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About Dr. Karen

"The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it." 

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My Story

 

I feel compelled to teach and share my journey with others in order to improve the lives of everyone I meet.  I love seeing others not only succeeding in life, but thriving and living their best!  I like to meet people wherever they are on their current journey and encourage them to reach just a little higher...

I always wanted to be a successful professional athlete growing up.  I had the desire and the work ethic, just not the genetics to be anything more than "okay" at any given sport. 

So I changed my tactics and started to coach others and reveled in their successes.  I coached track and field athletes for many years until the strain of constant travel wore on my relationships outside of the track and field community.  

I began teaching at the collegiate level and I found that through teaching others I learned the information on a much deeper level through the student's questions and insights.  

During college I began suffering for debilitating migraine headaches that would shut me down for several days every month.  I would come to suffer so badly from them that doctors began classifying them as TIAs or trans-ischemic attacks which were not only excruciatingly painful but they became dangerous as they are "mini-strokes".  

I tried everything I could to find a cure or to lessen them.  Nothing worked until I tried acupuncture.  It changed my life so significantly that I immediately decided a career change was in order!

I have now decided to meld the two best careers in my life by forming this page to educate not only other acupuncturists, but also to teach everyone how to live a healthier life!

Welcome! And let's get started!

Specialties

 

Exercise Plans

Nutritional Counseling

Migraines

Parkinson's Disease

Lyme Disease

Post Concussion Recovery

Cheering YOU toward success!!

Licensed Acupuncturist

Doctor of Oriental Medicine

Exercise Physiologist

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