Holistic care rooted in YOUR story
Self-Actualized WELLNESS™️ was founded on a simple belief: lasting health requires understanding the whole person — not just your symptoms. Dr. Newman will always look beyond your symptoms to understand the full context of your life — your history, diet, relationships, environment, and aspirations.
Dr. Newman in 2005 with Yoni and Mr. Maverick for her ninth book
Semi-retired in Tucson, AZ., she sees a select clientele to allow for even greater client outcomes, and work / life balance. Early mornings and weekends are happily shared with family, including two spoiled dogs. Dr. Newman and her partner love the desert sun, gardening, learning, and some travel meeting so many different people. Often, she enjoys heading outdoors alone. Currently, her focus is on creating the very best approach to wellness, especially emotional rebalancing — while updating her cancer research, especially in today’s Doodles.
Meet Dr. Newman
Guided by experience,
driven by curiosity
Dr. Lisa S. Newman, Ph.D.
Dr. Newman has spent her career helping both people and their beloved animal companions as nature intended. She developed her Targeted Approach™ to remove the mystery of holistic healing and help make it more manageable and affordable for all.
This work has included manufacturing award-winning nutritional, herbal, and holistic remedy products — bringing the power of whole-person, whole-animal care within reach for every family.
With over 40 years in integrative wellness, I've had the privilege of working with hundreds of clients navigating chronic fatigue, digestive challenges, hormonal / emotional imbalances, PTSD (including trauma release work), environmental sensitivities, premature aging, and the invisible weight of stress on the body.
My own wellness journey — marked by years of unexplained symptoms and dismissive doctors — is what drew me to functional and holistic alternatives. I know what it feels like to not be heard! That experience shapes every conversation I have with a client and why I take great effort to find the best way for you.
WHAT IS EMPATHIC DOWSING? Since 1984, Dr. Newman has been educated in this tool many have also long relied on. From the ancient intuitive art for accessing one’s intuition through their connection to Nature’s energies — many have succeeded. Commonly known to find water and hidden things or lost objects, it is very applicable for health conditions, personal questions (even asked in silence!), life vibrational patterns, energy field blockages, unique solutions, and helping make sound decisions.
HOW ARE ALL THESE SKILLS NECESSARY?Yes, almost fifteen years was spent in intensive education and training to become skilled enough to help address thousands of conditions and symptoms in pets and their humans (listed in A-Z Section in her ninth book!). She soon found wellness does not easily fit into a one-size-fits-all type of therapy. Nutrition, remedies, environmental changes and therapeutic bodywork all come together synergistically to provide the correct tools for that individual’s body to respond… often for the first time in years after chasing symptoms and treatments. This is how she gets the results she’s globally known for!
WHY DOES ASTROLOGY MATTER? Early in Dr. Newman’s wellness journey, her own Naturopath introduced using one’s charting of planetary movements at the location, day and time of one’s birth — and ongoing — maps out one’s driving personality (Sun sign) and creative/heart forces (Moon sign). This can help us better understand the behaviors and thoughts which drive our experiences, as well as one’s potential. Astrology charts can help us finally and more rapidly unlock key issues at hand.
WHEN DID DR. NEWMAN DECIDE TO HELP BOTH PEOPLE AND THEIR PETS? A few years in, clients began asking about their animals’ own dis-ease and serious conditions like cancer, organ failure and Valley Fever. Then her own 9 month old Rottie became ill and she questioned how she had raised her pup. Being her first jobs were in advanced training of horses and dogs, plus her volunteer work with Therapeutic Riding of Tucson lead her to focus further in this population. Today she works with pets 60% of the time. Besides, animals just get better or not… they do not talk themselves out of wellness and living in balance.
Our Philosophy
What Dr. Newman believes is best
Whole-Person Care
I will look beyond symptoms to understand the full context of your life — your history, relationships, environment, fears, and aspirations. Your story matters.
Root-Cause Focus
Rather than managing symptoms in isolation, I will work to identify and address the underlying patterns driving your wellness challenges — then help educate and support you on properly addressing each of these.
Privacy & Trust
Your health information is sacred. Every detail you share is held in strict confidence, encrypted, and never shared without your consent.
Collaborative Partnership
You are the expert on your own body. My role is to listen deeply, offer sincere guidance, and walk alongside you—not simply prescribe a one-size-fits-all plan.
How Dr. Newman Works
A process built around you finally
Deep Listening
Every engagement begins with a comprehensive intake — your story, your patterns, your goals. Nothing is too small, too complex or difficult for me to hear.
Whole-System Assessment
I then map the connections between your symptoms, lifestyle, environment, and history with tools from my dowser to four decades of research data. What’s important is to reveal the bigger picture.
Personalized Protocol
Your plan is built around YOU — not a template! Nutrition, movement, stress, sleep, emotions, and environment are all considered. I might even run your astrological chart.
Ongoing Support
Health is a journey, not a destination. I check in, adjust, and celebrate progress with you every step of the way. I created this portal for you to communicate easily with me, fetch articles and FAQs whenever needed! Use it.
“Wellness is not the absence of dis-ease… it's the presence of vitality.”
— Dr. Lisa S. Newman, Ph.D.
Ready to begin your own Self-Actualized Wellness™️ journey?
The first step is simply sharing your story. Our comprehensive intake form takes about 20 minutes and gives us everything we need to start building your personalized plan.