陳Mei Linnea ChenL.Ac., M.S. TCM
Mei founded Your Business in 2014 after seven years in a busy fertility-focused clinic in Berkeley. She is the practitioner most patients see for cycle, fertility, and post-partum work, and she runs the herbal dispensary.
Mei trained at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco and did a year of postgraduate study at Chengdu University of TCM, where she focused on the gynecology department. She speaks English and Mandarin, sees patients in either, and reads classical texts in simplified and traditional script.
Outside the clinic, she gardens medicinal herbs in the small back lot and is part of a long-running classical-formula study group with three other senior practitioners in the Bay.
Ari ShimodaL.Ac., Dipl. O.M.
Ari practices in the Toyohari lineage of Japanese-style acupuncture — extremely fine, very shallow needles, a heavy reliance on palpation and on the practitioner's own state of attention.
The Toyohari approach was developed in post-war Japan by a guild of blind acupuncturists, and the diagnostic emphasis is almost entirely tactile. In practice this means Ari spends a long time with their hands on a patient before any needles come out. Many patients who describe themselves as "needle-phobic" find this approach comfortable.
Ari sees a lot of pediatric patients (with parents in the room), patients in cancer care or recovery, and patients whose primary concern is anxiety or trauma response held in the body. They trained in Tokyo for two years after graduating from AOMA in Austin.
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韋David WellsL.Ac., Dipl. Ac.
David trained in the Worsley Five Element tradition — a deeply constitutional approach that focuses less on the symptom in front of you and more on the patient's underlying elemental temperament.
Five Element treatments tend to be slower and more conversational than classical TCM. The diagnostic process can take a full first visit, and treatment plans are often spread out — once a week for the first eight weeks, then once a month for many months. Patients who do well in this approach often arrive saying something like, I am fine, but I am not myself.
Before training in acupuncture David spent eight years as a clinical social worker. Most of his current caseload is people working through grief, life transition, mid-career burnout, and the kind of chronic stress that has stopped registering as stress.