NTS Leadership Team

Timothy Hodges, LMT, JSCCI, CACI
Executive Director
Tim Hodges is a manual therapist with a 30 year career specializing in the manual therapy technique Counterstrain. He has operated a private practice since 2003 called Counterstrain Portland. He founded the Counterstrain Academy, co-founded 3D Counterstrain, created the Counterstrain Brand and web presence and launched the Counterstrain Convention. He currently teaches 10 of the 15 Counterstrain continuing education courses and has created 8 mastery level training curriculums focused on the indirect manual therapeutic approach called FCS.

In 2021 while treating a young boy with cerebral palsy he observed a strong relationship between a central inflamatory state of the CNS and the peripheral manifestation of spasticity. Treating only through the CNS he was able to markedly reduce the peripheral spasticity that was present throughout the right side of the boys body. From that point forward Tim worked to establish a sytematic process necessary to reproduce this therapeutic effect by developing diagnostics and treatment protocols that could be applied to everyone.

By 2022 his exploration into the CNS had yielded the humble beginnings of the LSP in a format that could be taught to the internal staff of Counterstrain Portalnd. By early 2023 the diagnostics and treatments had advanced to the point of requiring a small group of dedicated practitioners that would help vet the developing protocol and so the SRT (Special Response Team) was formed. The SRT helped tremendously by participating in the first, large scale pilot study that ran from 2023 to 2024 and the subsequent pilots run in 2025 and 2026. 

Tim formed NTS (Neuro-Therapeutic Solutions) in 2024 to facilitate the teaching and propagation of the LSP. The need for an effective and accessible hands on treatment for the alleviation of the syptoms of psychological injury is so large that he felt compelled to figure out the best way to address this part of the human brain and deliver a viable solution to the community of manual therapists as soon as it was ready. It took nearly 6 years to arrive at the final version of the LSP Phase I and development is continuing on phase II and III of the LSP which will debut in 2027 and 2028. 

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Advisory Board

Tony Robbins
Business Strategy
Tony Robbins is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, and the nation’s leading life and business strategist, with nearly five decades spent coaching individuals and organizations toward peak performance. He is the author of multiple #1 bestsellers, including Money: Master the Game, Unshakeable, and Life Force, and has worked directly with heads of state, elite athletes, and business leaders around the world. As chairman of a holding company comprising more than 120 privately held businesses, he brings a rare combination of psychological insight and real-world operating experience to any organization he advises.

Robbins’ philanthropic footprint is substantial: through his partnership with Feeding America, he has helped deliver tens of billions of meals to people in need, and through the Tony Robbins Foundation he has funded thousands of grants to health and human services organizations, brought curriculum into more than 1,700 correctional facilities, and supported clean water access for hundreds of thousands of people daily in India. His long-standing focus on the intersection of physiology, psychology, and human performance makes him a natural strategic voice for an organization working at the intersection of the nervous system and trauma recovery.

As a member of the Neuro-Therapeutic Solutions Advisory Board, Robbins lends his experience in communication, business strategy, and large-scale mission-driven growth to help guide NTS as it scales its research and training in trauma-focused manual therapy.

Tom Penn
Business and Legal Advisor
Tom Penn is a veteran sports and business executive currently serving as CEO of Major League Soccer club San Diego FC, where he has led the launch and strategic direction of the league’s newest expansion team. Over more than two decades in professional sports, Tom has built a career implementing a unique combination of business strategy, organizational leadership, and community development. He co-founded Los Angeles FC in 2014 and served as its President and co-owner before stepping down in 2020. Previously he held senior front-office roles with the Portland Trail Blazers and Memphis Grizzlies. He holds a J.D. from the University of Illinois and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Notre Dame, and has also worked as an NBA analyst for ESPN and TNT.

Alongside San Diego FC, Tom co-founded Right to Dream San Diego, a residential soccer academy and educational institution built around youth development, and has been a steady advocate for community-first organizational strategy — building pathways for local talent and integrating civic engagement into business operations wherever he leads.

As a member of the Neuro-Therapeutic Solutions Advisory Board, Penn brings his business, legal, and organizational strategy expertise to help NTS navigate its growth as a research and training organization, applying the same discipline he’s used to build professional sports franchises to advancing trauma-focused therapeutic care. 

 

Medical Board

Mathew Van Auken, MD, MPH
Medical Director
My work as a triple board-certified integrative physician sits at the intersection of neuropsychology and physical health. I utilize a broad toolkit, and I care for people with highly complex and nuanced health needs. The great majority of my patients experience a dire scarcity in essential, accessible, and applicable emotional health resources.

So when Tim first approached me in 2023 to discuss what were the humble beginnings of the LSP, he had my interest right away. It was an easy call to join the Medical Advisory team.

