Angie earned her Master of Science degree from the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM). She is an Oregon State Licensed Acupuncturist as overseen by the Oregon State Medical Board and nationally certified as a Diplomate in Oriental Medicine, which includes credentials for acupuncture and herbal medicine, through the National Certification Board for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine (NCBAHM).
Growing up in Minnesota, Angie developed a strong relationship with the natural world. It was this relationship that ultimately led her to study Chinese medicine. She believes in the healing power of nature, and since she knows us to be inextricably linked to the natural world, she approaches our capacity to heal the same way she approaches the wilderness: with curiosity and reverence.
Chinese diagnostics take a wide range of information into account: seasonal influences, the time of day an illness is worse, and an individual’s sleep and work patterns, for example. They recognize that our internal world is influenced by the external world, and vice versa. Health is not the absence of disease, but the presence of balance in the internal world, the external world, and the relationship between the two.
Angie approaches illness with tools like acupuncture, Chinese herbs, moxibustion, cupping, and dietary and lifestyle counseling to repair the relationship between the two, to remind the body of its ability to both adapt to stressors and restore balance.
Her own experience living with a chronic illness has highlighted the importance of being here with what’s here, and creating the time, space, and permission to be here with what’s here. It’s informed how she humans and how she practices and looks forward to sharing it with you.