Welcome to Within Acupuncture

Your neck and shoulders are tight and tense as you sit in front of your work computer. As the workday progresses, you develop a headache from the upper body tension. After a few weeks, the tension radiates to your hips and lower back. The pain is elevated during stressful deadlines, stretching no longer helps, and you are in too much pain to exercise. Persistent pain consumes you and doctors cannot determine its cause, leaving you frustrated and defeated. They prescribe muscle relaxers, but you’d rather not take them.

As a LGBTQ+ and/or BIPOC individual, you’ve faced discrimination and/or violence. You feel a range of different emotions, like anger or fear, so you can’t help but avoid settings that could cause further traumatic experiences.

You faced abuse, neglect, and household challenges as a child. You’ve carried this unresolved trauma into adulthood. As you interact with others, you either panic or find it easier to disassociate to remove yourself from the present moment. 

Loss. You are grieving over the recent loss of a loved one. Maybe the grief is about a divorce or the end of a relationship. The difficult and unexpected emotions arising from your loss causes an overwhelming amount of pain – emotionally, mentally, and physically. It makes it difficult to eat, concentrate, and disrupts your sleep.

You juggle multiple roles in your life as a: spouse/partner, parent, friend, employee, student, etc. Handling these various responsibilities and trying your best to meet expectations is leading to chronic stress and burn-out. It's difficult to describe, but things feel off - this isn’t the ordinary stress you’re accustomed to.

Your partner is experiencing a major health crisis and your new caregiver role is leaving you overwhelmed and consumed with stress.

You have to drag yourself out of bed in the morning and cannot focus at work or school. To function, you require numerous cups of coffee and cans of energy drinks throughout the day. You also lack motivation, often lash out at others, and have a hard time sleeping…it is a loop that repeats each day.

You and your partner have tried to conceive for over a year and the reproductive endocrinologist provided a diagnosis of "unexplained fertility". The entire experience has left you feeling heartbroken and hopeless. Your next steps may include IUI and/or IVF and you are looking for support during this demanding time.

As the weeks progress during your pregnancy, you experience debilitating nausea or headaches. You are looking for a way to safely and naturally treat the pain and discomfort.

Chemotherapy, radiation, hormonal therapy, or surgery...the side-effects have been intense. Nausea and vomiting, pain, hot flashes, fatigue, dry mouth, or peripheral neuropathy. You want relief without the use of narcotics or other medications.