Acupuncture & Holistic Wellness Services – Reclaim Your Balance
Between hustle culture, caregiving roles, and the constant emotional labor of daily life, your nervous system is running in overdrive. That pressure doesn’t just live in your head—it shows up in your body. Lingering colds, poor sleep, accelerated aging… they aren’t random. They’re signals. Signals that your body is carrying more than it can hold, while you keep trying to push through.
Every day you ignore those signals, the cycle deepens. The longer you silence your voice, the easier it is to forget what it even sounds like. And the more you say “yes” when you mean “no,” the further you drift from yourself. How much longer can you afford to live like this?
You don’t need to escape to Bali or block off a week-long retreat to feel whole again. Healing can begin right where you are—in your living room, in your sweats, with your tea and your truth.
The Woman Behind this Work
My mother was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer when I was young. Rather than pursue conventional treatment, she chose to work with an East Asian medicine practitioner and focus on lifestyle and dietary changes. She went on to live another 41 years.
Watching her make that choice, and witnessing the life she lived afterward, shaped the way I think about health to this day. It taught me that healing is often bigger than a diagnosis and that caring for a person means understanding the whole of their life, not just their symptoms.
Years later, I found myself living that lesson in a very personal way. My mother moved in with my family. My sister needed care at the same time. The business I had built had to stand on its own reputation while I carried responsibilities in every direction.
I know what it feels like to be the person everyone depends on. I know what it feels like to manage work, family, caregiving, and the endless details of daily life while quietly wondering who is taking care of you.
Long before that season arrived, I had left a demanding corporate career to study East Asian medicine full-time. What began as a professional calling eventually became a personal lifeline. The principles I had spent years studying gave me a framework for staying grounded when life felt overwhelming. They helped me navigate uncertainty, responsibility, and change without losing sight of myself in the process.
Life eventually gave me another lesson. I faced my own health challenges and experienced firsthand what it feels like to know something is not right, even when clear answers are hard to find.
That experience changed the way I listen.
If you have ever sat across from a provider and heard, “Everything looks normal,” while knowing something still feels off, I understand that experience from the inside.
Kim Blaufuss, EAMP, Dipl Ac
Healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about reconnecting with the person who has been there all along beneath the responsibilities, the expectations, the caretaking, and the constant pressure to keep going.
In the West, we are trained toward self-sufficiency and external achievement. We learn how to perform, produce, and carry more than we should. East Asian medicine taught me that there is another side to health, one that is inward, relational, and whole.
Those are two sides of the same coin, and without both, we live only half a life.
I know that because I have lived the half, and I have lived the whole.
That is what I bring to my clients.
Your Investment in Yourself
Most of the women who find their way here have already tried other things. They have read the books, downloaded the apps, taken the supplements, and pushed through. They have invested in everything except themselves.
A virtual session is a dedicated hour that belongs entirely to you. Not to your family, your work, or your to-do list. To you.
WHAT YOUR FIRST SESSION INCLUDES
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Full intake conversation (60 min) |
Not a brief questionnaire. A real conversation about your health history, your daily life, and what you are experiencing — including the parts that are hard to put into words. |
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Personalized wellness assessment |
Based on East Asian medicine principles, this assessment looks at patterns across your whole system — not individual symptoms in isolation. |
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Initial Yi Ching Guidance |
Many clients find that this is the piece that finally names what they have been feeling but could not articulate. Sometimes what feels off cannot be fully explained by physical symptoms alone. Health exists on multiple levels — and what is unresolved at one level often surfaces at another. Your first session includes an initial Yi Ching reading — an ancient practice within the East Asian medicine tradition that helps illuminate the deeper energetic patterns shaping this particular season of your life. Not fortune-telling. Not prediction. A lens. |
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Written summary within 24 hours |
Everything discussed, every recommendation, clearly written and sent to you so nothing is lost or forgotten. |
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Actionable guidance you can begin immediately |
Lifestyle adjustments, dietary recommendations, and Qi Gong practices specific to your situation — not generic advice. |
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A clear direction forward |
You will leave knowing what is happening in your body, why, and what to do about it. Many clients describe this clarity alone as worth the session. |
You may arrive here knowing exactly what is wrong, or you may arrive with a feeling you cannot quite name — a sense that something is off at a level that has nothing to do with your labs or your sleep or your diet.
The Yi Ching is one of the oldest tools in the East Asian medicine tradition. In your first session, I use it to gain a deeper understanding of the energetic patterns shaping this specific time in your life — the currents beneath the symptoms. Health is not only physical. It spills over from other dimensions of who we are, and sometimes what the body is expressing is asking a question that the body alone cannot answer.
The initial reading is included in your first session at no additional cost. It is not separate from the clinical work — it is part of how I listen.
First Virtual Session $200 60 minutes Full intake | Yi Ching guidance | Written plan |
Follow-Up Session $150 45 minutes Progress review | Adjusted recommendations |
Note: Ongoing or extended Yi Ching Guidance, herbal compounding, and Emotional Forecasts are available as add-ons at an additional cost. Your practitioner will discuss these with you during your session if they are relevant — there is no obligation and no surprise charges.
You have been the last item on your own list for long enough.
Spending an hour on yourself is not selfish. It is the thing that makes everything else sustainable.
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Book your free 15-minute Energy Check-In — no cost, no commitment, no pressure. Just a conversation to see if this feels right for you.
Here is some additional information about preparing for your virtual working session:
- Appointments are scheduled between 9 am and 4 pm Pacific Time, Monday, Thursday, & ‘Saturday appointments are available for those with weekday scheduling constraints.
- Sessions canceled less than 24 hours before the appointment and “no show” consultations are non-refundable.
- Reschedule your appointment up to 24 hours before your appointment time by calling the office at 360-841-7558.
- Appointments are paid at the time of booking.
- The Herbal and essential oil compounding, Yi Ching Guidance, are Emotional forecasts are an additional cost.
TESTIMONIALS
The only way I can describe my sleep is delicious. – Y.Y. Ridgefield
Something has shifted and I don’t what it is, but it’s changed everything and I don’t feel like I’m struggling. – K.K. Ridgefield
I’m a new person with more joy and laugher than I’ve had in a long time. – D.D. Longview
Kim is incredibly caring and intuitive. – M. N. Hockinson
It’s changed my life and helped me bring myself back! – J.S. Woodland