Acupuncture for Mental and Emotional Health
Mental and Emotional Health is imperative to the health of the whole body. There are numerous challenges to navigating our daily lives impacting how we feel about ourselves and our internal/external environments.
Whether your mental and emotional health has been acknowledged by a professional or no one, acupuncture provides a way to connect to your body, mind, and spirit. An acupuncture session helps by releasing tension in your body, calming your mind, and regulating your central nervous system.
Western Medical Diagnosis
Acupuncture has been shown to be effective in treating a wide variety of conditions, often without the need for medications that come with undesirable side effects.
CONDITIONS: General Anxiety Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, Major Depressive Disorder, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
General Feelings
By bringing your body's harmony and balance back into alignment, acupuncture helps to create a positive space for the mental healing process.
CONDITIONS: life feels like a burden, too exhausted to get anything done, why me, anxious, panic attacks, anxiety attacks
Trauma
Acupuncture can assist the body in recovering from the physical effects of post-traumatic stress disorder by reducing anxiety and calming the nervous system.
CONDITIONS: gun violence, secondary trauma, childhood trauma, generational trauma, sexual assault, pregnancy loss, assault, harassment, job loss, death of a loved one, loss of a pet, addiction recovery, grieving
If you do not see your condition listed, contact us to schedule a phone consultation to find out if we can help.
FAQ
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You will not experience pain with acupuncture. You may experience warmth, heaviness, tingling, or other sensations in and around the needle site.
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The vast majority of patients don't need long-term treatment but choose to continue with regular acupuncture for maintaining their overall health.
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Our patients are typically able to get great results with once-weekly visits, and the visits are typically less than 60 minutes. That’s less than an hour a week. We’ll discuss this in more detail at your free consultation.
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People often feel a shift after the very first treatment. Acupuncture is a very powerful way to stimulate endorphin release, which is the most powerful relaxing substance the body makes.
Everyone is different, but many people feel a shift of some type after their first treatment. We will discuss result expectations based on your personal goals at your free consultation.
Success Story: Anxiety and Depression
I can't like this enough. Leigh is phenomenal. I started here 3 years ago for my anxiety (lifelong) and seasonal depression (I'm from the sunny South originally). I can honestly say after going to Leigh regularly in the winter, I haven't had any issues with SAD and my anxiety has dramatically dropped.
— MOLLIE R.
