About Dr. Robin
Dr. Robin Mayfield has been studying holistic and alternative healthcare since 1984, and has over 2 decades of clinical experience in private practice to draw on.
With her Chiropractic degree, Acupuncture license and certification in Applied Clinical Nutrition, as well as a student of life and spirituality, she is able to offer insight into health care from many different platforms.
With thousands of patient visits and stories, she distills that knowledge into the most important pieces of information for you to learn and know. Her style, casual and approachable, feels like you are conversing rather than being lectured.
"I have seen the healthcare industry change dramatically in the last twenty years. The work I have done for the last 20 years previously was called “pioneering” or “weird” (depending upon who you were talking to)."
"Now, it’s almost mainstream. From Oprah to CNN to email spam, you can hear about vitamins, supplements and herbs almost nonstop."
"My approach is to clear out all the dross and strain the information for you – eliminate the extra fluff and just let you know what works and what doesn’t."Robin Mayfield, D.C.
LifeStory
Life began for me around 1956. It’s said you pick your parents before you show up here on this planet; I’m pretty sure I signed up for Jacques Cousteau as my dad so that I could live on a large boat, but the waiting list was long and I was impatient.
Even though I love the beach, I finally chose the warm climate of Texas instead, with parents that loved the outdoors. And while I can’t speak a word of French, I haven’t lost my love of the ocean.
As a child growing up in the country with acres of woods around me, I thought my life was pretty normal. However, as an adult, I’m finding that I had experiences that most folks around me don’t share.
Like not having any neighbors for quite a ways down the road. Like having my grandparents live on one end of the land so I could just run to their house whenever I felt like it.
Like eating out of a garden, feeding the hogs and cows every day, and finally - a young girl’s dream! - having a pony. This, of course, grew to several horses, and finally a baby colt I trained from birth.
I rode in competition for a good ten years and spent a couple of those years also riding bulls in the rodeo. Yes, you hear right, I rode bulls - long before the movie Urban Cowboy made it cool.
By the time I was in high school, the city found us. We were down to a mere 10 acres of land around our home, and my parents purchased a farm outside of Gorman, Texas, near Stephenville.
By that time, I was ready for the city life and spent my college years (the first time) at Texas A&M. (Yes, I are an Aggie. All you teasips out there will just have to get over it).
I received my degree in Business Administration, which basically means that I was pretty clueless about what I wanted to do, so I took a bunch of boring classes so I could get that piece of paper.
I spent 10 years in the computer industry B.P.C. (before PC’s). I know some of you didn’t know there were computers before Personal Computers!
I spent endless hours working on mini-computers, analyzing software, installing and training end users on accounting software, and finally ending up in management at Wang Computers right before they became an unknown player in the computer field.
Sitting at a desk all day quickly bored me, and my back was beginning to hurt from those many, many times I had hit the ground in my youth as a result of being tossed from the horses and the bulls.
During this time period, I went to my first chiropractor. I believe I was about 27 years old.
It made such a profound difference in my life - not just my back pain, but my emotional and spiritual life as well - that I decided (or was awakened to the fact?) that this profession was definitely my calling.
I quit my well-salaried and predictable and secure job, sold my little home, and went back to school. I needed a year more of sciences to get into chiropractic college, and then began the intense 3 years of study to become a licensed doctor.
I had no idea at the time that the first year of chiropractic school is comparable to medical school - working on cadavers in anatomy lab, learning the neurological pathways throughout the body, organic chemistry and more.
Throw in some biochemistry, pathology, and physiology, and it was a 14 hour day, year round. The second two years began the chiropractic technique and philosophy, with radiology and neurology continuing to play a big role.
In 1991, I graduated from Parker Chiropractic College in Dallas, Texas, with cum laude honors, being named Who’s Who in American Universities and Colleges at the same time. I received a concurrent Bachelor's of Science in Anatomy.
Soon after graduation, my fiancé and I were married, and we decided to get the heck out of the Metroplex. Austin, Texas, became our home, and I began to practice my craft.
I had been fortunate enough to share an office with a doctor who specialized in a technique called S.O.T. (Sacral Occipital Technique).
To this day, I still use much of what I learned at that clinic.
During my time in practice, I spent countless hours of studying more advanced physiology and biochemistry, which then transformed into learning nutrition and herbal/vitamin products.
Studying Applied Kinesiology (AK) was very influential on my practice and helped me create my own style of practice that melded nutrition, Kinesiology and S.O.T. into my own effective treatments.
I'm now choosing the arena of the Internet to reach a greater audience, to help those who might not have alternative or complementary practitioners near their home, or who otherwise are hungry for education and change in their lives.