Our Commitment To Your Health

Feeling stuck after trying countless diets and therapies? Our evidence-based program empowers you to break free from survival mode and unlock your body’s innate healing potential. Through a holistic approach integrating the nervous system, brain, and body, we guide you from chaos to balance with tools for lasting, whole-person healing.

A Team You Can Trust With Your Healing

Our practitioners empower individuals to move beyond symptom management by addressing the nervous system, brain, and body as a unified whole. We focus on guiding individuals toward wellness, empowering them to live the lives they were meant to live, with resilience and lasting wholeness.

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Judy Cho

BCHN, FMP, FNTP

Founder of the Wholeness Method. Specializes in functional medicine and holistic nutrition, guiding clients to tactical and real-life, root-cause healing sprinkled with hope.

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Cheryl Huftalen

FMP, FNTP, WMP

Certified Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath® Practitioner and Functional Medicine Practitioner. Blends practical tools with compassion to help clients find both resilience and lasting health.

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Lauren Cogan

LCT, WMP

Licensed Clinical Therapist with over a decade of experience leading trauma recovery groups and women’s therapy. Helps clients build resilience and restore emotional balance.

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Judy’s Story

Judy Cho, FMP, BCHN, FNTP

Founder of Wholeness Method

Judy Cho is the founder of Wholeness Method, a mind-body program shaped by both her clinical expertise and her own journey through suffering and healing.

For decades, Judy struggled with a crippling eating disorder, deep depression, and eventually a severe psychotic break that left her hospitalized on a 5150 hold against her will.

It was through discovering the power of nutrition, nervous system regulation, neuroplasticity, and somatic practices that Judy found the missing link to her own recovery.

In her clinical work, Judy began noticing the same pattern: chronically ill patients were living in a constant fight or-flight state. Many had seen countless providers, lost trust in the system, and were exhausted by retelling their story. They needed a safe, structured way to regulate their nervous system and finally move forward.

This is why Judy created the Wholeness Method. The program combines evidence- based tools like HeartMath® and Dynamic Neural Retraining System (DNRS) with somatic exercises, cognitive and dialectical-behavioral therapies (CBT, DBT), brain retraining, and lifestyle practices. Together, these help calm the body, rewire the brain, and create lasting healing.

Judy also leads Empower Functional Health, where she and her team provide functional medicine and holistic nutrition support worldwide.

Today, Judy shares openly how mind–body healing transformed her own life and the lives of her patients. She believes that true wholeness comes when we no longer live at war within ourselves, and when the mind, body, and spirit are anchored, renewed, and transformed together.

Cheryl Huftalen

FMP, FNTP, WMP

With a 20 year background in nuclear medicine and nearly a decade in natural health, Cheryl empowers clients to get to the root cause of their health challenges. She meets people where they are at and creates a customized plan that integrates personalized nutrition and detox with powerful nervous-system and mindset strategies.

Cheryl knows that real change happens when we pair smart, personalized nutrition with nervous-system work, mindset, and the power of our thoughts. She has applied this approach in her own life and with clients—showing how a regulated nervous system makes protocols doable, sustainable, and effective. Cheryl provides the careful listening and clear action steps needed to transform overwhelm into lasting progress.

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Lauren Cogan

Lauren Cogan

LCT, WMP

With over 12 years of experience as a clinical therapist, Lauren specializes in helping clients navigate anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Her approach is grounded in the belief that every person has the capacity for meaningful and lasting change.

While navigating her own journey with autoimmune challenges, she began to deeply understand the critical role that nutrition and overall health play in healing. Her clinical work has provided insight into how nutrition, physical health and mental health are interconnected. Lauren is committed to supporting others in reaching their wellness goals while building competence.

Lauren is a nutritional practitioner with Empower Functional Health.

What Matters to Us

Root-Cause

Every person’s healing journey is unique. We go beyond surface-level fixes to address what keeps people stuck.

