“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
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Gillian Rose, Seattle Acupuncturist
Gillian Rose, MAcOM, LAc. (she/they) began Twelve Rivers Medicine to offer accessible, comprehensive, holistic care for all communities based on a classical Chinese medical model.
Twelve Rivers Medicine offers affordable acupuncture treatments focusing on pain management, anxiety and depression, hormone imbalance, sleep problems, digestive disorders, recovery from auto injury, chronic and autoimmune disease and health maintenance.
Gillian uses principles of Chinese medicine to educate patients in self-care while supporting transformation with acupuncture and other complementary modalities such as herbal medicine, food therapy, moxabustion, cupping therapy, gua sha and essential oils.
Twelve Rivers Medicine is committed to an equity-based, non-biased and socially just vision of healthcare in which the needs of BIPOC, queer, non-binary, transgender and gender non-conforming patients and patients with other marginalized identities are prioritized. This practice supports health at any size, honors people of all abilities and offers trauma-informed care.
Education
Gillian Rose graduated from Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts in Asheville, North Carolina in 2014 and moved back to her hometown of Seattle to begin a practice.
Daoist Traditions college offers a comprehensive four year masters program in acupuncture and East Asian medicine, emphasizing the techniques of classical and TCM acupuncture, herbal medicine, nutrition, food therapy, tui na massage and qi gong cultivation. The program includes extensive training in Western medical pathology, pharmacology, diagnosis and treatment.
Gillian is nationally certified through the NCCAOM.
Gillian identifies as queer and provides healthcare for queer, transgender and gender non-conforming patients.
