*Expert Guidance
*Explore Your Symptoms through a New Lens
*A Partner for Your Health**
With 40+ years of experience, I have treated a wide range of health concerns. Common to each is a desire for change in body/mind/spirit. My promise is to partner YOU in creating and discovering your changes.
My training bridges traditions of acupuncture. Applying the Five Elements is my primary mode of expertise to guide you towards good health. The Five Elements are an expression of nature that occur via the seasonal cycle and within each of us as well. My experience has taught me that synchronizing our body/mind/spirit to these naturally occurring rhythms is key to alleviate symptoms, engender well-being and strengthen resilience in our daily life.
To view specific symptom relief, see the acupuncture page for citations. In my experience there is no symptom too large or small that is not helped or guided by viewing it through the lens of Five Elements. Often, it provides a context for what you are experiencing when nothing else offers an explanation.
The character image for QI is a rice pot cooking. Too much heat burns the rice; too little, leaves it soggy. My goal for you is to keep your rice pot cooking and your life force vital in the location where you are most comfortable. I offer 3 modes for acupuncture treatment sessions:
- In person at Crossings
- Telehealth Zoom Consultations
- Acupuncture Home Care for Seniors
“To wish to be well is part of becoming well” Seneca
“Dosage: An Acupuncturist’s Art Form”, Fall 2022.
“Acupuncture and COVID Long-Haulers”, August 2021; “Acupuncture for COVID Long-Haulers, Pt. 2 Case Studies”, September 2021.
“The Geometry of Emotion: Healing Emotions through the Lens of Chinese Medicine”, Winter 2015.
THE FIVE ELEMENTS IN NATURE (For patients/practitioners during Covid)
Meridians Magazine of the Traditional Acupuncture Institute:
Spring 2002, “When Anger Rises: Ways to Claim Anger’s Gift to Ourselves and the World.”
Winter 2002, “Walking Fearward: Living into and Beyond Fear.”
Autumn 2001, “The Gift of Autumn: Discovering What Matters Most.”
“Notes of a Qi Tender: Guides to Complementary and Alternative Medicine.” In Contemporary Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, edited by Claire M. Cassidy. (Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone, 2001).
Jane Grissmer, MAc, DiplAc (NCCAOM), is former Division Chair of Theory in the Masters of Acupuncture Program at the Maryland University of Integrative Health. Her publications include “When Anger Rises: Ways to Claim Anger’s Gift to Ourselves and the World.” Meridians Magazine of the Traditional Acupuncture Institute, Spring 2002. “Walking Fearward: Living into and Beyond Fear.” Meridians Magazine of the Traditional Acupuncture Institute, Winter 2002. “The Gift of Autumn: Discovering What Matters Most.” Meridians Magazine of the Traditional Acupuncture Institute, Autumn 2001. “Notes of a Qi Tender: Guides to Complementary and Alternative Medicine.” In Contemporary Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, edited by Claire M. Cassidy. (Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone, 2001).