The body holds what words
have never been able to reach.
Acupuncture and somatic-informed care for stored trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and the healing that is ready to happen.
What I do can actually help to heal trauma. In a way it may be the best tool that I have. A lot of our trauma is not expressed verbally, or a lot of our trauma is preverbal. A lot of the way that we process trauma is through the body. When I do acupuncture for someone, acupuncture in and of itself can regulate the nervous system, can address the emotions that are stored in the body.
You may not call it trauma.
Your body knows it is.
Trauma does not always arrive with a dramatic story. It often comes quietly, as a body that stays braced long after the danger has passed, as a nervous system that cannot find its way back to rest, as symptoms that no one can fully explain. Many of the people I work with have been carrying something for a long time without a name for it. This work meets you there.
Chronic stress and burnout
High-functioning exhaustion that does not respond to rest. A nervous system that has been in overdrive for so long it no longer knows how to downregulate.
Somatic symptoms without clear diagnosis
Pain, tension, fatigue, or digestive distress that persists despite normal labs. The body speaking in the only language available to it.
Grief and life transitions
Loss, rupture, or identity shifts that have landed in the body as heaviness, numbness, or a sense of being unmoored.
Preverbal and ancestral trauma
What was absorbed before language, or inherited across generations. What lives in the nervous system as pattern rather than memory.
People who hold it all together
Those who appear fine from the outside while internally overwhelmed. The capacity to function has become the reason support has been deferred.
Those seeking complementary care
People already in therapy or mental health treatment who want somatic support for what the nervous system is still carrying between sessions.
Why I do this work
I am an Acupuncture Physician with roots in Northwest Haiti, where I grew up until the age of twelve, when I came to the United States. I was shaped by a cultural understanding of healing that is woven into daily life, where the body, community, land, and nature are never truly separate. My path into medicine has been informed by both clinical training and a lived awareness of how trauma is carried through the nervous system over time, often beneath language.
From February 2022 to December 2023, I participated in the two-year Timeless Wisdom Training with Thomas Hübl at the Academy of Inner Science, where I worked with individual, ancestral, and collective trauma processes while deepening my capacity for co-regulation and presence. I bring this orientation into every session. My work is grounded in attuning to the nervous system with care, precision, and respect for its adaptive intelligence.
Self-compassion supports my ability to remain steady and open with others. This allows me to hold space for patients in a way that is relational, regulated, and responsive to what the body is ready to unwind.
Before transferring to Traditional Chinese Medicine, I studied social sciences at university. I have a deep love for humanity, culture, music, religion, food, language, and the stories and myths that shape people across the world. When I say the fullness of your humanity is welcome here, I mean it. There is safety, dignity, and belonging for you, your culture, and your ancestry.
One of my core values is that every person is innately worthy and innately intelligent, with something meaningful to offer this world. Safety, dignity, and belonging are not ideals I aspire to. They are the foundation of how I practice. If working with me makes your time on this planet a little easier, whether through less pain, better sleep, or a more regulated nervous system, it is an honor to serve you.
The preparation behind the practice
I am an Acupuncture Physician with over 20 years of clinical training and experience in acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and integrative care. My work has been shaped by decades of clinical practice and continued through ongoing and more recent training in trauma-informed care, nervous system regulation, and somatic approaches to healing.
Selected trainings and professional development include:
What happens when you work with me
Trauma healing through acupuncture is not a standardized protocol. It is a responsive, relational process that follows the intelligence of your nervous system rather than a predetermined script. Each session is shaped by what you bring and what your body is ready to engage.
Your first visit is ninety minutes. We begin with a detailed intake covering your full health history, current symptoms, nervous system patterns, and what brings you here. I listen deeply before I form a clinical impression. What I am looking for is not just what is happening, but how your system has organized itself around it over time. Treatment follows from there.
Acupuncture
Fine needles placed at precise points regulate the autonomic nervous system, moving the body from sympathetic activation toward parasympathetic rest. For trauma, this is foundational. The body cannot process what it is still defending against.
Somatic attunement
Sessions are paced with awareness of your window of tolerance. I am tracking your nervous system throughout, not just your words. The pace of the work is determined by what your body can integrate, not by urgency or timeline.
Herbal medicine
When appropriate, classical Chinese herbal formulas support the work between sessions. Formulas are chosen based on your specific pattern and may address sleep, emotional regulation, or the depletion that long-term stress and trauma leave behind.
Setting honest expectations
Clarity about what this work is and is not protects your trust and mine.
This is not rushed symptom-chasing. The goal is not to suppress what the body is expressing, but to support the conditions under which it can reorganize.
This is not forcing emotional catharsis. Nothing is pushed, excavated, or performed. Healing happens at the pace the nervous system can sustain.
This is not a one-size-fits-all protocol. Every session is shaped by you, your history, and what your system is ready for today.
This is not fixing you. You are not broken. This work supports a system that has been doing its best with what it had. The intelligence that protected you is still active. We work with it, not against it.
What to expect when you leave
Acupuncture for trauma can produce a range of responses in the hours and days that follow. Some people feel deeply calm. Some notice a temporary emotional softness or a subtle shift in mood. Some feel tired in a way that invites rest rather than requiring it. Occasionally, something that has been held may begin to move.
None of these responses are wrong. They are signs that the nervous system is doing something. The most important thing you can do after a session is give your body time and space to integrate.
I ask that you plan for gentleness after your visits. Drink water. Rest if your body asks for it. Avoid overscheduling the hours immediately after treatment. If something significant arises that you want to talk through, you are welcome to be in touch.
Integration is part of the work. What happens between sessions matters as much as what happens on the table.
An important distinction
This work is not psychotherapy and does not replace care from a licensed mental health provider such as a psychologist, psychiatrist, mental health counselor, or psychotherapist. I do not provide talk therapy or mental health counseling.
This work is a somatic and integrative approach to supporting the nervous system through acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is often a powerful complement to psychotherapy and other forms of mental health care, and many of the people I work with may also be engaged in those services. I maintain referral relationships with mental health providers and support collaborative care when appropriate.
If you are in crisis or need immediate mental health support, please contact a licensed mental health professional or crisis line.
The body knows when it is time.
A first visit is an unhurried conversation and a careful look at your whole picture. There is no pressure to explain everything at once. We begin where you are.