Welcome!
We know you have options when it comes to managing your health and well-being, we take our job to heart to provide the best care possible towards helping you become healthy and stay that way. Chinese medicine is meant to be utilized ongoing to maintain a healthy state, creating flow, and balance. While it is certainly useful once you are unwell, we’re here to help you harness this medicine to optimize your innate healing to age well, feel your best.
Let us lay out a few tenets and goalposts we have established for you. We have made it a priority to maintain a collaborative effort around your care, creating smooth flow from practitioner to practitioner. Most modalities maintain continuity through the lens of Chinese medicine so we can build on your progress. Here’s a little of what you can expect:
A lot of listening happens, so you can express your history and concerns to your satisfaction. It can be healing just to be heard, never mind feeling better from treatment. Your history provides important foundation for how we measure your improvement.
Your comfort is non-negotiable! We have put extra effort into creating a very healing space for all the senses. Please do speak up if we can do anything for you, from create more warmth, cool, cushion, darkness, music, and so on.
We customize a plan to help you reach your goals. You should know how many treatments we think it will take to help you feel better. The longer you have had your condition, the more treatments or closer together they might be. As long as you are also prioritizing your health and healing, we are going to meet you where you are and do our best to get you where you want to be in a timely manner.
We have a broad range of practitioners with specialties and expertise, and we often refer across modalities to improve your healing. If you need assistance stacking any appointments to optimize your visit, please reach out so we can place you with the right practitioner.
We lean heavily on the power of traditional herbs to speed shifts in your health. A lot of our herbs are tinctures, because we can highly customize these potent formulas. However, they are not everyone’s cup of tea! We are happy to get you another type of herb, like capsules or powders. Compliance with herbs is key. We source only the highest quality herbs.
Nutritional advice is a pillar of Chinese medicine. We try to include options for you without overwhelming you with homework. Feel free to ask for more options around eating to improve your energy, sleep, digestion, and constitution. Check back to our blogs for more on foods you can focus on for your constitution or the season.
Treatment experiences at The Desert Canary have been created to optimize the practitioner’s time with you. While some practices thrive on treating multiple patients at a time, we have put a cap on two patients overlapping, and that is only with return patients. You need time to rest undisturbed, and this is the time we overlap. We feel patients really notice the difference of us being able to continually adapt your treatment to suit you in the time set aside, something that is hard to do if we’re running from room to room.
We hope you enjoy our space, we have made attempts to curate artwork and photography from local artists. Some pieces are available for purchase, feel free to inquire!
We look forward to guiding you on your healing journey, and see you soon!
Brooke, Mari & Team
The Desert Canary in Austin’s Northwest hills