Mind, Body & Spirit Health
The IntentQi Way
Personalized Medicine
Your First Visit
Your initial 90-minute session is both a conversation and a treatment — a space to explore your health story in depth. Guided by a comprehensive questionnaire, we’ll discuss your symptoms, concerns, and patterns you’ve noticed.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, every detail matters. What may seem unrelated is often deeply connected. This holistic approach considers your body, mind, and spirit within the context of your environment.
By identifying subtle imbalances and patterns, we uncover the deeper roots of what you're experiencing. From there, I create a treatment plan tailored to support your body’s natural healing intelligence and promote lasting balance — not just temporary relief.
At IntentQi, intention shapes every step of care. Where intention flows, healing follows. Each treatment is uniquely crafted around who you are and where you’re headed on your path to wellness.
Healing Builds and Grows
Follow-up Visits
Acupuncture works cumulatively — each session builds on the last, helping your body return to a state of balance and resilience. With intentional needle placement, I support your body’s innate healing intelligence.
Many people feel a shift after their first treatment — symptoms may begin to ease, and it’s common to leave feeling more grounded, open, and at ease. As treatments continue, these effects deepen, creating space for lasting change.
Your treatment plan is based on your unique needs: how long a condition has been present, how deeply it’s rooted, and how your body responds. Sessions may also include lifestyle or nutritional guidance to support healing from within.
Once symptoms improve, many choose to continue care to stay balanced, prevent recurrence, and support overall wellbeing. Chinese medicine isn’t just for relief — it’s a medicine for living well.
Follow-up sessions are typically 60 minutes, with 90- and 120-minute options available for more time or to include therapies like cupping.
Empowerment and Insight
Every Visit
Acupuncture taps into your body’s natural intelligence — stimulating healing processes like improved circulation, nervous system regulation, and the release of feel-good chemicals like serotonin and endorphins and much more.
Your symptoms are signals, not failures — your body’s way of communicating imbalance. Through thoughtful care and clear guidance, I help you listen, understand, and reconnect with the wisdom already within you.
With personalized support, education, and simple tools you can use every day, I’m here to empower your health and healing — from the treatment room and into life.
Acupuncture
Activates Natural Healing
Your body is a complex network of energetic and physiological pathways that work together to maintain balance and optimal health. Many of these channels are connected to specific organs, while others run across the body, linking areas from the inside out. These pathways, known as meridians, interact to support the overall harmony of your body, mind, and spirit.
Along these meridians are key acupuncture points that have distinct properties, allowing them to influence the flow of energy and the organs they correspond to. Modern science has identified these acupuncture points in areas dense with blood vessels, nerves, and myofascial trigger points. While these points are highly sensitive, acupuncture is typically painless, with minimal to no discomfort.
During an acupuncture session, very fine, flexible, sterile, stainless steel needles are gently inserted into specific points chosen based on your individual diagnosis. The goal is to stimulate your body’s natural healing processes, encouraging balance, healing and vitality. The needles are left in place for approximately 30 minutes, allowing you to rest and relax during the treatment.
Acupuncture is a deeply restorative and calming experience. It promotes healing, reduces stress, and helps address a wide range of physical and emotional imbalances by supporting the body’s inherent ability to restore itself.
Cupping
Myofascial Release, Improved Circulation and Lymphatic Flow
Your body is constantly in motion—muscles, fascia, tissues, and fluids working together to maintain balance and health. However, factors such as injury, poor posture, stress, illness, diet, or a sedentary lifestyle can cause stagnation, reducing the natural flow and movement within these areas. When this happens, the body’s vitality can slow down, leaving you feeling stiff, tight, or out of balance.
Cupping therapy uses gentle suction to lift the skin and underlying tissues, creating space for improved circulation and release. By placing glass cups on the skin and using fire to create the suction, I help stimulate the flow of blood, oxygen, and vital energy to areas that need it most. Cupping can be done both in a stationary position or in a more dynamic, moving form.
