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Valencie Exceus, AP, Acupuncture Physician

Highpoint Healing and Wellness  ·  Valencie Exceus, AP, Acupuncture Physician

You have devoted yourself to caring for others. Now let’s make sure that includes you.

A 12-week clinical and somatic recovery program designed specifically for healthcare providers living inside burnout.

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This program is for you

You know the clinical signs.
You just never thought they would apply to you.

You entered this work because healing matters to you. Somewhere along the way, the system asked you to give more than you could sustain. This is not a failure of character. This is what burnout does and it requires real, structured recovery.

“I am exhausted in a way that sleep does not fix.”
“I feel nothing when I should feel something and everything when I should feel nothing.”
“I became a healer because I wanted to help. Now I am not sure I can help anyone, including myself.”
“My body is sending me signals I keep overriding.”
“I carry my patients home with me. I do not know how to put them down.”
“I have lost the thread back to why I started.”

Your guide

A practitioner who has lived on both sides of this.

Valencie Exceus is an Acupuncture Physician with over twenty years of clinical experience in Chinese medicine, nervous system regulation, and root-cause healing. She is a speaker, facilitator, and healing educator whose work lives at the intersection of ancestral medicine, somatic practice, and TCM.

Valencie Exceus, AP, Acupuncture Physician  ·  NCCAOM Board Certified
Valencie Exceus, AP in session

In session · Highpoint Healing and Wellness · Fort Lauderdale, FL

Why this program exists

Of all the programs I have developed, this one lives closest to me.

Valencie Exceus, AP, Acupuncture Physician

Valencie Exceus, AP — in session at Highpoint Healing and Wellness, Fort Lauderdale, FL

I have been both clinician and patient. I have experienced burnout not as a concept I studied but as something I lived inside, the kind that is difficult to explain when you appear capable, when you are still showing up, when everyone around you assumes that competence means you are fine.

I remember telling my own physician I was struggling. His advice was to keep pushing. To immerse myself more. Not to retreat when retreating was exactly what my body was asking for.

Then I saw his post online. #selfcare #healingjourney

I was genuinely glad he had arrived there. And I told him directly, when I was the one struggling, you dismissed me. We have to be willing to say that to each other. Because what we will not name, we will keep repeating.

We cannot keep preaching self care while gaslighting the colleagues who come to us for it. We cannot normalize healing in our patients while dismissing it in ourselves. Burnout is not weakness. It is not a stress management problem. It is what happens when a person who genuinely cares is placed inside a system that does not.

I built this program because I needed it and it did not exist. I build every space I create so that competent professionals who are struggling have somewhere safe to land, somewhere they will not be told to keep pushing, somewhere they will not have to perform capability while falling apart inside, somewhere they can know, without question, that recovery is not only possible. It is the work.

— Valencie Exceus, AP, Acupuncture Physician

How this program works

One curriculum.
Three timelines. A lifetime tool.

12
Weeks
The accelerated container. Three months to move out of survival mode and back into a life where caring for your patients begins with caring for yourself.
12
Months
The committed practice. The same framework, worked slowly across a full year so that nervous system regulation is not a program you completed but a way of living you have built.
12
Days
The reset. Once you know this material the way your body knows it, you can return to the full framework in twelve days, a renewal, a recalibration, a homecoming whenever you need one.

Twelve weeks. Twelve months. Twelve days. The same map. A different you each time you return to it.

What is included

A complete clinical and healing container.

Private Clinical Intake
A thorough one-on-one intake with Valencie to assess your constitution, stress patterns, and nervous system state, the foundation of your personalized plan.
Personalized Treatment Plan
A clinical roadmap developed specifically for you, integrating acupuncture, TCM principles, and individualized recommendations for herbs and supplements when appropriate.
12-Week Online Portal
A private, self-directed transformational workshop portal organized by weekly themes, yours to move through at your own pace and return to across twelve months of ongoing integration.
Guided Meditations
Original somatic and contemplative meditations recorded by Valencie, designed to meet the specific emotional landscape of healthcare provider burnout.
Nervous System Practices
Weekly embodied practices, breathwork, vagal toning, somatic regulation, drawn from TCM, Ayurveda, and evidence-based nervous system science.
Reflective Workbooks and PDFs
Downloadable workbooks and guides for each week, designed for deep reflection, clinical insight, and integration between sessions.

The workshop

Twelve weeks.
One complete arc of transformation.

This container was built for you. Everything inside it was designed with your healing in mind. All we ask is that you show up for yourself. Consistently. Honestly. Over and over until it becomes second nature.

