About Your Practitioner    

We help you feel better so that you can look better.

We help you look better so that you can feel better.

Your health affects everything, including your appearance.  Stress shows up in your face.  But so does serenity.  Acupuncture and Traditional East Asian Medicine can offer relief from stress, from pain, and from the ailments that prematurely age you and affect the beauty shining from your eyes. We want to help you face the world, without stress, pain, and anxiety.  Let us help!  Here's more about my background and training:

Credentials: 

• Your practitioner is recognized as a Diplomate of Acupuncture by the NCCAOM. 

  • This certification requires graduation from a three-year accredited acupuncture program.  Diplomates must pass three national board exams covering specifics of biomedicine, acupuncture point location and safety, and foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory.  

• Through an additional two-year course of study at the Won Institute in Philadelphia, your practitioner is also certified in Chinese Medicinal Herbs. 

• Your practitioner has been practicing since 2009.  She opened and managed a clinic in Richmond, VA from 2012 - 2018.  Her newest clinic in Federal Hill, Baltimore is under construction.  It is awaiting inspection, so appointments are on hold just until the City blesses the new clinic. 

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Current State Licenses in Acupuncture:
  Pennsylvania Board of Medicine

Virginia Board of Medicine

Maryland Board of Acupuncture

​Education:
College of William & Mary, BA

University of South Carolina, MA

Maryland University of Integrative Health, M.Ac. (Master's of Acupuncture)

The Won Institute of Graduate Studies:   Master's Certificate in Herbal Medicine 

Practice Modalities:

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• Traditional East Asian Medicine (also known as Traditional Chinese Medicine or TCM) includes Acupuncture and  Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine. 

  • Acupuncture  (includes single use needles, moxibustion/moxa, gua sha, cupping, and other practices in scope for state licensing under the board of medicine). 

  • There are many, many styles of acupuncture.  I've trained in very western applications such as "dry needling," which is orthopedic- focused on pain relief.  I've also trained in Master Tung's style, Dr. Tan's "Balance Method", and "Five Element Classical Acupuncture."  Don't worry if you don't know what all that means.  I just include it here because sometimes people have experienced a certain style and want to find someone who has that same training.  I've specifically trained in applications that include:

    • Women's Reproductive Health: from menarche to menopause and beyond, including migraines

    • Dermatological Applications:  acne, rosacea, psoriasis, eczema, and more. 

    • Dry Needling:  Ways to target the areas of the fascia, muscle, and nervous system to address muscular pain.  The American Medical Association (in its creation of the billing codes used for 'dry needling') acknowledges that what PT's call "Dry Needling" is the same thing as acupuncture.

• Traditional East Asian Herbal Medicine: Using classical formulas (raw herbs, decocted) to address any of the issues listed above.  Many of these formulas have been in constant use since antiquity (two centuries before the birth of Christ). 

• Frequency Specific Microcurrent: Using microcurrent to remedy various ailments, as appropriate.

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Learn more about your practitioner's acupuncture training and other experiences.

The combination of acupuncture and herbs can safely, gently, holistically, and non-invasively restore balance for optimal physical, mental, and emotional well-being. 

Side effects, if any, are overwhelmingly beneficial and benign.

Request a consult or request your first appointment today.