Is it taking longer than you hoped to get pregnant?

Integrative Healing Arts’ signature Fertility Acupuncture can help.

If you’re struggling with infertility or are just fed up with the pregnancy waiting game, there is help. My signature Fertility Program uses acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and energy healing to improve fertility from pre-conception to pregnancy and even after giving birth. 

There is no one single cause of infertility. There are a variety of factors at play that determine whether you struggle to conceive or get pregnant on the first try. Regardless of which infertility issues you’re dealing with, acupuncture can boost your fertility naturally. 

Acupuncture can work wonders for reducing stress, and that alone is enough to help many women overcome their infertility issues. But acupuncture can also:

• Balance hormones to promote healthy menstrual cycles and reduce PMS

• Regulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis

• Manage estrogen dominance symptoms

• Stimulate progesterone production

• Improve egg quality and thicken the lining of the uterus

• Lengthen the luteal phase of your cycle giving you a longer window of conception

• Control inflammation

• Tone the pelvic floor muscles

• Increase circulation to the reproductive organs

• Promote ovulation

• Reduce uterine adhesions to eliminate scar tissue caused by endometriosis

• Normalize cycles for women with PCOS and other hormonal conditions

• Enhance your chances of conception, whether you’re trying to get pregnant naturally or with the help of IVF and IUI 

Because acupuncture has a normalizing effect on hormones, it works with your body to enhance your fertility and boost your chances of getting pregnant. 

Our fertility acupuncture program is personalized to you. My tailor-made protocols have helped countless women — many of whom were told by traditional Western medicine that there was no hope — conceive and give birth to happy, healthy children.

Our Fertility Success Programs

If you’re looking for acupuncture to help you get pregnant, Integrative Healing Arts is your go-to source. After your initial visit, we’ll help you select the Fertility Program that’s right for you.

The Fertility Goddess: Essentials for Success — 6-month Intensive Program

This fertility program is for you if:

• You are struggling with getting pregnant 

• You are over the age of 35

• You’ve tried other types of reproductive therapy (IUI, IVF, Clomid, etc.) without success

• You are committed to treating underlying issues and transforming your total health for the sake of reclaiming your fertility

• You have had success getting pregnant but have difficulty holding the pregnancy

• You are freezing your eggs to preserve your fertility

• You are planning on trying to get pregnant in the next 6-12 months and a natural approach to conception and pregnancy makes sense to you.

IUI/IVF Intensive — 6-week Program

Our IUI/IVF Intensive Program is designed to get you in the best possible health for your retrieval, transfer, and post-transfer. 

This program includes acupuncture sessions twice a week and focuses on relieving stress and optimizing fertility to support you throughout your IVF. 

Our IUI/IVF Intensive program includes treatment before and after transfer, then once a week for the next two weeks. The package includes a total of 10 sessions to be used by one person over the course of 6 weeks.

This program is appropriate if you are doing egg freezing.

For pricing, please see Programs and Policies.

How can acupuncture and Chinese medicine improve fertility?

Our holistic approach addresses the whole person from physical, energetic, emotional, and spiritual perspectives. By taking a holistic approach to your health, we can identify imbalances that may seem completely unrelated but are actually obstacles to conception. 

This is where the Western model fails because it has a microscopic view, and in this case, “the map is not the territory”. Stimulating the body’s natural healing powers helps bring the individual into balance. 

Often, solving the problem of infertility may be simple. Our acupuncture program can address hormonal imbalances, including PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome). Regular treatments help regulate the menstrual cycle, improve egg quality, support healthy AMH levels, and prevent miscarriage. 

Our treatments require time and commitment to healing the underlying cause. But if you stick with it, you will drastically increase your chances of conceiving.

Research shows acupuncture improves fertility — whether you’re undergoing IVF and IUI or trying to get pregnant on your own

• Improve blood flow to the uterus, which helps the lining grow strong and healthy enough to support an embryo.

• Enhance the efficacy of IVF/IUI treatments. In a study, women who underwent acupuncture treatments before IVF were 65% more likely to get pregnant following transfer. 

• Reduce and prevent cramping, a common occurrence after an IVF transfer. Cramping is very disruptive to conception, as it can prevent the embryo from implanting in the uterine wall.

• Control inflammation associated with endometriosis. Acupuncture eases pain caused by endometriosis, breaking up scar tissue caused by adhesions, and allowing women with endometriosis to overcome their diagnosis and finally conceive. 

• Stimulate egg production, which is highly beneficial for women who can’t, or don’t want to use fertility medication to help them get pregnant.

• Improve egg quality. For women with low AMH, fertility is even more challenging. Fertility acupuncture ensures the follicles being produced are of the best quality.

• Regulate and stabilize hormone levels, which may become unbalanced due to hormonal birth control, PCOS, or low progesterone.

• Improve insulin sensitivity. Women with PCOS often struggle with elevated insulin levels, which can contribute to infertility. Acupuncture resensitizes the body to insulin, improving blood glucose levels and hormone levels. 

• Reduce the chance of and prevent miscarriage.

