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Choose Your Assessment
Start with the area you’d like to explore: Personal Wellness — for your own whole-person wellness and energetic patterns. Pet Wellness — for the animal you love. Home & Environmental Wellness — for the spaces where you live or work.
If you’re unsure where to begin, you’re always welcome to schedule a free 15-minute conversation first.
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Complete Your Intake
Before I run your assessment, I want to understand you, not just the scan. Your intake gives you space to tell me about what you’ve been experiencing, what you’re curious about, your current lifestyle, stressors, rhythms, and what you hope to better understand.
The assessment is only one piece of the picture. Your lived experience matters too. Your forms will be available securely through your client portal and can be completed at your own pace before your assessment begins.
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Follow the Instructions for Your Assessment
For an in-person Personal Wellness assessment, you’ll hold the QEST4 hand electrodes during your appointment—no hair or nail sample is needed.
For a remote Personal Wellness assessment, you’ll provide a small hair sample or clean, unpainted nail clipping. Remote Pet Wellness uses a small fur or hair sample, nail clipping, or feather. Home & Environmental Wellness uses information about the property and does not require a physical sample.
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Your Assessment Details Are Ready
For remote Personal and Pet Wellness, your sample is logged when it arrives and you’ll receive confirmation. For an in-person Personal Wellness assessment, this step is your scheduled appointment. For Home & Environmental Wellness, it begins once the required property information is received.
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Your Assessment Is Completed
During an in-person Personal Wellness assessment, you hold the QEST4 hand electrodes while the assessment is completed. Remote Personal, Pet, and Home & Environmental assessments are completed without you needing to be online or available. I’ll review the patterns highlighted through the assessment alongside the information you shared.
The goal is not to pull out every possible finding. Instead, I’m looking for the bigger picture: What appears most relevant right now? What patterns seem worth paying attention to? Where might it make sense to begin? And what can we leave alone for now?
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We Review the Bigger Picture Together
Once your assessment is complete, you’ll receive your written findings and we’ll meet to walk through them together. Personal Wellness: 60-minute consultation. Pet Wellness: 30-minute consultation. Home & Environmental Wellness: 60-minute consultation.
During that conversation, we’ll look at the assessment alongside your real-life experience and identify a few thoughtful next steps. Depending on what appears relevant, that might include personalized energetic balancing information, nervous-system support, daily rhythm or lifestyle considerations, nourishment or product considerations, emotional awareness, environmental changes—or sometimes simply doing less.
You do not leave with a giant list of everything that needs to be fixed. You leave knowing where to begin.
The technology
The QEST4 Is a Tool for Listening.
Next Step Wellness uses the QEST4 bioenergetic assessment system as one source of information within the larger wellness process.
The QEST4 explores patterns of energetic resonance by comparing responses with a large library of informational signatures associated with areas such as body systems, foods, nutrients, environmental factors, emotions, and other wellness patterns.
That information gives us an energetic snapshot to consider alongside your intake, your lived experience, and what you're noticing in everyday life.
I don't use the QEST4 as the final authority on your body. I use it as another way to ask better questions.
What are we noticing? What seems most relevant? And what might be a gentle place to begin?
Bioenergetic assessment is an informational wellness approach and is not medical or laboratory diagnostic testing.
Remote Personal Assessment
A Small Sample Is All You Need for a Remote Assessment.
For a remote Personal Wellness assessment, you can provide either a small hair sample or a clean, unpainted nail clipping. In-person Personal Wellness assessments use the QEST4 hand electrodes instead and do not require a sample.
Option 1: Hair Sample
Start with clean, dry hair that is reasonably free of styling products.
Snip a small amount. A few strands are typically sufficient, and the root does not need to be attached.
If your hair is very short, simply send a few small pieces.
Option 2: Nail Clipping
You may instead send a clean, unpainted fingernail or toenail clipping.
Please make sure the clipping is free of nail polish, gel, acrylic, or other nail products before collecting your sample.
Package Your Sample
Place your hair or nail sample in a small, clean plastic bag and seal it.
Label the bag with your:
- Full Name
- Date of Birth
Then place the sealed sample bag inside a small mailing envelope.
If you’re mailing your sample, you’ll receive the mailing address after booking.
Local clients may also drop their sample off.
Let Me Know It’s on the Way
If your client portal includes sample tracking, simply mark your sample as mailed.
Otherwise, send a quick message letting me know it’s on the way.
Wait for Confirmation
Once your sample arrives, I’ll confirm that it has been received.
Then your assessment process can begin.
Pet Samples
Sending a Sample for Your Pet
Pet Wellness Assessments can typically use a small sample of:
- Fur or hair
- Nail clipping
- Feather
You’ll receive simple collection instructions after booking.
Your pet’s sample can be mailed or dropped off locally just like a Personal Wellness sample.
Home & Environmental Assessments
No Physical Sample Is Needed.
Home & Environmental Assessments work a little differently.
After booking, you’ll provide the address of the property you’d like to explore along with any relevant information about the space.
I’ll complete the assessment using the property information and then meet with you for a 60-minute consultation to review the findings and discuss any practical areas that may be worth paying closer attention to.
This assessment is informational and exploratory. It does not replace professional mold, building, electrical, air-quality, or other environmental inspection.
Remote sample questions
Common questions about remote samples
Wellness Disclaimer: Bioenergetic testing is provided for informational, educational, and wellness purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or medical condition and is not a substitute for care from a licensed healthcare professional. Any product considerations are provided for educational purposes only and are not medical, nutritional, pharmaceutical, or prescribing advice. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding medical concerns, symptoms, or treatment decisions. SETUP REQUIRED: Replace this sentence with wording reviewed for Justine Hayes's credentials, location, licensing status, and scope of practice.