I am a licensed acupuncturist in Vermont, having trained at the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR, where I completed a four-year program of study in Classical Chinese Medicine and received my Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine. While in school, my work focused on the study and clinical application of classical Chinese herbal formulas. My manual therapy and acupuncture training comes from the North American Tang Shou Tao Association (NATSTA), which teaches in a tradition of gong fu medicine: time-tested, effective techniques that bring fast relief. I have been practicing the Chinese internal martial arts for over 25 years and am an instructor of baguazhang, xingyiquan, and qigong with NATSTA.
I have been training and practicing Chinese medicine for over 15 years, with particular focus on combining manual therapy, acupuncture, and Chinese herbs. I see these three modalities as both distinct and deeply connected. Each has its own properties, but those properties interact with each other as well.
The practice of Chinese medicine, like any medical approach, is a marriage of diagnosis and treatment. This is why I take a bit more time than most patients are used to—to listen and find connections in what you tell me that can help us co-create a plan. Each treatment plan is explicitly individualized because no two people, or their chronic issues, are the same.
There is still so much to learn in this 4000 year-old medical tradition. I continue to grow in my practice by studying the source texts of Chinese acupuncture and herbal medicine in their original form. Most importantly, each patient that I see is also a teacher and we’ll work together toward a greater sense of alignment, balance, and health.
