Amy Homer-Brown
MBBS, MSOM, LAc

I am a licensed acupuncturist in Portland, Oregon, born and raised on the beautiful island of Barbados. I have always been drawn to the art of medicine and healing and set out to become a doctor since childhood. However, I believed that there was more to medicine than medications and surgery and during my years as a medical student, sought more wholistic practices.

I began my medical career in 2008 as a doctor, obtaining an allopathic medical degree in 2014 in my home country, Barbados. After 12 months of working as a medical intern in a public hospital in Trinidad, I decided to pursue a degree in natural medicine instead of continuing on to a medical residency program. My dream was to pursue and practice a form of medicine that complemented the body’s innate abilities of self-healing, viewed each person as an individual and shared my beliefs in the mind-body connection for healing. It was at NUNM in Portland, OR, where I found my home in Classical Chinese Medicine.

My acupuncture style follows Traditional Japanese techniques which are gentle and incredibly effective. Such techniques include gentle insertive needling, non-insertive needling, moxibustion and gentle bodywork such as sotai, myofascial release and craniosacral therapy. I enjoy working with a diverse patient population with conditions such as chronic illnesses and pain conditions, physical rehabilitation (such as neurological conditions, injury, stroke) and the secondary stress, anxiety and depression that can result.
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I have chosen not to be a licensed MD in the United States but enjoy using my medical knowledge in understanding my patients from a biomedical perspective, speaking and translating the Western language of medicine, and combining it with my knowledge of East Asian medicine. I am a national board-certified acupuncturist with the NCCAOM and Oregon Medical Board.

Education

• ​Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) - University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill, Barbados
• Master of Science in Oriental Medicine (MSOM) - National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) Portland, Oregon, USA

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Certifications & Training

• Diplomate of Acupuncture - NCCAOM
• Craniosacral Therapy - Moving Mountain Institute
• Integrated Visceral Techniques - Moving Mountain Institute
• Myofascial Release - Michael McMahon LMT, LAc
• Shiatsu - Harry King LAc
• Shonishin (Japanese Pediatric Acupuncture) & Japanese Meridian Therapy - Bob Quinn DAOM, LAc & Daniel Silver LAc
• Sotai, Yin-Yang Channel Pulsing (aka Qigong Tuina) - Bob Quinn DAOM, LAc
• Wisdom of Master Nagano Training - Tsuyoshi Shimamura LAc

 Want to hear more from me? Check out this 16 minute video - a gathering of highlights of my chat with a fellow acupuncturist Chris Goddin for his podcast!
Closed-captions available and auto-generated via Youtube.
You can view the full 40 minute podcast video here.