About Me

I studied as a mechanical engineer for my first degree.  This experience helped me to understand thinking in systems and later influenced my clinical approach.  When I started to leave the engineering field I moved to New Orleans to volunteer post hurricane Katrina.  It was a little while after and I something that is important to me.  I spent most of my time there helping young students with their reading skills.  I also helped out in the science classroom, designing experiments and teaching the scientific method.

 

At least in part I got into this work after being told to find a herbalist.  I couldn't find one so I became one.  Earlier than that I went to see an Auyvedic practitioner who was the seventh generation in her family to practice.  She told me I should be a doctor.  These ideas stuck, became action and here we are today.

 

When I did dive into Chinese medicine, the scientific method became one of the aspects I love about it.  I get to spend my days designing and testing experiments with my patients.  They bring their knowledge of themselves.  I bring my knowledge and practice of this healing wisdom tradition.  We then work together to change lives.

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I specialize in providing trauma informed personal care and treating strange diseases.  It is important to have a fit with a provider and I am well versed at treating anyone with a pulse.  That being said many of the cases that have walked through my door involve a certain amount of complexity.  These people often have a history of fatigue or latent symptoms from illness that did not completely resolve.