms, in coaching, in medicine. Charismatic, certain, knowledgeable people in positions of authority who exploit the very trust that was placed in them.

I think it keeps happening for a reason that doesn’t get talked about enough.

Many of us grew up hungry to be truly seen and guided by someone safe. Someone who held real authority and used it with integrity. Instead we fall prey to the ones who pretend to be safe, and let our guards down.

So when someone walks into our life radiating that certainty, that fearlessness, that authority, it doesn’t trigger caution. It triggers relief. It feels like finally. Like coming home to something we have been waiting for.

Our body is often sending us signals the entire time. The small things that feel off. The moments of discomfort we rationalise away. The quiet voice we keep talking ourselves out of.

We have just learned to override it.

This is not weakness. This is not naivety. This is what happens when the need to be guided and seen is stronger than the trust in our own knowing, because that trust was never really nurtured in the first place.

I am still unlearning some of this myself. I do not write this from a place of having it all figured out. I write it from a place of seeing it clearly, and that clarity, even when it is uncomfortable, is where real healing begins.

For me, this came through my healing inside out from chronic illnesses. When I don’t listen to my intuition, it speaks through discomfort and disease in my body until I listen.

Your body knows. It always has.

08/14/2026

That line from a recent Medscape article written by Arya Anthony Kamyab, MBBS, stopped me in my tracks because it puts words to something I have become increasingly angry about.

I believe that medicine does an extraordinary amount of good. There is absolutely a time and place when modern evidence-based medicine is the safest and best approach.

But not always.

I constantly hear stories of people being harmed, dismissed, or made sicker while being told they are receiving “evidence-based” care.

It is frankly infuriating how often anything outside the medical system’s training gets dismissed as “woo-woo,” “quackery,” or nonsense.

Yes, quackery exists. But knowing that some things are quackery does NOT mean everything outside conventional medicine is quackery.

There is a huge difference between rejecting something because we know it is harmful and rejecting something simply because we haven’t been taught about it.

And let’s talk about the cult-like presentation of certainty.

Medicine evolves. Evidence changes. Recommendations change. Treatments once considered standard become obsolete.

But people’s health needs don’t change. Their relative truth doesn’t change.

Their lived experience, values, needs, relationships, and meaning cannot always be reduced to biology, a diagnosis, or a treatment protocol.

What worries me is any medical system or healing tradition, whether it be conventional, naturopathic, Ayurvedic, Traditional Chinese Medicine, mindbody medicine, shamanic healing, or anything else, that acts as though it possesses the whole truth.
It doesn't.

And insurance coverage is not proof of medical value. Sometimes what you need isn't covered because it doesn't fit the conventional healthcare model. Insurance not paying for something doesn't mean it can't be valuable.

So yes: use evidence. Demand good evidence. Be skeptical. Don't abandon treatments that can save your life.

But also stay curious.

I don't believe abandoning modern medicine. I believe we need to stop pretending it is the only lens through which healing can be understood.

Dr. Nikki Patel, ND
Smrti Wellness
Mind-Body Medicine & Shamanic Healing for Chronic Illness

08/14/2026

“We have become spectacularly overconfident about how effective much of modern medicine actually is.”

That line from a recent Medscape article stopped me in my tracks because it puts words to something I have become increasingly angry about.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/when-medicine-mistakes-confidence-cure-2026a1000rf0?ecd=a2a

The truth is, medicine does an extraordinary amount of good. There is absolutely a time and place when modern evidence-based medicine is the safest and best approach. Surgery. Trauma care. Antibiotics when appropriately indicated. Emergency medicine. Vaccines. Many medications and treatments that have genuinely transformed lives.

But not always.

I constantly hear stories of people being harmed, dismissed, or made sicker while being told they are receiving “evidence-based” care. And this is where I think we need much more humility.

It is frankly infuriating how often people within the medical system dismiss anything outside their training as “woo-woo,” “quackery,” or nonsense.