Evidence-Based

Our approach is rooted in neuroscience, clinical experience, and simple, proven nervous system regulation practices.

Compassion

Healing requires safety, empathy, respect and honoring each person’s unique journey.

Empowerment

We give individuals knowledge and tools they can use for life, long after the program ends.

Wholeness

True wellness happens when the brain, body, and spirit work together.

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What I’ve Seen in My Clients and Why Wholeness Method Is Necessary

Over the years, I’ve worked with thousands of clients facing chronic illness, trauma, and long-standing health challenges. What I’ve consistently seen is that healing stalls when the nervous system is dysregulated. You can take the right supplements, eat the right meats, and follow the best protocols, but if your body is locked in fight-or-flight, it won’t fully heal.

When the nervous system is stuck in survival mode, even the world around you looks different. The way you see the world becomes the way you live in the world. A stressed, fearful brain looks for more stress and fear, creating a cycle that keeps people sick, overwhelmed, and hopeless. (Thanks a lot, reticular activating system)

That’s why the Wholeness Method is so important. It addresses this missing piece: regulation. By anchoring safety in the body, renewing thought patterns and core beliefs, and transforming how we show up in daily life, clients finally experience root-cause healing.

Clients break free of the survival state and step into a life of resilience and hope.

Our Happy Clients

Hear how our program made a difference for others.

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It’s healing because it feels so right and it feels so good to just see myself in a different light. I’m showing up every day in my relationship with myself in a whole healed way that I never thought possible.

The community here, everybody, not just the coaches but everybody has been—when you feel so isolated and alone and everybody thinks you’re a hypochondriac, to see the people here that share their vulnerability and their raw pain was just such a gift. Everybody that shares has a nugget. And that has been the biggest thing, and I’ve made some relationships here that I know will continue ...

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Paige

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I’ve never felt so seen so validated and supported like I have with the Wholeness Method

Hey, my name is Chase and I was a member of Cohort 1 of the Maiden Voyage and let me tell you it was one of the best investments I’ve ever made in my health. I got diagnosed with CIRS back in 2023 and I started treatment. I was following the shoemaker protocol so I was taking care of my body but I knew the missing component to my treatment plan was taking care of my brain and you know there&...

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Chase T.

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I definitely could tell from the beginning that your guys’ heart was in this.

I think my previous expectation of just like doing the Shoemaker Protocol and life would be strawberries and rainbows kind of thing. But I realize now that it’s much more complicated than that.

I wanted to first say, I thank you all, Judy and all the instructors for all your hard work. I definitely could tell from the beginning that your guys’ heart was in this. So it helped me to make the commitment and to keep going.
I really look forward to utilizing this information because I’m actually going on VIP today. So I’m excited to see if that helps me to do the program in ...

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Colin T.

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I feel so blessed to be able to be in your first cohort.

Being in this group and with the way that you presented it, it really made it come to life and made it really sink in to where I can use these modalities and actually see a difference.

I want to thank you guys, Judy and Cheryl and the team, Bianca. This has been so helpful, and a lot of it I already knew. I am a certified health coach, but being in this group and with the way that you presented it, it really made it come to life and made it really sink in to where I can use these modalities and actually see a difference.
I mean, even in the simplest things, coming back from feed...

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What Our Clients Say About Us

Real stories. Real results. Discover what makes our members trust and recommend us.

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Katie C.

If you’re curious about improving your health from all angles, the Wholeness Method is perfect. It’s easy to follow, supportive, and really makes you think differently about health.

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Shawn T.

This was put together so well and it’s helped me a lot. I’ve been using a lot of the breathing techniques and HeartMath, and they’ve been very helpful. I truly appreciate all the work you’ve put into this program—it’s excellent. Thank you.

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Jamie H.

I loved learning the modules with new information. I really loved connecting with my accountability group.

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Kelly F.

The Wholeness Method has changed my life. For anyone looking to improve their health by focusing on both their mind and body, this program is a game-changer.

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