My personal quest for healthy living, my empathy for the human condition and my love for working with plants and plant medicine is what brought me to choose the study and practice of Chinese medicine.
I have my Master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine and have been licensed since 2007. I am a nationally accredited and Colorado licensed acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist.
My hope as a practitioner is to guide and nurture one on their self-empowered path toward healing and continued wellness. My role as a practitioner is to use Traditional Chinese Medicine as a supportive complement of care for the family. Chinese Medicine can optimize our health and the healing processis and it is an option of care that can help with many non-life threatening health issues.
Additional training outside of my Traditional Chinese Medicine degree, I have decided to strengthen and follow my interests in herbal medicine, women’s and children’s health. I have continued my women’s health studies with Aviva Romm, in a women’s health educator and Western herbal medicine program and have learned a needleless technique (shonishin) taught by Soma Glick, that is well received by infants and toddlers.
Aside from building a TCM practice, I also volunteer my acupuncture services to hospice patients through Agape Healthcare.
A little more about me and my life interests :
I was a student athlete, lettering 4 years in golf, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After graduating with a BA in Psychology in 1993, I gathered work experiences in the mental health field, the wilderness leadership field, and organic farming. My sense of adventure has taken me to Guatemala with Habitat for Humanity, backpacking through Italy, and on a self-supported bicycle trip across the American Southwest and up the southern California coast.
I enjoy swimming with the University of Denver Masters swim team and have found a love in long distance open water swimming. Other things I enjoy are getting out on my bike, gardening and growing food for the family, practicing or playing golf, and spending time with my family.
