Jenna Giardino
(she/her)
Jenna is a registered Acupuncturist with the College of Complimentary Health Professionals of B.C. In 2023 she graduated with magna cum laude from Pacific Rim College in Victoria, with a Diploma of Acupuncture. Throughout her diplomacy she completed 2200 hours of studies in Traditional Chinese medicine, as well as integrating Western anatomy and physiology, patho-physiology, and bio-medicine. During her clinical experience at Pacific Rim College, Jenna found immense value in developing a sincere ability to listen to her patients, bear witness to their story, and to sit with those whom shared a common goal of healing.
Jenna was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was through her curiosity to want and know more from life than what she was raised within that she found herself moving to the West Coast of Canada. In Jenna’s reach to find what satiated her soul, she found Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (or maybe it found her). It was during her first treatment that Jenna felt a responsibility to show up for the medicine and devote to it.
Jenna brings forward a knowledge from her academic career and a wisdom from life experience. Professionally Jenna has enjoyed providing emotional support and spiritual integration, caring for one’s nervous system, as well as treating digestive disturbances, lung conditions, gynaecological and reproductive concerns, raynauds and other autoimmune diseases, and more.
Outside of the clinic space Jenna spends time at her favourite local coffee shops, surrounding herself with trusted friends and family, and watching her rescue dog Sybil experience life.
A note from Jenna: “As an Acupuncturist diverse in treating simple and complex conditions, I am passionate about treating ancestral patterns, spiritual disharmony, and how emotions may impact subjective suffering. Lorie Eve Dechar mentions in her book Five Spirits: Alchemical Acupuncture for Psychological and Spiritual Healing, “I discovered something that transformed the way I experience being in my body.” In Chinese medicine, we cannot separate the spirit from the mind or the body; those three are always in a dynamic relationship with one another. When they are not in harmony, Taoists believe that that’s what gives space for disease. I have witnessed and experienced Acupuncture as a conduit for reminding the body how to bring all three components of being human back into harmony and to heal itself. It reminds us to take our power back regarding the healing journey.”
CONTACT ME
Phone: 250-382-3836
Email: jennagiardino.acu@gmail.com
MY HOURS
| Monday | 2:30 – 8 |
| Tuesday | off |
| Wednesday | 10 – 6 |
| Thursday | off |
| Friday | off |
MY SERVICES
Acupuncture
Tui na
Cupping
Moxibustion
Gua Sha
Treatment Description
What to expect during an Acupuncture session
To begin your acupuncture session Jenna will inquire about your reason of visit, your medical history, concerns, symptoms, and overall wellbeing. For further intake Jenna will examine your tongue, pulse, and she may palpate meridians on your body using therapeutic touch to narrow in on your individualized traditional Chinese medical diagnosis.
Jenna will invite you to get comfortable on the Acupuncture bed while she creates a custom treatment plan for you. Once we are both ready to begin treatment, Jenna will gently insert needles in specific acupuncture points using fine, sterile needles to stimulate energetics associated with each point to induce a healing response. You may or may not feel a slight pinch on insertion, and once at rest a tingling, warm, heavy sensation may surround the inserted needle. Needles will be retained for 20–30 minutes. Jenna will give you the treatment room to yourself while the needles are retained to further integrate and process your healing, she will check in on you halfway through your treatment.
Other therapies Jenna may include in your treatment plan:
Tui na: A form of massage that helps support circulation and reduce muscular and joint pain
Cupping: Silicone or glass cups used to create a vacuum like suction of the skin to induce an immune response. This therapy draws blood and toxins to the surface of the skin improving circulation, treating pain, and detoxifying. Cupping may leave bruise-like markings on the skin.
Moxibustion: A technique which uses burning of the herb Mugwort over Acupuncture points. There are multiple forms of using this therapy. It may help improve circulation, warm up the body, as well as treat pain, digestive disturbances, infertility, breeched baby, and more
Gua Sha: A smooth-edged tool to scrape the surface of the skin to improve circulation, reduce inflammation, relieve tension, and vent out pathogens. This may cause an appearance of light bruising, purple or red spots may appear on the skin.
To conclude your treatment needles will be removed and we’ll have a brief conversation about at home recommendations and care, and future follow-up sessions.
Please note if you have extended health benefits and would like to use direct billing for partial or full medical coverage, needle insertion must partake in treatment. The application of cupping, tui na, gua sha, or moxibustion without needle insertion is not covered.