As the cups create suction, they leave temporary marks on the skin. These marks serve as valuable diagnostic tools, revealing insights into the state of the body based on their color and how quickly they heal. While cupping often feels deeply relaxing, it’s also a highly effective treatment for relieving pain, inflammation, and improving circulation.
Cupping is an ancient therapy practiced for thousands of years across many cultures. In fact, the world’s oldest medical text, the Ebers Papyrus, mentions cupping therapy as part of its healing practices. It’s similar to deep tissue massage in its ability to promote relaxation and overall well-being, but with the added benefit of helping your body release tension and restore energy flow.
Nutrition
Food is Medicine
Most of us know this on some level—but the intention to truly nourish ourselves can get lost. In a culture full of convenience and constant treats, it’s easy to confuse fullness with nourishment. Sometimes, healthier choices feel out of reach, and processed foods seem quicker, cheaper, or just easier.
Choosing to feed your body with care is one of the most important things you can do for your health. This doesn’t mean we don’t get to enjoy treats sometimes!
Traditional Chinese Medicine holds a deep and nuanced understanding of nutrition. It is a cornerstone of this medicine. It looks at food through the lens of season, flavor, temperature, color, and how each ingredient affects the organs and energetic systems of the body. It’s a system rooted in nature—and one that aligns with the wisdom already in your body.
I use these principles to help you reconnect with food in a way that supports healing, balance, and vitality. We’ll find simple, enjoyable ways to use food as medicine—tailored to your body, your life, and your goals.
Herbal Medicine
Support Your Healing
For millennia, humans have relied on herbs to support health and facilitate healing. Just as food wisdom is embedded in our DNA, so too is herbal wisdom. With my rigorous education, extensive study, and board certification, I hold the title of Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (Dipl. O.M.), granting me the ability to practice traditional Chinese herbalism nationwide.
When seeking herbal treatments from an acupuncturist, it’s important to ensure they hold this credential. Herbal medicine is both powerful and highly individualized, requiring expert knowledge and understanding of its transformative effects.
The Chinese medicine pharmacopeia is comprehensive, well-documented, and deeply effective. While herbal prescriptions often address symptoms directly, they are designed to treat the whole body, promoting overall balance and healing in relation to the symptom. I always begin with food and acupuncture as initial treatment responses, but herbs can be a highly effective tool in maximizing your body’s natural health and healing potential.
The herbs I prescribe are of the highest quality, meeting rigorous safety standards required in the USA, ensuring both effectiveness and safety in your treatment.
Coaching
Mindful Support for Your Healing Journey
I will partner with you. Sharing by teaching and guiding, I will support you in reconnecting with your body’s natural intelligence—but just as importantly, I listen and learn from you. Understanding your unique environment, patterns, and experiences helps me offer care that’s truly personalized.
Through the lens of Chinese medicine, we explore the language of your body—how it communicates, how it seeks balance, and how it responds to both internal and external influences. These ancient teachings, grounded in thousands of years of observation, help us uncover where imbalance exists and how we can gently shift toward harmony.
Mindfulness is a vital part of Eastern medicine. Together, we bring awareness to your daily rhythms, emotions, habits, and choices. With intention and compassionate curiosity, we begin to understand how to realign your system—not just physically, but emotionally and energetically. The process is about tuning in rather than fixing, and empowering rather than prescribing.
You are the master of your own universe—your body, your mind, your spirit. My goal is to help you deepen that connection and trust in your own capacity to heal and thrive.
If you're unable to schedule in-person sessions, reach out to discuss virtual coaching options. Wherever you are, support is available.
“I highly recommend Sherra for acupuncture!”
“I hurt my knee playing tennis and Sherra’s needling totally relieved me! Her patient guidance was so helpful and comforting. She has also treated me for pains in my hands from the tedious handwork that I do on a daily basis. She has even cured my hiccups with one needle! She is also excellent for stress and anxiety- I always walk away feeling 100% better.”
-T.P
