—ACUPUNCTURE, COLUMBIA, MARYLAND
Helping Your Body
Heal beyond the Symptoms
Acupuncture, massage therapy, and nutritional counseling in
Columbia, MD — helping you find relief from pain, stress, migraines, digestive issues, and more.
✓ Accepting New Patients ✓ Insurance Accepted ✓ Veteran Care Available
✓ Owned and Operated by Practitioners and Employees
16+
Years in Practice
10+
Insurance Plans Accepted
5000+
Patients Treated
Yes
Veteran Care Available
When other treatments
Haven’t fixed the problem.
— Our Philosophy
Many of our patients arrive frustrated. They’ve tried medication, physical therapy, or other treatments. Sometimes those approaches help for a while, but the issue keeps returning — or they still don’t feel like themselves.
Often, symptoms are connected to more than one factor: stress, inflammation, sleep, movement patterns, digestion, hormones, or a nervous system that has been stuck in overdrive.
At Awaken Wellness, we take a broader view. We look at how these systems interact and use acupuncture, massage therapy, and nutritional counseling to support healing, reduce symptoms, and help your body function more effectively.
✓ Personalized treatment plans based on your goals, history, and symptoms
✓ Integrative care combining acupuncture, massage & nutrition when appropriate
✓ Evidence-informed care grounded in modern research and longstanding clinical practice
Natural Healing
We work with your body’s natural healing processes to reduce symptoms, support recovery, and improve resilience.
Evidence-Informed
Our care blends the wisdom of Chinese medicine with modern evidence and thoughtful clinical judgment.
Whole-Person Care
We look beyond isolated symptoms to understand how stress, sleep, pain, digestion, and lifestyle interact.
Nervous System Focus
Many chronic symptoms are influenced by stress and nervous system overload. We help restore a calmer, more regulated baseline.
What Acupuncture Actually Does for Your Body
— Understanding Acupuncture
Acupuncture involves stimulating specific points on the body to influence the nervous system, circulation, and pain-processing pathways. Modern research suggests acupuncture may help regulate stress responses, reduce pain sensitivity, and support the body’s natural recovery processes.
Nervous System Regulation
Acupuncture may help shift the body out of a prolonged stress response and into a calmer state that supports rest, recovery, and resilience.
Pain & Inflammation Support
Research suggests acupuncture can influence pathways involved in pain and inflammation, which may help with chronic pain, tension, and some digestive symptoms.
Circulation & Balance
Acupuncture has long been used to support the healthy movement of energy and blood. In modern terms, many patients experience improved circulation, reduced tension, and better overall regulation.
— Our Services
Integrated Healing Therapies
Acupuncture is our primary therapy. Massage and nutritional counseling complement and amplify your results.
— Our Primary Therapy
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is the cornerstone of our practice. By stimulating specific points on the body, treatment may help regulate pain pathways, calm the nervous system, improve circulation, and support the body’s natural healing processes. Many people use acupuncture for chronic pain, stress, migraines, digestive issues, fertility support, and overall wellness.
Ancient wisdom. Modern insight.
— Complementary Therapy
Massage Therapy
Our licensed massage therapists use therapeutic bodywork to reduce muscle tension, improve circulation, and support your body’s natural recovery process. Massage can also help calm the nervous system, improve mobility, and ease the physical effects of stress. It pairs beautifully with acupuncture as part of a more complete healing plan.
Release tension. Restore balance.
— Complementary Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Nourish from the inside out.
Food has a powerful impact on how you feel. Our nutrition counselors take a personalized, whole-person approach to help identify patterns that may be affecting energy, digestion, inflammation, hormones, and overall health. We create realistic strategies that support your goals and complement acupuncture and massage care.
— Conditions We Treat
Find Relief for What's Holding You Back
We organize our care around the health concerns that bring people through our doors — not just the services we offer. Many of our patients come to us after trying other approaches and still not feeling like themselves.
We focus on the patterns often connected to chronic pain, stress, digestion, hormones, sleep, and fertility.
Chronic Pain
Lasting relief for back pain, neck pain, migraines, sciatica, and arthritis through targeted Acupuncture protocols.
Digestive Health
Address IBS, bloating, acid reflux and gut dysbiosis, at the root cause with acupuncture and nutritional support.
Anxiety & Stress
Calm your nervous system, reduce anxiety and restore emotional balance with evidence - informed acupuncture protocols.
Fertility Support
Support for cycle health, natural conception, IVF, and overall reproductive wellness through personalized fertility care.
Nervous System
Support nervous system regulation, reduce stress and burnout, and help restore your body’s natural resilience.
— Patient Stories
Real humans. Real Healing.
Hear from people who came to us feeling frustrated, overlooked, or stuck — and found meaningful relief, renewed hope, and a better way forward.
— Insurance & Pricing
We believe healing should be accessible. Awaken Wellness accepts most major insurance plans, including CITC for our veteran patients. Our team will verify your benefits or process your referral for our veteran patients before your first appointment so there are no surprises.
We Accept Most Major Insurance Plans
BlueCross BlueShield - Federal Policies
Aetna - PPO Policies
Cigna - PPO Policies
United Healthcare - PPO and others.
CareFirst - All Policies
Anthem BCBS
Johns Hopkins EHP Plans
Veteran Care Available
We are honored to serve the men and women who have served our country. Awaken Wellness accepts and works with VA community care programs to provide acupuncture and massage therapy to veterans in Howard County and the greater Baltimore, Washington, DC area.
— From the Blog
Learn About Holistic Healing
Evidence-informed articles on acupuncture, nervous system health, and root-cause
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Ready to Start Your Healing Journey?
Book your first acupuncture appointment in Columbia, Maryland and take the first step toward lasting relief