Meet Josiah & Jenna Bartlett
Dr. Josiah and Jenna, his wife, both grew up in Iowa and were led south when Jenna began chiropractic school at Life University in Marietta. Their journey has been shaped by a shared mission: to serve as the healing hands of Jesus - bringing hope, abundance, and a firm foundation to the lives they touch.
Through their own health journeys, Josiah and Jenna were introduced to a holistic philosophy of healing that transformed how they view the body. They came to understand that lasting healing required more than addressing symptoms; it involves restoring balance across the body's physical structure, nervous system, chemistry, emotions, and electrical communication. This revelation now serves as the foundation of the care they provide.
Dr. Josiah's treatment approach honors the body's God-given capacity to heal when systems are working in harmony. Using hands-on therapy, fascial techniques, neurological and proprioceptive retraining, microcurrent therapy, and movement-based care, he works to removed barriers to healing and support optimal function.
You will often see Jenna around the office between classes as she continues her studies toward becoming a Doctor of Chiropractic. She shares the same Christ-centered, whole-body philosophy. Jenna also uses her certification in Emotion Code to help patients achieve emotional healing. Jenna's presences reflects the heart of the practice - rooted in faith, compassion, and a commitment to healing from the inside out.
Our Techniques
At Firm Foundation Integrative Health, we provide highly individualized care for each patient. Whether you are recovering from an injury or navigating chronic health challenges, our goal is to support what your body specifically needs at that point in time.
We use your body's real-time responses to guide treatment, scanning through different layers of function in the body - structural, chemical, psychosomatic, electrical, and visceral (organ) functions, largely overlaying our treatment philosophy with the philosophy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Applied Kinesiology. Because the body changes from visit to visit, no two appointments will look the same. Each session is tailored based on how your nervous system, fascia, and musculoskeletal system are presenting that day.
Dr. Josiah is trained in several specialized techniques that are integrated into your care plan only when appropriate. We look forward to partnering with you on your journey toward restored function, resilience, and long-term health.
Applied Kinesiology
Applied Kinesiology (AK) evaluates how your muscles, nerves, and organs are working together by using muscle testing to identify areas of imbalance and guide customized care.
Emotion Code
Emotion Code is a powerful technique that uncovers trapped emotional trauma stored in the body and gently facilitates its release through the nervous system.
Chiro-Plus Kinesiology
Chiro-Plus Kinesiology (CPK) is an advanced form of Applied Kinesiology that uses specific stimulus to communicate with the nervous system, revealing how and where to best support the body's healing.
Microcurrent
Microcurrent therapy utilizes frequency specific micro-amperage electrical currents that stimulate cellular metabolism and ATP production to accelerate tissue healing and reduce inflammation.
Myofascial Release
Myofascial release uses gentle pressure and stretching to soften fascial tension, improve movement, decrease inflammation and pain, and support the body's natural healing.
Nutrition Testing
Utilizing the Lebowitz Protocol, nutrition testing works with Applied Kinesiology to reveal nutritional imbalances and guide personalized support for the body's natural healing and recovery.
Integrative Health
True health is multi-dimensional. Our integrative approach recognizes that the body functions as an interconnected system influenced by structural integrity, biochemical support, nervous system and psychosomatic patterns, and energetic regulation. By assessing how these layers interact, we aim to identify functional imbalances that may impact movement, resilience, and overall well-being, allowing care to be guided in a personalized and whole-person manner.
Structural
The body is built on a foundation of bones, muscles, fascia, and connective tissue. When this foundation becomes imbalanced, it can disrupt the way your autonomic systems function, often leading to pain, recurring injuries, and widespread dysfunction.
Much of this imbalance begins with neurological interference, either in the peripheral nerves or in how the fascia communicates sensory information to the brain. When these signals become distorted, the brain's proprioception (the awareness of the body in space) can become impaired, triggering a chain reaction that affects, movement, digestion, hormones, sleep, and overall energy.
By addressing these structural and neurological components, we can recalibrate how your nervous system responds to stress. This restores clarity, balance, and efficiency to your body's natural healing processes, allowing your system to function as it was designed.
Every function in the body, whether it's movement, thought, or an autonomic process like digestion or circulation, is driven by chemical reactions. When the body's chemistry becomes imbalances, it can affect the way every system operates. A simple example is chronic swelling in a joint: excess fluid (lymph or interstitial fluid) alters movement and changes how the brain interprets those signals, which over time can create compensatory patterns and dysfunction through the body.
By improving fluid dynamics through techniques such as fascial work, organ flushing, lymphatic massage, and nutritional support, the body can restore accurate sensory feedback to the brain. Once communication improves, the nervous system can better regulate inflammation, support immune function, and promote natural tissue healing. This approach can benefit any area of the body experiencing chronic inflammation, irritation, swelling, or dysfunction.
Chemical
Psychosomatic
The body's response to stress is strongly influenced by the limbic system, the part of the brain that processes emotion, memory, and threat perception. When the body experiences trauma, physical or emotional, the limbic system interprets taht input and triggers physiological responses. These reactions don't always appear as tears or anger; they often manifest as muscle tension, inflammation, altered breathing breathing, or changes in movement, which are forms of emotional stress expressed through the body.
Because the body is an integrated system, patterns of chronic tension, pain distribution, neuroemotional responses, and muscular imbalances provide insight into how the nervous system is adapting. Fascia, which is highly innervated and central to proprioception and interception, plays a key role in how the brain perceives the body.
By working through the fascial and nervous systems, we can influence limbic activity, reduce sympathetic stress responses, and support emotional processing. As the limbic system shifts out of protective mode, tension, pain, and compensatory patterns often decrease, allowing the body to return to greater physical and emotional regulation.
The body's health is not only physical and chemical, it is also energetic. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, energy flows through the body along pathways called meridians, which are closely linked with fascia and connective tissue. When this flow is blocked or imbalanced, it can affect organ function, movement, and overall vitality.
Because fascia forms a continuous, innervated network throughout the body, it acts as both a structural and energetic highway, transmitting signals that influence physical, emotional, and functional states. techniques such as acupressure, microcurrent, and myofascial techniques help restore balanced energy flow, regulate the nervous system, reduce tension, and support the body's innate ability to heal.
By integrating energetic work, we can help the body reestablish proper bodily functions, allowing your body to heal and regenerate efficiently.