About 

My name is Tracy. I’ve been practicing trauma-informed acupuncture since 2013 and somatic work since 2017.

I do this work because I know what it's like to feel disconnected from your own body, to not trust what's happening inside, to keep searching for something outside yourself that will finally make you feel okay.

I also know what it shifts when you realize your body has wisdom, when you can be present with yourself instead of constantly scanning for what others need, when your parts become allies instead of obstacles.

I think of my work as witnessing people in ways that call them home to themselves—providing accompaniment into the realm of the body and lending courage to be with what arises. When the body's innate knowing has space to emerge and is held with deep regard, there's more access to wholeness. When we feel safe to be in our bodies and in connection with others, there's more room for us to express our true essence in the world.

Education & Training

 

I am a Licensed Acupuncturist, Certified NeuroAffective Touch Practitioner, Level 2 Internal Family Systems Practitioner, and Certified Body-Oriented Coach. For more details about my education and training, click on any of the subjects below.

  • 2025 The Missing Pieces of Attachment Theory: A Decolonized Approach, Linda Thai

    2024 IFS: A Tool for Liberation, Internal Family Systems Institute

    2023 How to Be (Less Harmful): Training White Helpers to Serve BIPOC Clients with ARTIC

    2022 Foundations of Somatic Abolitionism for White Bodies, Carlin Quinn & Resmaa Menakem with Education for Racial Equity (ERE)

    2021-2022 NeuroAffective Touch Foundation training with Aline LaPierre

    2021 Trauma-Informed Care for Health and Allied Professionals through Oregon ECHO Network

    2017 Somatic Regulation & Resilience - Early Trauma, with Kathy Kain and Dr. Steve Terrell

    2013 Masters thesis “Moving Toward Integration: Working with trauma & dissociation for practitioners of Chinese medicine”

    2011 Presentation of a literature review on treating dissociation with Chinese medicineat the annual conference of the American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AAAOM) in Baltimore, MD

  • 2013 to Present: Diplomate of Acupuncture by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).

    2015 Diplomate of Canonical Chinese Medicine, Institute of Classics in East Asian Medicine (ICEAM)

    2013 Honors in Research and Highest Honors in the Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine (MSOM), National University of Natural Medicine

  • 2025: Certificate in Body-Oriented Group Coaching, The Somatic School (UK)

    2024-2025 Accredited Diploma in Body-oriented Coaching, The Somatic School (UK)

    2022 Foundations of Somatic Abolitionism for White Bodies, Carlin Quinn & Resmaa Menakem with Education for Racial Equity (ERE)

    2021-2022 NeuroAffective Touch Foundation Training, Aline LaPierre

    2020 The Somatic Narrative, Kathy Kain

    2020 The Power of Embodied Transformation, Coaches Rising & the Strozzi Institute

    2017 Somatic Resilience & Regulation: Early Trauma with Kathy Kain and Dr. Stephen Terrell

    2017 Complex Trauma: Touch-based Methods for Early Trauma, Syndromes, and Trauma Structures with Kathy L. Kain

  • 2025: IFS Level 2
    Internal Family Systems Institute
    LT: Chris Burris, Pam Krause
    AT: Anna Gartshore

    2025: Somatic IFS consultation with LaDonna Silva

    2024-2025 Healing Our Biases, a facilitated IFS work group

    2024 IFS: A Tool for Liberation, Internal Family Systems Institute

    2024 IFS consultation with Dr. Sand Chang (they/them)

    2023-2024 IFS Level 1,
    Internal Family Systems Institute
    LT: Terry Dalton, Marina Hassanali
    AT: David Kitchings

  • I have trained in subtle palpation, craniosacral therapy, visceral manipulation, and osteopathic manual practice techniques with a number of teachers, most notably Regina Callahan (Still Mountain Institute). Other influential instructors include Dr. Sheila Murphy, DC at NCNM, Dr. Signy Erickson, DC (Upledger Institute), Dr. Anne Hill, ND (core synchronism), and Phyllecia Rommel (orthobionomy).

 
 
 

 Acknowledgements

Where I live and practice

The Willamette Valley, where I live and practice, has been inhabited and stewarded by the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, Chinook, Molalla, and Tualatin Kalapuya peoples who made their lives along the Columbia (Wimahl) and Willamette (Whilamut) rivers for over 11,000 years.

The colonization of this region by settlers of European descent had and continues to have devastating impacts upon the indigenous peoples of this place. I am both privileged and diminished by this legacy. Those of us descended from settlers have much to learn about the people we have displaced and the places we now inhabit if we are to be part of healing—both this legacy and ourselves.

Lineages & Influences

My work draws from many streams—teachers, writers, wild places, and the people who've shaped me. Among them: Statie, my parents, Sue & Glyn, Sara, Kate, Regina Callahan, Kathy Kain, Samantha Persoff, Aline LaPierre, Linda Thai, adrienne maree brown, Resmaa Menakem, the south fork of the Payette, Ann Weiser Cornell, The Somatic School, Carol Sanford, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Sonya Renee Taylor, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, Bonnie Badenoch, Peter Levine, The Haunted Self (Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, Kathy Steele, and Onno Van der Hart) Bessel van der Kolk, Internal Family Systems, Eugene Gendlin, Brene Brown, Radical Wholeness (Phillip Shepherd), Body Sense (Alan Fogel), Sensuous Knowledge (Mina Salami), Bodyfulness (Christine Caldwell), the Strozzi Institute, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, attachment theory, Stephen Porges….