Wk 1
Naming What Is Happening
You cannot heal what you refuse to see. This week we begin with radical honesty. We define burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and nervous system exhaustion as distinct experiences with distinct signatures in the body and the mind. You will learn to identify where you are on the spectrum, understand the biological and energetic mechanisms behind your depletion, and build the clinical self-awareness that makes everything else in this program possible. This week you stop overriding your own signals and start listening to them.
Wk 2
What Your Body Has Been Trying to Tell You
Your body has been communicating long before you were ready to listen. This week we go into the physiology of burnout. We look at cortisol dysregulation, adrenal depletion, qi exhaustion, organ system stress through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and why your sleep stopped being restorative. You will learn to read your body's signals with the same clinical precision you bring to your patients. This week the body stops being something you push through and becomes something you learn from.
Wk 3
The Cost of Carrying Too Much
Helping professions carry a hidden weight that rarely gets named. This week we name it. We examine caregiver burden, chronic over-responsibility, and the physiological and energetic cost of giving from an empty vessel. You will learn where your boundaries have eroded, why they eroded, and how to begin restoring them without guilt. Some of what lives in your body was never yours to carry. This week you begin putting it down.
Wk 4
Regulation Before Resilience
You have been told to be resilient. No one told you that resilience is impossible inside a dysregulated nervous system. This week we slow down and go deep into the science and practice of nervous system regulation. Breathwork, vagal toning, somatic grounding, and embodiment practices become your daily tools. You will learn why regulation is not relaxation and why it is the single most important foundation for everything that follows in your recovery.
Wk 5
The Wound That Brought You Here
Every healer carries a wound. Most have never examined it. This week we do. We explore the relationship between your personal history, your professional identity, and your calling to serve. We look at what happens when the wound goes untended and how tending to it transforms not just your healing but the quality of your presence with every patient you will ever see. This is one of the most profound weeks in the program. Come ready to go deep.
Wk 6
What We Never Got to Mourn
Healthcare providers grieve constantly. Patients. Outcomes. Ideals. Earlier versions of themselves. And they do it almost entirely alone and without permission. This week we change that. Using the Feel-Witness-Digest-Integrate-Liberate framework, you will learn to move grief through the body rather than storing it in the tissues. You will finally give yourself permission to mourn what this work has cost you. That permission is part of the medicine.
Wk 7
Reclaiming the Body
Your body is not a vehicle for your productivity. It is not something to manage or push through. It is the first patient in your care and it has been waiting for you to return to it. This week we use acupuncture principles, nutrition, movement, rest, and pleasure as clinical interventions. You will learn what TCM says about nourishing the shen, restoring jing, and rebuilding the physical foundation that sustainable healing requires. This week you come home to your body.
Wk 8
The Meaning That Belongs to You
Burnout strips away a great deal. But it also strips away what was never truly yours to begin with. Underneath the exhaustion, underneath the performance, underneath everything the institution trained you to be, there is a deeper why. This week we find it. Through values clarification, reflective practice, and somatic inquiry you will reconnect with the purpose that belongs to you and only you. This is the week everything begins to shift.
Wk 9
Releasing the Inner Critic
The perfectionism you carry was not born in you. It was built by a system that needed you compliant, high-performing, and silent about your own suffering. This week we examine perfectionism, guilt, and chronic self-criticism as learned survival strategies. You will develop somatic and reflective practices to loosen their grip and begin building a relationship with yourself that is as compassionate and rigorous as the care you give everyone else.
Wk 10
We Were Never Meant to Do This Alone
Burnout isolates. It tells you that needing support is weakness and that asking for help is a burden. This week we dismantle that story completely. We look at connection, reciprocity, and healthy interdependence as clinical necessities. You will explore how to rebuild trust in relationships, how to receive care without guilt, and why community is not a luxury. It is ancestral medicine. It is what your nervous system was designed for.
Wk 11
To Living Fully
Survival mode kept you functional. This week we ask a bigger question. What does it mean to actually live? To inhabit your life, your practice, and your body with genuine presence and intention. This week is about Reindigenation, returning to yourself as the original home. We explore what becomes possible when you are no longer operating from depletion and what it looks like to build a life that you do not need to recover from.
Wk 12
The Practice That Continues
This is not the end. This is where the real practice begins. This week you build your personalized plan for the twelve months ahead. Your nervous system care. Your healing practices. Your professional sustainability. You now have a complete framework and you know how to work it across twelve weeks, apply it across twelve months, and return to it in twelve days whenever you need to come back to yourself. You came into this program as someone who needed to be held. You leave as someone who knows how to hold yourself.

Your path into the program

Three ways to enter.
One commitment to your recovery.

Choose the container that meets you where you are. Enroll directly below. Apple Pay, Google Pay, and all major cards accepted.

Acupuncture treatment

Tier One

Acupuncture Immersion

In-Person · Fort Lauderdale, FL

$1,490

or 3 payments of $500

  • Private clinical intake session
  • Personalized acupuncture treatment plan
  • 13 acupuncture sessions (initial + 12 follow-ups)
  • Herbs and supplements when clinically indicated
  • Ongoing treatment adjustments across 12 weeks
  • Bonus: One complimentary recorded online session
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Most Accessible

Tier Two

Online Recovery Program

Available Worldwide · Telehealth

$1,300

or 4 payments of $325

  • Private telehealth intake with Valencie
  • Personalized clinical recommendations
  • Self-paced 12-week transformational workshop portal
  • Recorded teachings, guided meditations and nervous system practices
  • Journal prompts and downloadable workbooks
  • Ebook: Recovering from Compassion Fatigue
  • Private link to book 3 live 1:1 sessions with Valencie
  • Portal access for 12 months of ongoing use
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Tier Three

Full Immersion

In-Person + Online · Fort Lauderdale, FL

$2,690

or 4 payments of $673

  • Everything in Acupuncture Immersion
  • Everything in the Online Recovery Program
  • 4 live 1:1 sessions with Valencie at your convenience
  • Bonus: Recovering from Compassion Fatigue ebook
  • Bonus: Transmuting Anger ebook
  • Bonus: Exclusive guided meditations recorded by Valencie
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Payment plans available on all tiers. Have questions first? Book a discovery call.

What becomes possible

Twelve weeks to learn it. Twelve months to live it. A lifetime to return to yourself.

The material in this program is designed to be worked through once and returned to again and again. The portal is yours to keep as your healing continues to deepen.

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