I am Anne Lu (they/them)- a queer, neurodivergent, Chinese American practitioner of East Asian Medicine, martial artist and founder of Anne Lu Embodied Therapeutics. I grew up in the power and history of my ancestors’ wisdom, which reached me through the East Asian healing arts, martial arts and in the bone-setting, osteopathic roots of craniosacral therapy. Simultaneously, my experience in learning how to use somatic resourcing within East Asian Medicine to build internal resilience in the wake of deeply traumatic personal history, led me to become a practitioner of these therapies myself. My training with Dr. Brandt Stickley, DAOM, L.Ac at National University of Natural Medicine, College of Classical Chinese Medicine, Dr. Melinda Iglesias Wheeler, DSOM, L.Ac and Stephen Higgins at Dragon Rises Center for Wholeness and Kate Busby, L.Ac, S.E.P, shaped me into a practitioner who specializes in trauma-informed care of complex trauma and debilitating, chronic, complex illness.

I hold a Master’s in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine, and am currently licensed by the Oregon Board of Massage Therapists (License #28380, formally specializing in craniosacral therapy). As a 23rd generation ordained Daoist priest in the Complete Reality, Dragon Gate sect, I study and practice through the Qingyun Temple with Shifus Josh Paytner and Jack Schaefer, as overseen by Abbess Zhang Ming Xin of Jian Fu Gong, Mt. Qingcheng in Sichuan, China.