Dr. Trisha Parks, DSOM, LAc., MScN, MScGH
Welcome! It is my honor and pleasure to serve and support you through your healing journey. It takes courage and strength to show up, admitting we need help and to invest in one’s own health and healing.
Personal Journey:
My personal journey has been long with several paths taken in order to get me where I am today. It has been difficult but I believe it to be part of Divine intervention so that I may share and understand how to show up whole-heartedly, with compassion, and provide a container to embrace you in for healing.
This medicine came to me through my own health issues, starting as a child. I was often sick, in pain, and fatigued, which in turn affected my physical, mental, emotional and spiritual state. Several times a month, for nearly two decades, I was in and out of emergency rooms, urgent cares, and conventional medicine offices without answers, typically sent home with some type of medication to hopefully find some relief. I often was told there was nothing else that could be done and often was left without solutions or options to solve the issues until I took it upon myself to start researching other alternative ways of healing through natural medicine.
There is a lot I could say about what makes this a beautiful medicine, why it has changed my life, the changes I have witnessed in other people’s lives, and its value and importance in this world. Some things just need to be experienced to be understood.
Background:
As a native Oregonian, I feel blessed to have grown up in the Pacific Northwest and feel it has greatly influenced my connection to myself, nature, and the Divine. Chinese Medicine understands this, and that nothing is separate, we are connected to all natural phenomena, the universe, and the cycles of life. This medicine takes a whole-body approach, the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual aspect of our beings through different lenses on a macro and microcosmic level.
The depth you choose to heal is up to you. I am here to assist in that process using several types of modalities, perspectives and lenses. Healing is not linear and at times can be uncomfortable. It is a small price to pay to have self-freedom, to emanate love and light, and to live your best life.
Treatment:
My passion lies in holistic health practices that support the whole human being, guided by intuition and honoring the full spectrum of the human template.
At the core of my work is the understanding that the body holds an innate ability to heal; my role is to gently remind it of that wisdom. We come into this world carrying many layers and patterns shaped by our soul’s purpose, the environments we grow up in, and ancestral influences (epigenetics).
Whatever ails you, my offerings include—but are not limited to—Acupuncture, Cupping, Moxa, Japanese Non-Insertive Needling (Gentle) Technique, Gua Sha, Classical Chinese Herbalism, Essential Oils, Spiritual-Energetic Healing, Lifestyle and Self-Awareness Coaching, Mental-Emotional Health, and Nutritional Counseling. Areas of focus in my practice include preventive care, mental-emotional health and anxiety, energy work, trauma and ancestral-family patterning, mindfulness, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, digestive disorders, mind-body medicine, somatic therapy, nutrition, and functional and environmental therapies.
I approach each session intuitively, drawing on a range of tools to help clear stuck energy and shift patterns at a soul level. As part of this work, I integrate InnerDialogue™ alongside my other healing modalities to support deeper transformation. Beyond individual sessions, I also offer InnerDialogue™ workshops for those who feel called to explore the practice in a group setting.
Education
Dr. Trisha Parks, DSOM, LAc., MScN, MScGH, completed four degrees in seven years at the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM): a Doctorate and Master of Science in Classical Chinese Medicine, a Master of Science in (Holistic) Nutrition, and a Master of Science in Global Health. She is a board-certified and licensed acupuncturist.
Prior to her studies at NUNM, she earned a BS in Sustainable Business, a program rooted in caring for the environment, farming, people, animals, and natural systems. She continues to implement practices that reduce her carbon footprint at home and in her business.
Dr. Parks also holds certifications and licenses in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (2009), Hypnotherapy (2003), and Massage Therapy (2000). She often draws from all three to help guide and assist her patients.
In addition, Dr. Parks as of 2023 has completed an intensive 14-month program in Classical Chinese Herbal Formulation with Dr. Heiner Fruehauf, PhD, LAc., founder of Classical Pearls, and became certified as a practitioner of InnerDialogue™ while studying under Solihin Thom, DO (UK), DAc., (SL).