Stay + Heal: What Does Deeper Healing’s 12-Week Program Involve?
Quick answer: Stay + Heal is Deeper Healing’s 12-week, three-phase medical program for complex chronic illness: four weeks of remote preparation and labs, a two-week physician-led in-person intensive in Charleston, SC, then six weeks of remote integration. It reduces your total body burden, rebuilds what’s depleted, and calms an overactive nervous system.
Reviewed & updated August 2026 by Michael Bauerschmidt, MD
Key takeaways
- Stay + Heal is a 12-week program in three phases, not a one-off visit — only the middle phase is in Charleston.
- Phase 1 (weeks 1–4, remote): your deposit begins the program, a health coach and care coordinator are assigned, your history is reviewed, intake labs are ordered, and prep materials ship to your home.
- Phase 2 (weeks 5–6, in person): a two-week, physician-led medical intensive on Daniel Island with daily treatments and close monitoring; extensions are prescribed for severe cases.
- Phase 3 (weeks 7–12, remote): weekly support, coaching, a follow-up consult, and plan refinement so the changes take hold at home.
- Care is guided by the DEEPER Method and a four-step arc — review, deep-dive labs, eliminate the burden and calm the system, then rebuild.
- The program does not accept insurance (records stay private), and financing plus need-based assistance are available.
How the 12-week Stay + Heal program works
Stay + Heal is a powerful medical intensive designed for rapid, visible progress — the reason patients travel great distances to Deeper Healing. Rather than chasing one symptom at a time, the program reduces your total body burden of toxins, corrects what has been depleted, and calms a brain and central nervous system stuck in overdrive — all at once. When those pieces come together, the body is freed to do what it was designed to do: heal. Then the work turns to making it last. The structure below runs across a full 12 weeks, so healing continues after you return home.
The 12-week program at a glance
| Weeks 1–4 — Preparation (remote) | Weeks 5–6 — Medical intensive (in person) | Weeks 7–12 — Integration (remote) |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly one-on-one touches with an expert Deeper Healing coach, complete lab work, and preparation materials shipped to your home. | A personalized, comprehensive two-week in-person intensive with daily treatments and monitoring by our clinical team at our Charleston headquarters. | Back home, weekly support, expert coaching, a follow-up provider consult, plan refinement, and lifestyle follow-through. |
Phase 1 — Preparation (weeks 1–4, remote). The moment your deposit is received, your 12-week program begins. A personal health coach and care coordinator are assigned, we review your history, coordinate your intake labs, and prepare your clinical team — so not a single day of your in-person intensive is wasted.
Phase 2 — The medical intensive (2 weeks in Charleston, SC). This is the heart of the program: two weeks of fully immersive, physician-led care at our headquarters on Daniel Island. Every day is structured around your body’s specific burden — diagnostics and sequential, innovative treatments with close daily monitoring, all working in concert. For patients whose severity warrants more in-person time, extensions are prescribed in advance or adjusted as needed.
Phase 3 — Integration (weeks 7–12, remote). Healing has to follow you home. For six weeks after your intensive, your care team stays with you — monitoring progress, adjusting your protocol, and making sure the changes made in Charleston take root in your real life.
The DEEPER Method and our four steps
Everything at Deeper Healing is organized around the DEEPER Method — a whole-person lens applied to your entire history, not just your loudest symptom:
- D — Diet
- E — Emotion
- E — Environment
- P — Physical
- E — Elimination
- R — Rebuilding
Within that framework, the program moves through four steps:
- Start at the beginning. Together we review your life history, birth to present day, through the DEEPER Method.
- Deep dive with labs. Science, medical detective work, and common sense intersect as we run one of the most comprehensive lab panels anywhere and interpret it in the context of your whole case.
- Eliminate what has built up and calm the system. This is where the magic happens — removing the body burden of toxins while calming a nervous system in overdrive.
- Rebuild and get humming again. Once the body is reset, cleansed, and calmed, the rebuilding begins — stronger than before.
Make it last. Smart lifestyle choices are what sustain good health in a modern, toxin-heavy world. We teach you how — and walk beside you as you put it into practice at home.
What’s included in Stay + Heal
Your program is built on a deep diagnostic foundation and a customized course of medical treatments. Each Stay + Heal plan is uniquely designed from your discovery results, individual needs, and any contraindications, and every treatment is closely monitored and adjusted as you go.
