People often ask me how the therapies I offer relate to each other — particularly Emotion Code and KORE Therapy, which both involve muscle testing and work with the body’s energy system. They’re related but distinct, and understanding the difference helps you choose the right starting point.
What Emotion Code Does
Emotion Code is a focused protocol developed by Dr Bradley Nelson. Its primary purpose is to identify and release specific trapped emotions — energetic imprints of emotional experiences that have become lodged in the body’s tissues and continue to exert influence on health and wellbeing.
The process uses muscle testing (applied kinesiology) to access the body’s knowledge of which emotions are trapped, where they’re held, and where they originated. Once identified, a releasing technique using magnetic energy clears them. Sessions tend to be relatively structured, and many clients notice shifts — in pain, mood, physical tension, or old patterns — after just a few sessions.
Emotion Code is an excellent starting point if you know that emotional history is a significant part of what you’re dealing with — past trauma, grief, anxiety that has a clear emotional root, or physical symptoms that haven’t responded to bodywork alone. You can read the full description on the Emotion Code page.
What KORE Therapy Does
KORE Therapy is a broader, more integrative system. It also uses muscle testing, but rather than focusing solely on emotional release, it works across the structural, energetic, and emotional dimensions of health simultaneously. In a KORE session, I might address physical alignment, organ function, energy blockages, and emotional patterns — all within the same treatment, following whatever the body indicates it needs in that moment.
Think of Emotion Code as a specialist tool and KORE Therapy as a comprehensive system that includes emotional work as one of several dimensions. KORE is particularly valuable when the picture is complex — when there are physical symptoms, emotional patterns, and systemic imbalances that all seem connected. More detail is on the KORE Therapy page.
Which Should You Choose?
If your primary concern is emotional — trapped grief, anxiety, trauma responses, or emotional patterns you can feel are driving physical symptoms — Emotion Code is a highly effective and focused approach.
If your concerns are more complex or multi-layered — chronic physical conditions alongside emotional patterns, hormonal imbalance, pain that has both structural and emotional drivers — KORE Therapy is likely to be more comprehensive and effective.
In practice, many clients who start with Emotion Code later explore KORE Therapy as they want to work at a deeper level. Others start with KORE and find that the emotional clearing within it is doing the work they needed. I always discuss what’s most appropriate before we begin.
What They Have in Common
Both use muscle testing to let the body guide the treatment rather than imposing a fixed protocol. Both work on the principle that the body holds information about what it needs and what’s been disrupted. Both are gentle, non-invasive, and work well alongside conventional medical care.
I offer both from my practice in Wilby, near Wellingborough, and I see clients from across Northamptonshire. Both approaches are also described on the trauma and emotional release page in the context of how I work with the emotional body.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I have Emotion Code and KORE Therapy in the same session? The emotional release work within KORE draws on similar principles to Emotion Code, so there’s no need to combine them separately — KORE naturally includes that dimension.
Which is more expensive? Both are priced similarly per session. KORE Therapy is typically offered in a minimum block of three sessions. See the prices page for current rates.
Do I need to believe in energy medicine for these to work? No — the processes work regardless of your beliefs. Many of my most sceptical clients have had the most significant responses.
Explore the full range of therapies I offer, or get in touch to discuss which approach might be right for you.