Ellie Barrett is a dedicated professional specializing in all aspects of women’s healthcare. With a background as a former midwife for over two decades, Ellie brings a wealth of experience and compassion to her practice. Her journey began with a Bachelor’s degree in humanities, specializing in Midwifery from the New College of California.

Throughout her career, Ellie has navigated the intricate phases of women’s health, from preconception care, including pre and post IUI, egg retrieval, and IVF, to the beautiful and transformative journey of pregnancy. Her passion lies in offering comprehensive support for the mental, physical, and emotional preparation for labor and birth. Ellie takes pride in assisting mothers and babies during the postpartum period, creating a nurturing environment for their well-being.

Ellie’s expertise extends beyond midwifery and acupuncture, as she is trained in Craniosacral Therapy to aid babies with latch and nursing issues. Her commitment to holistic care is evident in her focus on treating hormonal, endocrine, and pain issues throughout a woman’s life, including perimenopause and menopause.

In addition to all aspects of women’s health, Ellie has special interests in working and treating people with diabetes (particularly Type 1) as well as people in the LGBTQA community.

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Mrs Jamie Bassett has been an LMT for 15+ years in Oregon, graduating from the late Anthem College in December of 2009. She embraces the importance of stress management through relaxation techniques, while simultaneously working to improve overall health, function and pain management for her shared patients, with skills proven most effective during her years of experience.

Jamie understands that every person’s body and needs are different, and believes in the importance of discovering which Massage styles and techniques work best for her patients, and then utilizing that information to create a successful experience.

Outside of doing the work that she values and loves, she is a busy mother to one son, a dog mom to 2 rescues, a wife to a decorated combat veteran, and a roommate to Walter, the ball python. Her family shares a wonderful sense of humor, and enjoys being lazy, when they aren’t so incredibly busy living their best lives.

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Erica Chu, LAc, MAcOM is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist since 2013, graduating with her Masters of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (MAcOM) from AOMA School of Integrative Medicine in Austin, TX. She specializes in pain management, mental health & wellness and internal medicine. In addition, she has received advanced training in herbal dermatology and is a fellow of the International TCM Dermatology Association.

She was born and raised in Texas and earned her Bachelor’s degrees from The University of Texas at Austin. She started her acupuncture career at South Austin Community Acupuncture then opened a private practice in San Antonio, TX where she also served as the onsite acupuncturist at the cloud-based computing services tech company, Rackspace.

As a first generation Chinese-American, her first encounter with TCM was through her cultural upbringing where the spirit of Traditional Chinese Medicine defined her understanding of health, healing, and wellbeing. She incorporates practical and powerful methods in her technique to achieve rapid, lasting results with a gentle, reassuring bedside manner. She believes the body and human spirit are capable of incredible things and is passionate to help her patients find ways to tap into that power.

In her free time she enjoys staying active with yoga, hiking, and dancing, practicing Pranic Healing and meditation, and finding delicious restaurants around town with her husband.

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Joelle is a Portland native and a PNW girl to the core. She graduated from East West College of the Healing Arts in 2015 after a career as a pharmacy assistant. When she’s not geeking out about wellness tools, herbalism, and all the mysteries of the human body; you’ll find her doing yoga, hiking, and doing some cozy casual gaming.

Joelle’s bodywork is a very slow style with an aim to ground and reset the nervous system using a fusion of deep tissue, myofascial release, acupressure, and shiatsu. She also likes to utilize many different tools such as cupping, hot stones, and vibration to open up the tissues and work into trigger points and adhesions. Joelle particularly enjoys working with desk and service workers, anxiety, the elderly and the veteran population.

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Originally from New York, Patrick earned his B.S. in Biology at Villanova University and M.S. in Health and Human Performance at McNeese State University in Louisiana. He came to the Pacific NW to study at one of the best Traditional Chinese Medicine schools in the country, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine where he received his MAcOM, and became certified as an instructor of Qi Gong in 1000 Hands Buddha technique

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Caitlyn is a Licensed Massage Therapist and has been practicing since 2013. She specializes in deep tissue and myofascial with a gentle touch, working with the body to convince it to heal without forcing. She follows her hands to find the true source of the discomfort. She is especially passionate about those with chronic pain issues and those who are extra stressed mentally or physically.

She believes in the health benefits of relaxation, and that pain is not always gain with massage. She has taken extra training in cupping, myofascial techniques, and is a Certified Prenatal Specialist.

