Rosebelly Healing
Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine
Los Angeles, CA
About
Hello ✿
My name is Callie (she/her/hers) and I am so happy that you are here.
I am a licensed acupuncturist and board-certified herbalist who received my master’s degree from Emperor’s College in Los Angeles, California (Tongva land), where I graduated magna cum laude. Some of my clinical interests include, but are not limited to, trauma-informed psycho-emotional care, support for those living with chronic illness/autoimmunity, tending to those navigating fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum, as well as providing gentle care for those moving through eating disorder recovery.
As part of my training, I interned at the Roy and Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center at Providence Hospital where I supported patients both emotionally and physically throughout their cancer treatment. I have also been priviliged to work for and learn from Dr. Yvonne Farrell and Trace Albrecht of LA Herbs and Acupuncture — two incredible practitioners who specialize in utilizing the Eight Extraordinary Vessels.
I came to acupuncture by way of my creative practice and personal experience navigating life in a sensitive body. From an early age, I was delighted in the subtle magic of the sonic landscapes created by our surrounding ecosystems and the ways in which these sounds influence our internal bodily systems and rhythms. This connection with sound led me to the world of experimental electronic music. Here, amidst a community of incredibly special musicians and artists, I fell in love with the practice of creating compositions and curations which have helped to provide safe space for folks to acknowledge and process the tender experience of living in a body on this earth. This intention which fuels my creative endeavors is the same one that led me to becoming an acupuncturist and herbalist.
In 2019, I was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis, an autoimmune condition affecting my spine, sacrum, muscles, digestion, and skin. However, as anyone living with an autoimmune condition knows, words often fall short of capturing what it truly feels like on the inside.
Upon receiving acupuncture treatments from compassionate, trauma-informed, and non-judgmental practitioners, I experienced not only immense physical and emotional relief but also a strong sense of being cared for, believed, and seen. Following this experience, I decided that I wanted to provide this same type of affirming and collaborative care by committing to being a forever student of this ancient medicine.
Over the last many years, as a result of support from both holistic and allopathic medical providers, I have not only found more ease in my body, but I have also learned that finding balance within a body and mind is a non-linear journey that is full of both joy and grief, softness and strength alike. There is no right or wrong way to be in a body. In fact, I believe that we are all in need of different care, nourishment, and stimulus. My goal is to collaborate with my patients to support their already existing bodily and energetic parts and help them to create a vessel of smooth-flowing pathways and pivots.
I founded Rosebelly Healing in order to create accessible, trauma-informed medical care for as many vulnerable bodies as possible. Rosebelly Healing is rooted in the tenets of disability justice, mutual aid, and concepts of interdependence. I hope to provide care which helps my patients to participate in both the dreaming and acting into a new world which prioritizes care, freedom, safety, nourishment, protection, and meaningful connection for every being, body of water, land, microbe, plot of moss, and mountain on this earth and beyond.
My studies and practice are grounded in the acknowledgment of the responsibility that comes alongside practicing a traditional medicine not of my own lineage. I acknowledge that as a white person I will always be a student and promise to honor the teachers and East Asian ancestry from which this ancient medicine was born. I feel deeply grateful for the opportunity to study and practice these tradtions — something which would not be possible without my teachers who have shared their wisdom with generosity and trust.
I hope to have the honor of supporting you on your path to greater embodiment, presence, and ease.