"When the essence and spirit are secure inside, there will be no disease."
-Huangdi Neijing
As a practitioner of East Asian medicine, I treat people struggling with chronic illness, fatigue, and pain, who want their health care to connect them to body, mind, and heart.
The modalities I offer are both gentle and powerful; gentle because they strive to minimally disturb what is beautifully designed from the start, and powerful because, by working with the body and not against it, they harness the greatest power of all, nature.
Acupuncture
Herbal Therapy
Physical Medicine
Healing Song
East Asian Medicine
East Asian Medicine refers to the co-evolving indigenous medical systems of China, Japan, Korea, and Tibet. Within these systems, there are thousands of lineages, each a branch of medicine in its own right. What they all share is a focus on the subtle forces that give rise to health and disease, in human beings and in nature as a whole. Practitioners trained in these forms of medicine sharpen their senses to "read" the physical body- through the radial pulse, tongue, abdomen, complexion, odour, sound, and many other diagnostic "windows." These are the languages of the body, through which an alert, the sensitive practitioner can gain insight into what lies beneath troublesome symptoms and signs.
No Medicine without Justice
Continuity Holistic Medicine supports BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ people in the struggle for racial, gender, and social justice. In order to practice medicine that is actually life-affirming and of the greatest possible benefit, we commit to engage in ongoing education around issues of race and gender. We vow to apply this personal and organizational growth to take anti-racist and anti-hate actions that dismantle systems of white supremacy and cis-heteropatriarchy. Additionally, as practitioners of a medicine that is not native to our own ethnicity and culture, we commit to listen to, learn from, and amplify the voices of our teachers and colleagues of East Asian descent. We revere this medicine and recognize the debt we owe to the grandmothers, village healers, sages, doctors, and scholars who have kept it alive for so many generations.