ABOUT THE AUTHOR

On a treatment morning, I can hardly wait to see my first client. Partnering with others to invoke the healing process is a blessing -- food for our souls. I believe deeply in the healing power in us and around us. Energetic Medicine gives us ways to access it. What a gift!

Stephanie Mwangaza Brown, L.Ac., has been involved in complementary and alternative health practices for 31 years. She is a Maryland licensed acupuncturist (2006) and a Reiki Master (1980), certified herbalist (2017). Ms. Brown has a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics from the University of Maryland and a Masters degree in Acupuncture from Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts. 

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In her private practice, Ms. Brown specializes in treating pain conditions, trauma and shock, and emotional issues such as depression and anxiety. She has been a member of a psychiatric treatment team that addresses mental health issues wholistically. She addresses chronic health concerns including digestive, respiratory, or circulatory problems, headaches, insomnia, female disorders, and medically unidentified conditions. She helps her clients create ease where there was dis-ease, and a free flow of chi (energy) where there was stuckness. She partners with her clients to identify how they can maintain that free flow in the face of the challenges of life.

Ms. Brown uses the 5-element treatment model, which is based on Nature, to diagnose, teach and heal. The 5-element model provides a way to address symptoms in the context of the core issues that underlie them. This is the basis of wholism.

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An important personal goal is to provide information and education in the treatment room and out that focuses on prevention and proactive health care. Ms. Brown speaks to support groups, gives lectures, workshops, demonstrations and health screenings.