Our Approach to Healing: Whole-Person Treatment

Chronic or recurrent illness is often due to factors such as stress, toxins, pathogens or trauma. The human body is a reactor, where all the experiences of a person’s life are assimilated and interact in a constant dynamic. If we can understand and untangle the factors causing symptoms while supporting the healing power of the body system, then conditions can be managed effectively without continual use of medications or the need for invasive treatments. This method gives control back to you, the patient: you are the one doing the healing.  

In contrast to the approach of conventional medicine, where the focus is on a diagnosis of disease, our approach is to focus on how each person heals uniquely. We use your individual condition and point of view to inform the process. Symptoms are viewed as expressions of your body’s efforts to cope with some deficiency, accumulation, weakness, or imbalance.  

The medical techniques we use include acupuncture, which accesses and improves the body’s energetic system, herbal medicine, which provides nutritive substances which stimulate functional activities of the body, and therapeutic bodywork, which promotes circulation and improves elimination to help restore the coordination of the whole body system. 

We work to assure your body has correct nutrition, good circulation, elimination, detoxification and self-regulation. By reviewing your reactions to each treatment, we continue toward harmonizing the function of all of the body systems. The natural result is that signs and symptoms of disease are transformed into healthier body dynamics and better physical and mental health. This is the essence of healing.  

Learn more about our approach by contacting us to schedule an appointment or introductory call.