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Medicine has always been part of my life. I come from a family of pharmacists, and I started college on the pre-med track. Within a week, I switched to journalism. I wanted to change the world through storytelling.

That choice took me through daily crime and political reporting in Montana, then through South America as a travel blogger. The work taught me to listen to people from every walk of life, follow a tangled story, and find the thread that holds it together.

Stories led me back to medicine. On a small farm in Colombia, I met a way of healing built on community, connection, and the rhythms of the world. We cooked and ate together, practiced mindful movement, and talked for hours. Back in Montana, a mentor introduced me to reflexology and acupressure. Chinese medicine started knocking at my door.

I trained in Classical Chinese Medicine at the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. I practice through a constitutional lens, looking at the whole person and the pattern beneath the symptoms. My acupuncture draws on Japanese meridian therapy and the Saam and Master Tung traditions, and I prescribe classical herbal formulas rooted in the six conformations.

Today I work with the nervous system, the meeting place of our inner and outer worlds. Many of my patients feel stuck. They live with chronic illness, autoimmune disease, MCAS, digestive distress, poor sleep, anxiety. I listen to the whole story first. Then I look for the knots one cannot see, and I loosen them with needles and plants. Your story is important, and it can keep changing.

If you have been told nothing is wrong, I would like to hear your story.