Yes, quackery exists. Of course it does.

But knowing that some things are quackery does NOT mean that everything outside conventional medicine is quackery.

There is a huge difference between rejecting evidently harmful practices and simply rejecting what you haven't been taught.

And let's talk about the cult-like presentation of certainty.

Medicine is a constantly evolving attempt to understand incredibly complex human beings, and yet the dominant biomedical model is primarily focused on biology, often leaving the mind, spirit, lived experience, and meaning of a person's life outside the framework.

Evidence changes. Recommendations change. Treatments that were once considered standard become obsolete.

But people's fundamental needs don't change. Their relative truth doesn't change.

By “their truth,” I mean their lived experience, their values, their needs, their relationships, their sense of meaning, and what it means to be well in their own life. Those things cannot always be reduced to a lab value, a diagnosis, or a treatment protocol.

Things that were dismissed eventually turn out to have merit. And things that seemed promising sometimes fail when we study them more carefully, or when we look at them from a different perspective.

That doesn't make science bad.

That's what makes science science.

What worries me is any medical system, whether it is conventional, naturopathic, Ayurvedic, Traditional Chinese Medicine, mind-body medicine, shamanic healing, or anything else that acts as though it possesses the whole truth.

It doesn't.

Every medical tradition has things it understands, things it gets wrong, things it hasn't investigated adequately, and things it simply doesn't know yet.

And here's another thing we need to stop confusing:

Insurance coverage is not the same thing as proof of medical value.

Sometimes the thing that may be most helpful to you isn't covered by your insurance because it doesn't fit neatly into the mainstream healthcare model, hasn't been studied in the way insurers require, or simply isn't part of the conventional reimbursement system.

That doesn't automatically mean it's legitimate or effective. You still have to use discernment. But the fact that insurance doesn't pay for something does not, by itself, tell you whether it may be exactly what you need.

Sometimes you may have to pay out of pocket for something rooted in a traditional healing system, a different therapeutic philosophy, or an approach that conventional medicine doesn't offer - for your health.

So yes: use evidence. Demand good evidence. Be skeptical of charlatans. Don't abandon treatments that can save your life.

But also stay curious.

Ask questions.

Look beyond the boundaries of one medical paradigm.

And please, don't confuse “we don't have good evidence for this yet” with “this cannot possibly be helpful.”

I feel angry because intellectual humility in medicine isn't a luxury. It can matter enormously to people's lives.

And if your position is, “I don't trust anything except mainstream medicine,” I would honestly encourage you to reconsider that certainty.

Yes, everything outside mainstream medicine is not right.

And there is no single medical system has a monopoly on truth.

- Dr. Nikita Patel, ND
Smrti Wellness | MindBody Medicine & Shamanic Healing for Chronic Illness

Not every illness has a magic bullet, and assuming otherwise is medicine's quiet overconfidence problem.

08/13/2026

If you’ve tried creams, supplements, elimination diets, and countless other approaches for your skin and body, yet the same pattern keeps returning, you may be ready to look at your symptoms from a different perspective.

Hi, I am Dr Nikki Patel, a naturopathic doctor specializing in mindbody medicine and shamanic healing.

My Inside-Out Root Cause Healing sessions are designed to help you explore what may be contributing to your recurring skin symptoms and chronic illness beneath the surface.

Together, we look beyond the symptom and explore the connection between your body, emotions, nervous system, patterns, and lived experiences.

This isn’t about blaming yourself for your symptoms or deciding that your condition is “all in your head.”

It’s about creating space to understand your whole experience and support healing from the inside out.

In a 1:1 Body Truth Ceremony, I guide you through this process with mind-body medicine, clinical hypnosis, EFT, and shamanic healing practices tailored to your individual needs.

If you’re ready to explore a deeper approach to your skin health, I invite you to learn more about Inside-Out Root Cause Healing, which starts with Body Truth Ceremony, on my website and book your virtual ceremony.

Visit the link in my bio to get started. 🤍