Thoughtful, individualized acupuncture in Walnut Creek, at the Lafayette border — for chronic pain, women's health, oncology support, and the patterns beneath stress and pain.
Maybe you have a diagnosis, and the treatment has taken you only so far. Maybe the pain has outlasted everything that was supposed to resolve it. Maybe a cancer journey is asking more of you than anyone prepared you for, or a hormonal shift has its own difficult logic, or the stress has settled somewhere in your body and stayed.
Conventional medicine does a great deal well. But it can reach a point where it has little left to offer — and you are still the one living in a body that does not feel like yours. That place, where careful medicine has stopped short, is exactly where Sophia's work begins.
The same diagnosis lives differently in different people. Anxiety has its own shape in each person who carries it; no two cancer journeys feel alike. So care here is built around how your condition actually shows up in you — your history, your patterns, the specific way your body holds what it is holding. Sophia works to find the pattern underneath the symptom, and to bring some ease back to a body, or a mind, that has been living with dis-ease.
This is partnership through the long arc of your health — not the promise of a quick cure, but a steady, skilled companion in getting you back to the life you want to be living.
Each area links to a fuller look at how acupuncture and Chinese medicine approach it — what the work involves, and who it tends to help.
Neck, back, joint, and TMJ pain, sciatica, and musculoskeletal injury — treated with orthopedic acupuncture and dry needling, and with attention to the pattern that keeps the pain returning.
Learn more →Acupuncture alongside cancer treatment — easing the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation, steadying the nervous system, and helping you meet each appointment with more reserve.
Learn more →Cycle regulation, PMS, and the long arc of perimenopause — supported through acupuncture and classical herbal medicine that work with the body's own hormonal rhythm.
Learn more →The layered, unresolved cases — multi-system conditions that have not fit neatly into a single diagnosis, supported with classical herbal medicine and pulse diagnosis at doctoral depth.
Learn more →Acupuncture for anxiety, stress, and nervous system dysregulation — approached through Chinese medicine psychiatry, which reads emotional experience as part of the whole, not as pathology.
Learn more →Acupuncture through grief, burnout, and the major transitions of a life — support for the body as it moves through what the mind is also carrying.
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I came to Chinese medicine the long way — first as a patient. I was born with a chronic respiratory illness and life-threatening allergies that shaped much of my early life, and I saw my first acupuncturist at the age of five. Chinese medicine has been part of my own healthcare ever since.
When it came time to choose a career, I asked myself a simple question: who had made the greatest difference in my life? Again and again, the answer was my acupuncturists and Chinese medicine doctors — and that is the work I do today.
Your first appointment is a real conversation — your history, your patterns, what you have already tried, and what you are hoping to return to. The treatment plan follows from understanding all of it.
Acupuncture, dry needling where it fits, and classical herbal medicine — shaped to the specific way your condition shows up in you, not a template applied to a diagnosis.
Over time, a body that regulates itself more easily — less pain, steadier energy and mood — and a partner you can return to as life keeps asking new things of you.
An unhurried first visit — a careful look at what has been going on, and an honest discussion of whether this is the right fit for you.
Book an AppointmentDiablo Acupuncture · 925.268.0117
2920 Camino Diablo #210C, Walnut Creek, CA 94597 — at the Lafayette border