Samantha Avnet

In 2009 I began my training in this modality after receiving monthly Arvigo® sessions with profound pain relief and a reverence for this medicine. I am very passionate about this work and over the last decade I have completed the following trainings in Arvigo® Abdominal Therapy: Professional Care, Advanced Clinical Applications, and Advanced Pregnancy and Postpartum. Samantha is a Nationally Board-Certified and California Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist and a Certified Arvigo® Abdominal Therapy Practitioner. She has a master’s degree in acupuncture and oriental medicine (MAcOM) from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in Portland, OR. She has been working with Women’s Health and plant medicine for over twenty-five years with her roots in Western herbal traditions and is a Certified Women’s Herbal Educator. Her expertise in gynecological and menstrual health concerns is based on advanced integrative medicine training from herbalist-midwife-MD Aviva Romm, with whom she started training in 2005. Samantha started down this path as a health care provider when she was a teenager, in the 90’s, after her own struggles with debilitating menstrual cramps and anxiety. The modalities that she offers are ones she has experienced direct relief from and ones that have been providing healing in her patients. Her private practice is dedicated and passionate about bringing quality, holistic health care to the community, with a focus on supporting mental & emotional health, the menstrual cycle & body literacy, utilizing Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, and The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy®. She uses advanced chart interpretation by using the menstrual cycle as a diagnostic tool to empower patients to understand how their body works through menstrual cycle charting. A root cause approach is taken with mindset, lifestyle and nutrition whenever possible to help reverse underlying causes.