Your first visit
Your first visit, in order
About 75 minutes. Later visits run about 50.
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Step 1: Before you come
After you book, you get a link to our intake form. You fill in your health history there, in private, not on this website.
Fill out the intake form - 02
Step 2: You arrive
Come a few minutes early. Suite 204 is on the second floor, and the waiting nook has tea.
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Step 3: We talk
About 20 minutes: what you take, what your doctor has planned, and what you would like from the visit. Your acupuncturist explains the risks before any needle goes in.
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Step 4: The treatment
You lie on a padded table, covered. Needles stay in for 20 to 30 minutes, and you can rest.
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Step 5: A plan
A short, written plan for the next few visits, matched to your clinic's calendar, and a look at how fees work.
Before you come
What to wear, eat and bring
Small things that make the hour easier.
Wear loose clothes with sleeves and pant legs that roll up, and skip heavy perfume
Eat a light meal one to two hours before. Don't come hungry or very full
Bring your medicines and supplements, with doses
Bring your doctor's calendar and any instructions from your clinic
Put your phone on silent. Ask for a quiet visit on a hard day
Tell us first
Tell us when you book, and again at the visit, if any of these is true:
- You are pregnant or might be.
- You take a blood thinner, or you bleed or bruise easily.
- You have a pacemaker or another implanted device.
- You have had lymph nodes removed.
- Needles worry you.
- Your doctor has a procedure planned.
None of these means no. They change what we do.
Book a first visit
Choose a time online, or call and we will find one with you.