Where to Get Acupuncture in and Around Philadelphia
Whether you’re looking to alleviate anxiety or just want to zen out, head to these local acupuncture clinics.
Your guide to Philly-area acupuncture clinics for some seriously calming, stress-reducing treatments. / Photograph by Jen Strickland Photography, courtesy of Flourish Acupuncture.
For centuries, acupuncture has been a popular practice for relieving an array of ailments — like migraines, tension headaches, chronic pain, and emotional stress — by stimulating your body’s natural energy flow with super thin needles that are inserted into various areas of the body. (Don’t worry, most people report that the process doesn’t hurt!)
No matter what you’re living with — an injury, digestive issues, or a mental health condition — Philly has no shortage of experienced providers who are ready to support your wellness. Here’s our guide to clinics in the Philly area that’ll help you find the relief you seek. (And if you’d also like to book a massage, you can find our guide to them here.)
Acupuncture in Motion
4313 Lancaster Avenue, West Philly
Founder and owner Cara Mafuta Raboteau prides herself on offering a wide array of services in a cozy, tranquil, wheelchair-accessible space. Here, you’ll get services like community and private acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and telehealth calls for those seeking to improve their wellness virtually.
The Acupuncture Practice of Dawn and Bob Weisbord
201 North Narberth Avenue, Narberth
Dawn and Bob Weisbord are both seasoned professionals who have been treating clients for over 20 years. Along with acupuncture, their practice offers Chinese herbal medicine and Qigong, an ancient practice combining meditation, controlled breathing, and gentle movement.
Acupuncture Off Broad
1315 Federal Street, East Passyunk
Led by licensed acupuncturists Eva Zeller and Vito Leva, this studio provides a full range of acu services, including acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion — the burning of the mugwort herb — and nutrition counseling based on traditional Chinese dietary therapeutics.
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Acupuncture with Monica
255 South 17th Street, Suite 1502, Rittenhouse and 4522 Baltimore Avenue, West Philly
Working on the basis of three principles — perspective, acceptance, and integration — licensed acupuncturist Monica Fauble has built her practice around deep listening and individualized care. As an acupuncturist (and acu client) living with an autoimmune illness, Fauble specializes in women’s health treatment, focusing on digestive disorders, autoimmune conditions, anxiety, and depression.
Attend Acupuncture
7152 Germantown Avenue, Mt. Airy
Founder Alicia Shulman believes that living your best life should involve natural, no-harm healing ingredients and treatments that benefit yourself and the planet. Primarily focused on holistic women’s health, this Mt. Airy spot offers traditional, cosmetic, and fertility-based acupuncture, plus cupping with either silicon suctions or fire-warmed glass cups (no circular red marks!) and Gua Sha.
Barefoot Doctor
618 East Girard Avenue, Fishtown
Barefoot Doctor is a community clinic, meaning your acu treatments will be done in small-group sessions. That’s right: No private sessions here. But that’s what Barefoot Doctor is all about — creating a service-driven, affordable, and calming healing process for all community members — which is why they operate on a sliding scale.
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Dory Ellen Fish Acupuncture
1026 West Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr
Dory Ellen Fish and Jessica Massey use the five-element approach, meaning they determine how each patient’s natural energies might have become imbalanced in order to restore inner harmony. Every treatment incorporates their amethyst Bio-Mat, which uses infrared rays to alleviate stiffness and improve blood circulation.
Empirical Point Acupuncture
40 West Evergreen Avenue, #112, Chestnut Hill
At Empirical Point, Sharon Sherman offers acupuncture, Gua Sha, cupping, custom herbal medicine, and lifestyle coaching to position people to best meet their wellness challenges and goals.
Fabriq Spa
728 South 4th Street, Queen Village
Fabriq Spa owner Gabrielle Applebaum specializes in relieving chronic and acute pain. At Fabriq, you can receive traditional acupuncture, plus facial acupuncture and acu designed to help folks quit smoking. Bonus: The spa also offers massages, facials, waxing, and tinting.
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Flourish Acupuncture
1856 Frankford Avenue, Fishtown
Flourish Acupuncture offers acu services in a semi-private setting, with cupping, Gua Sha, and moxibustion included in every session.
