I work with people who have sensitive bodies—whether from what you’ve been through, what you’re currently carrying, or simply how you’ve always been wired. This may include chronic illness or long-standing symptoms, difficult or overwhelming medical experiences, sustained stress, or trauma the body hasn’t yet had space to process.
Many people come to me feeling worn down or overloaded—by symptoms, by the medical system, or by the constant effort of trying to find care that truly listens.
Quiet Medicine offers a calm place to land. My work meets you where you are and moves at a slow, sustainable pace the body needs for healing.
I work with people living with post-viral and complex chronic illnesses—conditions that are often layered, fluctuating, and poorly supported within conventional systems. This may include ME/CFS, Long Covid, POTS or other forms of dysautonomia, MCAS/MCAD, and EDS or hypermobility.
I come to this work with deep familiarity—not only through clinical training, but through long-standing personal and family experience. I understand how destabilizing these conditions can be, and how exhausting it is to search for care that truly accounts for complexity.
My approach begins with listening. Through gentle, hands-on craniosacral therapy, I work to support the nervous system in settling and finding steadiness. Drawing on my background in integrative medicine, I also help you orient toward the most practical next steps—without overwhelm or unrealistic promises.
The long-term vision is not perfection or cure, but resilience: helping you recognize what balance feels like in your body, and how to return to it when something inevitably shifts.
We all experience stress—whether from work, parenting, financial strain, or simply living in a world that increasingly asks too much of us. The nervous system responds, adapts, and holds on, often without a clear way to release what’s being carried.
This is a physical process. Stress is held in the nerves, muscles, and fascia, the connective tissue that supports the entire body. Over time, unresolved activation can settle as tension, pain, fatigue, or a sense of being constantly on edge.
Craniosacral therapy offers a soothing, hands-on way to support release. Through gentle listening, I work with the nervous system, bones, and fascia to create the conditions for letting go.
This is not about forcing change or pushing through. It’s about allowing the body to move toward ease in its own way—like water finding the path of least resistance. My role is to listen carefully, hold space, and guide the body toward balance, easing these tensions.
Stress, grief, and trauma all place shock on the nervous system. Medical trauma is often overlooked—despite how deeply it can shape a person’s relationship with their body, health, and care.
Medical trauma can arise from living with ongoing symptoms, from invasive or adverse medical interventions, or from repeated experiences of being dismissed, invalidated, or gaslit by providers. Over time, these experiences can leave the nervous system guarded, braced, or unsure where it is safe to rest.
I work empathetically and attentively to support your nervous system, respect your experience, and help you find what feels most supportive, both here and elsewhere.
Quiet Medicine | Nathan Horek, ND
1150 Montreal Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55116