I am a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist. I give clients customized, individualized care. Some acupuncturists stack their schedules, allowing them to see multiple people at a time. I intentionally treat one person at a time, applying the fullness of my focus to each individual.
Awareness and presence are required for important, healthy changes to occur and take root.
Although there is a national certifying body for acupuncturists, not all acupuncture is the same. Because the medicine is thousands of years old, and because it has been taught and practiced in countries around the world, many different styles of acupuncture exist.
I practice classical Chinese medicine. In classical acupuncture, medicine and health are regarded as arts that are informed by an understanding of our place in the natural world. Thanks to a straightforward, elegant, and thorough understanding of human physiology and pathology as laid out in a variety of classical texts, the classical acupuncturist treats choosing among 74 channel systems.
You can also learn more about my training and credentials.
Read on below to learn more about my understanding of healing and my role as a practitioner.
Acupuncture is wonderful.
I mean wonderful intentionally: practicing acupuncture fills me and my clients with wonder. An acupuncture treatment can give you a direct experience of what healing is, and it can remind you that life doesn’t have to be a struggle.
It can be easy to lose sight of the wonder of healing in our modern world. We have so many interventions for any given health problem that we often confuse treatment with healing.
For example, it’s easy to think that a Band-Aid heals a cut, but only the body can heal the cut. The Band-Aid’s role is to make healing easier by protecting the cut from infection.
My point is that healing is natural and spontaneous—it’s what you do if you’re alive!
So, you might be wondering now, “if healing is natural, why do we have disease?” I believe the answer is that sometimes we get stuck in life, and healing gets stalled out. Usually when this happens, we know that something’s off, but we might not know what.
Even if we do know what’s off, we don’t know how to make it right again. So we feel stuck with a disease, cut off from healing, and probably overwhelmed. Often, this is when we need help. And I do mean help, not fixing.
I don’t believe there is such a thing as someone healing someone else.
Healing, in my experience, is much like learning. No teacher can “learn” you (meaning, make you understand something), but a great teacher inspires students to discover their own eagerness and ability to learn. This is how I see my role as a practitioner. I think of myself as a guide to healing. My first task when we start working together is to get to know you.
What obstacles are you struggling with? What are your strengths? Then I set about helping you to use your own strengths to resolve these obstacles or to find detours around them.
This might sound like an intellectual process, but one of the wonders of acupuncture is its ability to connect the realms of mind and body.
An acupuncture needle is like an arrow that points out to the rest of the body, “Hey, something’s not right here. This is what this area needs.”
Needling an acupuncture point brings your conscious awareness to that area, while influencing involuntary processes such as nervous system patterns, biochemical reactions, and fluid balances. This junction creates the opportunity for healing.
I believe that when we work together this way the possibilities for healing are virtually endless.
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