At lotus, we truly work as a team. We are always collaborating to insure that you get the best care possible and we are always working on ways to improve our services for you. Each of our practitioners has over a decade of experience specializing in preventive care.
Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine
Ellen K Geary is a specialist in integrative holistic care. She has been serving the Anacortes community since 2001 and is the founder and director of lotus.
Ellen completed a clinical master’s degree in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine from Bastyr University in 2001. She then traveled to China, where she continued her herbal training in a post-graduate medical residency at Chengdu University Hospital. In addition to her full time clinical practice, she has returned to Bastyr to assist in the training of acupuncture students and work closely with many of the master teachers in her field. She has completed apprenticeships with five element specialist Lonny Jarrett and local herbalist Suzanne Jordan. She is the founder of PoppySwap.com a website designed to help herbalists get their products to market and Moxa NW, an organization that produces organic herbs for other acupuncturists.
Ellen currently serves as the executive chair of the Northwest Vipassana Meditation Center, is a certified Whole Foods Nutrition instructor and an enthusiastic climber and cyclist.
Serving Anacortes for ten years, Ellen works in close collaboration with a network of local providers and Island Hospital physicians. She has served as an integrative medicine and wellness consultant for Island Hospital for many years and participates in research and development focused on optimizing the health of our community. Her goal is to make lotus a resource for the best medical services available today and to build the best team possible to serve her patients individual needs.
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Kelly Neu is a licensed Acupuncturist and Chinese Herb specialist and has been in practice since 2001. She and Ellen Geary met while studying together at Bastyr University where they would get together in the herb pharmacy to take pulses and swap stories of their travels and studies in China and Tibet. Upon graduation from Bastyr, Kelly was awarded a year long residency at the Bastyr Center for Natural Health. Subsequently she became the first Seattle Acupuncturist at Seattle Children’s Hospital where she worked to introduce Acupuncture to the Hematology/Oncology and Anesthesiology departments.
For the last ten years, Kelly has also pursued her passion as a professional river and mountain guide. Through this experience, she has developed extensive knowledge working with athletes and she is a specialist in performance and preventative medicine.
Kelly believes that the diligent care of our inner athlete can keep us healthy and vibrant our whole lives.
Holly C. Berman graduated from Southwest Acupuncture College in Santa Fe, NM campus in 1998 with a Master of Science degree in Oriental Medicine. After finishing her undergraduate work at the University of Florida she studied at the Florida School of Massage and Florida Institute of Natural Health in 1991. Her work in massage led her to pursue the arts of Chinese Medicine and has been a full time practitioner of Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine for over 12 years. Holly specializes in pain and stress relief, women’s health and facial rejuvenation.
Holly has been living on Orcas Island since 2005 and joined lotus in the summer of 2011. We are so happy to have her here collaborating with us! Her depth of experience and her genuine care for our patients make her healing work deeply nurturing and effective.
Massage Therapy
Stacie Kaleel joined lotus in early 2011 and our patients have never been happier! Every patient seems to happily report “that’s the best massage I have ever had!” Stacie specializes in therapeutic, deep tissue massage and is an incredible asset to our clinic. She assists the acupuncturists by helping to find the “root of the problem” in the body and helping patients relax before an acupuncture session. Many patients love combining their treatment therapies by having a massage before or after their acupuncture treatment.