Your care team at

Solstice Natural Health

Your care team at

Solstice Natural Health

Meet Your Acupuncturist

Erin’s Story

I graduated from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in Portland, Oregon — ranked the top acupuncture and herbal school in the country — in 2006. My private practice opened in 2007, and I treat a wide variety of health issues, from the simple to the complex.

I completed undergraduate degrees from UW-Madison in English with an emphasis on creative writing (poetry) and Cultural Anthropology. I wanted to either go into Environmental anthropology or the arts. Healthcare and business were never on my radar.

At the end of college, however, I developed a crippling anxiety disorder. Intense anxiety attacks began, and they worsened after graduation. They got so bad that I was constantly living in fear of an attack and began to withdraw from my friends. I didn’t want to be medicated because I didn’t want the anxiety masked — I wanted it gone!

There had to be a way out a way back to the time when anxiety wasn’t ruling my life. I wanted to fall asleep in minutes instead of hours, and I didn’t want to have to try to “act normal” in front of friends. I wanted to return to a time when I wasn’t constantly either in an anxiety attack or fearing the next one. There had to be another way.

And I was right. A colleague told me to call her acupuncturist. That phone call changed my life.

Within several months, not only did I no longer have anxiety attacks, but my decade-long issue of daily headaches and monthly migraines ended. I could sleep, I was excited about life again, and I no longer had to carry around Excedrin.

This experience started me on the path to where I am now. In the years since I have also used acupuncture and herbal medicine to help me conceive my oldest son after fertility issues, as well as for a myriad of minor health issues. And I have gotten to witness the positive changes it has elicited in my patients’ lives and health.

I love helping people learn about their bodies through treatment. Patients not only feel better after treatment with acupuncture, herbs, and nutrition, but they also stay healthy. Since finishing school I have developed a passion for helping people with women’s health issues (including fertility, prenatal/postpartum and menopausal complaints), acute and chronic pain, and autoimmune disorders. I continue to be amazed by the strength of this medicine and by the power of the human body.

I use a variety of methods to treat patients. In addition to being state and nationally licensed/certified in acupuncture, I am nationally certified in Chinese herbal medicine. I have spent 5 years training in functional nutrition, and am certified to teach 1000 Hands Buddha Qigong. All of my treatments are individualized to meet your health needs.

In my free time, I enjoy spending time with friends, my husband and our two rambunctious sons. I love cooking and sharing meals, blogging, hiking, reading, and watching football and playing soccer with my family. My family and I have lived in SE Portland since 2001.

 

Meet Our Team

No physician is autonomous. We pride ourselves with finding the most compassionate support for your healing journey.

Jasmine

Jasmine has been living in Portland Oregon since 2020. She’s in the process of obtaining a BS degree at Portland State University. She is kind and gentle, and loves to have meaningful conversations with others. Although she is new to acupuncture and Chinese medicine, she has first hand seen and felt the wonderful results and effects of acupuncture on herself and every patient that comes through the door. In her free time she loves to watch movies, read, explore new places and spend time with her boyfriend and two cats.

Meet Our Team

No physician is autonomous. We pride ourselves with finding the most compassionate support for your healing journey.

Jasmine

Jasmine has been living in Portland Oregon since 2020. She’s in the process of obtaining a BS degree at Portland State University. She is kind and gentle, and loves to have meaningful conversations with others. Although she is new to acupuncture and Chinese medicine, she has first hand seen and felt the wonderful results and effects of acupuncture on herself and every patient that comes through the door. In her free time she loves to watch movies, read, explore new places and spend time with her boyfriend and two cats.

Meet Our Team

No physician is autonomous. We pride ourselves with finding the most compassionate support for your healing journey.

Jasmine

Jasmine has been living in Portland Oregon since 2020. She’s in the process of obtaining a BS degree at Portland State University. She is kind and gentle, and loves to have meaningful conversations with others. Although she is new to acupuncture and Chinese medicine, she has first hand seen and felt the wonderful results and effects of acupuncture on herself and every patient that comes through the door. In her free time she loves to watch movies, read, explore new places and spend time with her boyfriend and two cats.

Serving our Portland community since 2007

Serving our Portland community since 2007

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