Dr. Alex is a Doctor of Chiropractic, DABCA board-certified acupuncturist, and Functional Nutritionist based in West Des Moines, Iowa. She graduated from Logan College of Chiropractic and has been in active multidisciplinary clinical practice for 17 years, working alongside chiropractors, acupuncturists, exercise physiologists and nutritional practitioners in an integrative setting.

Over those 17 years, Dr. Ballenger became known for one thing above all else — her ability to help the patients no one else could. The patients whose labs were normal, but who were clearly suffering. Whose symptoms did not fit a clean diagnosis. Who had been to practitioner after practitioner without lasting resolution. These are the cases she has become known for.

In the middle of that work — not in a classroom, not from a textbook, but from 17 years of daily clinical reality with the most complex patients her practice attracts — she developed and refined the Pneuma Method. It is a complete, systematic, Spirit-guided clinical assessment framework that addresses the physical, emotional, neurological, and spiritual dimensions of every patient within a single protocol. It is not a system she learned. It is a system she built, one clinical encounter at a time, by paying attention to what consistently worked and having the courage to follow where the Holy Spirit led.

Dr. Ballenger practices her faith openly and intentionally. She believes that the most complete healing of a human being requires attention to every dimension of who they are — body, mind, and spirit — and that the Holy Spirit is the ultimate clinical guide. That conviction is at the center of everything she teaches.

She is now making the Pneuma Method available to other practitioners for the first time through the Ballenger Practitioner Academy — bringing 17 years of clinical development into the hands of practitioners who are ready to go deeper.