Support for your whole self.
Trauma informed acupunture and somatic healing to support nervous system regulation, emotional well being, and reconnection with the body.
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Individual Sessions
ACUPUNCTURE & SOMATIC EXPERIENCING
Personalized one-on-one sessions that integrate acupuncture with somatic healing to address the root causes of imbalance and support deep healing.
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Community Acupuncture
AFFORDABLE | ACCESSIBLE | HEALING TOGETHER
A Supportive group setting where you can receive acupuncture in the community. A powerful way to reduce stress, restore balance, and feel connected.
Offerings
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A combination of 5 Element Acupuncture and Somatic Experiencing Touch Therapy. Both help regulate the nervous system, supporting your body’s capacity to process discomfort, trauma, and emotion.
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The body is a bridge to a deeper understanding of lived history that may feel mysterious to us. Healing fully requires being embodied. Somatic Experiencing can guide us toward greater regulation of the nervous system and greater coherence of mind, body, and spirit.
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A modality that helps us get out of inherited patterns, familial entanglements, and conscious or unconscious contracts that no longer serve us to fully thrive and say, “Yes“ to our lives. Family Constellations helps bring awareness of what is blocking us from living the life we want.
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Find your flow with immersive experiences that gently reduce stress. Walk away with a meditative practice that helps shift the body out of fight or flight mode. Connect with your inner artist.
Frequently Asked Questions
Still have questions? Please reach out to schedule a free 15-minute phone call consultation.
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Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force (Qi-pronounced “chee”) that flows through pathways (meridians) in your body. There are hundreds of points that can be found head to toe, front and back. By inserting needles into specific points along these meridians, harmony and balance can be restored. What this means on a physical level is more coherence in the nervous system, a stronger immune system and less pain.
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You can begin by reaching out through the contact form, email, or phone to schedule an initial session. We’ll briefly discuss what you’re looking for support with and find a pace and approach that feels manageable and supportive for you.
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My work combines acupuncture with somatic and nervous system-based approaches to healing. Sessions are collaborative, trauma-informed, and guided by regulation. The goal is not limited to symptom relief, but helping the body move toward greater safety, resilience, and connection over time.
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You can reach out by phone, email, or through the contact form on this website. I personally respond to inquiries and will do my best to reply within 1–2 business days.
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Individual sessions are scheduled directly through me and paid privately at the time of service. Community acupuncture offers a lower-cost self-booking option designed to make ongoing care more accessible. Please visit the Offerings page for current pricing and scheduling details.
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Acupuncture affects everyone differently. Most people do not feel the needles. Some people feel a pinch from needle insertion. Some people can feel pressure, heat, tingling or a pulse at the needle site. Any pain should only last seconds. Your acupuncturist will want to know what you are experiencing. No needle that is not tolerable needs to stay inserted.
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Acupuncture is widely acknowledged as one of the safest forms of medicine. Acupuncture needles are pre-sterilized, individually packaged and disposable. Acupuncturists undergo extensive training and are regulated by the individual state’s medicine board.
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The frequency of treatments can vary from a few times a week to a few times a year. In the beginning, I recommend once a week for at least 4-6 sessions. This variation is contributed by many factors such as health, age, environment and schedule, to name a few. What I like to see, before spacing out sessions, is that the treatment effects hold for a full week before we space treatments out. Many people stay with once a week for several months.
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You do not need to believe in acupuncture! In fact, I have seen many skeptics over the years and I really enjoy their genuinely surprised and amazed reactions to helpful results with treatment.
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I do not. I do give receipts for reimbursement and many more policies accept acupuncture services. You can always contact your insurance company and they can help you figure out if your plan offers reimbursement for acupuncture treatment.
Somatic Experiencing 101
Somatic Experiencing (SE™) aims to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in our bodies and nervous systems. From an SE lens, trauma is focused on how it shows up in the nervous system and how that dysregulation impacts life. The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming patterns that get stuck and impact people’s daily lives. It can be used to support the resolution of PTSD and developmental attachment trauma. It offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight, or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states.
Trauma may begin as acute stress from a perceived life-threat or as the end product of cumulative stress. Both types of stress can impair, sometimes seriously, a person’s ability to function with resilience and ease. Trauma may result from a wide variety of stressors, such as accidents, invasive medical procedures, sexual or physical assault, emotional abuse, neglect, war, natural disasters, loss, birth trauma, epigenetics, systems, or the corrosive stressors of ongoing fear and conflict.
The Somatic Experiencing approach facilitates the completion of self- protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions, and by working to complete defensive responses that were previously thwarted in bringing resolution to the nervous system and, therefore, to the individual.
What to Expect
Begin Where You Are
There is no need to prepare or perform. We start with what feels present and manageable.
Listen to the Nervous System
Acupuncture and somatic work help support regulation, resilience, and deeper awareness of the body.
Move at Your Pace
Healing is not rushed. Sessions are guided with care, collaboration, and respect for your boundaries.
Create Space for Change
Over time, many people experience greater ease, connection, rest, and capacity in daily life.