I was first introduced to Chinese Medicine as a young adult. I have always been interested in health, and as a child used to love reading the Family Medical Guide with the quizzes and pictures of disease. However, I had never considered it as a career path. Instead, I moved to New York City to study acting at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

Around this time, my mother was battling breast cancer and had what appeared to be a recurrence on her yearly scan.  Having witnessed her suffer the side-effects of multiple rounds of chemotherapy, radiation, and tamoxifen, I became consumed with trying to help her fight cancer, and set about researching as much as I could about complementary and alternative treatments. I discovered a whole new world of natural medicine and healing that treated and supported the whole person, and I realized a passion for helping others that ultimately changed the course of my life.

It has been said, that in order to have a happy and fulfilling life, one should choose work that feels more like play. I feel very fortunate to have found such “work”. Traditional Chinese Medicine is a very old and complex practice of healing. I could study it my whole life, and still, have more to learn. It is like getting to solve the most beautiful puzzles, to be able to group seemingly unrelated symptoms into a unified pattern of disharmony and then treat the root of the problem.

Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine are effective in treating a wide variety of ailments. My practice is focused on improving Women’s health. Things that I commonly treat are PMS, Endometriosis, PCOS, Infertility, Menopause, Thyroid disease, and Fibromyalgia.

My patients come to me for help with stress, anxiety, depression, insomnia, digestive upsets (constipation, diarrhea, stomach pain), migraines, acne, irregular periods, painful periods, night sweats, hot flashes, low libido, low back pain, neck pain, joint pain