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Patricia recognizes the body’s amazing capacity to heal. Her job as a physician of Chinese medicine is to ignite and fortify that capacity within patients. She is licensed by the California Acupuncture Board and by the National Certification Commission of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
She received a full scholarship to Amherst College and majored in Asian Languages and Civilizations, not knowing that it would prepare her for learning Chinese medicine and practicing Japanese style acupuncture in the future. Years later, while taking organic chemistry to get into a pharmacology program, Patricia overheard a classmate mention that she was going to attend acupuncture school down the street in Chicago. That altered Patricia’s course from studying pharmacology to a master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine and a doctorate in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine.
Patricia has been in practice since 2014 and continues to evolve and hone her skills with masters like Shoji Kobayashi, Susan Johnson, and Ann Tam. In 2022 she started using Saam acupuncture after listening to a year of conversations between Toby Daly and Michael Max on the subject. Initially she was reluctant to use the Saam 4 point combination due to the hypersensitivity of points located on the fingers and toes. Now she is an avid Saam acupuncture practitioner because she has found it to be most clinically effective with a large margin of safety. “My primary goal is to help patients feel better physically, mentally, and emotionally after each treatment. When patients look forward to their next session, I’m fulfilling my purpose as a physician.”