I was the woman lying awake at 3am as a single mom — heart racing for no reason, mental to-do lists running on a loop, showing up for everyone except myself.

For years I suffered from panic attacks that came out of nowhere, random spikes in blood pressure that made no sense on paper, and the kind of bone-deep exhaustion that sleep couldn’t fix. I was doing everything right — eating well, exercising regularly, taking my vitamins. My labs were normal. My doctors told me I was fine.

But I clearly wasn’t.

I know what it feels like to be told nothing is wrong — when everything feels wrong.

I tried therapy. I ramped up my exercise routine. I downloaded the meditation apps. Nothing created lasting change because nobody was addressing what was actually happening in my body.

Then, after 17 years as a massage therapist, I dove into Chinese medicine school. I was fascinated by meridian theory — how it connected physical symptoms to emotional and physiological patterns in a way western medicine never had. What I didn’t expect was how completely it would change my own life.

For the first time, someone wasn’t just treating my symptoms. They were treating the root of what was driving them — how chronic stress was literally living in my chest, my digestion, my sleep, my blood pressure. Chinese medicine explained what no doctor ever could.

The shift was profound.

Once I started getting regular treatment and understanding my body through this lens, the panic attacks stopped. My energy came back. I could finally turn off at the end of the day. I felt like an actual human being again — not someone just barely holding it together.

That’s when I knew I had to build a practice around this work. Not because I had a passion for wellness, but because I had lived the experience of being failed by a system that only knew how to manage symptoms — and I had found something that actually worked.

Now I help people find what I found.

Whether you’re dealing with chronic symptoms that western medicine hasn’t been able to explain, a body that won’t recover the way it should, or stress that has been quietly making you sick for years — I know how to find what’s actually driving it.

I bring 17 years of hands-on bodywork experience and a deep clinical understanding of Chinese medicine to every session. I don’t need labs or imaging to evaluate you — I use the diagnostic principles of Chinese medicine to read what your body is actually showing me. Because not everyone fits the same mold, no two treatment plans look alike.

You don’t have to keep pushing through it. And you don’t have to figure it out alone.

Credentials & Training

• Licensed Acupuncture Physician (AP), State of Florida
• Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (Dipl. OM) — National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
• Master of Science in Oriental Medicine
• 17 years of hands-on clinical experience in bodywork, plus advanced training in Chinese medicine and acupuncture
• Located at 136 4th Street N, Suite 201, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701

If your body has been sending you signals that nobody has been able to make sense of — that’s exactly where we start.

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