About Applepuncture
Mission
Applepuncture’s mission is to empower individuals and families in the integration of physical, emotional, and spiritual life.
Kristin Grey Apple, MFA, MS, LAc, Diplomate of Oriental Medicine
Licensure & Education
Kristin Apple is a Licensed Acupuncturist in the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, certified by the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners and the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine. She completed her clinical training and received her Master of Science degree from Tri-State College of Acupuncture in NYC.
Background
Before discovering acupuncture, artistic exploration was my life’s work. I majored in Studio Art at Davidson College with a concentration in Painting. I went on to receive my MFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where I eventually became fascinated with time-based media. As an adjunct professor at Lehigh University and Penn State Abington, my interest was in facilitating physical actualizations (creations) of what my students felt was important in their worlds. I still feel very compassionate about assisting others in the translation of desires into tangible reality.
PHILOSOPHY
When I first experienced acupuncture, I knew immediately that it was an extraordinary and consequential medicine. Not only did I find out that it really works to harmonize the whole person and to alleviate symptoms; I also first-handedly experienced its invitation to participate in the therapeutic process. Perhaps you can understand the resounding parallel between creative interests and what it means to be an acupuncturist. The creative interface and process is just as present between the patient and the practitioner, between one’s own health and oneself.
I knew I needed to enter the field of medicine and specifically practice acupuncture because life itself is a creative process and inherently involves periods of chaos and order. Our own bodies are the most substantial and intimate artworks we encounter. Each body is a live artwork, both subject to a mysterious unfolding and also ready and able to participate and make choices.
Services
Acupuncture is a safe, effective, and ancient practice that encompasses the use of fine, sterile needles, moxibustion, cupping, and gua sha along meridians and appropriate acupuncture points to treat disharmonies in the body. Nutritional and lifestyle counseling are integral to treatment as well. This whole person approach works with the body’s inherent self-healing mechanisms.
Initial Visit: $120 (1 hour and 15 minutes)
Follow-up Visits: $100 (1 hour)
Student, Senior Citizen, and Veteran Rate: $85 for Follow-up Visits.
Pediatric Rate (ages 13 and under): $75
Private Packages (can be used for families):
7 prepaid treatments for $575 (each treatment $82*)
14 prepaid treatments for $1,050 (each treatment $75*)
*Treatment Packages can include the longer “Initial Visit,” provided the package is purchased in advance of that visit.
Community Acupuncture is a nationwide movement to create access to acupuncture at a lower rate. At Applepuncture, these non-private treatments take place in a large, peaceful room with up to 6 people receiving acupuncture at once. The acupuncture points involved are auricular points or points below the knees and elbows.
All Visits: $45 (1 hour)
Telemedicine involves the use of electronic communications to enable health care providers to communicate with patients or other healthcare providers at different locations for the purpose of continuing or improving patient care. All sessions are case-by-case and individualized to meet your specific healthcare goals. Sessions include handouts and are designed to create supportive and affirming practices that strengthen the immune system and encourage the daily processing of our current situation. Electronic systems used will incorporate network and software security protocols to protect confidentiality of patient identification and imaging data.
Level 1 Package: $250 for 4 Private Sessions + 1 Group Guided Meditation
Level 2 Package: $450 for 8 Private Sessions + 1 Group Guided Meditation
Level 3 Package: $600 for 12 Private Sessions + 1 Group Guided Meditation
Cupping involves the use of glass or plastic “cups” that are placed on specific sites on your body. These cups create a vacuum through the use of heat or suction and, thereby, stimulate the flow of blood and qi to the area. Patients generally report that cupping feels like a deep massage. The suction may create a temporary circular bruise, as a result of stagnated blood and qi moving to the surface. The greater the stagnation, the more obvious the discoloration. This is normal and will disappear within a few days, as cupping and gua sha increase cellular turnover via the immune system.
45-minute session is $75 ; 30-minute session is $60.
Facial rejuvenation acupuncture is a non-invasive and natural approach to eliciting the skin’s own self-repair mechanisms and immanent health. It is administered in a 12-treatment series, with results lasting 2-5 years. The most significant outcome of the facial rejuvenation series is the experience of and resultant belief in your unique vitality and its radiance outward into our world.
Series of 12 treatments: $200/treatment OR $2000 for full package
