Jen McNerney
Certified NET Practitioner, Certified Practitioner of Contact Reflex Analysis (CPCRA), John F. Barnes Myofascial Release Practitioner, Theta Healing Practitioner, and Licensed Holistic Speech/Language Pathologist.
Healing Modalities that get to the Root
Hi, I’m Jen McNerney, I am a root cause frequency practitioner, specializing in modalities that get to the root of our imbalances in the body, mind, and spirit. My pivot in career shifted about 10 years ago as I started to heal physically, emotionally, and spiritually into more alignment of the person I am actively becoming. I say this in the present tense because no mentor or professional has arrived…the journey is on-going. On my own healing journey I learned a few root cause modalities that transformed me and my family so much so that I passionately delved into learning each one and continue to deepen my proficiency with these techniques. I am traditionally trained as a speech language pathologist, yet have unfolded into a practitioner who activates an authentic expression of self in others. I now utilize and continue to discover modalities that release anything that is not of highest alignment in the body, mind, and spirit.
Neuro Emotional Technique
One of the things I’ve learned over and over again in this work is that stress isn’t just something we think about—it can have a physiological component, too.
Neuro Emotional Technique, or NET, is a mind-body technique that helps identify and address physiological patterns associated with unresolved stress. NET refers to these patterns as Neuro Emotional Complexes, or NECs.
Our bodies are beautifully designed to respond to stress and then return to balance. But sometimes, after a stressful or emotional experience, part of that physiological response can remain associated with the original event—even when our conscious mind feels like we’ve already “moved on.”
And this is where NET gets really fascinating.
Using muscle testing, meridian points, and specific physiological techniques, NET gives us a way to become curious about what the body may still be responding to. Sometimes the connection makes perfect sense. Sometimes it’s something you haven’t thought about in 30 years. And sometimes your conscious brain is basically saying, “Wait… THAT is still a thing?!” 😂
NET is not talk therapy, and we don’t have to spend an entire session retelling or analyzing a painful story. Instead, we work with the body’s physiological response to stress and support the nervous system in moving toward greater neutrality around that pattern.
I became certified in Neuro Emotional Technique in 2021, after completing extensive training and seminars, and it has become one of the foundational tools I use in my practice. I often incorporate NET alongside my other modalities when the body indicates that an emotional or stress-related component may be part of what we’re seeing.
Because sometimes the body is holding a piece of the story that the thinking brain has long forgotten.
And when we listen to the body, it has a lot to say. 🤍
Contact Reflex Analysis
Contact Reflex Analysis® (CRA) is a muscle-testing system that I use to help take some of the guesswork out of a session.
One of my favorite things about CRA is that it gives me a way to ask the body a really important question:
“What is your highest priority right now?”
Because I have a pretty big toolbox—and more tools aren’t necessarily better if we’re not addressing what the body is asking for first.
Through CRA, I use changes in muscle response as feedback to help identify areas of imbalance and determine the body’s priority for the session. From there, I can essentially put my own unique “menu” of tools in front of the body and test what may best support it in moving toward greater balance and homeostasis.
That menu might include nutritional or botanical support, essential oils, homeopathics, emotional work, nervous-system techniques, frequency-based tools, or one of the other modalities I use within my practice. The beauty is that every session can look different because every BODY is different.
I first experienced CRA for myself while surrounded by other healthcare professionals, and the experience created such a profound shift in my own healing journey that I knew almost immediately: I need to learn this.
I dove into the training and became part of the first certification class of CRA practitioners in May 2023. Since then, CRA has become one of the foundational ways I navigate my sessions.
I absolutely LOVE this work because instead of chasing every symptom or throwing every tool I have at someone, CRA helps me slow down, listen, prioritize, and follow the body’s lead.
Because sometimes the question isn’t, “What can I do?”
It’s “What does this body need first?” 🤍
And that last distinction is really the heart of how I hear you talk about CRA. It also pairs beautifully with the NET section because the overall message of the website becomes: you have a lot of tools, but you’re not randomly doing modalities to people—you are listening to the individual body and letting the session unfold from there.