Glenside Community Acupuncture
510 West Avenue, Suite 100, Jenkintown
The practitioners at Glenside Community Acupuncture specialize in alleviating acute and chronic pain, stress, depression, and fertility issues. Here, you can get a totally private treatment, or a two-person community session meant for folks in the same “bubble” (think housemates, parent-child, etc.).
G-Town Acupuncture
270 West Walnut Lane, 2nd floor, Germantown
This Germantown practice fully customizes your acu treatment, so you can receive the best care for whatever you’re experiencing. Depending on your needs, you might also receive adjunctive therapies like Gua Sha, moxibustion, or electro-stimulation.
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Haven Wellness Center
1639 North Hancock Street, Suite 102, Olde Kensington
Along with massages and Reiki, Haven Wellness Center provides acupuncture from practitioner Jason Rinker. He also offers adjunctive therapies including fertility support and cupping.
Healing Arts Center & Community Acupuncture
Multiple locations
Head acupuncturist and co-founder Steve Mavros specializes in male and female infertility and IVF support. But, no worries if fertility isn’t your issue. You can also find Mavros and the Healing Arts team working with patients on cancer care, gastrointestinal conditions, and athletic injuries. The clinic has two branches: Healing Arts Center with locations in Old City, Bryn Mawr, King of Prussia, and Exton, and Healing Arts Community Acupuncture in Rittenhouse which offers budget-friendly private and semi-private care.
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Healing Journey Acupuncture and Wellness
200 Eagle Road, #30, Wayne and 1205 West Chester Pike, Suite 3, West Chester
This holistic wellness center — which has two locations in the ‘burbs — offers acupuncture for acute and chronic pain, cosmetic facial rejuvenation, fertility treatments, and help with ailments like gastrointestinal diseases, anxiety, and depression.
The Healing Point
215 West Church Road, Suite 112, King of Prussia
The Healing Point in King of Prussia offers a variety of acupuncture and adjunctive services, including traditional, ear candling, electro-acupuncture, facial acu, and sports-related acu.
Island Life Acupuncture
207 Tulpehocken Avenue, Elkins Park
For the past six years, Island Life has been helping patients in the Philly area with everything from headaches to menopause and cancer care. The clinic’s acupuncture, dry needling/trigger point needling, moxibustion, and other services put patients on the right path to relief from allergies and colds, anxiety and stress, and migraines, among other conditions.
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Kang Acupuncture & Alternative Medicine
250 West Lancaster Avenue, Suite 150, Paoli
Kang Acupuncture’s goal is to help patients achieve optimal health through all-natural Chinese medicine. Hui Kang and her team treat everything from allergies to Lyme disease and chronic pain with acupuncture, herbal medicine, Reiki, and nutritional consulting.
Mellow Massage & Yoga
4023 Ridge Avenue, East Falls
Don’t let the name fool you: This East Falls relaxation spot also offers acupuncture. Your initial visit will last 75 minutes, as it begins with a 15-minute complimentary consultation with the practitioner before the hour-long needle treatment. You can also add on cupping, or get that as a stand-alone service.
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Meeting Point Health
161 Leverington Avenue, Suite 101, Manayunk
Meeting Point Health is an integrative health clinic that offers acupuncture, along with a range of other regenerative and functional medicines. You have the option to receive electro-acupuncture, cupping, or biopuncture, which injects plant-based, homeopathic substances under the skin or into a muscle for pain or inflammation relief.
Nirvana Wellness Medspa
925 North 2nd Street, Northern Liberties
Every acu newbie at Nirvana Wellness Medspa goes through an initial consultation, where you’ll chat with one of their practitioners about your needs, pain symptoms, and lifestyle habits. After, you’ll get 50-minute follow-up treatments where you can add on herbology or opt for facial acupuncture.
Philadelphia Community Acupuncture
602 Carpenter Lane, 2nd floor, Mt. Airy
Philadelphia Community Acupuncture’s nonprofit model allows them to provide acupuncture on a sliding scale ($20 to $40). Plus, they service a wide-range of issues, including fatigue, autoimmune disorders, IBS, insomnia, and fibromyalgia.
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Philadelphia Mind-Body Acupuncture
1740 South Street, Suite 503, Graduate Hospital
This Grad Hospital clinic takes the whole person — mind, body, emotions, and spirit — into account in order to tailor each acupuncture treatment so each client feels individually supported and empowered. In addition to acupuncture, Mind-Body offers massage therapy, herbal medicine healing, cupping, and yoga therapeutics.
