Acupuncture for Pain, Stress, & Emotional Health
Pain — physical or emotional — is rarely a simple story. Acupuncture's particular gift is tracing it back to its root. Below are conditions we've treated successfully across two decades of practice. Questions about your specific situation? Call and ask for Hillary or Jonathan.
Pain in the body
Back pain
Plantar fasciitis
Headache/Migraine
Joint pain
Arthritis
Autoimmune conditions
Frozen shoulder
Muscle pain
Acute or chronic injury
Post-operative pain
Abdominal pain
Neck pain
Neuralgias
Paresthesia and Neuropathy
Pain in the mind & heart
Anxiety and anxiety disorders
Depression
Sadness and grief
Anger and irritability
Worry
Insomnia
Panic
Stress or fight-or-flight activation
Eating disorders
Traumas and PTSD
Life transitions
Fatigue
When emotion stops moving
How acupuncture works with emotion
Emotion is not the enemy. In Eastern medicine, feelings like grief, anger, worry, and fear are natural — even necessary. They become harmful only when they stop moving. When emotion is severe or prolonged, it can stagnate in the body, accumulating over time and eventually expressing itself as physical or psychological illness.
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Acupuncture helps emotion do what it's meant to do: move. Not disappear — the feeling may still be uncomfortable as it processes — but flow through rather than settle in. This is not about numbing or suppressing. It's about restoring the body's natural relationship with its own emotional life.
When nothing else worked (Jennifer's story)
Two years after a spinal cord injury, I was still in constant pain and my hands were about 60% paralyzed. Nothing had worked - PT, drugs, Occupational Therapy, massage - but after one visit, I was able to get through the day without debilitating pain. I still go regularly for tune-ups that have kept me well enough to continue working in a career I love. I'm grateful to have found someone so skilled. Literally saved my life.
If you like to read research, check out this meta-analysis of research on acupuncture's effectiveness for physical pain by Sloan Kettering Cancer Center et. al.
Jonathan's peer-reviwed article published in the Journal of Acupuncture & Meridian Studies
