Chinese medicine understands the body as an ecosystem. The same care that eases one thing steadies the whole.
Explore the areas below. You may find yourself in more than one.
Women’s Health & Fertility
A woman's body moves through more change than any other — month to month, and across the great arc of a life. Some of that change is a threshold: the first bleed, the possibility of a child, pregnancy and postpartum, the slow turn toward perimenopause. Some of it is the quieter, daily work of a cycling body — and the pain, irregularity, or imbalance that can arrive when that rhythm is strained.
Here, we tend all of it. Whether you're hoping to conceive, to steady a cycle that's become painful or unpredictable, or to move through a hormonal transition with more ease, this work meets the whole of you — offering nourishment for what is changing, steadiness for what feels uncertain, and room for your body to find its way without losing the wisdom of all that came before.
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Menstrual & cycle health: PMS, PMDD, painful periods, irregular or absent cycles
PCOS & ovulatory or hormonal concerns
Endometriosis & adenomyosis
Uterine fibroids & ovarian cysts
Fertility support: preconception care, natural conception, IVF/IUI, egg quality & recurrent pregnancy loss
Pregnancy support & birth preparation
Postpartum recovery & lactation support
Perimenopause, menopause & surgical or early menopause
Post-hysterectomy & post-surgical hormonal support
Changes in libido, vaginal dryness & discomfort with intimacy
Pelvic floor dysfunction, pelvic pain & recurrent UTIs
Nervous System & Emotional Wellbeing
Your nervous system is the ground beneath how you experience your life. It shapes whether the world feels welcoming or overwhelming, whether you can move through stress and find your way back, and whether your body feels safe enough to rest, digest, repair, and connect. When a body spends too long braced for threat, the effects ripple outward as tension, disrupted sleep, emotional reactivity, fatigue, and burnout.
Acupuncture restores flexibility to this system, helping the body shift out of persistent sympathetic activation and toward parasympathetic rest and repair. Over time, there is more room for clarity, resilience, and the quiet confidence that you can meet what comes.
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Anxiety & overwhelm
Low mood & depression
Chronic stress, burnout & nervous system depletion
Nervous system dysregulation & difficulty settling
A disproportionate stress response or difficulty returning to baseline
Grief & major life transitions
Focus & mental clarity
Internal Health
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To be nourished is about more than eating well. A body must be able to receive, transform, and make something useful from what it is given. Digestion is the daily work of transforming food into fuel. Through the gut-brain axis, this work also shapes energy, immunity, hormones, mood, and mental clarity. When this foundation loses its rhythm, the effects can be felt far beyond the belly. Acupuncture tends to the whole digestive terrain, restoring movement, ease, and the capacity to be nourished from the inside out.
COMMONLY SUPPORTED CONDITIONS
Bloating, gas or flatulence, abdominal discomfort & distension
Acid reflux, heartburn, GERD & frequent belching
Constipation, diarrhea, loose stools & incomplete elimination
IBS, SIBO & microbiome disruption
Nausea, appetite changes & feeling overly full
Food sensitivities, histamine reactivity & malabsorption
Fatigue, brain fog or energy crashes after eating
Celiac disease, IBD & autoimmune digestive conditions
Intestinal permeability concerns (“leaky gut”)
Hemorrhoids & diverticular disease
Symptom support with hiatal or abdominal hernias
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Your immune system is a living boundary between you and the world. It is constantly listening and deciding what to welcome, what to defend against, and what to let pass. This intelligence is shaped through its conversation with the gut, lungs, nervous system, and the environment around you. When the boundary becomes depleted or too vigilant, the body may catch every illness, react to every season, or struggle to find its way back after a threat has passed.
Acupuncture tends to this boundary, strengthening where the body is depleted and calming where it has become overprotective. As the system finds greater steadiness, there is more room to move through the world with resilience, discernment, and ease.
COMMONLY SUPPORTED CONDITIONS
Seasonal & environmental allergies
Frequent illness or slow recovery
Sinus congestion & sinusitis
Chronic cough & respiratory symptoms
Post-viral symptoms & Long COVID recovery
Autoimmune conditions & chronic inflammation
MCAS, histamine intolerance & heightened reactivity
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Sleep is where an extraordinary amount of healing takes place. Overnight, your body consolidates memory, regulates hormones, repairs tissue, replenishes the immune system, and clears the mind of the day’s residue. It is among the most foundational things we do. When it falters, the effects ripple outward into mood, metabolism, focus, and resilience.
Acupuncture helps settle an overwrought nervous system and restore the body’s capacity to drop into deep, genuinely restorative rest. With deeper rest comes more room for energy, clarity, steadiness, and everything your waking life asks of you.
COMMONLY SUPPORTED CONDITIONS
Difficulty falling asleep
Frequent waking or difficulty returning to sleep
Early-morning waking
Light, restless or unrefreshing sleep
Racing thoughts or feeling “wired but tired” at bedtime
Vivid dreams or dream-disturbed sleep
Fatigue & low daytime energy
Sleep changes during pregnancy, postpartum or perimenopause
Circadian disruption, shift work & jet lag
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Metabolic health is the body’s art of conversion and circulation. At its heart, it is a conversation about enough: enough energy to move through the day, enough warmth to feel alive inside your body, enough steadiness between meals, and enough reserve to recover when life asks more of you. This rhythm is carried by the thyroid, pancreas, liver, heart and blood vessels, digestion, sleep, and stress hormones. When it falls out of sync, some changes are felt as fatigue, cravings, temperature or weight shifts. Others emerge more quietly through blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, and other measures of cardiovascular health.
