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Who I Am
Polly Christy, B.A., M.Ac, L.Ac, Dipl.Ac (NCCAOM), NADA Certified, received her Master of Acupuncture Degree from Tai Sophia Institute, where she maintained a private practice and has served on their Masters level faculty and senior staff for the past seven years. She coordinated the clinical resident program at Tai Sophia, providing mentorship for recent graduates. Tai Sophia Institute is America's first accredited acupuncture school founded in 1975 in Columbia, Maryland. She completed a post graduate apprenticeship with the president of Tai Sophia Institute, Robert Duggan. She has studied with Chinese Master Tom Tam in Boston, Massachusetts and Mayan osteopathic and herbal healer Don Aurelio in Yucatan, Mexico.
She earned her B.A. in International Studies with magna cum laude honors from the University of San Diego. Ms. Christy is fluent in Spanish, and integrates acupressure, massage, hot stone and aromatherapy therapies into her practice.
She is licensed by the South Carolina board of Medical Practitioners.
The designation Dipl.Ac.(NCCAOM) indicates that the practitioner is certified by the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncturists and Oriental Medicine. The designation L.Ac. indicates that the practitioner is licensed to practice in the state of South Carolina.
My Philosophy
I am dedicated to helping people achieve and maintain wellness and to providing excellent care to people in the midst of illness. I respond to each unique situation and believe that keeping open communication between patient and practitioner is necessary to assure that people are taken care of beyond their expectations.
I am committed to relationship-centered care in which you are invited into a partnership with me to observe your symptoms as teachers, and to make choices that will serve you in body, mind, and spirit.
My role, as your practitioner is to guide you to increased awareness so that together we can transform your experience. In the course of treatment: pain gives way to ease, rage to forgiveness, isolation to connection, stiffness to flexibility, resignation to hope. In partnership, we will encourage this process of healing and change.
Fees
Initial Visit $160
Treatments $90
843-442-0014
pollychristy@gmail.com