Continuing Education Trainings for Acupuncturists
Learn Gua Sha
Gua sha is one of the most effective pain relieving modalities we have in our toolkit. Gua sha is a simple modality that resolves stubborn pain and old injuries, and helps heal tissues by reorganizing the fascial matrix.
In these online trainings and live workshops you will learn everything that wasn’t covered in acupuncture school and gain skills for immediate results in your clinic.
Learn about the fascinating history of gua sha as well as its modern usage in the form of Graston and IASTM. We will cover the wide application possibilities of gua sha and specific treatment strategies for common conditions.
We will look at gua sha from the Western and Eastern perspectives, and understand indications and contraindications, and discover the different kinds of gua sha tools and how to choose the right one.
Hospice and Home Health Acupuncture
6 NCCAOM PDAs including Safety and Ethics
Meet the challenges of this unique field
Gain clarity and confidence for working with patients at the end of life and home visits. Whether you work in hospice or simply want to have tools to provide comfort care for loved ones, patients, and their families.
In the Hospice and Home Health Acupuncture training you will learn:
- Practical skills for safely treating medically fragile patients, which may require a different approach than treating patients in a clinical setting.
- Strategies to connect compassionately with patients at the end of life.
- Ways to navigate home healthcare, including travel, general safety, and interactions with family and other caregivers.
- About the role of acupuncture in hospice care, both as a unique medical service and integrating within the hospice system and hospice team.
- About the stages of dying from the eastern and western perspectives.
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About the Instructor
Carly Herrero is a licensed and board certified acupuncturist in private practice in Yarmouth, Maine. She is an NCCAOM certified provider for online and in person teaching.
She started teaching continuing education workshops in 2014 for massage therapists and later for acupuncturists. Her teaching specialties include gua sha, cupping, Eastern medicine, professional ethics, and hospice care.
She has taught classes on business and Eastern bodywork for students at East West College of the Healing Arts, and was a teaching assistant at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine. She regularly uses gua sha in clinical acupuncture practice for one of the most effective treatments for pain.
Following a heart-centered yearning to work with people near the end of life, her work in hospice care began in 2002. Carly was a nursing assistant and volunteer massage therapist at Our House of Portland, an HIV/AIDS residential care facility in Portland, OR.
In 2018 she worked with the medical administration at Kaiser Permanente Hospice and Palliative Care Services in Vancouver, WA to implement acupuncture services for hospice patients after a successful pilot program.
She went on to provide acupuncture services at Assured Hospice in Olympia, WA for several years and continues as a consultant.
She served on the Washington Acupuncture and Eastern Medicine Association (WAEMA) board of directors as secretary and chair of the continuing education committee from 2018 to 2020. She is currently a member of the Maine Acupuncture Society.