We are making Traditional Chinese Medicine available and affordable to the West Seattle community, by providing Acupuncture treatments for therapeutic relief for stress related health conditions.

We are striving to enable each individual to meet their health goals and live life to the fullest. Our clinic provides a relaxed atmosphere for treatment that promotes healing of body, mind, and spirit.

It is our belief that today’s world is full of stressors on every level: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. The result of stress overload is health decline, followed by loss of optimal function and the numerous symptoms related to stress induced disease.

By using the holistic model of Acupuncture, we focus each treatment both on the presenting symptoms of stress, and the person’s unique constitution. The constitutional aspect of treatment is important because this is the deepest connection to each individual’s inherent vitality. Treating this way provides relief at the deepest core level.

About your unique Stress Threshold

Hans Selye developed the stress threshold model which emphasized that we all have a different "breaking point." Our constitutional nature sets a certain range for our stress threshold, and determines how much we can handle.

Stress is no joke. Accumulation of stress leads to breakdown of systems, taxing the nervous system, digestive system, cardiovascular, endocrine, muscular, reproductive, respiratory, and immune system. Processing stress out of the body is one of the most important health care measures you can take.

Acupuncture is well known to influence special pathways (known as meridians) that have a relaxing influence on the brain and nervous system. Acupuncture does this by altering brain wave states and releasing brain chemicals that are known to induce a relaxing and stress reducing effect on the body.

You can think of stress as a buildup of pressure, and our goal is to reduce the pressure within the system. Frequent treatments serve as maintenance to keep stress below the threshold and allow for optimal function of all body systems.

Westside Community Acupuncture clinic is an excellent way to have a break from the stressors of daily life, while receiving treatment to balance your unique constitution.

Come in soon. You deserve it.

http://www.westsidecommunityacupuncture.com/

Gabrielle Anderson L.Ac. has earned her diplomate in Acupuncture through National Certification Commission of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). Gabrielle graduated with a Masters degree in Acupuncture from Bastyr University.