Are you looking for a natural alternative to Botox and fillers?

Realizing that injections aren’t making you look any younger, but instead just like everyone else your age who also gets injections?

Feeling over the environmental and emotional toxicity of the anti-aging industry?

You are in the right place:

Aesthetic acupuncture treatment is for you.

At Prefer Health, my mission is to help you discover the happiest and most refreshed version of yourself, naturally.

What is it though?

Facial rejuvenation acupuncture is a time-tested natural approach for combating the signs of aging and promoting a healthy and radiant appearance. While no therapies, surgical, chemical, or natural can reduce every sign of aging, facial rejuvenation acupuncture is an ideal and effective option for those who would like to avoid risky and expensive surgeries or chemical procedures, as well as those who place a high value on preserving a natural appearance.

How can it help me?

Aesthetic acupuncture can address a wide range of concerns, including:

  • Sagging skin and jowls

  • Dry, dull, lusterless, thin and crepey skin

  • Acne/Rosacea

  • Drooping eyelids

  • Facial scarring

Before and After:

Forehead results after 10 consecutive treatments

Under chin results after 10 consecutive treatments

Why should I do it?

You have taken care of everybody else long enough.

You are NOT too much for wanting to take care of yourself.

Have you been stalling and breaking a little sweat when you start looking at injections and fillers? Your body and spirit are trying to tell you something.

You deserve to feel great knowing that you are putting yourself first (finally!) while not letting go of the pieces of yourself that have always felt fundamental to you since you were a little kid running in the wind and playing in the mud: staying as close to nature as possible, and respecting your body, mind, and spirt above any pressures from the outside world (good-bye consumer and mass-media hype).

And just how does this all work?

When we work together, we are going to take an elemental approach to radical beauty.

(the elemental approach to radical beauty)

I lean on the wisdom of Chinese five-element theory to approach aesthetic treatment on a whole-person level. This means making sure that your body and spirit feel healthy and whole, and that the face itself is healthy from the deepest layer of bone to the outermost layer of skin cells.

Okay, but are you wanting to get technical?

I utilize a variety of different technical methods in my facial acupuncture treatments. This includes:

  • full-body acupuncture treatment(because a beautiful face isn’t more important than a healthy mind and body)

  • facial acupuncture to address circulation, muscle tone, and collagen production

  • intra-dermal micro-needling to address fine-lines,

  • facial cupping and facial gua sha to move lymph and further stimulate collagen

  • LED light therapy 

…and…! We are going to take the time to talk about and deal with whatever is coming up for you in regards to your goals and why’s around aesthetic treatment. There can be so much to work through in a culture where we are inundated with messages about how we are supposed to look and why. When we work together, we are going to make sure that you are doing this treatment for YOU, and we are going to work on improving imperfections AND celebrating some of them too.

Want to know my why?

I was in a major car accident right before I turned 18 and sustained severe facial and hand trauma. As a teenage girl, the impact of those injuries was a game-changer. Facing a future of years of reconstructive surgeries, I also was making the major adjustment from the standard teenage-girl ego of wanting to stand out in a room, to someone with disfiguring injuries that made me definitely stand out in a room, for all the wrong reasons. 

The truth is, that car accident is probably one of the best things that ever happened to me. It sent me through a transformation from teenage fashionista, to someone who had depth of experience and pain. It was a movie-worthy wake-up moment that instilled the life-worn lesson that beauty is not only skin deep. In fact, after having such a huge transformation to my ego and concept of what it meant to be a teenage girl in the world, I took a 180 and rebelled against beauty standards. I leaned hard into turning my nose up at standardized beauty, and the television shows and magazines that went along with. Perhaps worst of all, I had a sense of moral superiority that people who chased after ideals of beauty were vain and lacking in character. 

Ironically, during this whole time, I also kept undergoing more surgical interventions to reduce the appearance of my scars and researching the best (natural) ointments and creams that could help reduce redness, all in an attempt to get back to a more “attractive” me. Fast forward 10 years later and all I can say is: my perspective evolved. Over time, as I continued to educate myself and experience the benefit of self-care, I realized that there was nothing wrong with caring about your face and appearance. Yes, there’s still a lot I can say about the images we are force-fed by the media. But there is just something inherently human about wanting to put our best selves forward in the world. And it also just kind-of feels great too. 

It was through Chinese medicine that I was finally able to put my finger on why this all makes total sense. Chinese medicine teaches that there is an interconnected relationship between the health of our spirits and our faces, and that through our face we can see a reflection of the state of our emotional health. The dots become further connected with the knowledge because of this relationship, we can also affect our emotional health through our faces, and the love and care we offer to them. I still stand behind beauty is always about being something more than skin-deep, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t care for our skin and feel beautiful too. And when we feel beautiful, our hearts feel nourished and full. When we operate from a space that feels grounded, we can offer the world our best selves, from the inside out. 

It took a long road to get here, but I feel passionate about embracing beauty and appearances in all of their different forms, and supporting folks to take care of themselves so that they can express the very best version of themselves.

photo credit: Olivia Ashton

photo credit: Olivia Ashton