Acupuncture
This is your space to unwind and heal. Utilizing a classical approach of working with my patients, I allow the body to guide the treatment. I incorporate many useful modalities and styles. I create an integrated and balanced treatment, unique every time.
Comprehensive medicine: amazing results
There are many different styles of acupuncture. At Lumen, I practice a traditional Chinese style as well as gentle Japanese techniques. I have even studied non-needle techniques as well that are great for pediatrics.
For those that don’t know, traditional acupuncture uses solid (“filiform”) needles which are shallowly inserted into acupuncture points on the skin. The needles are sterile, only used once, and then go into medical waste. The gauge of the needle is about the size of a cat’s whisker
Stimulating these points can help correct imbalances in the flow of qi through the meridians of the body. Activating and directing the qi stimulates the recuperative powers of the body and enhances the body’s innate ability to return to balance.
Engaging Vitality: Osteopathic approach to Acupuncture
This is a synthesis of traditional East Asian medicine and Western osteopathic palpation techniques. The aim of treatment is to address restrictions to healthy physiological motion within the body as well as supporting restoration of flexibility within the nervous system. The treatments are very subtle, gentle and profound.
This specialized approach allows me to provide treatments uniquely tailored to each patient in order to support their body’s innate intelligence, leading to a more clinically effective engagement overall.
This is an approach to acupuncture treatments that I utilize with all my patients. It helps me better listen to the body and discover the core areas that need attention that day.
Read more about Engaging Vitality - HERE.
What to expect:
An acupuncture treatment begins the moment you walk in the door. I greet you and we head into the treatment room.
If it’s your first visit, we’ll do a full medical intake - chatting about any and all of your health concerns.
From here, I will come up with a treatment plan. Your treatment for the day could include some bodywork, cupping, or other gentle techniques to help integrate the work.
Based on your pulse, tongue, and abdominal palpation, I choose your acupuncture points to support your primary constitution as well as your primary health concerns.
You can lay with your needles for 15 - 40 minutes, depending on your needs.
After your refreshing “acu-nap” you are grounded, centered, and ready to go about the rest of your day.
Acupuncture and Integration
Classical Chinese Medicine, including Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine and Bodywork are a comprehensive set of holistic therapies, designed to support any individual.
Specifically, acupuncture is amazing at helping patients gain a better awareness of the connection between their mind, body, emotions, and their on Spirit. Acupuncture is ideally suited to promote mindfulness and awareness of oneself on a much deeper level, just as medicinal therapies and medicinal experiences can also support this process.
Acupuncture and Chinese medicine help to support your body where it is most needed. With this, your practitioner can address anything from physical complaints, mental-emotional conditions, and even existential events or trauma.
With integration work, we might ask: “How can I best support you, with what you are experiencing, right now?”
Acupuncture treatments can help with: Embodiment, Grounding, and Reducing Stress and Anxiety, calming the nervous system, calming the spirit, relaxing the breath.