Every person needs a recovery strategy, whether from an intense workout, stressful job, ongoing emotional concerns, PTSD, chronic pain, or injury. My compassionate treatments are designed to provide pain relief, release stress, and help unblock physical, mental, emotional, and/or spiritual patterns to promote your healthy energetic flow. Acupuncture provides a unique opportunity to address the body’s energetic and physiologic processes utilizing an ancient and effective medical system. My extensive personal and professional knowledge is the foundation of a very holistic approach to your health care.
About Melissa
My personal healing path led me to acupuncture through two complicated autoimmune health crises. As a high school varsity athlete diagnosed with Lyme Disease, I personally discovered that the mind/body/spirit connection is crucial to sustainable overall health. After completing my undergraduate in Psychology at Lewis and Clark College in 2000, I spent the following 15 years working in health care market research, providing strategic disease management tactics to pharmaceutical companies. Frustrated by the gaps in the traditional Western medical system that did not treat the whole person, I then graduated with on my Masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine at Five Branches University in Santa Cruz, and received my L.Ac. (License as an Acupuncturist). But in the process, and in the midst of one of the most stressful times in my life, I experienced severe autoimmune complications during my first pregnancy. Despite the odds (90% chance of disease recurrence during subsequent pregnancy), I applied my integrated knowledge of holistic health care, nutrition, stress reduction, and spiritual mindfulness in order have very healthy second pregnancy in my final year of acupuncture school. My two boys are the light of my life, and I am blessed to be their mom.
Services
Acupuncture/Acupressure
Cupping Therapy
Gua Sha & Myofascial Techniques
Yin Tuina
Facial/Beauty Acupuncture