Diagnostics & assessments
| Assessment | What it reveals |
|---|---|
| Full InBody + Longevity Assessment | Body composition, muscle mass, hydration, vitals, and strength — the baseline everything is built on. |
| PNO advanced metabolic testing | Breath-by-breath cellular energy analysis and a biological-age assessment. |
| Provoked mycotoxin testing | Identifies mold-related toxic burden — one of the most missed root causes in chronic illness. |
| Provoked heavy-metals testing | Accurately detects accumulated heavy metals that can disrupt many body systems. |
| Autonomic Response Testing (ART) | Measures nervous-system function — a deeper view into all body and organ systems. |
| Expert medical consults | The medical expertise to know what to do with the findings, in the right order. |
| Full medical monitoring | Close oversight for complex cases and sensitive patients throughout the intensive. |
| Medication + supplement assessment | A review of what you take — what to keep, stop, or add — often simplifying and saving money. |
Treatments & therapies
| Treatment | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Customized IV therapy | Targeted, medicinal-dose IVs prescribed for you that bypass the gut and get straight to work. |
| Hydrocolon therapy course | Gentle, deep internal cleansing that clears build-up and supports the gut — roughly 70% of the immune system. |
| UVB / Ozone therapy course | Oxygenates the blood, reduces pathogen load, and helps recalibrate the immune system. |
| Nebulization treatment course | Direct respiratory delivery of therapeutic compounds — daily, consistent, and targeted. |
| RejuvenACE Cellular Cleanse course | A total-body reset that floods the body with oxygen, drives lymphatic drainage, and helps release deep toxins. |
| Brain / central nervous system course | Addresses the neurological piece most programs miss — calming a system in overdrive. |
| Ionic Cleanse course | A gentle detox that continues for up to 48 hours while relaxing the body. |
| Energy resonance (Reiki, optional) | Energetic support that complements whole-person healing. |
| Dedicated care team | A full team coordinating and supporting you throughout the program. |
A closer look at key treatments
RejuvenACE Cellular Cleanse
Created by Dr. Bauerschmidt, the RejuvenACE Cellular Cleanse is a cornerstone of the program — a four-step protocol run as a guided daily circuit designed to flood the body with oxygen and activate its natural elimination pathways. Each session builds on the last, and the effect compounds:
- Altitude-contrast oxygen exercise (15 min). Guided one-on-one, you breathe through a personal oxygen mask while exercising with purposeful altitude contrast, driving oxygen deep into the tissues.
- NASA-inspired Juvent micro-impact platform (20 min). Precise, low-level mechanical stimulation activates lymphatic flow — the body’s primary waste-clearance network — and supports circulation.
- Private infrared sauna with salt + red light (30 min). A basswood infrared sauna with built-in Himalayan salt and full-spectrum red light supports elimination through the skin and cellular repair.
- Private shower. Pristine filtered water, on-site towel service, and unscented handmade goat soap complete the circuit so nothing is reabsorbed.
Autonomic Response Testing (ART)
ART is a non-invasive diagnostic method used to identify imbalances in the autonomic nervous system — the system that regulates the body’s automatic functions. Well suited to complex cases, it can uncover patterns standard testing often misses, even at a subclinical level, and confirm findings from other tests. In a one-hour session, a practitioner and trained assistant evaluate all major organ systems and how they interconnect, and assess potential solutions to guide your care plan. Many patients describe it as illuminating and reassuring — a sign that no stone is left unturned.
Calming the brain and central nervous system
Healing fully depends on the mind–body connection, and the brain treatments work best alongside the physical and cleansing therapies. The Brain / CNS course pairs two 30-minute, non-invasive technologies: Exomind, which uses Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to “wake” and heal the brain, and Brain Align, which uses microcurrent neurofeedback to calm the system and break the fight-or-flight cycle. Your practitioner determines the course, and you also have one-on-ones with our brain expert.
A safe haven for healing
The center feels warm and inviting, but every detail was engineered for the most sensitive of patients — whether you arrive in a wheelchair, carry numerous sensitivities, or simply come in anxious and exhausted:
- Vigilantly and verifiably mold-free, with VOC-eating paint and carefully selected building materials.
- Hard-wired with no WiFi, EMF-harmonized throughout, and double-grounded.
- All spaces, towels, and linens laundered in-house with non-toxic cleaners.
- Pristine, purified water for drinking and showers, plus organic coffee, tea, and snacks.
Because many patients are chemically sensitive or fragrance-reactive, we ask that all visitors arrive fragrance-free — wearing fragrance may require rescheduling. It protects everyone here.
