Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine for Treating Anxiety, Stress & Depression

Natural treatment for anxiety & depression combining acupuncture & Traditional Chinese medicine!

The stigma around caring for your mental health is fading, yet millions of Americans struggle to balance their mental and emotional needs. Our team provides mental health support by listening, searching for root causes, and curating treatments to help you manage stress and mental health. While we can’t always eliminate the stressors in our lives, we can adapt how our bodies respond.

 

Mental Health Treatments in Portland, Maine

DEPRESSION

Depression is one of the most common mental health issues we face today, affecting one in five people. Whether you want to avoid medication or use it in conjunction with other therapies, acupuncture is an effective treatment for depression. In Traditional Chinese medicine, we look at depression as being stagnant Qi. Something in the body is stuck and we stimulate certain acupuncture points to remove blockages and restore balance to the organs, mind and body. This can help ease depression symptoms, as well as treat the underlying cause.

Acupuncture showed clinically-relevant benefits in reducing the severity of depression at the end of treatment. Read more about why it works here.

ANXIETY

Agitated? Stiff neck? Difficulty concentrating? Anxiety can manifest in ways beyond excessive worrying or restlessness. Studies show that acupuncture is an effective treatment for anxiety, with fewer side effects than medications. Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese medicine work to treat anxiety by calming the nervous system and stimulating the body’s natural feel-good hormones to reduce stress and invite peace of mind.

PTSD

Whether your traumatic experience happened recently or long ago, you deserve to feel safe and grounded. We use acupuncture to address the mental and physical effects of trauma to help people suffering from PTSD experience more joy and fulfillment in their lives. Our acupuncturists are trained to listen and treat you as an individual by restoring balance to your nervous system and release emotional pain that is being held in the body. Acupuncture can be used in conjunction with other therapies to help you return to an appropriate relationship with your body.