Breaking Beyond Conventional Healthcare – Exclusive Interview with Christina Zakhem
- Brainz Magazine
- Nov 10
- 6 min read
Christina Zakhem is the founder of The White Rose Wellness and has dedicated the last 8 years to exploring all facets of holistic healing. Her fascination with frequency-based work began at age 15 when her mother visited a Naturopath who used Bioenergetic technology to support healing. Today, she combines principles of Naturopathy, Functional Nutrition and Medicine, Emotional Subconscious work, Bioenergetics, and Sound Healing to bring lasting root cause healing for her clients.
Christina Zakhem, Naturopath, Holistic Health Practitioner, and Founder of The White Rose Wellness
Who is Christina Zakhem?
I'm a Naturopath, Board-Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, and Vibrational Healer who uses cutting-edge frequency-based tools to support physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. My practice bridges ancient healing wisdom with modern bioenergetic science and biofeedback tools to target the root causes of ailments, offering a path for those ready to move beyond conventional approaches and even alternative methods that may have fallen short.
What led you to specialize in energy medicine, naturopathy, and holistic nutrition?
My fascination with holistic healing began at a very young age when I watched my mother struggle with a chronic illness that developed after giving birth to me. I had my first encounter with bioenergetic medicine at 15, when her naturopath ran a full-body scan using what seemed like two metallic rods and advised her to adjust her supplements and diet accordingly. That moment planted a seed. At 19, I enrolled in my first health-related coaching program to study holistic nutrition, and I've been exploring the vast world of holistic medicine ever since.
After a few years of coaching clients on nutritional care, lifestyle changes, and supplementation, I realized how crucial emotional well-being tools are in today's world. Breathwork, yoga, and meditation (while valuable) weren't nearly enough for certain clients, nor were adaptogens and nervines. Some arrived carrying patterns, beliefs, and tendencies that prevented them from taking necessary steps toward healing. Others carried deeper wounds and traumas that persisted even after years of talk therapy and mindset work.
This is where subconscious work, somatics, and sound therapy come in. These modalities help uproot those deeper blockages and create space for better habits to form, and most importantly, for a body that feels safe enough in this world to heal.
How does your approach differ from traditional healthcare options?
Most of my clients find me after they've either been put on medications to manage their condition or dismissed entirely because their symptoms didn't fit into conventional diagnostic boxes. Some are grappling with emotional turmoil that has begun manifesting as physical health imbalances.
My approach starts with a comprehensive look at health history and biomarkers, combined with synergistic assessments that simultaneously examine physical and emotional imbalances. These assessments utilize biofeedback tools, including Muscle Response Testing and Bioenergetic (or Bioresonance) Testing. While not diagnostic, they allow us to analyze vibrational patterns in body systems, organs, glands, and tissues to identify imbalances across physical, mental, emotional, and energetic states.
Muscle Response Testing evaluates the body's muscular response to stimuli. Because muscles are controlled by nerves, testing muscular response is actually testing nervous system response. What's compatible with the nervous system benefits the entire body.
Bioenergetic or Bioresonance Testing uses specialized machines to read the energetic resonance from hair and saliva samples, measuring the energetic balance or imbalance of various factors.
Both methods are based on the principle that systems, organs, and even toxins carry their own vibrational frequency. Through these tools, we can measure the body's energetic reaction to various substances: environmental toxins, foods, pathogens, emotions, and more. Both can also be conducted remotely through quantum physics principles, offering insight into organ health, toxic load, nutritional needs (from food sensitivities to deficiencies), and hormones and neurotransmitters requiring support. We can also explore emotional patterns contributing to current health states. This is particularly powerful since most health issues stem originally from stress.
To address imbalances, we employ a variety of tools, including sound (tuning forks, sound healing bowls), light therapy (cold laser therapy), somatic techniques, homeopathy, flower essences, herbs, and essential oils. The body communicates its preferred method along with the appropriate dose and duration.
Can you describe a typical session and what a client might experience?
