Dr. Keppel was initially trained as a Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine, and graduated from Logan College, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1986.  She became interested in natural healthcare as a means to heal herself of an incurable skin condition which she developed in her 20s.  Her efforts for a cure lead her to study chiropractic, nutritional and herbal therapies, homeopathy, Nutritional Response Testing, Total Body Modification, non-cognitive biofeedback, and various Energy Psychology approaches, such as Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and Emotion Code.