Staying connected. Medical questions and requests go through your patient portal (top right of deeperhealing.com), which keeps communication HIPAA-compliant. Simple messages are answered electronically; complex requests such as chart reviews or new prescriptions may require a scheduled consultation.
A philosophy for living: coaching, EMF, and support
Resetting the body during your intensive matters — but nothing is more powerful than the changes you make at home, and we’re here for that too.
Expert lifestyle coaching. Our coaches work with you individually to cut through confusing messages and greenwashing and build easy, step-by-step changes across clean food, water and air; kitchen, shopping and cooking; mold and toxin education; switching personal-care products; avoidance strategies; and ongoing accountability.
Complimentary EMF home assessment. Electromagnetic fields affect health in more ways than most realize. We recommend a free home assessment with an EMF-certified specialist to harmonize your body and your home, car, and workplace; home visits are available remotely and in person. You do not need to wait to begin — the referred specialist can be reached at EMFSOL.COM (let them know Deeper Healing sent you).
Support people and community. Many patients bring a support person, who often chooses to do some testing and cleansing of their own — arrange this in advance with your care coordinator. You also receive access to our entire digital course library, including the Body Burden and Comprehensive Mold courses, which are often helpful for family members as well.
Getting here: Charleston & Daniel Island
Deeper Healing sits on Daniel Island, just outside historic Charleston, South Carolina — a calm, walkable place to begin a healing visit. For the in-person intensive, most patients fly into Charleston International Airport:
- Charleston International Airport (CHS) — about 20 minutes away; the airport most fly-in patients use.
- Downtown Charleston — about 15 minutes away.
- Isle of Palms & Sullivan’s Island beaches — about 10 minutes away.
- Folly Beach — roughly 45 minutes away.
- Myrtle Beach Airport (MYR) — a little over an hour’s drive south, an option for some travelers.
- Amtrak — the eastern-seaboard line reaches North Charleston, not far from the center.
Deeper Healing does not run its own shuttle, but you can pre-arrange a private car service for airport transfers and other trips — ask your care coordinator for the current recommendation. Please treat any third-party driver, hotel, or food option as your own arrangement; the clinic makes no assurances for third parties.
Where to stay during the intensive
Because Deeper Healing is an outpatient center, patients stay nearby and come in for daily treatment during the two-week intensive. We want your lodging to support healing too — look for mold-free, clean-air rooms without harsh chemical cleaners or synthetic fragrances. When booking, ask for the Deeper Healing rate, and your care coordinator will share a full lodging list — including private residences — tailored to your needs.
- Home2 Suites, Daniel Island — the walkable hotel closest to the center; all suites have a kitchen and sleeper sofa, with on-site laundry, a heated pool, grills, a fitness center, and daily breakfast. Pet friendly.
- Hampton Inn, Daniel Island — also close by, with laundry, a pool, grills, a fitness center, and daily breakfast.
- Cambria, Marriott Residence Inn, and Staybridge Suites (Mount Pleasant) — about 15–20 minutes away, several with kitchens and eco-conscious touches.
To search independently, try zip codes 29492, 29466, 29464, or Isle of Palms. Grocery options nearby include Publix on Daniel Island, plus Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods in Mount Pleasant. Deeper Healing makes no assurances and accepts no responsibility for third-party accommodations; please use due diligence, as terms can change.
Where patients travel from
Patients fly in for Stay + Heal from across the country and around the world — often after conventional and functional medicine have fallen short. They have traveled to Daniel Island from Australia, Britain, Greece, Mexico, Switzerland, and Namibia and South Africa, and from California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and more.
“I traveled to do their Stay & Heal and left feeling more like myself with renewed hope for healing and a plan specific for my needs.” — Taryn, Elyria, OH
“In 2 short weeks they become family… After 2+ years of hell I can FINALLY say I am so hopeful and cannot believe the difference I feel already.” — Nicole, NYC
Investment and financial options
Many patients arrive having spent enormous time and money — specialist visits, tests that went nowhere, treatments that never reached the root cause. Stay + Heal is designed to be the last stop on that journey: a one-time, comprehensive program investment that includes the medical consults, labs, coaching, monitoring, and all the medical treatments and support described above. Travel, food, and lodging are not included.
[PRICING — confirm before publishing: 12-week program $18,000; $2,000 deposit to begin; 2-week intensive included; travel/food/lodging not included]
Financing. The balance can be financed through Affirm, Klarna, and CareCredit, and we accept HSA/FSA accounts. Many patients qualify for 6-months-no-interest, and 12-, 24-, and 36-month options are available. See the financing page for details.