Philadelphia Sports Acupuncture
750 South 15th Street, Graduate Hospital; 12 West Willow Grove Avenue, Chestnut Hill
If you are an athlete or a fitness enthusiast, Philadelphia Sports Acupuncture should be your go-to, as its two acupuncturists have years of experience in sports medicine and athlete-focused treatment. Located in both Graduate Hospital and Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia Sports Acupuncture uses other modalities like massage, cupping, Gua Sha, and even yoga.
Renew Acupuncture
514 South 4th Street, Queen Village
Renew’s Brittany Lombardo uses cutting-edge acupuncture techniques — like trigger point dry needling and electro-acupuncture — for pain management, orthopedic conditions, and sports-related issues.
Six Fishes
750 South 15th Street, Graduate Hospital; 2308 Grays Ferry Avenue, Grays Ferry
The foundation of Six Fishes’ practice is Chinese herbal medicine, meaning the organization believes that acupuncture and Chinese herbs can help balance the body’s natural energy flow. The acupuncturists at both locations specialize in gynecology, fertility, and pediatrics, as well as EENT issues and chronic pain.
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South Philly Community Acupuncture
1532 East Passyunk Avenue, East Passyunk
South Philly Community Acupuncture offers both private small-group acu treatments utilizing modalities like cupping, Gua Sha, moxibustion, and electro-stimulation. Plus, most acu patients have the option to incorporate herbs or natural remedies from the in-house apothecary.
Still Waters Holistic Health Therapies
2305 Fairmount Avenue, Fairmount
Since 2008, Still Waters in Fairmount has been providing acupuncture, Reiki, massages, trigger point therapy, and other holistic services. After your first visit, your acu treatment plan is designed to occur once per week for six to eight weeks.
Summit Acupuncture
421 North 7th Street, Suite 205, Spring Garden
At Summit, you can expect a combination of classic acupuncture, dry needling, orthopedic acupuncture, and neurological acupuncture. Plus, they’ve just finished up their move into their new Spring Garden location, which is still as bright, airy, and relaxing as their former Old City spot.
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Susanna Satten Acupuncture
255 South 17th Street, Suite 1502, Rittenhouse
Susanna Satten provides customized, private treatments to address a full range of physical and emotional health conditions. Her acupuncture techniques are designed to help with stress management, women’s health, pre- and post-natal wellness, sleep disorders, and chronic and acute pain, to name a few.
Village Wellness
6 Waterloo Avenue, Berwyn
With a holistic approach, the Village Wellness team aims to address healing at all levels: mind, body, heart, and spirit. Each patient receives unique acupuncture care, whether it be for pain, anxiety, or other health issues, with optional offerings like hypnotherapy, yoga, meditation, and craniosacral therapy.
Wake Acupuncture
1204 Frankford Avenue, Fishtown
Launched earlier this year by licensed acupuncturist Michelle Glassman, Wake Acupuncture offers 60-minute full-body healing and 30-minute detox sessions. Beginning January of 2022, Wake will be teaming up with Amrita Yoga & Wellness to provide discounted ($35) community acupuncture.
Water + Bone
3421 Conrad Street, East Falls
Founder and licensed acupuncturist Rachel Oristano, who holds a doctorate in Chinese medicine, provides acupuncture, Gua Sha, cupping, and moxibustion. Oristano also offers telehealth counseling therapy, as well as consulting for goal setting, life transitions, and organization skills.
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WellPoint Acupuncture
2014 Fairmount Avenue, Fairmount
Founded in 2005, WellPoint offers acupuncture and Chinese medicine services, including a full herbal dispensary with raw herbs and granulated extracts. They also offer on-site psychological counseling from affiliate providers.
West Philly Community Acupuncture
4636 Woodland Avenue, West Philly
West Philly Community Acupuncture’s treatment space includes big, comfy recliners, soothing music, and a relaxing atmosphere to promote rest and wellness. They operate on a sliding-scale payment model, so you can pay for your acu services between $25 and $45.
Windrose Acupuncture
1601 Walnut Street, Suite 1504, Rittenhouse
Julie Moore, founder of Windrose Acupuncture, has made it her goal to help busy professionals find a better work-life balance through acupuncture. All sessions are private so you can receive a completely customized experience.
