• East Asian Medical Practitioner- Washington State
• Licensed Acupuncturist- Washington State
• National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM)

ASSOCIATIONS

• American Society of Acupuncturists (ASA) – National Association
• Washington East Asian Medicine Association (WEAMA) – Washington State

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine – April 2020
  •  Oregon College of Oriental Medicine
• Master of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine – June 2013
  •  Bastyr University
• Bachelor of Arts in Psychology – December 2009
  •  Western Washington University

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

• Rebel Med NW – (Seattle, WA)
  • Created an integrative medicine clinic with my husband
  • Operate, market, and nourish our integrative clinic
  • Help build community by being a resource and advocate through our clinic
  • Expand skillsets and cultivate intuitive skills as a practitioner.
  • Continually evolve my understanding of medicine and healing.
  • Keep supporting and uplifting our team
• Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine SIEAM – (Seattle, WA)
  • Observe and cultivate clinical supervision skills
  • Supervise and mentor acupuncture and Chinese medicine students
  • Revisit and learn Chinese medicine from a different perspective through teaching
• FIT Acupuncture/ FIT Wellness Centers – (Seattle, WA)
  • Acupuncture residency
  • Improved my bodywork skills
  • Began defining myself as a practitioner
• McQuinn Naturopathic – (Everett, WA)
  • First year out practicing: first steps running my own business while doing my own patient care.
• Ballard NW Senior Center  – (Seattle, WA)
  • Delivered community style acupuncture to a senior population for various conditions.
• Acupuncture Relief Project Bimphedi Clinic – (Bimphedi, Nepal)
  • Served in remote clinic in Nepal treating various conditions with Acupuncture, Herbalism and Western Medicine.
  • Practice primary care methods from physical exam to medications.
  • Practiced prevention and management principles such as nutrition education, medication education, and lifestyle education.
  • Learn how to implement good medicine through cultural barriers and biases – on both sides.
  • First experience working on my own unsupervised patient-care.
  • Experience working primarily through an interpreter.
  • Learned how to be a teacher and mentor to patients, interpreters, the community, and peers.
  • Began to see for myself the effective of acupuncture and Chinese medicine on patients over time.
  • Learned other valuable clinical skills such as how to read and assess patients beyond intake (reading between the lines).
  • Learned aspects of communication beyond verbal language, such as body language (cultural differences), patient honesty in reporting, and just understanding whether a concept has truly been conveyed or not.
• Shanghai TCM Hospital – (Shanghai, China)
  • Observe herbalism practice in TCM Hospital in Shanghai Internal Medicine and Gynecology clinics.
  • Observed variations and differences in the dispensing of medical treatment between two cultures – U.S. versus China.
• Chengdu TCM Hospital – (Chengdu, China)
  • Observe acupuncture and herbalism practice in TCM Hospital in Chengdu, China Stroke and Pain clinics.
• Evergreen Treatment Services Center, NADA Protocol – (Seattle, WA)
  • Training in acupuncture detoxification and addiction protocols at an addiction treatment center.
  • Learned about working with a vulnerable and stigmatized population of our society.
• St. Vincent’s Assisted Living Community – (Seattle, WA)
  • Work with aging and assisted living patients.
  • Learned about working with the vulnerable aged population of our society.
• Harborview International Clinic – (Seattle, WA)
  • Work with diverse populations in a hospital setting treating a variety of conditions.
  • First exposure to working with a population that had cultural barriers and biases (from both sides).
  • Learned about working with with the vulnerable immigrant population.
  • Learned how to use medical interpreter systems and how to conduct intake and exam through an interpreter and language barriers.
• Harborview Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Clinic – (Seattle, WA)
  • First exposure working with chronic pain population in a hospital setting.
• Bastyr Center for Natural Health – (Seattle, WA)
  • Integrative internship to develop clinical skills, acupuncture skills, and herbalism skills.
  • Learned how to conduct intake and physical exam on patients with the purpose of providing treatment through acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
  • Learned basics of working at a clinic including the functions of administration, dispensary and inventory work, and referring to other providers and departments.