• Reduce stress and promote deep relaxation, both of which are absolutely critical if you’re trying to get pregnant, and even more important if you’re undergoing any kind of traditional fertility treatment such as IVF or IUI.

• Increase the quality, concentration, and motility of sperm in men.

After trying to get pregnant for almost two years, we decided to just slow down. I sought out Tsao’s help after a few friends recommended her. My focus was to just get healthy again, but I got pregnant after our very first treatment. Tsao’s treatments throughout my pregnancy always left me relaxed and energized, and I really enjoyed my pregnancy for the most part. I’m convinced that Tsao’s treatments really contributed to my happy and healthy pregnancy. PS: I had a baby girl! 
                                                                                                                                                                                        — Andrea Panico, NYC

When my patients begin their sessions with me, they’re often frustrated and full of questions. 

They’ve been to the doctors and the fertility clinics (after trying for months “au naturale,” of course). Many of them have endured round after round of IVF treatments with no success, or have suffered miscarriages, yet they’re no closer to their dream of having a child. They’ve gone to specialist after specialist, made pregnancy their top priority, sometimes putting their whole lives on hold, and are “doing everything right.” Yet all too often, too many women have no answer to the most important question…

“Why can’t I get pregnant?”

The biggest asset on the journey to becoming pregnant is knowledge. Knowledge of the facts, but more importantly, knowledge of, and being in touch with, one's own body.

There is no “one-size-fits-all” treatment when it comes to conceiving a child. I see it over and over again. There is no one answer, but many. And that’s where the holistic benefits of my program can help.

Your body, your medical history, with your personalized treatment.

One of the most frustrating things about infertility is that it can be hard to pinpoint an exact cause, and in numerous conversations with the best fertility doctors, they find this a mystery as well. On the surface, it may look like everything is just fine or within “normal range”, but it’s incredibly easy to throw your fertility cycle off balance.  

Obviously, hormonal conditions like PCOS and irregular menstrual cycles can affect your fertility. But other symptoms that may seem totally unrelated come into play as well. Here are just some of the factors that can affect your fertility:

• Chronic colds and allergies

• Thyroid conditions

• Elevated follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)

• Chronological and biological age (they’re not the same for every woman!)

• Use of birth control

• Weight problems

• Insulin resistance

• Blood sugar imbalances

• Digestive disorders (gluten intolerance, irritable bowel syndrome, etc.)

• Insomnia

• Emotions and stress

• Smoking

• Alcohol consumption

• Nutritional deficiencies

During your fertility treatments, we’ll work with you to pinpoint the factors contributing to your infertility and address them appropriately so you can finally get pregnant and expand your family. 

What we do to help you improve your fertility:

At your first session, we’ll take a good look at “the big picture” – your medical history, your history of fertility and conception, your current fertility treatments, and much more. We create a treatment plan tailored uniquely to you: your body, your needs, and your unique pregnancy challenges.

Your protocol will always be in alignment with whatever treatment you’re currently undergoing. Working with acupuncture is not about neglecting or rejecting Western medicine. It's about collaboration and going above and beyond traditional treatments.

Modern science is just catching up to what Chinese medicine practitioners and acupuncturists have known for centuries. What seems like “fuzzy factors” – stress, emotional state, weight management, lifestyle – can add up to big challenges on the road to getting pregnant. No part of you – body, mind, spirit, life – exists in a vacuum, and these factors play a much bigger role in infertility than you might think!

Our goal with our Fertility Acupuncture program is to give you every advantage to get pregnant and have a healthy pregnancy.

We want to give you EVERY advantage as you try to get pregnant. Because let’s face it – this infertility thing isn’t cheap. Doctors appointments, hormone therapies… a single IVF cycle can cost upwards of $25k. Even if your insurance helps shoulder the burden, an average couple struggling with infertility can easily spend $15,000 on just the basics.

And you can’t put a dollar amount on the highest price. The emotional highs and lows and the endless cycle of putting your life on hold as everything else takes a backseat. Frankly, it doesn’t make sense to do anything less than give yourself every advantage.

It’s up to you to give yourself this gift. Nobody else can do it for you. 

My responsibility when we work together throughout your treatments is to remind you that YOU are the one who is taking this journey. Hopefully, your partner, family, and friends are supportive. But ultimately, it’s up to you to get the answers you need, and the right treatment.

It’s about going from frustration to control, from struggling to get pregnant to conception — and ultimately, to holding that happy, healthy baby in your arms.

Our Fertility Acupuncture Program includes:

• Acupuncture for Unexplained Infertility

• Acupuncture for Low AMH

• Acupuncture Support In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF Support)

• Acupuncture Support Intra-Uterine Insemination (IUI Support)

• Acupuncture Support Frozen Embryo Transfer

• Acupuncture for Infertility due to High FSH

• Acupuncture for Infertility due to Elevated Estradiol, High Estrogen (E2)

• Acupuncture for Infertility due to Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)

• Acupuncture for Infertility due to Poor Egg Quality, Poor Ovarian Reserve

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