Kimberly "Kimo" Shotz, LAc, WHCNP, RN
Aloha.
I am a nationally board-certified Licensed Acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist, and Women's Healthcare Nurse Practitioner (NP) living and practicing in southeast and northwest Portland. I graduated from the University of (I love) Vermont School of Nursing in 1989 and worked as an Operating Room (OR) Registered Nurse for 8 years. In 1997 I added a masters degree from Oregon Health Sciences University School of Nursing and worked as a Nurse Practitioner with Planned Parenthood (my first 2 years) and with Kaiser Permanente Obstetrics and Gynecology department (20 years).
I am currently loving my work as an Operating Room Nurse at Portland Providence Medical Center.
My longtime ambition of adding Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to my healer’s tool-belt was realized in 2011 when I received my Master's Degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (a 4-year program) from Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in Portland, Oregon.
Integrative medicine is essential to effective medicine, to achieving better health and healing. My unique background in both Eastern and Western medicine serves to strengthen my insight and ability to diagnose and treat a vast variety of conditions and collaborate with other practitioners involved in my patients’ healthcare.
I welcome all patients and encourage everyone to actively participate in his/her/their healing process.
In my spare time I am cultivating my own health by exploring the Pacific Northwest with my partner and our two precious dog-friends, tending to my veggie gardens, playing music, and grazing my way through the scrumptiously diverse Portland-area cuisine. What a rich and nourishing city we live in. Viva Portlandia!
I am a nationally board-certified Licensed Acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist, and Women's Healthcare Nurse Practitioner (NP) living and practicing in southeast and northwest Portland. I graduated from the University of (I love) Vermont School of Nursing in 1989 and worked as an Operating Room (OR) Registered Nurse for 8 years. In 1997 I added a masters degree from Oregon Health Sciences University School of Nursing and worked as a Nurse Practitioner with Planned Parenthood (my first 2 years) and with Kaiser Permanente Obstetrics and Gynecology department (20 years).
I am currently loving my work as an Operating Room Nurse at Portland Providence Medical Center.
My longtime ambition of adding Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to my healer’s tool-belt was realized in 2011 when I received my Master's Degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (a 4-year program) from Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in Portland, Oregon.
Integrative medicine is essential to effective medicine, to achieving better health and healing. My unique background in both Eastern and Western medicine serves to strengthen my insight and ability to diagnose and treat a vast variety of conditions and collaborate with other practitioners involved in my patients’ healthcare.
I welcome all patients and encourage everyone to actively participate in his/her/their healing process.
In my spare time I am cultivating my own health by exploring the Pacific Northwest with my partner and our two precious dog-friends, tending to my veggie gardens, playing music, and grazing my way through the scrumptiously diverse Portland-area cuisine. What a rich and nourishing city we live in. Viva Portlandia!
Acupuncture Relief Project, Chapagoan, Nepal
I had the very special opportunity to return to Nepal in Winter 2011 as a member of this amazing volunteer practitioner team in Chapagoan, Nepal. This experience was a treasure I documented well on my cameras. Alas, my Buddhist lesson in impermanence, relinquishing material possessions and letting go came when I lost both my camera and video camera the week before I left Nepal. Serendipitously, I was involved in this beautiful documentary by Tristan Koch, so there is proof I was there!
Please check out the ARP website blogs and the documentary. Thanks ARP team and Tristan!
www.acupuncturereliefproject.org
Please check out the ARP website blogs and the documentary. Thanks ARP team and Tristan!
www.acupuncturereliefproject.org
Education
- Oregon College of Oriental Medicine Class of 2011---Master of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
- Oregon Health Sciences University School of Nursing Class of 1997--Master of Nursing
- University of Vermont School of Professional Nursing Class of 1989--Bachelor of Nursing
Certifications/Licenses
- National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine - #138491
- Oregon Medical Board - #AC156829
- Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner - #093006979N7 (Oregon State Board of Nursing)
- National Certification Commission: Women's Healthcare Nurse Practitioner #104252556
- Clean Needle Technique, Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine 10/09
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support/Basic Life Support (CPR/AED/First Aid)
Acupuncture Treatment Styles That I Use
Five-Element. This technique typically uses points from elbows to fingertips and knees to toes.
Channel/Organ (Yin-Yang). Technique uses select acupuncture points from anywhere on the body: front back, top, bottom to stimulate and move Qi and Blood, free-up stuckness, restore balance, nourish the body, calm the mind.
Trigger-point/Muscle motor point. Used for musculo-skeletal pain and restricted movement by stimulating the pesky muscle fibers directly.
Kiiko Matsumoto Style. So simple yet oh so complex! Few gentle, painless needles and rice cone moxa. Searches the body for instant feedback on which specific areas need attention and how to effectively treat them. Does not require much discussion. Can have profound results.
Mukaino M-Test: NO needles! another Japanese style that is gentle, simple, minimalistic yet impressively effective, in the Japanese tradition.
Dr. Tan's Balance Method. Another minimalist technique. Typically fewer needles placed away from the affected area/s. So we are not placing needles into the painful spots.
Auricular (Ear) Acupuncture. Thin, tiny needles or small radish seeds taped in place on the ear that correspond to body parts, organs, the nervous system, and more.
Scalp acupuncture. Uses points on the entire scalp that correspond to regions and functions of the body.
Channel/Organ (Yin-Yang). Technique uses select acupuncture points from anywhere on the body: front back, top, bottom to stimulate and move Qi and Blood, free-up stuckness, restore balance, nourish the body, calm the mind.
Trigger-point/Muscle motor point. Used for musculo-skeletal pain and restricted movement by stimulating the pesky muscle fibers directly.
Kiiko Matsumoto Style. So simple yet oh so complex! Few gentle, painless needles and rice cone moxa. Searches the body for instant feedback on which specific areas need attention and how to effectively treat them. Does not require much discussion. Can have profound results.
Mukaino M-Test: NO needles! another Japanese style that is gentle, simple, minimalistic yet impressively effective, in the Japanese tradition.
Dr. Tan's Balance Method. Another minimalist technique. Typically fewer needles placed away from the affected area/s. So we are not placing needles into the painful spots.
Auricular (Ear) Acupuncture. Thin, tiny needles or small radish seeds taped in place on the ear that correspond to body parts, organs, the nervous system, and more.
Scalp acupuncture. Uses points on the entire scalp that correspond to regions and functions of the body.