Insurance and privacy. We do not accept insurance of any kind — your records are never submitted to or reviewed by a third-party payer. For patients who wish to pursue reimbursement on their own, the American Medical Health Alliance (amhabilling.com) specializes in helping with holistic and integrative care claims.
Need-based assistance. The Deeper Healing Foundation, funded by supporters of the mission, offers need-based assistance so cost is less likely to stand between a patient and care.
Frequently asked questions
How long is the Stay + Heal program?
Stay + Heal is a 12-week program in three phases. Phase 1 is four weeks of remote preparation and labs, Phase 2 is a two-week in-person medical intensive in Charleston, and Phase 3 is six weeks of remote integration. For patients whose severity warrants it, the in-person intensive can be extended.
Is the whole 12 weeks spent in Charleston?
No. Only the two-week medical intensive (Phase 2) is in person on Daniel Island. Phases 1 and 3 — preparation, labs, coaching, and integration — are done remotely from your home, so you only need to travel and arrange lodging for the intensive itself.
What is included in the program?
The comprehensive program includes your medical consults, one of the deepest lab panels available, coaching, close monitoring, and a customized course of treatments — IV therapy, UVB/ozone, nebulization, hydrocolon therapy, the RejuvenACE Cellular Cleanse, ionic cleanse, and brain and nervous-system work. Travel, food, and lodging are not included.
What airport do I fly into?
Most patients use Charleston International Airport (CHS), about 20 minutes from our office on Daniel Island. Myrtle Beach Airport (MYR) is a little over an hour south, and an eastern-seaboard Amtrak line reaches North Charleston nearby, but CHS is closest and most convenient.
Does Deeper Healing provide airport transportation?
Deeper Healing does not run its own shuttle, but you can pre-arrange a private car service for airport transfers and other trips. Ask your care coordinator for the current recommendation. Any third-party driver is your own arrangement, and the clinic makes no assurances for third-party services.
Where do out-of-town patients stay?
Patients stay in nearby lodging and come in for daily treatment during the intensive. Home2 Suites on Daniel Island is the walkable hotel closest to the center, with the Hampton Inn also close by and several Mount Pleasant hotels about 15–20 minutes away. Ask for the Deeper Healing rate; your coordinator shares a full lodging list.
How much does Stay + Heal cost, and can I finance it?
Stay + Heal is a one-time, comprehensive program investment covering the consults, labs, coaching, monitoring, and all described treatments; travel, food, and lodging are separate. Financing is available through Affirm, Klarna, and CareCredit, with HSA/FSA accepted and interest-free and multi-month options. Need-based help is available through the Deeper Healing Foundation.
Do you accept insurance?
No. We do not accept insurance of any kind, which keeps your records private and out of the hands of third-party payers. Patients who wish to seek reimbursement on their own can work with the American Medical Health Alliance (amhabilling.com), which specializes in holistic and integrative care claims.
Can I bring a spouse or support person?
Yes. A support person is welcome, and many choose to add some testing or cleansing of their own — best arranged in advance with your care coordinator. Lodging can be selected by size and amenities to accommodate whoever travels with you, and you all receive access to our digital course library.
Do you treat children and teens, or only adults?
We treat patients of all ages — children, teens, and adults — and meet each person where they are. Whether Stay + Heal is the right fit for a given patient is determined during the remote consult that begins the program.
Your next step: find out what’s driving it
Many patients who travel to us are carrying a hidden “body burden” of environmental toxins at the root of their symptoms. Before you plan a trip, the most useful first step is understanding your own exposure — our free two-minute assessment helps you gauge whether accumulated toxins could be fueling how you feel, and what to do next.
Take the Toxin Quiz
Two minutes, free, and completely confidential — see whether your body burden of toxins could be driving your symptoms before you plan your visit.
When you’re ready to talk it through, reach our Stay + Heal patient care coordinator to book your remote consult. [VERIFY: correct public Stay+Heal contact number — PDF cover shows 843-388-5995; the Stay+Heal Program page shows 843-994-9800; main line is 843-253-7302]
Sources
- Deeper Healing Medical Wellness Center — Stay + Heal Program
- Deeper Healing Medical Wellness Center — Patient Testimonials
Medically reviewed by Michael Bauerschmidt, MD — Founder and Medical Director, Deeper Healing Medical Wellness Center. Board-certified physician specializing in functional and environmental medicine.
Last reviewed: August 2026.
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