Integrative skin care in my practice is based on the principles below.

1. Using eastern and western botanical knowledge to boost the effects of dermatologically prescribed products, and powerful clinically studied actives within your regimen.

2. Narrowing in on individual stress exposure - and implementing esthetician suggested rejuvenation practices you can use at home, that mitigate stressful effects on the body and skin.

3. Providing a deeply restorative facial treatment to set the tone for nervous system support for the month.

4. Boosting the barrier with corrective hydrating actives, to boost the efficacy of your regimen at home.

5. Reducing tension in overactive expressive areas of the face in between tox injections or other facial rejuvenating practices.

Working in environments such as integrative medicine clinics, apothecaries, and community acupuncture clinics for the last 10 years - I was always surrounded by practitioners who studied things for a really long time. Within the year that I got licensed as an esthetician, I realized that advanced facial techniques provided some of the biggest impact on moisture retention and rest for the body. I knew that I wanted the practice to be a lifelong education, instead of multi day educational experience.

I knew that I wanted to learn something that would rejuvenate me, as well as the person on the table. And researching global facial massage practices - I felt as if the techniques that came out of Japan had the best body mechanics for my hands and body. While providing expert and classically led techniques, stemming from martial arts, traditional Chinese/Japanese massage practices, and Zen philosophy. All of which take lifetimes to synthesize. Techniques preserved by sensei’s who dedicate their lives to passing down generational knowledge of rejuvenation - that has soothed the ancient and modern face.

I cherish these teachings. And you can too through my practice.

Instead of making cosmetic balance of the face be the end goal, my focus instead remains wellbeing, mitigating the effects of stress exposure, and centering comfort and belonging. This helps us to focus on skin health behavior and its adaptive intelligence throughout the life cycle, in order to facilitate the skin’s ever evolving sense of vitality.

Skin anatomy and physiology. Skin barrier behavior Inflammation. Pore care. Seasonal shifts in hydration needs. Regional climate. Exfoliation practices - all play a role in facial treatments performed and product suggestions.

The legacy of the skin’s life cycle becomes the forefront, rather than “preserving” and prolonging the effects of our “once youthful” face.