The healing process begins with the first visit, where using traditional diagnostic skills, the practitioner assesses the balance of the Five Elements and uses acupuncture to achieve equilibrium. Please allow up to two hours for the first treatment. During this visit, a comprehensive evaluation of past and present medical history is completed. Depending on your condition and the length of the evaluation, an acupuncture treatment may or may not be done. For subsequent visits, please allow one hour.

Follow-up treatments are usually once a week for the first six to eight weeks. As your health improves, visits are reduced to once every two weeks, to once a month, finding a schedule that supports your body and needs.  

Acupuncture is gentle and compatible with medication and other healing modalities. However, it is best not to receive acupuncture on the same day as chiropractic, massage or other forms of body work in order to receive the maximum benefit from both.

The needles used in acupuncture are solid and as slender as a human hair, pre-sterilized and individually packaged. The are disposable and used only once. The insertion and removal of acupuncture needles is relatively painless, followed by a sensation such as tingling, ache, or warmth that usually subsides within seconds.

The number of needles used and where they are placed depends on your individual needs. Five Element Acupuncture calls for the use of as few needles as possible and placement of the needles may be quite distant from the site of the pain.

• Acupuncture
  Intake & initial session & $315 (2 hours)

• Return Visits
  Established clients for acupuncture support only $165 (50 minutes)

• Return visits
  75 minutes healing through IFS & Five Element Acupuncture $190 

• “Homecoming” IFS & Acupuncture
  When more support needed (120 minutes) $315
  

• IFS sessions/virtual or in person, including mentoring

  • IFS 60 minutes $165

  • IFS 90 minutes $225

If a patient’s insurance reimburses for acupuncture treatments, I will provide the superbill needed for reimbursement. The patient is responsible for determining what portion of their treatment will be covered and payment is required at time of treatment.