Charny Clara, DC

I have been a patient of Dr Charny for over 2 years. She is so knowledgeable about how our bodies work. I appreciate that she uses natural healing and focuses on getting to the source illness/​issue. She is so caring and open to my questions.

I have been a patient of Dr. Charny’s for 15 years. She is the kindest, most caring and most effective holistic health care practitioner I know. She has seen me through several intense health issues, and I trust her more than any M.D. I work with, and thats saying a lot, because I have great MD’s! But her diagnostic skills surpass those of most traditional doctors, and she is also more thorough and knowledgeable in analyzing standard testing like blood tests when I bring them to her from my MDs. I recommend her regularly and everyone I have sent to her raves about her. In addition to her skills as a naturopath, she is the best chiropractor I have ever been to, and I have scoliosis and have been to many through my 56 years. Her Chiropractic is extremely precise and gentle and she works with the muscle and fascia in very sophisticated ways that allow the chiropractic adjustments to hold and be more effective. In particular, if you have issues like mine, of major mercury toxicity, and hormonal imbalances that woke me 12 to 15 times a night, and a generally damaged immune system that has always allowed infections to take hold regularly, she is a great resource and can make a huge difference. It took a while for her to get through the toxicity that was holding me back, but now I get healthier and stronger all the time, and not many people who are aging can say that!
Oh yes, I am sorry that the person who did not get in to see her felt so dissed by her not being willing to see him for just fifteen minutes. I don’t know her reasoning but my guess is that if he had come in for the full evaluation he would have found her to be the way I experience her, deeply concerned and connective and always generous with her time. And I think he would be blown away by her ability to diagnose and find solutions to problems that others are baffled by.

Dr. Charny was recommended to me by two people I trust. One who has been seeing her for almost 15 years. The other about a year. When I first visited Dr. Charny six months ago, my body was out of balance, my emotions and hormones were all over the place and I was 25 pounds overweight. Because Dr. Charny is trained and certified in a number of different fields, she is able to address the whole body at once. Dr. Charny has addressed my nutrition with diet and supplements. She has also treated me with Chiropractic and Cranio-​Sacral therapy. I have lost the weight and my body is more in balance than it has been in years. I am grateful to Dr. Charny for bringing me back to health from the inside out.

As a healthcare writer my philosophy about any practitioner is that I’m buying services from them and really expect good customer service — especially in the «alternative health» field where so many people go to assure them of a personal touch and deep listening skills.
This was certainly not the case here.
On her website Dr. Charny states «Thank you for giving us the opportunity to work with you to improve your health.’ Yet when I asked office staff if I might first have a brief 15-​minute consultation with Dr. Charny to ensure we would have a good working relationship — before plunking down $ 400 for the initial assessment — her assistant told me to email my request. Really?
When I did so, Dr. Charny declined to meet me, even briefly. Unbelievable. What consumer would enter into an intimate, long-​term relationship with a healthcare practitioner to explore personal and sensitive issues without first meeting in person? Not me.
There are a lot of chiropractors out there who have seen the golden calf of alternative medicine and rushed headlong into the field because they can expand their practice and rake in far more money than if they solely adjusted backs. She may be one of these.
It’s a sign of extremely low ethics — and certainly ignorant of her stated online desire to improve my health — to refuse a simple face-​to-​face meeting between patient and clinician.