FND Recovery Starts Here — With the Method That’s Helped 100+ Families Get Their Lives Back
I’m glad you’re here. This short video shows why families feel stuck, how recovery is possible, and how I help families get their lives back inside my program at Teen FND Academy.
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About Dr. Lee
I’m the founder of Teen FND Academy™ — a structured, step-by-step recovery program that helps teens and their parents resolve Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), including Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES/NES), when traditional approaches fall short.
Growing up as a competitive dancer, I dealt with chronic pain and medical issues for years. I know what it’s like to feel stuck in a body that won’t cooperate — to try everything, only to be told it’s “just stress.” I almost gave up. But I also discovered the tools and strategies that helped me recover — and I’ve spent my career refining how to teach those tools to families facing FND.
With degrees from UCLA and Pepperdine University, and over 10 years working in some of the nation’s top children’s hospitals, I’ve helped hundreds of teens and their families overcome serious neurological and functional symptoms. After my own recovery journey and what I saw repeatedly in the system, I made it my mission to help teens with FND fully recover — not just cope.
Every teen I’ve worked with who put in the effort has gotten better — many have completely resolved their symptoms and reclaimed their life. Parents often tell me they have their child back — smiling, stable, and free to be a teen again.
Through Teen FND Academy™, families who thought they were out of options have found real progress, lasting change, and a future beyond diagnosis. These teens are living strong, healthy lives — and you can too.
My goal is to share everything I’ve learned so your family has a real plan — and the coaching to follow through. Because you and your teen deserve more than symptom management. You deserve recovery.
To Your Success,
Dr. Lee
Pediatric Health Psychologist
Founder, Teen FND Academy™
Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Colorado (CO4500)
By the time most families reach an FND diagnosis, they’ve already been through months — sometimes years — of uncertainty. Symptoms appeared suddenly or escalated quickly. Life shifted overnight. And once the diagnosis finally came, it often didn’t come with the clarity families expected.
Instead of a clear recovery plan, families are typically handed a list of referrals. Physical therapy. Psychological support. Occupational therapy. Neurology follow-ups. Each provider addresses one piece of the picture — but no one is responsible for guiding the whole process forward.
Progress may happen briefly. A symptom improves. A flare settles. Hope returns.
Then something shifts — and everything unravels again.
Parents begin doing what the system quietly requires of them: coordinating care, tracking symptoms, researching late into the night, and trying to make sense of conflicting advice. Over time, many families realize they are doing more work than the professionals — yet still don’t feel any closer to real recovery.
The problem isn’t effort.
And it isn’t that families are “doing it wrong.”
The problem is that most approaches to FND focus on management, not resolution.
Insurance-based models are not designed for the level of guidance, consistency, and time it takes to help a teen fully retrain the brain–body connection. Sessions are spaced weeks apart. Care is fragmented across providers. And responsibility for integration falls back onto the family — whether they’re prepared for that role or not.
As the months pass, the cost isn’t just financial.
It’s emotional. Social. Developmental.
Teens miss school, milestones, and independence. Parents carry the weight quietly, often feeling isolated and unsure who truly understands what their family is navigating. Friends and schools may mean well — but they don’t see the full picture. Even other parents often don’t get it.
At some point, many families reach the same realization:
They’re not looking for another referral.
They’re not looking for more coping strategies.
They’re looking for a path forward.
A process.
A plan.
Something that actually addresses the full pattern — not just individual symptoms.
After years of working with teens in hospitals, clinics, and schools, this same pattern became impossible to ignore. Families were committed. Teens were capable. Providers were well-intentioned. Yet without a structured, centralized recovery process, progress rarely holds.
FND doesn’t live in just one domain — biological, psychological, or social. It shows up across all three. And recovery only becomes sustainable when those pieces are addressed together, within a clear framework that guides families step by step.
That gap — the absence of structure, continuity, and oversight — is where most families get stuck. And it’s exactly the gap this program was built to address.
Immediate Past President - Colorado Psychological Association
Board Certified Biofeedback Provider
Advanced Training in Pediatric Hypnosis
National Speaker, Trainer, and Advocate for FND Recovery in Youth