Services

Facial rejuvenation Services

 Facial Acupuncture is the use of small needles, facial cupping, gua sha, and micro needling services to help decrease fine lines, help muscle tone, even skin tone, decrease acne or acne scaring and decrease lymphatic stagnation that may occur in the face. Often serums are used to enhance these results. Many people add on light therapy treatments for an enhanced result. 

Reiki

Reiki is a Japanese form of energy work that cleanses and balances the energy system in the body. As a result, the body's natural self-healing mechanisms strengthen, helping to establish optimum health.

During a session, I work directly with your energy field to remove blockages, detoxify your system, and restore your vital life force energy. Reiki utilizes a gentle laying on of hands to conduct the necessary energy force between us. The benefits of Reiki range from the release of habitual mental/emotional stress to alleviating chronic pain.

As a stand alone service or an add-on to any other service.

Light Therapies

Red Light Therapy is used to promote collagen production, anti aging, helps to lighten the skin and decrease blemishes and to reduce fine lines and wrinkles.

Blue Light Therapy is used to reduce wrinkles, even skin tone, and is antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. It can treat herpes, burns and reduce wrinkles and even out skin tone.  Blue Light Therapy also calms and reduces inflammation and redness, ideal for those with acne or Rosacea.

Green Light Therapy is used to balance the skin, detoxification, antibacterial, relieve blood vessel pressure.  It helps to improve the appearance of skin by reducing the appearance of sun damage, helps with fine lines and wrinkles.

Purple Light Therapy is used for cell regeneration, improved lymphatic metabolism. Reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, improves skin tone and texture, and works for all ages.

Yellow Light Therapy Reduces inflammation and redness caused by sunburn, anti-inflammatory properties to soothe irritated skin and reduce redness.

White Light Therapy provides relation, accelerates tissue metabolism, treats fine lines, wrinkles and sun damage. Improves skin's overall texture and tone.

Pricing for a stand alone service or an add-on services.  Great in addition to Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture.

Cupping

Cupping has been a part of Chinese Medicine for over 2,500 years. It relieves aches and pains, improves circulation, and also helps with respiratory and digestive issues. I simply place a specialized "cup" onto specific points on your body, and then use suction to draw your skin up into the cups. It doesn't hurt — it simply draws fresh blood to that area of your body, which facilitates the cleansing and strengthening of your Qi (energy). The end result is a greater overall sense of health and well-being. Pricing for cupping occurs when booked as an individual session.

Pricing applies when booked as a stand alone service.

Gua Sha

Although Gua Sha is an ancient healing technique used by Chinese Medicine practitioners for thousands of years, it is relatively unknown in the West. It is recognized throughout Asia as a highly effective treatment for chronic pain conditions, stress, fatigue, and a host of other ailments.

First, Gua Sha oil is applied to a specific meridian (energy pathway) on your body. I then use a smooth round-edged object (such as a spoon) to apply short brisk strokes to that area. This creates red patches of skin (called "Sha"), detoxifying your blood and restoring the healthy flow if Qi (energy) to the area. There is no pain involved, and the Sha will fade in 2 to 3 days. But the sense of health and vitality you experience from it will last much longer.

Pricing when booked as an individual session.

Moxibustion

Moxibustion is a Traditional Chinese Medicine technique that involves the burning of mugwort, a small, spongy herb, to facilitate healing and health. Moxibustion has been used for healing purposes throughout Asia for thousands of years. The purpose of moxibustion, as with most forms of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is to strengthen the blood, stimulate the flow of Qi (energy), and enhance your overall vitality and health.

Among other benefits, a landmark study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998 found that 75.4% of women suffering from breech presentations before childbirth had fetuses that rotated to the normal position after receiving moxibustion at an acupuncture point on the bladder meridian.

Pricing applies when booked as a stand alone service.

Tui Na

Tui Na is an ancient form of bodywork that is based on the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine. I use a variety of pressures and strokes along the meridians (energy pathways) of your body to both relax your muscles and also stimulate the flow of energy throughout your body. By treating both the physical (musculature) and energetic (Qi) levels of your body at the same time, I can achieve different results from what you’d receive from a conventional massage therapy session. These is used as needed in conjunction with your acupuncture session. I currently do not book Tui Na as a stand alone service.

Electroacupuncture

Electroacupuncture is a highly effective holistic treatment for pain, nausea, and chronic ailments. In practice, it is actually very similar to traditional acupuncture. Using the exact same system of Chinese Medicine, I insert very thin and sterile needles into specific points along the meridians of your body. I then attach the needles to a device that delivers gentle electrical pulses between two points. This helps restore the healthy flow of Qi (energy) through your body, removing any blockages and clearing out stagnant areas, thus creating a stronger and clearer experience of health and well-being.

Pulse Diagnosis

One of the most common questions that patients ask about Chinese Medicine is: "Why does my practitioner check my pulse?" Pulse diagnosis is actually one of the most complex and important diagnostic techniques we use in Chinese Medicine. Through feeling and evaluating your pulse, I obtain an accurate diagnosis of your overall constitution, Qi (energy) flow, and internal organ health, among other things. I then synthesize all of this information into a highly effective and individualized treatment plan for your specific needs.

Far Infrared mat

Infrared heat therapy actually provides warmth in a deeper level than ordinary heat therapy like a heating pad. It uses a wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum, it’s the same type of warmth the sun provides for us. 

Infrared wavelengths are actually able to travel an inch or two past the surface of the skin and give you a deep warming heat which you can really feel. It helps by increasing circulation and helping sore spots on your body.  This mimics moxibustion in Traditional Chinese Medicine, many of the same treatment protocols can be used depending on placement.  Moxa still has its place but when this can be used it covers a larger area and helps for people that have a hard time with smoke and the smell of moxa.

So, what can we expect following a session of Infrared heat therapy?

Studies have shown an increase in blood circulation, oxygenation of the tissue and pain levels can decrease. Other side benefits can include increased sleep, less fatigue, and a decrease in joint pain. Detoxification and increased immune function, which are really just a side result of decreased inflammation, can also be experienced. The use of a mat is more localized than a sauna and for some conditions preferable.