THE MOST PROFOUND GIFT WE CAN OFFER THE WORLD IS OUR OWN HEALING.
These words have been a quiet companion through many seasons of my life. I didn’t just believe them—I lived them. Long before I became a practitioner, I was a young woman in pain, searching for answers no one seemed to have.
My journey into medicine didn’t begin with curiosity. It began with crisis. At sixteen, I received a misdiagnosis that led to a cascade of medical interventions, triggering a serious breakdown in my health, leaving me physically and emotionally unrecognizable to myself. I felt alone inside my experience, trying to piece together a life that no longer felt like mine.
That period changed everything. And while I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, I now recognize it as a turning point. It dismantled everything I thought I knew and led me to a path of healing that transformed my entire life.
Eventually, I found my way to India, where I immersed myself in spiritual practice and silent meditation. If I couldn’t fix my body through medication, I wondered if meditation could show me another way. It was there that something in me softened, and something else awakened.
I met an acupuncturist whose presence was intuitive, grounded, and wise. For the first time, I encountered a vision of healing that extended beyond symptom management, one that honored the body’s intelligence and the deeper patterns shaping our health. At that moment, I didn’t just feel inspired. I felt called. I knew I was meant to bring this kind of medicine into the world.
Returning home, I devoted myself to the study of Traditional Chinese Medicine and began rebuilding my life from the inside out. My body changed. My nervous system settled. My energy returned. And perhaps most importantly, I stopped seeing myself as broken. Healing became a relationship with my body and a restoration of the parts of me that had been silenced for too long.
When I began treating patients, it was one woman navigating years of infertility who awakened something in me. What moved me was her willingness to do whatever it took to heal. There was a quiet fierceness in her, born not from ease but from years of struggle. She approached the process with trust and an open heart, and together, healing many of her underlying health challenges, she conceived naturally.
That experience stayed with me. It illuminated something I hadn’t fully grasped before: we often view having a baby as a goal to reach, a milestone to achieve. But the truth is, the journey to motherhood touches every part of us, our beliefs, our identity, our relationship to our bodies and to those we love, our connection to the feminine, our power, our sense of worth, and the quiet places where control and longing begin to unravel.
Working with her helped me see that reproductive challenges can be a profound invitation to return to ourselves with greater honesty, compassion, and courage. That patient became the reason I chose to specialize in this field. I knew I wanted to support women who were ready for that kind of transformation.
As my practice deepened, I began to see the limits of acupuncture and lifestyle modifications. While its effects were powerful, they were often not enough. Beneath the surface, so many women were carrying unresolved grief, anxiety, shame, and ancestral trauma, calling for a kind of care that was slower, deeper, and more attuned than the tools I was first trained to use.
I turned toward somatic work in the form of nervous system repair and trauma resolution and began weaving in practices that addressed the emotional, energetic, and relational dimensions of healing. Together, these modalities formed a more complete and holistic approach. I watched women not just conceive, but reconnect with themselves in ways that felt meaningful, lasting, and real.
Today, I integrate many different modalities in a way that is both clinical and intuitive, structured and spacious. I offer this path to women who are ready to be active participants in their own healing, who sense that their current challenge may be guiding them toward a more aligned and embodied life.
This path has never been separate from my own. It is a living and evolving practice, one I share with reverence, humility, and devotion. It remains one of the greatest privileges of my life to walk alongside women as they heal, remember their power, and reclaim their wholeness.
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•Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM)
•Acupuncturist licensed in New York and California
•Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM), National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
•Certified as a Fellow of the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine (ABORM)
•Graduated with honors from Yo San University with a Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine
•Graduated from Cal State Fullerton with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Asian Philosophy