What is Shen?
Shen is the spirit or life force that resides in the heart of every living body. Acupuncture practitioners work with this life force to even the flow and optimize the human body's physiological functions. Our eyes and facial complexion are a mirror of our shen. When a patient leaves the treatment table with a bright complexion, we know that the treatment was effective.
Kinga Van Brunt, LAc
Kinga grew up in the hilly forested regions of northwest Romania. As a child she spent her weekends in nature participating in orienteering or picking mushrooms, wildflowers and medicinal plants with her parents. Herbal teas were a daily delight at home and in times of illness healing remedies also.
She moved to the United States in her early 20's and in 2006 she enrolled at Midwest College of Oriental medicine. At the time she was going through health struggles that Western medicine could not identify. She found the answer and cure during her years studying Chinese medicine.
Kinga graduated Magna Cum Laude from Midwest College of Oriental Medicine in Chicago in 2010. She is a licensed acupuncturist and board-certified through the NCCAOM.
She began her career working at a top Chinese medicine clinic in Chesterton, Indiana. At East Wind Acupuncture she would see 90-110 patient cases in a week. Later she was the co- founder of People's Community Acupuncture in Chicago, a community clinic that served the Lincoln Park area. Before her son was born, her family moved to the northwest suburbs of Chicago.
During her career she had the privilege of studying from great Chinese medicine masters like Dr. Richard Teh- Fu Tan OMD, LAc know as Dr Tan, Dr. Jimmy Wei-Yen Chan LAc in California, Dr. Randine Lewis LAc and gynecologist , Michelle Meramour LAc. -the developer of body feedback treatment style.
Kinga combines these credentials and Chinese medicine treatment styles with intuition in her individualized treatments. She has experience treating a wide spectrum of bodily imbalances. Her passion lies in treating male and female fertility cases with a great success rate.
She has worked with children, adolescence, adults and the elderly.