When your body signals “stop,” medical clarity and structured guidance are needed.

Balance™ supports an objective, clinically grounded classification of strain—personal and free from reactive or uninformed action.

Exhaustion, inner restlessness, or declining resilience often have complex causes. Many people sense that something is wrong, yet don’t receive clear medical guidance. Balance™ helps make your experience understandable and measurable—so you can make an informed decision about what your body truly needs right now.

When Balance™ makes sense for you

Do you feel exhausted, restless, or out of sync—and sense that no one has really been able to explain what is happening in your body or how medically serious your situation is?
Balance™ is for people seeking clear guidance before symptoms intensify—and who no longer want to remain in the dark.

Typical situations are

  • You have symptoms of stress, but no clear medical explanation.
  • You no longer regenerate noticeably despite breaks or vacations.
  • You want to understand how serious your current level of strain is.
  • You're not looking for quick solutions, but sound clarity.

Important Distinction: Balance™ is not a self-optimization program or a one-off intervention. It is a structured, professionally grounded process that combines assessment, stabilization, and decision-making - so you can consciously and in an informed, medically guided way maintain and further develop your health.

Many stress-related conditions develop gradually. Without proper assessment, it often remains unclear whether it’s a temporary stress response or clinically relevant overload.

Early evaluation helps prevent worsening, set priorities correctly, and take realistic steps in time—before resources are further depleted or misguided decisions are made.

Assess stress – understand what your body is signaling

For medical assessment, Balance™ uses established biological markers to objectively assess how strongly your regulatory systems are currently strained, how well it is regenerating, and how its regulatory systems are functioning.

The key is not any single value, but professional interpretation in the overall context. The result is not a one-time snapshot, but a solid foundation for medically sound next steps.

Among other things, the following are considered as part of the medical assessment:

  • Heart Rate Variability (HRV) - Marker for the regulatory and adaptive capacity of the autonomic nervous system.
  • Stress Hormones (e.g., cortisol) - Indications of activation, long-term stress and recovery capacity.
  • Neurotransmitter Profiles - Indications of drive, focus, motivation and recovery.

These markers are not interpreted in isolation. Instead, they are medically interpreted within the overall context, making it clear how critical the situation is and where realistic steps for action are needed.

What Balance™ enables

Balance™ translates your feelings into a medically sound basis for decision-making. This enables you to make targeted and realistic choices about what your body truly needs, instead of trial-and-error approaches.

Clarity not speculation
You make decisions based on reliable, medically interpreted data.
Structure instead of isolated measures
Making impact visible
Trust & stability

The Balance™ method in four phases - for you

Balance™ follows a clearly structured approach, putting orientation before intervention. Each phase builds a solid foundation for decision-making before moving on to the next step – so you don’t have to experiment, but can take a targeted, purposeful approach.

1
Professional assessment

Understand your situation and classify it medically.
Result: Clarity about what your body needs now and how to proceed sensibly.

Together we will clarify your current situation, your key questions and possible next steps.

2
Analysis - Integral Stress Test™ (IST)

Objective medical classification of your stress as an analytical component of the Balance™ methodology.
Result: A sound basis for decision-making instead of reactive or uninformed action.

Objective medical assessment of your stress and regulation markers such as stress hormones, HRV and neurotransmitters and and medical classification within the overall clinical context - so that measured values can be used as a sound basis for decision-making.

3
Regulation

Provide targeted support to help your body now.
Result: Realistic stabilization instead of actionism.

Based on the results, we derive individualised measures, e.g. supplements, biofeedback, coaching or therapeutic interventions.

4
Guided implementation and ongoing support

Anchoring change in everyday life - with personal support.
Result: Sustainable change instead of short-term effects.

In individual sessions, doctors, therapists and coaches will help you to integrate the program into your everyday life.

Clearer insight. Less guessing. Sound decisions.

Balance™ helps you not only to feel stress, but to understand it. This allows you to make informed decisions about what really helps your body now - instead of continuing to doubt or going round in circles.

