Graduating in 2010 from East West College of the Healing Arts, Essie has found a life long passion in manual therapy. Throughout the years, she has focused her education in manual lymphatic drainage, Cranio sacral therapy, neuromuscular therapy and various eastern modalities.
Essie’s therapeutic flow is custom to each patient and with a nervous system supporting lens.
Rhythmic, deep and restorative; Essie’s treatments are best experienced in a series to support chronic pain, sleep issues, and nervous system regulation.
When Essie is out of the clinic, she is tending land on Wapato Island farm (Multnomah territories) learning folk medicine and ancestral ways of being with land and in community.
Essie is grateful to be in the integrative medicine community, where life long learning is standard and informed care is essential.
Sita Symonette has been a practicing Acupuncturist and small business owner of Black Pearl Acupuncture since January 2010. Sita is a graduate of Western Washington University where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Psychology with a focus in pre-med. While doing her undergraduate work, she also participated in research studies focusing on neuroscience. Her work in this area was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. After completing her Bachelors’ degree, Sita then attended the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine to earn her Masters’ degree in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. She is excited to work daily with the goal of enhancing her patients’ quality of life. Sita has created a healing environment where her patients feel welcome, heard and receive high quality health care. Sita proudly identifies as Black and Queer and it is her passion to continue to make Acupuncture and Chinese medicine more accessible to Black, Brown, Indigenous and Latinx people, the LGBTQIA community and marginalized communities.