We begin by identifying the client's health goal and tracing back to when issues first started manifesting. The beauty of this work is allowing the body to lead the way in giving us clues. We use Muscle Response Testing as a baseline to identify stressors, then proceed with selecting which tools to use: bioenergetic testing, sound, light therapy, or others. Each person receives their own customized roadmap of tools along with a timeline that follows their body's unique rhythm at each assessment point.
Healing journeys are like peeling an onion–we must work through the layers to reach the root.
What are the most common issues you help clients overcome?
I work with clients dealing with emotional challenges, including anxiety, burnout, depression, low self-esteem, self-sabotage, lack of self-love, perfectionism, and people-pleasing tendencies.
On the physical side, I address chronic pain, chronic fatigue, digestive issues (chronic bloating, constipation, IBS), and hormonal challenges like PCOS and PMS, among others.
How do emotional and physical wellness connect in your work?
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, organs are thought to hold onto unprocessed or unexpressed emotions, ultimately impacting their functionality.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, in his groundbreaking book The Body Keeps the Score, explains that trauma and chronic stress produce actual physiological changes. The brain's alarm system becomes recalibrated, stress hormone activity increases, and our ability to filter relevant information from irrelevant information becomes altered. This keeps us stuck in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses, which heavily impact all other bodily systems that require us to be in a relaxed, open-to-healing state to function optimally.
It's not uncommon for me to see chronic issues develop after someone experiences a major life event that was difficult to process and handle. Many clients, however, have been living in pain throughout their lives. This is where we explore adverse childhood experiences and trauma.
What kind of results or transformations do clients often see?
With emotional healing, most clients feel like a weight has been lifted, often after just one session. Many experience shifts in their anxiety, procrastination, and self-sabotage patterns. Slowly but surely, space opens up within their psyche, allowing them to move forward with actions they know they must take but previously felt stuck and unable to execute, including those very helpful lifestyle changes that will help them with their health journey.
Physical symptoms also frequently subside. Bloating, constipation, insomnia, and physical tension in various areas improve. Supplements and lifestyle changes are introduced with ease when the body is ready to benefit from balancing deficiencies or detoxing from pathogens.
For clients who commit to longer journeys, the transformations are often the most profound. They're able to move through life with more ease, confidence, and flow. They have renewed focus and determination, and naturally attract better opportunities in relationships, work, and life in general. Most importantly, they find themselves free of chronic patterns and pains that have plagued them for years.
Who is your ideal client, and how can they know they're ready to work with you?
My ideal client has an awareness that something is off (whether physically, emotionally, or both) and is genuinely seeking change. They've likely tried the traditional route (talk therapy, conventional doctors) and possibly explored alternative approaches with little to no lasting results.
They understand this isn't a quick fix and are committed to the journey. They recognize that emotional health impacts physical health and are ready to address both simultaneously.
What is the first step someone should take if they want to begin their healing journey with you?
Deciding and committing is the number one thing. Working on the foundations of health at all times is essential: quality sleep, nourishing nutrition, proper hydration, and being in community, among others. No matter what therapeutic work we're doing, focusing on these foundations is extremely helpful for moving the needle on any healing journey.
How do you tailor your services (sound healing, bioenergetics, etc.) to individual needs?
Through muscle testing! The body always communicates its needs for specific issues on specific days. This biofeedback tool is invaluable in my practice. It ensures every session is truly personalized to where the client is in that moment.
What key mindset or lifestyle shift do you encourage for sustained wellness?
The most important shift is moving from a mindset of "fixing what's broken" to one of "listening to what my body is communicating." Sustainable wellness comes when we learn to view symptoms not as enemies to suppress, but as messengers guiding us toward deeper balance. This requires cultivating patience, self-compassion, and trust in your body's innate wisdom to heal when given the right support.
How can someone connect with you or start their journey today?
You can find me at my website and on Instagram. I offer discovery calls to explore whether we're a good fit for working together.
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