Treatment Style + Specialties​​

I am a licensed acupuncturist through the Oregon Medical Board (OMB) and nationally certified through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine (NCBAHM). I attended the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM) from 2017-2020. I served as a Teaching Assistant and an Herbal Medicinary Supervisor at OCOM from 2020-2024. I use acupuncture, e-stim, moxibustion, cupping, gua sha, herbal medicine, and bodywork to treat patients with chronic pain and neurological issues, mental emotional well-being, and internal medicine, including hormonal and metabolic regulation, autoimmune and inflammatory conditions, cardiopulmonary, digestive, and reproductive, issues, and aging through the life cycle. I use sterile, single-use needles and I practice clean needle technique. I am highly trained to offer you the best treatment for your condition in the safest, most effective manner possible. I bring trauma- and substance-use-informed perspectives to my work. 

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Practice Locations + Volunteer Service

My primary clinical practice is Advanced Acupuncture in Lake Oswego. I sub regularly at  Quest Center for Integrative Health, working with diverse populations of all ages, backgrounds, and identities in non-opiate pain management and substance use recovery. At Quest, I have the opportunity to serve folks at Rose Haven Women's Day Shelter and NARA NW, and held a regular shift at the Oregon Change Clinic (OCC) substance use clinic every Friday for two years.​

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I volunteer as a Board Member and Research Committee Chair for the Oregon Association of Acupuncturists (OAA). I have published extensive literature reviews on acupuncture efficacy, safety, cost-effectiveness available on the OAA research resources page and on the evidence page of this site. With 17 years of experience in experiential science education, I am invested in learning/sharing how acupuncture works and in helping to improve acupuncture education and research quality. 

 

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Personal Experience​​

I seek to share practices with you that have helped ease my journey and create more meaning and connection in my life. I understand from personal experience what it feels like to live with chronic musculoskeletal pain as a result of skeletal misalignment, sports injuries, and auto injury. As a former college athlete and lifelong yogi, I am fluent in working with athletes, movers, and bodies of all kinds. I am committed to helping you feel better. I have successfully used whole foods, herbs, and acupuncture to heal my gut, and invite you to begin healing yours. Acupuncture, herbs, and bodywork have softened the edges of my mind-body experience. I want you to experience the physical and emotional softness and flow that comes with stress reduction, allowing you to be more productive in your relationships, creative projects, and work. Chinese medicine has offered me ease in my cycles of life and I invite you to allow it to ease yours. I honor your time on this earth and am committed to helping you find balance and meaning at every stage.

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Path to Acupuncture
My path to acupuncture and Chinese Medicine was resonant with a sense of time and place in my life in 2004. It was women’s health that led me to acupuncture. I received my first treatment at Boston’s Fenway Medical Center, in the rush and hum of the city close to research institutions and hospitals, and the gritty energy of the gap between wealth and poverty. I consider Pathways to Wellness, the New England School of Acupuncture (NESA) intern clinic, my first acupuncture home. Under the care of NESA interns, my curiosity grew regarding the benefits I received from treatments. Pathways’ location above South Boston Medical Center modeled integrative care and the opportunity for social impact; I could see huge possibilities for the growth and reach of this medicine. I had just graduated from the University of Maine with my Master’s degree in Science and Environmental Education, and worked late nights at Allston and Porter Square coffee shops preparing teaching lessons for my high school biology and chemistry classes. Facebook was being developed at Harvard a couple miles from where I lived in Brighton. Life felt rich with possibility, positive impact to be made, and social problems to be solved. I kept a brochure from Pathways on my bulletin board at Upward Bound where I worked over the next 14 years, keeping the dream alive that acupuncture could be part of the solution to many of the social issues facing the world. I envision someday combining acupuncture with social/educational programs for youth and am grateful for the opportunities to give back to the communities around me.

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Balance

My life has been a pursuit of integrating balance between body and mind. I'm a lifelong lover of learning, writing, playing outdoors in nature, movement, music, and delicious, healthful food. I invested the entire first half of my professional life in academia, studying Biology and English in undergraduate school, and attended graduate school for Science & Environmental Education; Human Nutrition; and Acupuncture & East Asian Medicine. At the University of Maine Upward Bound Math Science (UBMS) Program, I worked with high achieving, low-income, first generation high school students for 17 years, leading students through exploratory, hands-on group and individual research/design projects, including scientific writing and statistics. I'm a former high school and college athlete (field hockey, track & field, cheerleading, swimming, cross-country, and lacrosse), and a 500-hour trained yoga instructor (vinyasa, yin, nidra) who taught for 9 years before moving to Oregon. I have always had my hands in the dirt. I grew up on a Christmas tree farm and nursery, worked many farming and landscaping jobs, installed a garden on my front lawn to make a statement about reducing fossil fuel use, and now have a community herb/vegetable garden. My love of acupuncture and herbal ecological systems medicine is rooted in the fields and woods of New England where I grew up and in the beauty of the Pacific Northwest where I now live. I am fluent in whole systems; my interests and life experiences inform my acupuncture  treatments.

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Inspiration, Aspiration, and Acknowledgement​​

I am inspired to create greater access to acupuncture. I provide heart- and science-based patient care that aspires to be truly integrative. I open lines of communication with biomedical practitioners/researchers and respect western medicine and scientific research for all that it has to offer individual and public health. I bow to the wisdom of the ancient lineages of Chinese and Ayurvedic medicines for the whole-person systemic healing they provide. I am truly grateful to practice and receive their healing. I recognize that healing flows from the universe through me, and humbly recognize the power and trust each patient places in me. I acknowledge the beautiful power of acupuncture, herbal medicine, healing touch, and mindful movement, and understand that as a practitioner I influence only a small part of the human healing experience, allowing you to take center-stage in your wellness.  My heart is aligned with helping people and I am truly grateful for the opportunity to practice this medicine.​

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Please allow me to join you on your healing journey! 

~Abundant flow of all good things to you~

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Kelly