How Can Acupuncture Help Me?

Acupuncture can help you in many ways, mentally, emotionally and physically. It can help specific health concerns, and it can help you feel better overall. It helps your body balance naturally, that’s why it can help so many different health concerns. It harnesses the natural healing ability of your body and directs the healing with needles. Here are just a few things that can be helped with Acupuncture:

1. Relieve Stress

Acupuncture can help us shed stress quickly. It helps shift our bodies and minds into a healing state where balance can be restored. While many patients experience immediate relief, with ongoing treatment, they report feeling better able to deal with ongoing stress in their lives. Things that used to stress them out, are handled with greater ease. They often report being calm in the face of circumstance that would have caused them distress.

2. Relieve Anxiety

Acupuncture is so good for anxiety. This is one of the treatments I personally love to offer, as patients are often amazed at how good they feel after treatment. By balancing the body, anxiety fades away. Oftentimes, one to two treatments can greatly relieve symptoms and help one feel more grounded and calm. If ongoing treatment is needed, the anxiety levels fade even further over time.

3. Relieve Pain

Many people know about Acupuncture for the treatment of pain. It helps by interrupting the patterns causing pain, and helping blood circulation in the area to reduce inflammation and speed healing. Sometimes pain fades with one treatment and it doesn’t return, but oftentimes, ongoing treatment is needed to be pain free. By continuing treatment until pain levels are zero, patients can recover from patterns of acute or chronic pain.

4. Relieve Digestive Concerns

Digestive troubles respond well to Acupuncture treatments. Heartburn, indigestion, constipation, diarrhea, stomach pain, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis and many other digestive concerns can be helped with treatment. Helping patients reduce and eliminate the need for medications is rewarding. Digestion is the foundation for our health, and improving our ability to digest and absorb nutrients can improve our health and prevent many other health issues.

Acupuncture can treat many other health concerns. It treats the whole body naturally, so when one area of concern is addressed, oftentimes, other areas will improve. If you’re looking for help with your health, you might find great relief with Acupuncture. If you live in the San Jose, CA area, I can help you. If you live out of the San Francisco Bay area, contact me, and I can refer you to a practitioner in your area.
 

Yours in Health,


Kara Sorensen, MS, LAc
Acupuncture by Kara
15066 Los Gatos-Almaden Rd
Suite 200
Los Gatos, CA
e: kara(at)karasorensen.com
p: 408.805.5272 (KARA)
p: 800.514.1406

Trauma and Anxiety Relieved with Self-Applied Acupressure over the Phone

Here is a testimonial from a patient that worked with me over the phone. We did a session for her anxiety, and afterwards, she reported that the anxiety was just gone. Here's how the session was for her:

"I went to Kara for some anxiety issues.  After some very in-depth analysis, she guided me through a process of self-applied acupressure and focus.  Her gentle and non-judgemental guidance really helped me to visualize letting go of some of my anxiety and the trauma that caused it. 

I feel as if I've begun to address the traumatic event through my session with Kara, and am beginning to have a different perspective about it.  The thoughts, feelings and emotions related to it have totally faded.  I feel so much more relaxed and am better able to be in the present, as opposed to constantly reliving these events that contributed to my anxiety.

Kara is gifted and skillful at what she does.  And the fact that this was accomplished all over the phone / computer, is wonderful!!  I love that I could do this from my home and it was a very lovely and comfortable experience.  I can't wait until my next session!!

Thanks Kara, you rock!"

Is Your Anxiety Relatd to Old Trauma?

Oftentimes symptoms of anxiety, pain or allergies can actually be related to old traumatic events that the body has not been able to process and let go. In general, when patients come to me with a long standing problem and other treatments haven't worked, I ask them about their history of trauma. Sometimes there is trauma still locked in the nervous system that is totally forgotten on a mental level, but it's still creating symptoms. Sometimes the patient knows exactly what the trauma is but still can't discharge it. The great thing about Acupressure is that you don't have to know if there's a trauma associated with it, you just focus on the current symptoms and the body remembers and lets go of that past event related to your current symptoms. I've seen it so many times now, that I just trust it now.

So, if you've tried a number of modalities for your chronic symptoms of anxiety, pain, allergies or other health issues, you may just benefit from Acupressure. Questions? Contact me, I'm happy to discuss your concerns.

Yours in Health,

Kara Sorensen, MS, LAc
Acupuncture by Kara
15066 Los Gatos-Almaden Rd
Suite 200
Los Gatos, CA
e: kara(at)karasorensen.com
p: 408.805.5272 (KARA)
p: 800.514.1406

Acupuncuture Helped Anxiety, Depression, Sadness and Digestive Issues

Here's another testimonial from a patient who wrote about her experience with Acupuncture and how it helped her mentally and emotionally. I'm so glad she came in for treatment:

"After feeling tired and frustrated of relying on medications to relieve my enduring issues with tension, anxiety, sadness, depression and digestive issues, I finally made the decision to try acupuncture. I figured I had absolutely nothing to lose. All I knew was that I wasn't about to spend most of my life taking medications to treat these pervasive ailments.

After four sessions with Kara I immediately started to feel my symptoms diminish! It was during this time that I realized how equipped our bodies really are to deal with most emotional and bodily issues. I haven't felt this great in years! Thank you Kara for your genuine concern, kindness, hospitality, and generosity!"

-DR
Social Worker,
Berkeley, CA

Sometimes medications aren't enough to help someone feel better. Sometimes patients come to me because they have experienced reactions to medication and so meds are not an option for them. Acupuncture can help on many levels to help you feel better; physically, mentally and emotionally, because it treats the whole person, not just symptoms. Sometimes the results are dramatic and sometimes they take time. Either way, you can feel better with treatment in the majority of cases.

If you want to feel better and you live near San Jose, CA, I would be happy to help you with Acupuncture. If you need a referral in your area, check out the referral list for Acupuncturists here. Either way, don't just live with anxiety and depression, get treatment and find some relief!

Yours in Health,

Kara Sorensen, MS, LAc

Acupuncture by Kara &
The Food Craving Solution

15066 Los Gatos-Almaden Rd
Suite 200
Los Gatos, CA

e: kara(at)karasorensen.com
p: 408.805.5272 (KARA)
p: 800.514.1406