Frequency Specific Seminars

Frequency Specific Seminars (FSS) is an international training organisation that teaches Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) to licensed healthcare practitioners. Founded by Dr Carolyn McMakin (MA, DC), FSS has trained thousands of practitioners across more than ten countries, with a global community of around 2,100 trained practitioners.

FSM is a two-channel microcurrent technique that applies specific frequencies to corresponding tissues. FSS delivers this through structured, reproducible clinical protocols developed over nearly three decades of clinical use. Training is open to licensed healthcare professionals only, including physicians, physiotherapists, chiropractors, naturopaths, acupuncturists and other regulated providers.

Courses include the 5-Day Core seminar (the foundation of FSM training), Advanced seminars, and condition-specific programmes, delivered in-person and via livestream. All seminars are taught personally by Dr McMakin and the FSM faculty. FSM protocols have been used at institutions including the Cleveland Clinic and Walter Reed Medical Center, and FSM-related research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies.

Founder Bio — Dr Carolyn McMakin, MA, DC:

Dr Carolyn McMakin is the founder of Frequency Specific Microcurrent and of Frequency Specific Seminars. She holds a BA in Psychology (University of Santa Clara, 1968), an MA in Counselling Psychology, magna cum laude (National University, 1983), and a Doctor of Chiropractic degree, magna cum laude (Western States Chiropractic College, 1993).

She founded the Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain Clinic of Portland in 1996 and currently runs the FSM Clinic in Troutdale, Oregon, just outside Portland, where she continues to see patients. She taught the first FSM course in January 1997 and has since built FSM into a structured clinical training system used by practitioners worldwide.

Dr McMakin presented Grand Rounds at the NIH Pain and Palliative Care Department in 2008 and lectured at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at the National Naval Medical Center in 2011. She has served on the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies since 2003 and held adjunct faculty roles at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine and the National University of Health Sciences. She is the author of Frequency Specific Microcurrent in Pain Management (Elsevier, 2010) and The Resonance Effect (North Atlantic Books, 2017), and a contributing author to Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual (3rd edition).