Offering personalized and attentive holistic care to help you feel better, stay well, and reach your health goals.
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natural medicine can help you.
I can help support you in creating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle using acupuncture, acupressure, reiki, herbal medicine, nutrition, supplements and health education.
Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine have been helping people treat illness and stay healthy for centuries. This holistic model of medicine treats the person as a whole physical, emotional and spiritual being. It is an ancient system that perfectly complements a modern lifestyle seeking balance and health.
A holistic approach to taking care of our health means that in addition to focusing on alleviating pain and symptoms, we broaden our awareness to include the wide range of factors that effect our health. This includes family, community, home, work, food, daily activities, emotions, and spirituality. Understanding all of these factors allow us to make healthy choices that bring balance to all aspects of our lives. Simply put, holistic wellness is living inspired by health.
Tamsen Staniford, L.Ac.
Motivated by a life long passion for medicine, health and wellness, Tamsen chose to study Oriental Medicine at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego, California. PCOM is well known for its rigorous training program emphasizing science, herbal medicine, and integrative care. Her studies also focused on the Japanese Meridian style of acupuncture in the traditions of Ikeda Masakazu Sensei and Shuddo Denmei Sensei. During her training she completed three rotations at the San Diego Hospice and the Institute for Palliative Medicine’s Inpatient Care Center. After receiving her graduate degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine she returned to Northern California where she began her private practice. She continues to focus her continuing education on preventative medicine, palliative care, integrative medicine, and nutrition. Tamsen has also worked with Quan Yin Healing Arts Center providing community acupuncture to supportive housing residences in San Francisco, CA.
Previously, Tamsen trained in massage therapy and bodywork at the National Holistic Institute, and has been refining her own spiritual practices for many years. She is also a level 1 Reiki practitioner.
You will find her enjoying her days off hiking around Mt. Tamalpais, visiting Baker Beach, reading and watching science fiction, or enjoying her back yard.
Conveniently located in the professional medical building located at 4200 18th St Suite 203 MAP in the Castro district of San Francisco.
Call Tamsen Staniford, L.Ac. at 415-831-1231 to make an appointment or for more information.
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House calls available for home care, home bound, limited mobility, postpartum, recovery, and palliative care patients.