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Acupuncture + Chinese Medicine for Women & Families

Alexis Arvidson, MS, LAc
Kingston, NY · Hudson Valley

Care centered on women, mothers, aunties and grandmothers — and the families around them.

For over 20 years, I have practiced Chinese medicine as a way of supporting the health of the body while cultivating a deeper relationship with ourselves and our lives.

My work supports women across the lifespan and through its many thresholds: adolescence and menarche, reproductive health, fertility, pregnancy and birth, postpartum and motherhood, perimenopause, menopause and elderhood.

Care for the body. Medicine for becoming.

The clinical health of the body is essential to my work.

I use acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, nutrition, bodywork and other practices within Chinese medicine to address what is happening physically while remaining attentive to the emotional and spiritual life of the person I am treating.

I believe the thresholds of our lives offer openings.

They can be a table set for deepening, for greater embodiment, and for living more fully in truth and love. We don't always take our seat at the table. Sometimes we walk right by.

My work is to help describe what is available, to tend what needs tending in the body, and to uplift what is already alive and well within each person.

From there, you choose.

Women's Health Across the Lifespan

I work with women through the changing physiology and lived experience of:

Menstrual health and cycle changes · fertility and preconception · pregnancy and birth · postpartum recovery · motherhood · hormonal transitions · perimenopause · menopause · sleep · digestion · emotional health · pain · grief and major life transitions.

My work is not organized around one right way to inhabit a woman's body, give birth, become a mother, or care for one's health.

I welcome different birth choices and different relationships with herbal medicine, conventional medicine and integrative care. Our work is to listen closely, stay curious, and navigate toward what is most real and true for you.

Mothers + Families

When we care for mothers, that care reaches beyond the individual.

My practice centers women while making room for the health of the family around them. I also work with spouses and partners and, at particular stages, with children.

I am especially interested in caring for young children alongside their mothers and supporting children again as they move through the profound transition into adolescence.

About Alexis

Alexis Arvidson, MS, LAc

I have practiced Chinese medicine for over 20 years, including 18 years in private practice.

My continuing study includes Classical Chinese Medicine with a focus on women's health, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Pediatric Acupuncture, Tui Na, Alchemical Acupuncture and Esoteric Acupuncture.

My education also extends beyond the traditional clinical setting into land-based and wilderness education, group facilitation, ceremonial space holding, handwork and the Tonalpohualli medicine of counting the days.

All of these studies inform a medicine concerned not only with relieving symptoms, but with helping people become more fully present in their bodies, their choices, their relationships and their lives.

Alexis Arvidson Acupuncture

Kingston, New York · Hudson Valley

Acupuncture · Chinese Herbal Medicine · Women's Health · Pregnancy + Postpartum · Perimenopause + Menopause · Family Care

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