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.

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.

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.

Ilyse Garber has a Master of Acupuncture degree from the Won Institute of Graduate Studies and a BFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University. She is nationally certified as a Diplomate of Acupuncture by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She has been a practitioner of Medical Qigong since 1998 and completed a ten-month Medical Qigong teaching apprenticeship program in 2005 from The Heart of Healing, in Westtown, PA. Ilyse also became certified as a Usui Reiki Master practitioner in 2005.

As an acupuncturist, I utilize my training in Five Element and TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) styles, among others. In my study of Chinese medicine, I have come to the knowledge that illness and health appear differently in each person. I therefore believe it is of utmost importance to treat my patients on an individual level and address their unique needs and goals. I have also come to know that illness and health as they appear in the body are determined by the state of the mind and spirit, and visa versa. It is my goal as a practitioner of acupuncture to address not only the physical health concerns of my patients but the mental, emotional, and spirit aspects of their being as well; to bring my patients back to wholeness in body, mind, and spirit so they can live life to their full potential.