Eastern Scholars Healing Arts.

Chris has practiced acupuncture for over 20 years, and been a devoted student of Daoism for 35 years. What began as a desire to relieve his physical pain and resolve asthma has evolved into a lifelong exploration and study of how human beings heal — integrating our structure, our emotions, our energy and our existence.

Early in his career, Chris focused on refining technique. With strong teachers and disciplined study, he developed clinical precision and achieved consistent results. However, in addition to two decades of practice, his own experiences with burnout, asthma, chronic Lyme disease, and long Covid have enhanced and broadened his understanding of healing.

Today, he approaches healing as a collaborative process rooted in presence. Symptoms are not simply problems to eliminate, they are signals guiding us toward greater coherence. His work integrates traditional acupuncture with somatic awareness, and embodied inquiry.

Chris currently practices in New York City, with individuals navigating pain, stress, overwhelm, chronic illness, and life transitions. His clinical work and teaching emphasize balance, vitality, and cultivating resilience in an increasingly overstimulated world.

Recently, Chris started sharing the S.H.I.P. (Somatic Healing Integration Practice), a framework developed from decades of personal and professional study in acupuncture, yoga, qigong, and meditation.

Acupuncture as Presence, Not Just Treatment

While the clinical foundation of Chris’s practice rests on the mastery of direct diagnosis through pulse taking, the conversation that opens both within the patients own body and between patient and practitioner, is where the healing begins.

In traditional acupuncture, the pulse reveals patterns of excess, deficiency, stagnation, and imbalance within the body’s systems. Through decades of training and experience, Chris has refined his ability to read the pulse as a living conversation — sensing the body’s internal dynamics through his fingertips.

During a session, two dialogues unfold simultaneously:

The verbal narrative — your symptoms, history, stressors, and concerns

The physiological narrative — communicated directly through the pulse

It is where these two converge that clarity emerges.

Rather than treating isolated symptoms, Chris assesses the energetic sum of the individual. He perceives beyond the surface complaint to explore where harmony or dissonance exists within the internal system — the underlying patterns that fuel pain, anxiety, fatigue, or dysfunction.