I began my healing journey 25 years ago when I lost my best friend in a car accident. She was driving up to visit me from L.A. when she fell asleep at the wheel. I could barely recognize her unconscious in the hospital and stayed with her until she passed. Afterwards, life became challenging as I fell into a deep depression and struggled with anxiety, panic attacks, loss of appetite/weight and insomnia. The medical doctors I saw could only go so far, prescribing various medications before running to off to their next patient. It wasn’t until I started working with my Mom’s best friend, a gifted acupuncturist, that I began to see the changes I was looking for. The profound experience of emotional healing, treating the root causes of my imbalances naturally,  changed the trajectory of my life and opened my eyes to the inherent limits of western medicine and infinite healing capability of the human body when seen through the holistic lens of integrative medicine. 

After 4 years of eastern medical education, clinical rotations and an Internal Medicine Internship at the Hubei Dazhong Hospital in Wuhan, China I graduated from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine(Sand Diego, CA) in 2001. Currently, I am a National Board Certified Acupuncturist with over 19 years experience, specializing in mental / emotional imbalance, digestive and sleep disorders, autoimmune disease and general wellness.