I’m a survivor of domestic violence and childhood trauma. My own experience with mental health and trauma influence how I show up with my patients and community. I have a focus in patient-centered care that supports folks’ experiences of their unique neurodivergence, nervous system, and trauma. That being said, classical East Asian medicine looks at the whole, and any symptom cannot be isolated on its own. We’re beautiful complex beings and all parts of our experience (physical, emotional, spiritual, etc.) are connected. 

For the past two decades, I have been involved in activism and community organizing work. This experience is what first brought me to and constantly recommits me to my role as an acupuncturist. Classical East Asian medicine practitioners carry a mandate to “nurture life”. I am committed to lifelong movement organizing and politicized healing work for the sake of dismantling white supremacy, cisheteropatriarchy, and racialized capitalism, which are the foundational barriers to collective liberation, an end to anti-Black violence, a liberated Palestine, and nurturing life in all its forms. I am committed to the transformation that is necessary both inside and outside the treatment room. 

In 2021, I completed a five year graduate program from National University of Natural Medicine with a Doctorate of Science in Classical Chinese Medicine. I am a perpetual student and am so grateful to the teachers and lineages who continue to mentor me and my practice. I am currently continuing to study Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis with Brandt Stickley, Ross Rosen, and Tracy Soltesz; Shang Han Za Bing Lun Herbalism with Dr. Joon Hee Lee and Dr. Heiner Fruehauf; and Jin Jing Gong qigong with Dr. Laurie Reagan.

I’m also an enthusiastic amateur sailor, a gardener and plant geek, a student practitioner of politicized somatics, a listener and dancer to soul music as a resilience strategy, and the caretaker to two sweet pups and a black kitty.