You've done the work.
Given everything you have.
You're still not fine.
Most of my patients — living with pain that won’t resolve or a burnout that sleep can’t touch — have spent years doing what they were told and left every appointment just as depleted as when they walked in.
As a Double Board Certified specialist, I find what the conventional medical model doesn’t have the tools to measure. I give it a name, a reason and a way through. The longer the body goes unheard, the louder it has to speak.
16k+
Visits
20
Years Clinical
Experience
5+
Treatment
Pathways
Your body is telling the truth. I can show you the proof.™
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Your symptoms aren't the problem.
They're the message.
Standard appointments give you twelve minutes and a referral. What your body actually needs is a clinical system built to read what it’s already been saying. That process has a name: The 5R Burnout Recovery Method™. When the biology finally has a name, everything changes. The exhaustion stops feeling like a character flaw — and starts feeling like something with an answer.
realize · regulate · restore · relate · reach
I find what other clinicians
often miss.
If you’ve done the right things, seen the right people, and still don’t have answers — you’re not the problem. The system wasn’t built to find what you’re dealing with. That gap is exactly where I work.
I know this territory from the inside — my own burnout and adrenal fatigue gave me a clinical understanding no textbook could. That experience, combined with 20 years and over 16,000 patient visits, shaped a diagnostic approach that bridges classical Chinese medicine with western functional lab science. You don’t leave with a guess. You leave with a map.
I work primarily with high-achievers, helpers and leaders — people who have been functioning at full output for so long that their body finally stopped cooperating. If you’ve been told your results are normal and you still don’t have answers, this practice was built for you.
Doctor of Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine · Functional Medicine · Chinese Herbal Medicine · Nutrition
Functional Medicine · Behavioral Coaching · Sports Medicine · Mental Health
California State & U.S. National Double Board Certified
San Diego · Southern California · Nationwide · Worldwide In Person & Virtual
Discover Your Path.
Every patient arrives with a different story. Tell me yours and I’ll show you where it leads.
Pain. Digestion.
Stress. Balance.
I pick up where the healthcare system left you off.
- Chronic pain & musculoskeletal conditions
- Digestive disorders & gut health
- Stress, anxiety & nervous system regulation
- Women's health & hormonal balance
Your labs say fine.
Your body disagrees.
You’ve probably already done the labs. You just never got the roadmap.
- Comprehensive hormone & metabolic panels
- Gut microbiome & digestive health testing
- Nutrient deficiency & toxin screening
- Personalized protocol based on your results
Burnout to Balance®
Burnout isn’t just a self-care problem. Your body needs more than breathwork and bubble baths to find its way back.
- Burnout assessment & biological root cause mapping
- The 5R Burnout Recovery Method™ — a structured path from depletion to capacity
- Virtual one-on-one coaching
- Built for helpers, leaders & high-output professionals
When the body gets heard, everything shifts. Here's proof.
This is what finally being seen feels like.
“I had seen four different specialists. Every test came back normal. Riley was the first person who looked at everything together, identified a pattern no one else had caught and gave me an actual diagnosis. Within eight weeks I had a protocol and my energy was finally shifting.”
“I kept thinking I just needed a vacation. What I actually needed was someone who understood what chronic burnout does to your nervous system. Three months into the program I was sleeping through the night and working without that constant underlying dread.”
“I’d been told my pain was stress-related for two years. Riley found the actual root. Six weeks in, I was sleeping through the night for the first time in three years.”
Your burnout is biological™
Rest hasn’t fixed it. Mindset hasn’t fixed it. Guessing hasn’t fixed it. That’s because the problem was never in your head. It was in your biology. And your biological map shows us the way forward.
The clinical insights your doctor doesn't have time to give you.
Clinical insights on burnout, pain, gut health and the signals most practitioners overlook — written for the ones who take care of everyone else first. Practical tools. Cutting-edge research. Delivered to your inbox. Everyone who joins receives The 5 Signs Your Burnout Isn’t Just Stress — a clinical guide to what your body has been trying to tell you.