Acupuncture for Mental Health
Everyone encounters emotional distress or major upheavals in our lives that can trigger a wide range of unexpected feelings, major disruptions to our daily functioning (sleep, exercise and diet), or clinical disorders (depression, anxiety, and PTSD). In Chinese medicine, mental health problems arise as imbalances between the yin and yang energies of the body, including consideration of lifestyle, diet, and constitution. Our body is made up of a living energy called Qi, and this energy circulates in the body, including the major organs, through channels or meridians. However, emotional and physical disruptions produce imbalance of qi in the meridians that acupuncture can address. In addition to psychotherapy and other modalities, acupuncture is an adequate modality for treating mental health issues because treatments plans are customized and designed to address root causes of patterns by helping to restore balance at all levels, body and mind.
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