As a multi-disciplinary wellness practitioner, Juanita brings over three decades in health and healing modalities, with a career shaped as much by personal transformation as by professional experience.
Early in her life, Juanita faced her own painful digestive health challenges, which led her beyond conventional approaches and into the study of the body as a holistic interconnected system. Recovering from mold illness and Lyme in her adult life took her even deeper. Juanita’s professional path was born from her own journey trying to find answers and help her body heal itself.
She studied extensively in internal cleansing, functional wellness and mind-body connection, and is widely recognized for her expertise in COLON HYDROTHERAPY and DIGESTIVE WELLNESS and for her ability to intuitively identify deeper layers and root causes where others may only address surface-level symptoms.
Juanita has offered 30,000+ hrs of client work and has developed a very sensitive attunement to those she works with.
Early Beginnings:
Growing up in Northern Alberta, Canada, surrounded by wilderness, Juanita was able to experience a deep closeness to the land. Her family had farming backgrounds, were master gardeners, owned a health food store and her Ukrainian side very connected to sustainability, growing their own food, and a more seasonal flow to life.
Juanita’s cousins (Nees family) were founders of renowned holistic wellness center, Optimum Health Institute in San Diego, CA. She attended her first 2 week cleanse program at the age of 19, which formed her foundational understanding around body-mind-spirit practices, detoxification and internal cleansing. There she had a profound colonic experience that changed the trajectory of her life in a moment. The initial seeds were planted that would eventually become her passionate life calling. Over the years, she attended countless OHI retreats immersing herself in the program and mission.
She received her massage license in 1996, and relocated to Mill Spring, NC in 1998 accepting a position as lead massage therapist at The Pavillion, a holistic addictions treatment facility founded by family friends, Canadian’s Gilles & Liliane DesJardins, early innovators and pivotal figures in AA and family system recovery. It was during that time that Juanita immersed herself in the 12-Step model for personal growth and development.
A Pioneer in Colonics & Internal Cleansing:
Juanita attended formal colon hydrotherapy training in 1999 and served clients out of her home office in Tryon, NC for a year before opening up one of the first colonic businesses in Asheville, NC. There she was able to build a thriving practice, even when colonics were far less understood or accessible. She called the Blue Ridge mountains her home for several years before relocating to Southern Arizona to study herbalism at the Southwest School for Botanical Medicine with Michael Moore, considered “the godfather of modern herbalism”.
Calling Austin Her Home:
Juanita moved back to Austin, TX to be closer to family, and opened Radiance Health Center in historic West Lake Hills in 2010. She’s been serving the greater Austin area for 16 years at this location, with clients coming as far as Dallas and Houston to work with her. She is highly regarded in Austin, with many local concierge doctors referring their patients to her.
Evolution into Science-Based Research & Longevity Optimization:
Through her own personal journey and experiencing the pitfalls of following wellness trends, she went on to study holistic nutrition, ozone therapy, manual lymphatic drainage methodologies, and continues to study through functional medicine avenues available to general health coaches and consultants. She is deeply passionate about mold and Lyme recovery due to her own significant battles from exposure in early 2000’s, and has a fondness for being a part of the support system for those going through it themselves.
Discovering the Power of Nervous System Regulation
Since her early days as a massage therapist, Juanita developed a deep respect for the mind-body connection. As the understanding of nervous system regulation has deepened over the past decade, she went on to become a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. This has allow her a framework to help clients as they work through stress based adaptive strategies and the body’s stored emotional patterns, which research is now linking to many physical manifestations and a failure to reach our fullest potentials.
30+ YEARS | 30,000+ HRS of
1:1 Client Work & Professional Experience
There is something very powerful about working with a practitioner that still works 1:1 with clients on a daily basis. Even more, if their own personal healing story was a result of the tools they now share with the world.
Juanita understands the limitations of confusing wellness hype that’s a result of a six trillion dollar industry that continuously tries to reinvent itself as it strives for perfection and monetization. On her own journey, she has gone down numerous rabbit trails, wasting time and money with minimal results.
Today, she has a strong “human-centric” approach and prioritizes empowering clients to develop a palpable connection with their body’s inner knowing, rather than just chasing numbers or the latest trending “magic pill, gadget or protocol”.
KIND WORDS FROM
Juanita’s Clients
I feel great, I didn’t have any problems with digestion or going to the restroom during the holidays and I lost the rest of the weight I was trying to lose. A friend of mine was just diagnosed with GERD which is what the doctors said I had so I gave her your website and told her how amazing colon hydrotherapy is, I hope she contacts you. In any case, I just wanted to say thank you again for your services, I feel great and fit back into my size 4 jeans!
I did want to share some AMAZING news! I eliminated all the nightshade foods from my diet and I’m feeling better than I have in years! It’s crazy! I know it’s barely been a week, but I have more energy and I don’t feel like I have to nap every afternoon. Eating a meal doesn’t leave me feeling sluggish or bloated (or in hives)
I just recently finished Juanita’s 21-day Radiance Cleanse and have never felt better. I dropped close to 10 pounds, but more importantly my sleep, anxiety, and general well-being have improved tremendously. Thank you Juanita for helping me to recharge my system and let go of old habits!!