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Harty T. Kelley, LAc
Licensed Acupuncturist by the
Oregon Medical Board, 2019
Masters in Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine (OCOM 2019)
Bachelors of Science in Applied Psychology (Montana State University, 2014)
Certificate of Completion of the JingDao program of Traditional Daoist Arts (Qin Jian Akademin Society for Classical Chinese Arts, Stockholm)
Qigong Instructor with certification in Thousand Hands Buddha, Five Dragons Qigong, 28 Lunar Mansions & Shamanic Tiger
Certificate holder in various Myofascial techniques through the Moving Mountains Institute, as well as having completed Cranial Sacral I & II and III.
Harty studies Japanese and traditional Chinese acupuncture, and is working on certification in the Kiiko Matsumoto Style.
Harty began her career as an acupuncturist and Qigong instructor at the Quest Center for Integrative Health in Portland, Oregon in 2017. Quest is a non-profit integrative health center granting access to alternative health services, counseling, nutrition education and a myriad other pathways to wellness for historically underserved communities. Their programs are focused in non-opioid management of chronic pain and addiction recovery.
These days Harty works for Central Oregon Acupuncture in Redmond, Oregon where she offers 45 minute acupuncture sessions covered by most insurance plans.
You can also see her for her signature 90 minute Deep Earth Healing Sessions at BigFoot Wellness in Sisters, Oregon.
These sessions are an integration of a myriad healing modalities, including Craniosacral, Myofascial Unwinding, Chinese herbal formula prescription and various other techniques from her long training in the Daoist healing arts.
About Harty
Harty was raised on a horse farm in rural western New York. She came to Eastern Washington in 2005 when she was 18, where she was first introduced to eastern spirituality and mindfulness practices. Her studies and travels took her throughout the western US until she settled in Portland and began her undergraduate studies in 2006 as a Women’s Studies major, spending a year living in Cairo, Egypt enrolled in a gender studies program. She finished her bachelors degree in Applied Psychology at Montana State in 2014. Her thesis research was centered around the gut-brain axis, and her fascination with mind-body medicine led directly to a career path in Chinese Medicine.
In Chinese Medicine she found the ancient answers to modern questions. Traditional Chinese medicine intuitively understood the dynamics of the two-way communication system between body and brain and even understood imbalances in the gut as being the root cause for psychological imbalances and systemic inflammation. Beyond that, this system had been established for thousands of years, with time-tested, low-risk and holistic approaches to treating these imbalances.
Harty utilizes a trauma-informed approach to her treatments, utilizing Kiiko Matsumoto Style and other schools acupuncture that use smaller needles and rely on the wisdom of the patient’s own body to direct the course of treatment. These treatments are known for their immediate results, short needle retention time and low discomfort.
Treatments are relaxing, energizing and grounding. They are based firmly in the Do No Harm ethos, with the underlying knowledge that we do not need to cause our patients any discomforts in order to treat them with acupuncture.
Harty also believes in the power of healing touch and utilizes hands-on massage therapies in order to expand and deepen every treatment. In this way, the body is able to reach a state of calm in order to trust the healing process, allowing and directing the course of treatment through a continuous verbal and nonverbal communication between patient and practitioner.
