Dr. Ann Holland
Naturopathic Medicine and Acupuncture
Welcome
Ann is committed to providing patient-centered and culturally sensitive care. She specifically welcomes members of the LGBTQ2SIA+ community, people of color, and people with larger bodies. Unfortunately the clinic is currently not wheelchair accessible.
Services
Naturopathic Medicine
Naturopathic medicine is a distinct primary health care profession, emphasizing prevention, treatment, and optimal health through the use of therapeutic methods and substances that encourage individuals’ inherent self-healing process. The practice of naturopathic medicine includes modern and traditional, scientific, and empirical methods.
Naturopathic practice includes the following diagnostic and therapeutic modalities: clinical and laboratory diagnostic testing, nutritional medicine, botanical medicine, naturopathic physical medicine, counseling, homeopathy, and prescription medications.
Acupuncture
In Chinese medicine, it’s thought that pain and disease result from blocked energy channels that run along meridians, or energy pathways, throughout the body. By placing hair-thin needles at specific points along the channel, healthy energy flow is restored.
Acupuncture is used to help restore balance in the patient, to establish mental, physical and spiritual well-being.
The goal of classical Chinese medicine is to bring the body back into dynamic wholeness with the natural environment by using minimally invasive techniques. Classical Chinese medicine is used worldwide for everything ranging from the common cold to pain to severe and recalcitrant disease. It is used both to treat and to prevent disease.
Bodywork
Ann loves to treat musculoskeletal pain conditions using a combination of deep-tissue massage and acupuncture. She may also use Chinese medicine techniques of cupping, gua sha, or moxibustion to release stuck patterns in the body and restore normal function and ease.
Herbal Medicine
Ann has been studying, teaching and practicing botanical medicine for more than thirty years. She feels deeply connected to the herbs. She loves to create custom herbal formulas to suit each patient's needs.
About Ann
Ann is a graduate of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM), now the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) in Portland, Oregon. She graduated with honors as a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine (ND) and a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine (MSOM). She is board certified by the North American Board of Naturopathic Examiners (NABNE) and the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). She is licensed to practice naturopathic medicine by the Oregon Board of Naturopathic Examiners (OBNE) and is licensed through the the Oregon Medical Board to practice acupuncture (LAc). She is a member of the Oregon Association of Naturopathic Physicians (OANP). Ann has studied and practiced herbalism and bodywork for all of her adult life. She has been in private practice as a Naturopathic physician and licensed acupuncturist since 2004. She is a general practitioner, and treats a wide spectrum of conditions. Ann has been honored to support people in all phases of their lives, from childhood through old age. Ann has taught students pursuing bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in natural health, most recently as the supervising physician of the Integrative Behavioral Health shift at NUNM Health Center. Ann is the mother of two beautiful teenage twin sons. She loves to travel, dance, and get out into nature. In her spare time she's been baking bread, gardening, doing yoga, and riding her bike up Mt. Tabor. Her newest hobby is watercolor painting.