Why TMS Should Be a Routine, Not an Intervention

Most people still think TMS is a niche therapy. But every week, I’m seeing how life-changing it can be.

Over the past months, I’ve spoken with friends, clients, and practitioners across Europe and North America who’ve used Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for very different reasons — depression, anxiety, ADHD, chronic pain, PTSD, even fibromyalgia. And the pattern is the same: deeper calm, less pain, more clarity, better emotional stability.

In Bucharest, our friends at BTL Industries (Exomind) told me about clients who regained focus after years of cognitive fatigue. A US + Canadian team called Ampa Health showed me a portable device that people use daily at home, not just few times in a clinic. And in London, Dr Alberto Pertusa, who is deeply immersed in TMS research, explained why frequency matters: sometimes multiple short sessions a day outperform a single long one.

A close friend with fibromyalgia shared that TMS was the first thing that gave her consistent relief. Another friend used it to break a long-standing anxiety cycle. These are people who tried everything before — supplements, breathwork, meditation, medication — and nothing shifted until TMS began retraining the neural circuits underneath the symptoms.

The more I listen, the more I’m convinced TMS shouldn’t be seen as an “intervention” but as a routine, just like red light, sauna, or breathwork. A tool you integrate into your week to strengthen the brain’s pathways, reduce inflammation, and support emotional resilience.

This is why I want to bring TMS into our Expand Health Cape Town and Expand Labs clinics — and eventually into Africa, where too many people suffer in silence with anxiety, trauma, and chronic pain, with almost no access to these technologies. A portable, low-side-effect, neuroscience-based therapy could transform thousands of lives.

If you’ve tried TMS — what was your experience? And if you haven’t — what would you want to know before trying it?

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