The LSP has developed so much since then, and I can confidently say that it is a clinical tool with strikingly few peers in its present healing power and its future potential. Anyone with any background in manual medicine would be doing a profound service to their clients by adding the LSP to their arsenal.

Chris Greene, AMFT
Mental Health Advisor

Chris Green MA, Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (#R8998), serves on the Board of Advisors for Neuro-Therapeutic Solutions, where he advises on clinical, mental health as it relates to the LSP (Limbi System Protocol). His perspective integrates professional training in psychology with extensive lived experience in military service, law enforcement, combat sports, cumulative occupational stress, and traumatic brain injuries.

Chris began his career in the United States Marine Corps, serving as a Military Police Sergeant, K9 handler, and combat veteran of the Iraq War. He later spent more than 12 years as a Deputy Sheriff, working in patrol, training, field training, and K9 operations. He also founded Invictus Defense Academy, where he trained individuals in self-defense, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, boxing, and other combative disciplines.

Over the course of these high-impact professions and athletic pursuits, Chris sustained multiple traumatic brain injuries that affected his memory, mood, cognition, and overall functioning. His work with Neuro-Therapeutic Solutions and the Limbic System Protocol has been immensely beneficial to his recovery and has given him a personal appreciation for the potential relationship between physical dysfunction, nervous system regulation, and psychological well-being.

Chris holds a master’s degree in psychology with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Psychology degree focused on mental performance optimization. As an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, his clinical interests include trauma, men’s mental health, veterans, first responders, couples, resilience, and the psychological effects of high-stress occupations. Chris is the owner of Warrior Monk Mental Performance and Counseling in Beaverton, Oregon, where he works with first responders, couples, and performance coaching clients. 

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Veteran Liaison TBI Specialist
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Research and Development Team

Timothy Hodges, LMT
Director of Research and Development
Tim Hodges is a manual therapist with a 30 year career specializing in the manual therapy technique Counterstrain. He has operated a private practice since 2003 called Counterstrain Portland. He founded the Counterstrain Academy, co-founded 3D Counterstrain, created the Counterstrain Brand and web presence and launched the Counterstrain Convention. He currently teaches 10 of the 15 Counterstrain continuing education courses and has created 8 mastery level training curriculums focused on the indirect manual therapeutic approach called FCS.

In 2021 while treating a young boy with cerebral palsy he observed a strong relationship between a central inflamatory state of the CNS and the peripheral manifestation of spasticity. Treating only through the CNS he was able to markedly reduce the peripheral spasticity that was present throughout the right side of the boys body. From that point forward Tim worked to establish a sytematic process necessary to reproduce this therapeutic effect by developing diagnostics and treatment protocols that could be applied to everyone.

By 2022 his exploration into the CNS had yielded the humble beginnings of the LSP in a format that could be taught to the internal staff of Counterstrain Portalnd. By early 2023 the diagnostics and treatments had advanced to the point of requiring a small group of dedicated practitioners that would help vet the developing protocol and so the SRT (Special Response Team) was formed. The SRT helped tremendously by participating in the first, large scale pilot study that ran from 2023 to 2024 and the subsequent pilots run in 2025 and 2026. 

Tim formed NTS (Neuro-Therapeutic Solutions) in 2024 to facilitate the teaching and propagation of the LSP. The need for an effective and accessible hands on treatment for the alleviation of the syptoms of psychological injury is so large that he felt compelled to figure out the best way to address this part of the human brain and deliver a viable solution to the community of manual therapists as soon as it was ready. It took nearly 6 years to arrive at the final version of the LSP Phase I and development is continuing on phase II and III of the LSP which will debut in 2027 and 2028. 

John Zdor, PT, DPT, OCS
Research Team Lead
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Loretta Bliss, LMT, CSC I
Research Team Member
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Law Enforcement Board

Karlyn Degman, WCSO (retired)
Law Enforcement Liaison
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Chris Schroder, WCSO Deputy
Law Enforcement Recruitment

I Wanted to beome a Police Officer since I was in high school and was granted the opportunity to persue that goal in 2008. Since completing my primary training at the police academy, I have worked as a Deputy Sheriff for the last 18 years with the Washington County Sheriffs Office in Hillsboro OR. 

 
I spent my first three years working as a Jail Deputy and the last 15 years as a Patrol Deputy.  As with all Law Enforcement professionals I have been subjected to numerous critical incidents, long shift work, missed family events and holidays away from my friends and family. To say the least, the profession can take a toll on your mental and physical health and overall sense of wellbeing.
 
In 2025 and 2026 I was able to directly participate in the Limbic System Protocol during two of the official pilot studies run by Neuro Therapeutic Solutions. The benefits I recieved from the LSP treatment were nothing short of amazing. I am extremely passionate about First Responders having the ability to heal from the wounds the career brings.  Both times I was blessed with participating in the LSP pilot studies, the result was a complete reset for my mind and body. 
 
