I know what it's like to live in a body that feels like a mystery
— to spend years looking for answers outside of yourself and find nothing that feels true. Finding Chinese medicine didn't just change my health. It changed the way I see the world. And that's what I bring to anyone who finds their way to this work.
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This medicine is something I live,
not just practice.
I came to this work as a young woman whose body felt like a problem to be solved. Painful periods, a nervous system that felt everything deeply, and a persistent sense that the answers I was looking for weren't where I was looking.
When I found Chinese medicine, something shifted. Not just in my body — but in how I understood myself. For the first time, my sensitivity wasn't a liability or burden. My symptoms weren't obstacles. They were information.
But the deeper healing came when I stopped looking only outward for answers. That's when everything changed. That's the medicine that now shapes everything I do.
23
years in clinical practice
20,000 +
treatments
200 +
pregnancies supported
ABout Maureen
Outside the treatment room
I'm Maureen Conant, a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese medicine practitioner based in Seattle with over two decades of clinical experience. I'm a devoted bookworm and a perpetual student of the cosmos and the Tao. You'll likely find me hiking a forest trail with my husband and our greyhound Ruby, or settling into my favorite chair with a hot beverage, absorbed in a mystery novel or a biography of a classic rock or punk rock icon. I love escaping to the islands of the Pacific Northwest whenever we can — Whidbey especially.
"It's the empty space within the bowl that makes it useful" - Lao Tzu
"It's the empty space within the bowl that makes it useful" - Lao Tzu
What guides this medicine
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Treat the Whole Person
Body, soul and spirit are not separate systems to be treated independently. What shows up physically is always in conversation with what's happening emotionally and spiritually. Nothing is treated in isolation.
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Treat the
Root
Your symptoms are not the problem — they're the messenger of a larger pattern. Every treatment begins with understanding the root beneath what's presenting, because lasting change happens at the source.
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Nature as Medicine
Your body doesn't exist apart from nature. Your cycles, your energy, and your emotional landscape all move through rhythms and seasons. Treatment works with those rhythms, not against them.
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Rest as
Medicine
In a culture that rewards constant productivity, rest is its own kind of medicine. Sometimes the most profound healing happens in the quiet.
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Trauma-Informed Care
Healing unfolds most deeply in spaces of safety and trust. I bring a trauma-informed lens to all of my work — recognizing that many people carry experiences that live in the body long before they surface in words.
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Alchemical Healing
The difficult things — the pain, the grief, the confusion, the parts of yourself you'd rather not look at — are potent material for transformation. This work doesn't avoid what's hard. It uses it as the path to healing.
The lineage & teachers I carry into every session
My practice is rooted in Classical Chinese medicine — a tradition with ancient Taoist origins — and has been shaped over two decades by both rigorous training and the teachers who changed how I see.
I trained at the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine, graduating in 2003 with a Master's degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and hold a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Washington. I am nationally board-certified in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine through NCBAHM, with a specialty certification in reproductive medicine through ABORM.
My deepest influences have been Lorie Eve Dechar and Benjamin Fox, whose work in Alchemical Acupuncture & Healing weaves Chinese medicine with depth psychology and inner alchemy; Sharon Weizenbaum, who taught me to see this medicine through its classical roots rather than its modern surface; and reproductive medicine specialists Jane Lyttleton, Randine Lewis, and Cindy Micleu. I also hold the Resilient Heart™ certification through the HeartMath Institute, which informs the trauma-informed lens I bring to all of my work.
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How we can work togetheR
Women's Health & Reproductive Medicine
From your first period to menopause — and everything in between. This is medicine that honors every phase of a woman's life as meaningful, not just manageable.
Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine
This medicine works with the whole person, not just the presenting symptom. Whether you're navigating anxiety, fatigue, chronic pain, or a sense that something is simply off, it looks for what's underneath.
Ba Zi: Chinese Astrology Reading
Ba Zi Four Pillars Chinese astrology is an astrology system that maps your nature — your strengths, your challenges, and the natural timing of your life. Not prediction. Understanding.
Seasonal Reflections
on Substack
A monthly exploration of the seasons, elements and natural cycles — and how to move with them in everyday life.