I had always wanted to be a doctor growing up. I just felt a calling to practice something that would be able to help people heal. In college at UC Berkeley I was on that path, studying pre-med coursework, when I was injured in a car accident. I was hit as a pedestrian and the concussion from the fall left me with constant migraines, vertigo and a complete and strange loss of my sense of smell. These problems continued for months, as I saw countless doctors who had no answer or solution for my condition. I decided to try acupuncture because I had always been curious about it. Within a week of treatments the headaches and vertigo had stopped, and over the course of the next couple months my sense of smell slowly started to return. I was completely in awe of this ancient medicine and how profoundly it had affected me. In answer to my incessant questions, my acupuncturist casually slipped me a book (“Between Heaven and Earth”) and gave me a knowing wink. I was enrolling in acupuncture school only a short time later.
I graduated from the American Institute of Alternative Medicine’s Masters Acupuncture program with the honor of summa cum laude. I also had the opportunity to spend a summer in China studying at the Beijing Integrated Hospital of Western Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine. I have learned from so many wonderful practitioners of this medicine and continue to learn every day. In addition to Urban Acupuncture, I have a private practice in Grandview where I see patients a few days a week.