The Treatment Process!
Initial Contact
When you're ready to start treatment, please book your appointment online. Once your booking is confirmed, I will send you an intake form to complete before your appointment. This allows me to review your health concerns and goals in advance to ensure a more personalized first session.
Subsequent Treatments
The rest of your treatments will last between 45 minutes to 1 hour. In those treatments, we have a very short discussion time to check in and see what effects the previous treatment had on you. We will again look at the pulses, etc. and then have a needling appointment. There are many different modalities that we may use, from needling, moxa, and cupping, to Gua Sha. Each treatment is $90.
First Appointment
During our first appointment, which will last approximately 1½ to 2 hours, we will start by discussing your medical, social, and physical history, as well as your concerns and goals. Following this, we'll conduct a physical exam, which may differ from the exams you're used to with Western medical doctors. While some aspects will feel familiar, others will be new.
If you bring any Western diagnostic information, such as blood work or scans, I'll review that as well. In Chinese medicine, we also use unique diagnostic tools—for instance, we gather information by observing the tongue and taking pulses on both wrists in multiple positions.
After we've gathered information through our conversation and the physical exam, I will perform your first acupuncture treatment, focusing specifically on acupuncture needling. From there, we will create an individualized treatment plan based on the findings, your goals, and your level of commitment.
The cost of this first appointment is $165.
Goals
My goal is to get to the root of what is causing the disharmony in your body and correct or adjust it, so that the concern clears up and stays away. Some conditions respond very well to treatment and tend to be short-lived and gone. Conversely, some conditions can not be fully corrected or adjusted. If that is the case, I will let you know. There are also conditions that acupuncture can be very helpful in managing, but may not be clear completely. Again, it is up to you if you’d like to add this modality to the integrative management of your condition, and I will let you know if that is the situation as well. Additionally, I will work with the other members of your healthcare team to ensure continuity of care.
Ultimately, my purpose in life with this medicine is to relieve suffering and improve quality of life. If I can help you achieve that, I will.