Chad Herst, MS, LAC, PCC

Chad Herst, MS, LAC, PCC

I didn’t get into this work because I had it all figured out. I got here because life cracked me open early.

When I was eighteen, my brother took his life. I grew up in a house where performance mattered more than sensitivity, so I learned to keep going even when it was empty inside. That strategy worked for a while until it didn’t.


I chased wisdom and worth across India and the Ivy League, studying yoga, meditation, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, earning degrees from Columbia and acupuncture school. I tried to heal others with needles until I realized my real gift was in how I listened.

Eventually my body gave out and the performance failed. What followed was a long unlearning through illness, therapy, betrayal, and stillness that taught me how to stop earning love and start living in my own skin.

That is where the work I do now was born. I help high achievers, performers and perfectionists, the ones who look like they have it together while quietly being run by shame, anxiety, or the fear that if they stop, everything will fall apart. I know that cycle because I’ve lived it.

This isn’t about fixing you. It’s about learning to stay with what hurts long enough for it to reveal something wiser. Through somatic awareness, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and parts work, we build your capacity to return, again and again, to the part of you that never stopped wanting to be seen, felt, and loved.

The work is simple, but not easy: it’s about remembering how to be human in your own skin.

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