Recommendations To Enhance Treatment

  • Please arrive a few minutes before your scheduled treatment. 

  • It’s important that you eat a meal or snack at some point prior to your treatment.  It’s best to have some “fuel” in your body, as well as some time for you to digest your food, before we begin the treatment. 

  • Drink plenty of water before and after your treatment. 

  • Avoid wearing products with strong scents and perfumes prior to your treatment. 

  • Why: Some of the strongest diagnostic tools I use are those of my senses.  I pay attention to your odor, the sound of your voice, colors of your skin, and a sense of how you are overall, including emotionally, all to gain the best sense possible of how to treat you most effectively. 

  • Avoid caffeine/alcohol/recreational drugs before and after your treatment.  

  • Why: Five Element Acupuncture treatments bring about an immediate energetic change.    Avoiding substances which influence our energy significantly allows the effects of the treatment to deepen and take full root within us. 

  • Avoid extreme body temperature changes after your treatment. 

  • Weekly treatments are recommended for the first 6 sessions.  Following the 6 sessions, re-evaluation of progress and spacing of future treatments will be determined 

For the truly curious who really want to know…

Need To Knows About Treatment

In Five Element Acupuncture, the practitioner recognizes who each of us uniquely is as fully as possible.  Because of this, in the over 30 years I have been treating clients, I have not repeated a treatment.  Every treatment has been uniquely and precisely crafted to enliven and sustain the best possible health for the clients I serve. 

  • The first treatment session will be 2 hours long.  All subsequent treatment sessions are 1 hour in length.  

  • Weekly treatment when beginning Five Element Acupuncture treatment with me, often continues for 4 to 6 weeks, aiming to establish and follow supportive, new energetic patterns. Once we see good traction, the time between treatments is gradually spaced out.  

  • Needles: In Five Element Acupuncture treatments, needles are not left in the acupuncture points, with rare exception.  They are usually inserted, turned very slightly, and immediately removed, faster than you just read this sentence. 

  • There is a natural 24 hour cycle of the organs each day, and as each of the organs comes into its peak time of day, the effects of the treatment are furthered. 

  • The Law of Least Action: When free flow and vitality are restored, when nature has restored balance and taken over, it is time for the facilitator of this, the practitioner, to get out of the way.  Nature is the true healer, and we all have this power within us. 

  • How we treat ourselves in our day-to-day lives is of paramount importance!  The ease, harmony, balance, and vitality which Five Element Acupuncture treatment engender make it easier to care for ourselves more effectively.  As we feel better, it’s easier to care for ourselves better. 

Fees & Cancellation

Fees for Five Element Acupuncture Treatment

Throughout my career I have endeavored to keep treatment affordable for people. Toward this end, I charge the same $125 fee for the initial 2-hour session as I do for regular 1-hour sessions.

Cancellation Policy

Please give 24 hours notice if you need to reschedule or cancel an appointment. Missed appointments will be charged the full appointment fee. Extenuating circumstances, emergencies, illness, et cetera are of course taken into consideration and the fee will be waived as appropriate. I value you and your time, and respectfully request that you do the same with me.