The sooner you know where and how your body is stressed, the more targeted you can use your energy:

  • for stabilization instead of self-doubt,
  • for sustainable change instead of burnout.

You don't have to decide this on your own. But you can consciously help determine the direction.

«I was amazed at how precisely the stress test captured my inner and outer situation and enabled me to take informed action.»  - Teacher, Oberwil elementary school

Medical responsibility & quality

Balance™ is supported by an multi-professional team of doctors, psychotherapists and coaches who combine medical precision with personal support - coordinated, interdisciplinary and transparent.

Clear roles and responsibilities ensure that each phase is medically responsible, professionally sound and quality-assured.

The methodology is scientifically monitored, evaluated and continuously developed by the Heart-Based Medicine Foundation.

Professional responsibility lies with clearly defined medical roles in the team. They ensure that the classification, prioritization and derivation of the next steps are professionally correct.
Psychotherapists and coaches complement the support within a coordinated framework - always attentive to the individual situation and operating under overall medical responsibility.
The result is an approach that is both professionally sound and humanly approachable.

Your next step – clarify together whether Balance™ is right for you

Medically grounded · personal · on equal footing

Why early assessment matters

Balance™ creates structure for making informed decisions when dealing with stress and overload.

The entry point is intentionally personal and no-obligation. In a short conversation, we explore together whether the Balance™ program is appropriate for your situation.
The structured professional assessment takes place as part of Phase 1.
You don’t have to decide immediately – but you can now clarify whether Balance™ is the right next step for you.

Frequently asked questions

Balance™ is a professionally supervised service with medical and psychotherapeutic expertise, but not a therapy in the strict sense. It does not replace acute emergency care or purely psychiatric treatment - but offers a structured, well-founded framework for the classification and targeted regulation of stress. The medical classification and responsibility always lies with qualified doctors in the team.

Balance™ is aimed at young people and adults aged 16 and over.

This depends on the individual course. Orientation and analysis are usually completed within a few weeks - regulation and support depend on your situation.

Balance™ is not a one-off coaching session, but a structured process lasting several months. The coaching helps you to implement the findings from the test in your everyday life - with realistic goals, personal support and a focus on long-term change.

The IST™ is a multi-stage stress test that objectively identifies your individual stress patterns - physically, emotionally and mentally. Depending on the level, it includes:

  • a scientifically based online questionnaire
  • biological analyses (e. g.B. Cortisol, neurotransmitters)
  • a heart rate variability measurement (HRV) over several days
  • a personal coaching session

You will receive specific recommendations for your everyday life - not standard reports, but individual evaluations by experienced health coaches. This allows you to make an informed decision on how to proceed.

The onlinequestionnaire provides you with initial results immediately. Laboratory values (e.g.B. hormones) are typically available within a few days, depending on the laboratory. We discuss everything together in the subsequent coaching session.

Yes, a later repetition can be useful - e.g.B. in the event of a change in the load situation or for monitoring progress.

Yes, the IST can already be used for non-specific signs of stress or for early detection - before symptoms manifest themselves strongly.

The Integral Stress Test™ is a central element of the methodology, but is discussed and used individually.

Yes, Balance™ can be used in addition to ongoing medical or psychotherapeutic treatment. We recommend that you inform your doctor or therapist - and we will also consult with them on request.

If you are already undergoing medical or psychotherapeutic treatment, we recommend that you inform your contact person about the Balance™ program. We can also support you with the professional coordination if you wish.

No. We always start with an initial personal consultation. If you are not sure whether Balance™ suits your situation, we will clarify this together.

Balance™ is currently not covered by compulsory basic health insurance (KVG). Balance™ is not a standard therapy offer subject to compulsory health insurance, but a structured medical classification and support process. Depending on your individual supplementary insurance, partial cost sharing may be possible. We recommend that you clarify the conditions directly with your insurance company.

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