Alchemical Acupuncture
for grief, transitions, and transformation
Who i am
I know loss. I’ve been learning it since my mother was pregnant with me.
I have spent my life with people at the hardest thresholds of their lives. It began before I was born, when my mother’s youngest brother died. It continued after school in nursing homes, in hospice rooms, and in my training as a death doula.
I know loss that isn’t death too. Losing a home. Losing a career. Losing myself again and again.
For years I tried to talk my way through my own grief. I circled the same story each week and nothing moved. When I found acupuncture, and later the spirit points, something finally reached beneath the story. I glimpsed who I was o the other side of my suffering.
how i work
The Tools
Chinese Medicine
My practice is rooted in classical Chinese medicine, where everything in the body is connected. The grief in your chest. The story in your mind. The spirit asking to be seen. Touch one and you can reach them all.
The Spirit Points
I work with spirit points, ancient acupuncture points that speak to the soul as much as the body. I weave Jungian depth psychology, felt sense practice, and the language of alchemy. Symbol and image let us meet grief without having to tell the story or when words are too small for what we carry.
The Alchemy
In alchemy, nothing transforms without a vessel. My role is to be that vessel and help you create your own.
The Doula
I hold. I contain. I don’t flinch at what rises. You can bring the whole mess.