Welcome

Healing is a powerful thing — it has the potential not only to transform you but also everyone around you. It’s bigger than just feeling better. It’s about reclaiming your wholeness and your zest for life. It’s about empowering you to be more present, generous, and loving with the people in your life. In my belief, good healthcare has the power to not only help you feel better but to make the world a better place. 

Perhaps you suffer from chronic pain or illness which keeps you from being the spouse, parent, or friend you’d like to be. Perhaps you’ve been managing your health concerns with pharmaceuticals but you want to go beyond that paradigm and resolve the root cause of your condition.  Or maybe you want to focus on wellness care, weight loss, and aging gracefully. 

Xander has been working with the powerful tools of Chinese medicine & acupuncture since 2010. He offers safe, natural, and effective therapies in a healing atmosphere of trust, respect, and clear communication. He uses acupuncture,  bodywork, classical Chinese herbal medicine, nutritional counseling, and health education to help you improve your quality of life and reclaim your wholeness. Xander has experience treating a wide variety of health concerns, including anxiety & depression, digestive & metabolic issues, obesity, autoimmune & dermatological conditions, menopause & perimenopause, and insomnia.

My hope for you - Reclaiming your Wholeness

I want to be a guide for you in your search for good health and vitality. Most of my patients are working with me on improving their health through receiving acupuncture & herbal medicine and working to change their lifestyle in some way (one or more of the four legs of the stool: diet, sleep, movement & psychoemotional well-being). 

My hope for you, as your health improves, is that you reach a point where things pivot, that your health and well-being are fairly well managed by you and from that foundation of good health you can reclaim your wholeness, make meaning in your life and give back to those around you from a place of abundance, confidence, generosity, and love. 

Life is hard and good health is a long journey for most of us. If this resonates with you and you’d like to include me in your process of healing and reclaiming your wholeness, I would be honored and grateful.

About Xander

I am an acupuncturist & Chinese herbalist with over 15 years experience treating patients with a variety of conditions. I love Chinese medicine because it is a system of natural medicine rooted in ancient wisdom that gets to the root of the problem – it doesn’t just bandaid over the symptoms in the way much of modern medicine does. 

In my time as a clinician I have treated myriad patients for digestive & metabolic health conditions (e.g. SIBO, IBS, constipation, obesity, diabetes), menopause & perimenopause struggles, allergies & sinus issues, autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue syndrome & fibromyalgia, headaches & migraines, and acute & chronic pain. 

Over the many years I’ve worked with patients I have come to understand that good health (physical & psychoemotional health) is what naturally leads a person to blossoming into their fullest potential. We each have unique gifts to offer to the world but, sadly, in many cases, psychological trauma and/or poor health and lifestyle prevent us from becoming the person we are called to be. 

The culture we are steeped in (extreme capitalism & greed, rampant emotional & sexual trauma, processed foods, a toxic environment, and, most importantly, a severe lack of kindness and compassion) makes achieving good health challenging at times. Yet, despite all the challenges surrounding us we have so much power in how we choose to care for ourselves and each other. 

The suffering in the world saddens me greatly. But with good help and robust relationships we can live better lives. We can eat better, move better, sleep better, and relate better. Not always, but enough of the time to make a positive impact in our lives and the lives of those around us.

Xander graduated with a Master’s degree in Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine (MAcOM) from the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine (SIEAM). He has studied various forms of acupuncture, bodywork and Chinese herbal medicine under the tutelage of internationally regarded instructors including Dr. Jason Robertson, Dr. Craig Mitchell, Professor Huang Huang (Nanjing), Nigel Dawes, and Daniel Altschuler. 

In his free time, Xander enjoys playing & listening to music, cooking beautiful meals and soaking in the beautiful sites of the Puget Sound with his wife & daughter.