Following the first pilot study experience in April of 2025 I was offered a position on the advisory board for the ongoing support and recruitment of Law Enforcement personnel for future Pilot efforts conducted by Neuro Therapeutic Solutions. 

Military Advisory Board

Wendall Pelham
Veteran Liason, Gold Star Advisor

Mr. Pelham comes from a proud and enduring military tradition and has dedicated his life to service through both professional leadership and volunteer efforts. He recently concluded five years as a civilian advisor to the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, where he focused on strengthening support for the families of the fallen, their survivors and our Republics Veterans. He now serves as a Civilian Advisor on the Secretary of War Gold Star Family Council. He has recently joined the efforts of Neuro-Therapeutic Solutions and serves as an advisor for the ongoing development of the LSP for military veterans with combat related PTSD.

He and his wife, Dawn, have shared 45 years of marriage and are blessed with six children and nine grandchildren.

In February 2014, Mr. Pelham’s son, Specialist John Alexander Pelham, gave his life in service to our nation while deployed with the 3rd Special Forces Group in Afghanistan. Since that time, Mr. Pelham has honored his son’s legacy with unwavering faith, dignity, and a steadfast commitment to remembering those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.

A proud Gold Star Father, he stands as a testament to resilience, devotion, and love of country.

Allied Health Supporters

Danny Brom, PhD
Director Metiv PTSD Treatment Center

Letter of Support

“Limbic System Protocol”

Jerusalem, 28/3/2024

 

To: whom it may concern

 

My name is Danny Brom, Ph.D. and I am the founding director of Metiv, the Israel Psychotrauma

Center that is affiliated with Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem. We have hosted Tim Hodges and

heard a lecture and saw him working with our staff and with patients suffering from severe

trauma. I am a clinical psychologist and researcher, working in the field of trauma since 1979. I

have done one of the first randomized controlled outcome studies on the treatment of PTSD that

was published in 1989. Since then I have done many more studies and have been searching for

effective treatments to relieve the suffering of severely traumatized people.

 

The Limbic System Protocol that Tim has demonstrated has had surprisingly positive effects on the

people he treated in Jerusalem. At these times, we need the most effective and short term

methodologies that we can find to counteract the effects of the massive traumatic reality in the

Middle East. Therefore we are supporting the efforts of Tim and his team to raise the funds to

come to Israel and treat a larger number of people with PTSD that we will evaluate in order to

create an evidence base for this breakthrough method. Any support that you might give to this

initiative will help relieve the aftereffects of 10/7 and the war that is still going on.

 

As a trauma center we are inundated with referrals and have been expanding our teams, both for

adults and for children. But it doesn’t seem enough and that is why I am very excited to try and

help Tim and his team to come back to Jerusalem and help us bring relief to as many people as

possible.

 

I will be happy to be in contact and explain the framework and needs that we are trying to fulfill. I

 invite you to visit our website (www.metiv.org)

 

Yours sincerely

Danny Brom, Ph.D

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Project Management

Samuel Hodges
Logistics and Program Management
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Special Response Team

Leadership

Timothy Hodges, LMT, JSCCI, CACI
Executive Director - SR Team Leader
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Samuel Hodges
Director of Logistics and Planning
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Humanitarian Aid Deployment

Manny Kim, PT, DPT, PRC, CSC I
International SRT, LSP Teaching Assistant
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David Disselbret, MSPT, CSC I, JSCC
International SRT, LSP Teaching Assistant
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Michiko Oishi, LMT, PA
International SRT, LSP Teaching Assistant
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Teaching Assistants

Loretta Bliss, LMT, CSC I
LSP Teaching Assistant
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Kim Braun, PT, DPT, CSC I
LSP Teaching Assistant
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Gus Booth, DO
LSP Teaching Assistant (In training)
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Scott Drebben, MSPT, CSC I
LSP Teaching Assistant
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Jessica Farrell, PT, DPT, CSC I
LSP Teaching Assistant
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Syed Hussain, DO, CSC I
Curriculum Advisor, LSP Teaching Assistant
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Christine Kearney, PT, DPT, CSC I
LSP Teaching Assistant
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Laura Pederson, LMT, PTA, CSC I
LSP Teaching Assistant
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Steven Reiter, PT, DPT, CSC I
LSP Teaching Assistant
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Rob Rosenberry, PT, DPT, CSC I, OCS
LSP Teaching Assistant
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Huan Tran, DO
LSP Teaching Assistant (In training)
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Miho Urisaka, PT, DPT, CSC I
Editorial Team, LSP Teaching Assistant
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Adam Vounoridis, DO, CSC I
LSP Teaching Assistant (In training)
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Lory Yeh, PT, DPT, CSC I
LSP Teaching Assistant
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Greg Zadow, PT, DPT, CSC I
LSP Teaching Assistant
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John Zdor, PT, DPT, OCS
Editorial Team, LSP Teaching Assistant
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