As Clinical Director at Common Ground Wellness, I am honored to offer Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine as amazing tools with centuries of empirical evidence for healing and self-development to my community in Louisville and beyond. My training in Functional Medicine provides a modern lens that further deepens the resources available for real transformation and self-empowerment. Using the combination of thorough health history, diagnostic assessment, and compassionate touch I guide patients on their path to wellness and coach them on ways to live more aligned, intentional, and ease-filled lives.

I was fortunate enough to find Chinese Medicine at a young age. I began meditating at age fifteen, started doing yoga at eighteen, and delved into Eastern philosophy with the intention to become an acupuncturist at age twenty. This early exposure to alternative health endowed me with a discerning mind and breadth of experience that I now offer to my patients as they seek true wellness. My undergraduate studies in Eastern philosophy, Western Medicine, and nutrition at Indiana University paved the way for my Masters in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, one of the leading acupuncture schools in the county with research funding through the National Institute of Health.

My Fellowship with the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine brings fertility expertise to my patients seeking assistance with getting pregnant and maintaining healthy pregnancies, an issue I am incredibly passionate about. As a Holistic Fertility Specialist and Certified Women’s Integrative Medicine Institute Practitioner, I offer highly customized and effective solutions to hormonal, digestive, and emotional struggles via one on one coaching.

I currently reside in The Highlands neighborhood of Louisville Kentucky with my tech-savvy husband, my soon-to-be engineering college student son, my extroverted creative elementary school daughter, Timber the One-eyed Dog, and Juniper the Adventure Kitty. We own a travel trailer and camp all over the country as often as we can because communing with nature has always been the way I nourish myself most deeply. I am also a vegetable and herb gardener, an avid supporter of local farmer’s markets, a fairly good cook, a voracious reader of fiction, and prioritize authentic communication and deep conversation.