Stress, Anxiety & Depression

Natural Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing 

Acupuncture and herbal medicine can be an invaluable component to maintaining our mental health and bringing us into balance when we find ourselves in patterns of overwhelm, anxiety and depression.  Acupuncture is so effective at regulating the nervous system, whether it is on stuck on overdrive or needs to be boosted up a notch.  Many people notice a change in their mood and emotions within the first week of an acupuncture treatment and continue to notice significant improvement with continued treatments.  With Ancient medicine, you can feel like yourself again.  

The Mind-Body Connection

The Ancient medicines have always recognized emotions as an integral part of our health.  Every organ system of our body has a different emotion associated with it.  For example, we say that the energy of the Kidneys is associated with fear on one end, and faith on the other.  Physically, people with a deficiency of the Kidney energy usually frequently experience low back pain, urinary and menstrual issues, trouble staying asleep and fatigue.  People with a deficiency of Kidney energy may have also experienced shock or trauma, or periods of extreme overwork at one point and now the body does not know how to come back to baseline.  We can liken this to symptoms of adrenal fatigue.  We can work with that! That's only one example of the 12 different organ patterns we see from an emotional standpoint in Ancient medicine. We can work both on the physical and the emotional at the same time to get you feeling like yourself again.  

Acupuncture and Counseling

In addition, acupuncture and talk therapy are a highly effective and powerful combination to work with all emotional conditions to listed to the right - especially in areas of stress around relationships, family dynamics, stress with work, life outlook, thinking patterns, transitions and loss, fear and trauma.  Huge strides can be made in healing when using both modalities within the same period of time.  Both acupuncture and therapy aim to help the symptoms and the root cause of the emotions you are experiencing.  I would be happy to refer you to a number of highly skilled therapists/counselors in the area.  If you are a mental health provider looking to connect your client with acupuncture, please contact us to connect.

Articles about Chinese medicine and stress, anxiety and depression:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/renaissance-woman/201509/acupuncture-stress-and-depression-yes-please

https://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/foods-for-anxiety-body-calm/

https://www.elitedaily.com/p/chinese-medicine-for-stress-relief-might-help-you-chill-out-so-here-are-6-remedies-to-try-9007003