Intro
Recommendations
Bill Manahan, MD
Past President, American Holistic Medical Association Professor Emeritus Department of Family Medicine University of Minnesota Medical School Minneapolis, Minnesota

I am thrilled that Dr. Dean Nelson is beginning a Life Coaching and Life Doctoring practice. About 70% of people's health problems are chronic and complex. Our present medical system is not well equipped to handle these types of problems. In my op....

Anne Marie MacPherson
Counselor and Actress

Coaching sessions with Dr. Dean serve as a metronome in the chaotic pace of people’s lives. Health is the culmination of mind, body, and spiritual fitness and as we say in the theatre, Dr. Dean is a triple threat. What emerge are formidable ....

Joseph J. Sweere, DC, DABCO, DACBOH, FICC
Professor, Northwestern Health Sciences University Bloomington, MN 55431

It has been a significant privilege to enjoy Dr. Dean Nelson's presence in my life. Through observing the path that his life journey has led him on, it is clear to me that this advanced soul embodies the quintessential elements of all those charac....

Grace Sears
Spiritual Teacher

I have had the joy of knowing conscious beings in many countries of the world- healers, teachers, and spiritually awake humans. For me, Dr. Dean is at the top of the heap; his immense love, compassion, commitment, integrity and his deep level of s....

Andy Pieren, DC, DACBOH
Basel, Switzerland

I have known Dr. Dean for over 20 years. He has consistently shown to be a true ambassador for a passionate and enriched life. His unique combination of mindfulness and playfulness allows him to interact with people in a very loving and caring way....

Gregory Rabold, M.D.,
Co-Author of Staying Healthy Without Medicine and Founder and Medical Director of the Himalayan Medical Foundation.

Dr. Dean Nelson has been a close personal friend of mine for close to 30 years and during that time I have seen him receive, absorb and assimilate a treasure chest of wisdom, insight, and skillful means from a wide variety of healing and spiritual....

Brenda Barr, L.P.


My relationship with Dean has profoundly changed my life. Originally, I went to Dean to help me reduce my chronic headache pain. I even traveled from MN to Hawaii for treatment when my pain was unbearable. However, what I gained during my times wi....

Ricard Darlow
Executive

I’ve had the privilege of knowing Dr. Dean as a friend for over 30 years. Throughout that time I have appreciated his healing presence emotionally, spiritually and physically.

Serving as a Silicon Valley executive for more the....

Donna Taylor, RN
Hospice Nurse, Minister and Energy Healer

I have known Dr Dean Nelson for several years; in that time he has been a personal healer, mentor and dear friend. Very few beings in my life have given me as much caring and support. His knowledge of healing is not the just the physical body but ....

Collin Barr
National Construction Company Executive

Dean Nelson is a very wise health care professional and coach. He has served my wife and I as a key resource in this capacity for over 15 years. I have recommended Dean to many of my friends. His insights into the core issues a person needs to ove....

Paula Bass, PHD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

I have known Dr. Dean Nelson for the past three decades, and he has been and continues to be one of my favorite people to talk to about all aspects of life. He is a man of profound depth and intelligence who thrives on challenging people to stretc....

Maria Patton, DO (Doctor of Osteopathy)
in the Neurosciences Department at Kaiser Permanente as a staff physician, double board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine.

I have known Dr, Dean for several years in different capacities, including as his patient. He has an amazing ability to meet me at whatever difficult or dark place I seem to be dealing with in the moment, and from there reflect to me what it is I ....

Roger Guest, M.Ed.
author of The Tender Heart of Sadness: 28 Aspects of Warriorship

When I approached Dean Nelson for assistance in getting over some perplexing hurdles, it was my second time seeking professional coaching as an adult. My first coach was helpful and much appreciated but Dean helped me take things to a new level. W....

Shelley Smith Pierce
Development Director, Multifaith Works, Seattle and Senior Director, Shambhala Training

Dr. Dean combines deep intuition together with years of medical knowledge. Dr. Dean is unusually sensitive and compassionate, and has personally uplifted my life's path with wisdom and advocacy, with a genuineness and insightful humor. I highly re....

Herbert Elsky
Sculptor, Sound Installations, Contemplative Arts Teacher Limoges, France

Dr Dean Nelson is one of those rare individuals who listens, not only to the words but also behind the words to hear the true intention of one’s heart. Our conversations were warm and personal as he guided me to a deeper and more penetrating....

Sally Klemm
Advanced Rolfing® Practitioner Faculty Member, Rolf® Institute of Structural Integration Milne Institute Teacher of Visionary Craniosacral Work™

Transformational is the single word that most aptly describes Dr. Dean Nelson's Life Coaching.

If you are in the process of redefining and/or transforming your life and want to work with someone who has been there and done it, Dean....

Bob Pasternak
Counselor and Spiritual teacher

I can think of no one who is more heartfelt and present in his desire and his activity to help others. As a Life Coach, Dean provides a compassionate mentoring style with clear headed and open hearted support. I am happy to recommend him to anyone....