Overall Philosophy

Chinese medicine is a beautiful medicine filled with imagery about the environments on earth, with the ultimate goal of living life in balance. Chinese medicine looks at balancing heat and cold, damp and dry, excess and deficiency, yin and yang. The way I like to explain acupuncture is that we have channels of energy that run through our bodies, each channel flowing into the next, creating one giant circuit. When these rivers flow freely, we are healthy. But though living our lives, suffering illnesses, emotional upsets, heartbreaks, injuries, and repetitive movements, we build up little pebbles along the rivers. When enough pebbles have built up, the energy can no longer run smoothly, and you end up with one channel that is overflowing, and another channel that is a dry riverbed. By listening to the patientʼs symptoms, taking their pulse, and looking at their tongues, I find where the pebbles are, and work to unblock those channels, so that the rivers flow and the patient can live their life in balance

Acupuncture

Acupuncture originated in China over 3000 years ago. This time-tested tradition views any symptom or injury as a sign that the system is out of balance. In the art of acupuncture, tiny needles are inserted into the skin to help put the body back into balance so the body can heal both chronic and acute pain. I specialize in dealing with pain and trigger point release (also known as dry needling). A typical treatment in my office is between an hour and an hour and 10 minutes. I treat each patient as an individual, and after evaluation, I come up with a treatment plan unique to them. My treatments not only focus on the physical health of my patients, but their emotional health. Traditional Chinese medicine includes many techniques beyond acupuncture.

I Often Use Supportive Modalities In A Session, Including:

Moxibustion
Cupping
Nutritional Counseling
Tui Na (Chinese Medical Massage)
Qi Gong
Lifestyle Counseling

Reiki

As a Reiki master, I incorporate A mini-Reiki session in to each of my treatments. I find this helps to relax each patient into their bodies and often helps them find the emotional release that they need. Reiki is a form of energy healing thousands of years old, where universal life force energy is transferred through the hands to balance not only the physical body, but the emotional and spiritual body as well.

Reiki Principles:
Just for today, I will not be angry.
Just for today, I will not worry.
Just for today, I will be grateful.
Just for today, I will do my work honestly.
Just for today, I will be kind to every living being.

Pediatrics

Children often respond very quickly to acupuncture. Acupuncture has been used in China for hundreds of years to treat pediatric conditions, and it is becoming more popular in the West as parents seek more natural ways of promoting their childrenʼs health. As with adults, I want the child to feel in control of the treatment. As a mother of two, It’s important to build a relationship of trust, so the acupuncture experience is ultimately a positive one.

I often use acupressure and moxabustion in conjunction with acupuncture to achieve the best results. I refrain from using the word needles with small children, preferring to call them “taps” to keep them from associating acupuncture with shots. Because the needles are so thin, the children often do not even feel the insertion of the needle.

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Scar Treatments

Acupuncture is about balancing the flow of energy in the body. When someone has a scar that has built up an excess of scar tissue, whether it is from an injury or from a surgery, it can interrupt the flow of energy in the body, causing symptoms that might seem related to the scar itself. Examples of a scar that has an excess of scar tissue is a scar that is: painful, tender to the touch numb, red or raised. By breaking up the scar tissue, the energy that is being blocked is released to flow properly, allowing the whole body to heal.

A Few Examples Of Scars That Have Caused Seemly Unrelated Symptoms:
• A woman with insomnia for several decades who had a scar on her arm from walking through a glass door in her teens. Insomnia resolved in one treatment
• A woman with two blocked Fallopian tubes with an appendectomy scar. Following treatment of the scar, on of the Fallopian tubes became unblocked.
• A woman with decades of knee pain post surgery, where it was painful to walk after sitting. Pain resolved after several treatments