Meet The Team
Dr. Keith Hartley
Chiropractor
Dr. Keith Hartley attended Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, IL where he earned a degree in Biology. While at Lake Forest he worked at the Chicago Botanical Garden where he studied the genetics of water lilies. He also worked in the Laboratories at Lake Forest College researching embryological development.
Upon graduation from Lake Forest College Dr. Hartley attended National University of Health Sciences in Lombard, Ill. While attending National he completed an internship at the Salvation Army Free Clinic in Chicago, one of the most educational and rewarding experiences of his life. Dr. Hartley specialized in nutrition as well as sports-related injuries. After his graduation he continued at National as a Professor where he presently teaches Biochemistry, Muscle Physiology & Sports Nutrition, and Western Nutrition/Diet.
In 2009 Dr. Hartley began working with Dr. Nathan Clark at Back to Basics Chiropractic Health Center in Evanston.
Dr. Hartley knew that this was where he belonged and took over the full practice in 2010.
Dr. Hartley embraces the chiropractic ideology of helping the body heal itself. Through the use of advanced chiropractic techniques as well as nutritional health practices, he feels confident that he can help his patients achieve a balance of good health and well-being. He strives to provide quality chiropractic healthcare for the Evanston community.
Claudia Braun
Holistic Lifestyle Coach
Hello! I’m Claudia and my passion is to support you to heal your relationship with yourself. To move beyond the struggle of your body while inspiring you to live a life filled with happiness, purpose, peace, and joy!
As someone who struggled with unhappiness, I used lots of things to make it go away: food, alcohol, cigarrettes, negativity… It was a struggle being who I really was and not who others wanted me to be. But there was a tipping point and I looked at my behavior and realized my life isn’t getting better with my way of fixing it. So I made a phone call and said, I need help. Little did I know that day would change my life. It was the end of me trying to fix my life. When I accepted I needed help and couldn’t do it alone I finally relaxed. I no longer had to have all the answers. Humbling and freeing. It took courage because I was raised to believe “I shouldn’t need help”, but that thinking was keeping me stuck. When I let someone help me, I started to see what was really going on, it’s as if the blinders came off. I let in a real solution. I began to think differently. I learned I had choices and I saw what before I was blind to. I could finally stop pretending everything was fine, I that I had it all together and feeling shame because I didn’t. And in getting help I the shame, and pretending went away as life on the inside changed, my life on the outside did as well.
Imagine your life free from the reactivity to your life with food, or getting angry all the time, or being mean to yourself and instead feeling happy, full of energy, clarity, and freedom to be you! You deserve this, and I’d like to help you get there.