Get to Know Me

Stephanie Doucette is a California-State Licensed Acupuncturist. She draws on East Asian medicine traditions, hands-on palpation and bodywork techniques to provide treatments uniquely tailored to each patient in order to support their body’s innate capacity for healing, health maintenance, and self-regulation.

Stephanie specializes in general health, musculoskeletal pain and injury, hormone health, fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum care. She is interested in applying the tools of East Asian medicine and gentle bodywork to accompany her patients through challenging circumstances and transitions at all phases of life.

Stephanie writes:

I have always been a curious person. Curious about culture, society, meaning, and purpose.

This curiosity led me to study religion and women’s studies in college. After college, I spent a year as a research academic in sociology and political economy in India before moving to the Bay Area, where I worked in social service nonprofits and got involved in community organizing around local and transnational political and economic justice issues.

As a young person in the Bay Area, I began receiving acupuncture and bodywork to alleviate discomfort related to musculoskeletal injuries and hormonal imbalance. More profoundly, I became intrigued by the power of hands-on somatic therapies to deeply quiet my mind and nervous system, supporting new insights and personal growth. It was precisely this experience of the physical body as a portal to deeper levels of peace, clarity, connection, and truth that led me to a path of curiosity in the healing arts.

“Beyond her obvious skill as a practitioner, her incredible listening skills, care, and compassion keep me coming back.  It is so clear that she cares deeply for her patients and is willing to go the extra mile to check in and do whatever she can to support them.  Stephanie is a true gem!”

Stephanie Has a Natural Love of Learning

I am endlessly learning and finding new ways to apply what I learn to helping my patients. Some of my formal studies include:

Certification in Massage Therapy from McKinnon School of Massage, Oakland, 2003

Master’s Degree from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, San Francisco, 2003-2007

Clinical internship in the acupuncture and herbal medicine practice of Dr. Robert Zeiger, OMD, Berkeley, 2008

Ongoing studies in integrative orthopedic acupuncture with various instructors, including Alon Marcus, DOM, L.Ac., DAAPM; Anthony Von Der Muhll, L.Ac., DAOM, DNBAO, FAIPM; and Anthony Lombardi, Doctor of Chiropractic

Currently enrolled in a 2.5 year Postgraduate Mentorship Program in Classical Chinese Herbal Medicine, taught by Sharon Weizenbaum through the White Pine Institute. This course is a deep study of physiology, diagnosis, and the application of herbal formulas as described in Han Dynasty era texts, such as the Huangdi Neijing, the Shang Hang Lun and the Jing Gui Yao Lue.

Also enrolled in a year-long Women’s Great Turning Cycles course, through White Pine Institute. Encompassing topics of menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, menopause, and aging, this course is the first comprehensive East Asian medicine program on obstetrics and gynecology in the west.

Ongoing studies in craniosacral and osteopathic hands-on palpation and manual therapy techniques through Upledger and Jean-Pierre Barral Institutes and Engaging Vitality

Coursework in Chinese Medicine obstetrics and pediatrics with homebirth midwife Raven Lang