About
Dr. Jay T. Wiles
Clinical health and performance psychologist. Board certified in heart rate variability biofeedback and peripheral biofeedback. Twenty years spent on a single question: how do you train the autonomic nervous system, rather than simply watch it.
Where this started
The measurement was never the hard part.
I came into this through clinical psychology and psychophysiology, and spent the early years where the nervous system is least abstract: the VA. Clinical work at the WJB Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia and the Greenville Outpatient Clinic, with people whose autonomic systems had been rearranged by things they did not choose.
You learn something specific there. Insight is not regulation. Someone can understand exactly why they are activated and remain completely unable to come down from it, because the thing that needs to change is physiological and the conversation is not reaching it.
That is the whole reason the rest of this exists.
Insight is not regulation. Someone can understand exactly why they are activated and still be unable to come down from it.Why the model is physiological first
The range
From veterans to Olympic finals, the same system.
Autonomic flexibility does not care what you do for a living. The people who need it most obviously are the ones operating at the edges, in both directions.
Alongside the clinical work I have spent years with athletes across MLB, NFL, NHL, PGA, LPGA, ATP, WTA and MLS, and with Olympic competitors. Among them: Olympic medalists, a Super Bowl champion, a Cy Young winner, multiple Hart Trophy winners and a PGA major champion.
Elite sport is a useful laboratory precisely because nobody there is interested in whether an intervention is comforting. It either shows up in recovery and performance or it gets dropped.
I founded Thrive Wellness and Performance in Greenville, South Carolina in 2020, where I still see clients. I co-founded Hanu Health and served as its Chief Scientific Officer, and I serve as Chief Health and Performance Officer at Ohm Health.
The Resilient Engine is what came out of all of it: the model, and finally an instrument that runs the protocol properly on the days I am not in the room.
Credentials
The relevant parts.
Board certifications
Heart rate variability biofeedback and peripheral biofeedback, both through the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance.
Companies built
Thrive Wellness and Performance, Hanu Health, and Ohm Health. Founder, co-founder and Chief Health and Performance Officer respectively.
Media appearances
Long form interviews, podcasts and press across two decades of talking about this work in public.
In print and on air
Where the argument has been made.
Featured in
Elsewhere
Three places, three different jobs.
This site is the model, the app, and the licensing conversation. Two other places cover the rest.
- drjaywiles.com is consulting, scientific advisory, speaking and media. If you want to hire me directly or book me for a stage, that is the door.
- thrive-wellness.com is the clinic. One to one work, evaluation, and the practice in Greenville.