Education & Training
Licensure & Training Details:
- I'm board certified, nationally accredited and licensed in Colorado and Washington State.
- I hold a 4-year Masters in Classical Five-Element Acupuncture.
- I'm currently a Doctoral candidate in Advanced Pain Management from Bastyr University of Natural Health.
- I have 10 years of direct clinical training with top clinicians.
Masters in Acupuncture
Classical Five-Element Acupuncture
This unique style of acupuncture offers an immediate benefit to your overall sense of wellbeing. You feel good in your spirits as mental, and emotional pain and discomfort eases. You gain a renewed sense of vitality as you begin to heal from the inside out.
I'm clinically trained in lineage of J.R. Worsley earning a 4-year Masters in Classical Five-Element Acupuncture (CFEA) from the Institute of Taoist Education & Acupuncture.
Apprenticeship Training
Japanese Structural Acupuncture:
This unique style of acupuncture delivers dramatic improvement in pain, movement, and function. The effect is systemic, rapid and long lasting. Your posture shifts, pain disappears, you heal at a deep level. The original cause of why the condition developed resolves, leaving you with a healthy and vibrant body.
I'm an apprentice to Dr. Chieko Maekawa and Dr. Daiichi Sorimachi in Seitai Shinpo - Japanese Structural Acupuncture (JSA).
Nationally Certified:
NCCAOM Diplomate of Acupuncture:
National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine grants a national Diplomate of Acupuncture after an extensive 4-year Masters degree, thousands of hours of training, and 3 rigorous national licensure examinations. I'm a Licensed Acupuncturist by the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) in the State of Colorado, and the Washington State Deptment of Health.
Clinical Training:
The Balance Method
The Balance Method is a unique style of acupuncture which produces instant reduction of pain. Results are obtained without ever directly needing to touch the part of the body that's hurting. This makes it ideal when you're guarding what's hurting from further injury. I'm trained in the lineage of Dr. Teh Fu Tan master of Si Yuan Balance Method Acupuncture.
Zero Balancing
Aligns Bones, Muscles, and Tendons without pain.
Lineage of Dr. Fritz Smith
This bodywork modality relieves pain while reconnecting you to the natural space and groundedness that’s already inside you. By working with the gentle restorative power in our bones, ZB painlessly aligns your whole structure, and accesses your deep reserves of vitality and core strength.
Often when we stretch, we find that areas are too painful, or simply inaccessible to us. Because stress makes us stiffen, our muscles and bones lose flexibility. Moving throughout our daily lives can cause even more pain as we rub up against old problems. Change can often feel unnatural and difficult when we try to shift things on our own. Sometimes our heads and not connected to our bodies, or our feet feel like they never quite touch the ground.
How it works ...
Zero Balancing is designed to unwind these patterns and reconnect you to your center. This painless modality uses gentle pressure and traction on your bones and muscles in specific planes of motion. Because this therapy works best through loose-fitting clothing, you can remain clothed throughout the session. As the session progresses you begin to feel at home with the weight, shape, and size of your body. The resulting release in your structure resets your muscles, and bones and unwinds the tightness inside you. The result is a feeling of real spaceousness, groundedness, increased peace and overall sense of wellbeing.
Sotai - Neuromuscular Reeducation
Teaches you to painlessly undo pain on movement and poor flexibility.
Lineage of Dr. Keizo Hashimoto
Sotai addresses the patterns of sickness created by our own behavior. "SoTai" translates to "No Exercise" therapy. This style of therapy undoes bad movement habits within minutes. When we move our body against design through incorrect action, we create our own sickness.
Sotai is amazing because it is easy to learn and we teach this to you in our sessions. Once you learn it, you can use it at home, in your car, or while cruising the ski slopes, or running a marathon. It will give you agility and flexibility in a way that yoga and stretching doesn't.
You simply move the way you want, painlessly and without effort. It simply 'feels right'. When you're doing what 'feels right', you meet no resistance. This teaches you to do what's authentic.
How it works ...
This therapy is designed to diagnose unique ways of movement inside your body. It painlessly corrects structural imbalances. Because you only move in ways which feel natural and pain free, no further pain is produced and existing pain is resolved instantly.
This therapy is used in clinic, or prescribed individually. Over a course of treatment we teach it to you. This therapy is designed to give you results immediately, whenever you use it. When exercises are performed at home, you gain a new mastery over the symptoms you encounter when you move the wrong way, or hurt yourself in sports.