What I treat
I also treat shoulder, elbow and hip pain, headaches, neuropathy and insomnia, and I work with patients during and after cancer treatment. If you’re not sure whether your problem is one of them, ask on the free discovery call.
See everything I treatI treat chronic pain and the slower problems that don’t show up on a scan, often after other treatment has stopped helping. Twenty-one years in, I can usually tell you on the first call whether your case is one I can help with.
Most people find me after a problem has outlasted the usual fixes. Sometimes it’s mechanical: a shoulder that won’t rotate, or a low back that seized months ago and never let go. Sometimes it’s slower and never shows up on an image, like sleep that has worn down over a year or digestion you can no longer count on.
The skill is telling which kind you have, and noticing when both are the same problem seen from two sides. That decides the treatment: acupuncture, an herbal formula, or both.
On the first call I’ll tell you how many visits a pattern like yours usually takes, what a fair result looks like, and when the right person is someone other than me.
Physicians, physical therapists, psychologists and counselors send me the cases that have stopped responding to their own care. A large share of my patients come to me that way.
Clinical focus
Most of my work is chronic pain and nerve problems, and the slower conditions that often sit alongside them, like poor sleep and digestion you can’t count on. I choose between acupuncture, electroacupuncture, trigger-point work and herbs after the assessment, not before it.
Each one links to a page on how I treat it. The full list is on What I treat.
Fieldwork
Two years running temporary clinics in the Guatemalan highlands with Global Healthworks Foundation. We set up in small towns where follow-up care was rare, and I treated over 10,000 patients.
If this sounds like the problem you’ve been living with, a free call is the place to start.
How I practice
Chinese medicine and modern neuroscience describe the same body in two languages. I use whichever one better explains what I’m seeing, and I don’t dress traditional ideas up in scientific terms. Where the research supports a treatment, I’ll show it to you. Where I’m relying on traditional reasoning, I’ll say so.
The short version
Training in neurofunctional acupuncture with Dan Wunderlich, who studied in the McMaster University program and built on it. This contemporary, neuroanatomy-based model is the basis of my motor-point stimulation, electroacupuncture, and trigger-point and fascial work.
Classical training in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, including pulse and channel diagnosis, pattern differentiation, and herbal formulation. Herbal medicine remains central to how I treat.
Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM) and licensed acupuncturist (L.Ac.) in New York State.
Central America Program Manager, Global Healthworks Foundation. As a student I joined aid trips to rural Guatemala. After graduation we launched the Mobile Clinic, a full time position in Quiche providing free care. I staffed this position for 2 years and treated over 10,000 patients.
Faculty and mentor. I have taught at Pacific Rim College and the Pacific College of Health and Science, and I now train other practitioners through the American Acupuncture Guild, which I founded in 2025. It is an NCBAHM Approved PDA Provider.
Former vice president of the Acupuncture Society of New York. I continue to assist with its advocacy for the profession.
Co-author of Thinking in Chinese Medicine, written with Dr. Jordan Barber, DAOM, L.Ac. The book is about how to reason clinically across the traditional and biomedical frames.
Training that isn’t on the diploma
Part of this medicine is taught in school, and the degrees are listed further down. The rest is learned from a teacher, over years. These are the people I trained under.
Neuropuncture, currently studying
Dr. Corradino is a premier teacher of neurologically based electrical acupuncture. His research based approach offers an understanding of the function of acupuncture and expands what can be done through the use of electrical stimulation.
Neurofunctional acupuncture
Dan trained in the McMaster University program and built on it. His neuroanatomy-based model is the basis of my motor-point stimulation, electroacupuncture, and trigger-point and fascial work.
Chinese herbal medicine
Anne served as the chair of the Pacific College Herbology department. I completed the program twice, auditing each class to study with her. This foundation led me to following in her footsteps, teaching Herbology at my alma mater from 2020-2021.
Five Element acupuncture
Lonny is the primary Five Element educator in the United States and author of three textbooks on the subject. Dr. Caron studied with him for a year. This approach informs part of Dr. Caron's treatment of trauma, anxiety, depression, and other psycho-emotional conditions.
Classical acupuncture
Ann is one of the main teachers of Classical Acupuncture. Her approach to acupuncture comes from ancient techniques, many dating back to our founding texts, over two thousand years ago.
Sports massage
Brian trained in Tui Na and Tai Chi in China and Japan in the 1980s. He taught at the Acupressure Institute where I completed 850 hours of hands on training. His approach to massage formed the foundation of my palpation and manual medicine.
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Straight answers
If your question isn’t here, ask me on a free call.
I’m an acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist with a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM) degree, licensed in New York. I’ve practiced for 21 years and see patients at Gotham Acupuncture on the Upper West Side.
Mostly chronic pain and nerve problems, such as lower back pain, neck pain, sciatica, arthritis and headaches, along with slower problems like digestion, sleep and menopause symptoms. The full list is on What I treat.
My doctorate is from Pacific College of Health and Science. I trained in neurofunctional acupuncture with Dan Wunderlich, in classical acupuncture with Ann Cecil-Sterman, and in herbal medicine with Anne Jeffres.
Yes. I’m a licensed acupuncturist in New York State, license 006592-01. I’m also a Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (Dipl.OM) with the NCCAOM.
Yes. Herbal medicine is central to how I treat, and I often pair a formula with acupuncture. More on the herbal medicine page.
Yes. I co-wrote Thinking in Chinese Medicine: A Patient’s Guide to Acupuncture with Dr. Jordan Barber, DAOM.
At Gotham Acupuncture, 118 West 72nd Street, New York, NY 10023, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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On the record
Degrees, licenses, teaching and fieldwork, with dates.
Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM)
Master of Science in Traditional Oriental Medicine (MSTOM)
Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac.), New York State
Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (Dipl.OM), NCCAOM
Faculty, Pacific Rim College
Founder, American Acupuncture Guild
Clinical supervision
Gotham Acupuncture, Upper West Side, New York City
Medical missions, Global Healthworks Foundation, Guatemala
Acupuncture clinic, OnPoint NYC
Former Vice President, Acupuncture Society of New York
Founder, New York Acupuncture Group
Thinking in Chinese Medicine: A Patient’s Guide to Acupuncture
Rotary International
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