Acupuncture works with the whole pattern, supporting steadier energy, freer circulation, and a body better able to regulate, adapt, and recover.
COMMONLY SUPPORTED CONDITIONS
Thyroid-related symptoms
Temperature sensitivity, fatigue & changes in hair or skin
Blood sugar swings, cravings & insulin sensitivity
Weight changes & metabolism
Blood pressure, cholesterol & cardiovascular health
Energy, stamina & recovery
COMMONLY SUPPORTED CONDITIONS
Pain, Injury & Recovery
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Pain is one of the body's oldest languages of protection. Acupuncture is one of the most studied, effective ways to answer it.
It meets the shoulders that carry a hard week, the back that's earned its years, the joint pushed to its limit, and the body made to keep moving. Whether you're healing, rebuilding, or demanding more of yourself, this work calms the signal, frees what's been guarding, and restores circulation, mobility, and strength.
This is recovery in service of momentum and freedom — so you can train, rebound, and stay strong in the life you love, for the long run.
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The pelvis is a meeting place. It is where the upper and lower body find one another, where breath and movement meet, and where so much of being human lives: elimination, intimacy, creation, pleasure, and the instinct to protect. The pelvic floor moves in conversation with the diaphragm and belongs to a deep fascial web connecting the inner legs, hips, abdomen, and spine. The organs held within this landscape are part of that conversation too, moving with each breath and relying on space, circulation, and the quiet glide of tissue against tissue. Chinese medicine has long understood this terrain as a reservoir of essence, creative potential, and inherited wisdom.
After birth, surgery, injury, pain, or years of quiet guarding, it can also become a place of holding. Acupuncture and gentle hands-on work help soften what has learned to brace, restore circulation, and create more room for breath, movement, pleasure, and trust within this deeply sensitive center of the body.
COMMONLY SUPPORTED CONDITIONS
Pelvic floor dysfunction & pelvic pain
Pain with intimacy & vaginismus
Bladder urgency, frequency & incontinence
Bowel dysfunction related to pelvic-floor tension
Pelvic organ prolapse, pressure & heaviness
Visceral tension & abdominal or pelvic adhesions
Hernia-related pain, tension & recovery
Abdominal-wall dysfunction & diastasis recti
Pelvic pain associated with ovarian cysts, fibroids & endometriosis
Tailbone or coccyx pain
Pregnancy & postpartum pelvic recovery
Post-surgical recovery & scar tissue
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Recovery is what allows effort to become strength. It is where the body returns to its oldest wisdom: repairing what has been strained, integrating what has been learned, and gathering itself for what comes next.
Acupuncture is an invaluable recovery tool for keeping bodies in motion. It helps regulate pain, settle the nervous system, soften muscular guarding, support circulation, and give hardworking or injured tissues more of what they need to mend. Whether you are reaching for a new goal, rebuilding after injury or surgery, or tending the movement you hope to carry through a lifetime, your body deserves recovery that is as intentional as the effort itself.
The heart of this work is not simply getting you back in motion. It is helping you find your way back to the movement that excites you and the version of yourself you meet there.
COMMONLY SUPPORTED CONDITIONS
Athletic performance, training recovery & resilience
Sprains, strains, contusions & muscle tears
Tendinopathy, tendon injuries & ligament injuries
Overuse, repetitive-stress & training-load injuries
Plantar fasciitis, shin splints & IT band pain
Joint pain, stiffness & restricted range of motion
Post-exercise soreness, fatigue & mobility recovery
Recovery after fractures or immobilization
Post-operative orthopedic recovery, including ACL or meniscus repair, rotator-cuff or labral surgery & joint replacement
Scar tissue, swelling & post-surgical restriction
Return-to-sport recovery & confidence
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The body has always known how to make another path. The nervous system is living, listening, and responsive, continually shaping itself around what we experience. What modern science calls neuroplasticity echoes an older knowing: we are not fixed. Even after injury, illness, or neurological change, the brain and body continue to learn, adapt, and find new ways forward.
Scalp and body acupuncture work with this innate intelligence. Each needle offers a small, precise signal, helping the nervous system orient, quiet pain, refine sensation, and find greater ease in movement, clarity, and the rhythms that happen beneath conscious thought. The work is not to force the body back to where it was, but to tend the conditions in which something new can become possible.
COMMONLY SUPPORTED CONDITIONS
Migraines & chronic headaches
Facial pain, trigeminal neuralgia & Bell’s palsy recovery
Carpal tunnel & other nerve entrapments
Peripheral neuropathy, nerve pain, numbness & tingling
Brain fog, cognitive fatigue & difficulty concentrating
Dizziness, vertigo & changes in balance
Post-concussion symptoms
Dysautonomia & POTS
Post-stroke recovery & rehabilitation
COMMONLY SUPPORTED CONDITIONS
Not seeing yours?
Acupuncture treats humans, not just diagnoses — which means this list could genuinely go on for ages of pages. If what you’re carrying isn’t named here, that’s not a no. It’s an invitation to reach out and ask. Whether you’re here in Bend or working with me virtually, I’ll always tell you honestly whether this is a good fit — and if it isn’t, I’ll help you find what is.