Hi, I'm Maring.
I'm glad you're here.

My Story

I came to this work the long way around.

Before acupuncture school, I studied Contemplative Psychology at Naropa University in Boulder. It was there that I first understood the body and the mind not as separate systems to be managed, but as one integrated whole. That understanding has never left me.

I went on to train as an acupuncturist at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego. Chinese medicine deepened that understanding. In this tradition, the emotions live in the organs. Grief lives in the lungs. Fear lives in the kidneys. What we carry emotionally shows up in the body, and what shows up in the body is always trying to tell us something.

Over the years I began weaving in other approaches. Parts work, inner voice practices, somatic awareness. Not because I was trying to be more things to more people, but because I kept watching what actually helped women shift. And what helped, consistently, was making contact with what was already alive inside them.

I am also an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, which means I hold this work with clinical depth and ethical care. The acupuncture practice and the therapy practice live separately, but they come from the same place in me: a deep belief that when someone feels truly seen and heard, something in them relaxes that has been braced for a long time. And from that place, real change becomes possible.

I work with women who are ready. Not perfect, not without struggle, just ready to turn toward themselves with a little more honesty and a lot more compassion. I consider it a genuine privilege every time someone trusts me with that.