When she is not working she enjoys playing with her children and dogs, going on fun outings with her family, and taking care of her dozens of plants.

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Amber Reding was born and raised around the Portland Metropolitan area, highly influencing her desire to give back to the community that raised her. In 2011 Amber Commissioned into the US Army where she served as a Human Resources Officer.

As a female combat veteran Amber is particularly sensitive to the many different ways that events can create traumas in our lives. She strives to create a safe, trauma-informed treatment space where she hopes all people feel comfortable and SAFE! At the most basic level, healing begins with a safe place and a kind touch.

Due to Amber’s military background she has a passion for treating physical pain through the body, the mind and the spirit. She has witnessed first hand that mental, emotional and physical pain cannot be separated and in order to promote balanced, and lasting healing people must be treated on all three levels.

After attaining her acupuncture license in 2017 Amber began to realize the immense healing potential of treatment through focusing on the face. As humans we interface with the world through our expressions. Treatment of the face is treating human emotion and experiences. The human face is unique in that it is the only place where muscles attach directly to skin. To ensure patient safety and best clinical effects Amber took an additional one year certification on Facial Acupuncture which includes cosmetic, neuromuscular conditions and microneedling.

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Isabella, who prefers to go by “Fern”, is a licensed massage therapist since 2022. They graduated from National Holistic Institute Massage School in California and came to Oregon for the beautiful nature and wonderful holistic wellness culture. Fern provides light-medium-firm pressure Swedish relaxation massages to ease stress and uses deep tissue and myofascial therapy techniques to target specific areas of pain and discomfort. Fern also like to incorporate heat, especially the steam from hot towels, to release the tension throughout the layers of muscles and fascia.

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Erin has been a licensed massage therapist for two years. She has experience with both relaxation and therapeutic massage. She is trained and certified to perform cupping and gua sha.

Erin understands that massage can be a much needed reprieve from the stressors of daily living. Massage is as much about the mind and spirit as it is the body. She wants clients to have the option to take the inward journey and enjoy a restful, restorative session.

In her therapeutic sessions she likes to incorporate postural assessment, passive and active joint movement, and superficial to deep myofascial manipulation. Myofascial work is performed on dry skin in order to sink into the connective tissue, smooth adhesions and redistribute stuck or gathered tissues. This brings the body back to balance, promotes better structural alignment and ease of movement. A core belief of her work is that the body is adaptable and willing to change in ways that better serve us given time and consistency.

Outside of her massage therapy work she interested in skin care, weight lifting, yoga, and tango.

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Michelle has been in practice since 2010 and has continued to advance her studies though continuing education classes as well as through a mentorship. She practices Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as Taiwanese (distal) acupuncture. This helps guarantee exceptional treatment for all.

To compliment an Acupuncture treatment, Michelle regularly uses techniques such as: Gua Sha, Auricular Acupuncture, Cupping, Electrical Stimulation, Tuina Massage, and Pediatric Tuina.

Michelle enjoys working not only on pain issues (including sport related issues and Motor Vehicle Injuries), but also treats disorders including: stress, anxiety, depression, insomnia, allergies, stroke recovery, autoimmune disorders, fertility, and much more.

When Michelle is not at work, she enjoys spending time with her three sons. She also enjoys distance running and being outside as much as possible.

Michelle looks forward to answering any questions that you may have about acupuncture, and looks forward to treating you soon.

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Rachel has experienced very common chronic ongoing pains due to car accidents and working in highly physically demanding jobs such as highway maintenance. It was through these experiences and injuries she found massage therapy to be the main solution for her. Learning how massage helped her she fell in love with becoming a massage therapist. She wanted to help people learn about how their body can react and change as they get injured and heal.

She prides herself on learning new ways to work with everyone’s needs and addressing the root of their problems, not just suppressing the symptoms. She practices a variety of massage techniques such as deep skeletal myofascial manipulation with cupping, gua sha and passive/active stretches. She has worked with a variety of chronic and temporary conditions such as pregnancy and decades-old injuries.

Rachel is known for her sense of humor and striving to make people laugh. Her treatments tend to be very interactive and engaging as she enjoys getting to know her clients, developing a relationship, and assisting in their healing journey.

She often goes to comedy shows and concerts to stay up to date and to “be cool”. She likes jumping out of planes and would do it every day if she could.

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