Acupuncture changed my life.  I couldn't resist the urge to help people the way my acupuncturist helped me.

You learn so much when you start practicing after graduation.  But you had to graduate and pass boards to get there!  Thank you to SCU for giving me a beautiful foundation on which I can grow my knowledge, my career, and my business! I loved interning in Taiwan with some of my classmates.  I loved following Dr. Larry Hsiao around in clinic.  I loved working with Dr. Mir on an amazing capstone project.  And I loved that Dr. Yu showed me what it means to grind and get stuff done.  These folks played a huge role in my education, I am so grateful!

I opened a holistic health and beauty clinic in Northern Colorado called Balanced Thistle. Every beauty service at Balanced Thistle has health benefits.  We work heavily with women's health issues such as fertility, PCOS, [and] endo, as well as stress, anxiety, digestive issues, headaches, and more. We offer acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, functional lab testing and nutrition, yoni steaming, lymphatic massage, and gua sha facials.

My number one goal is to build a team that all believe in Balanced Thistle’s mission to provide unparalleled holistic health and beauty care to Northern Colorado. There is power in numbers.  I want to surround myself with brilliant minds. You can help a lot more people if you team up with other, like-minded providers.

Advice for students and recent graduates: Learn and absorb everything you can.  Stay humble—you will never, ever, know it all. Be the clinician that you would want to see!