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About Rhonda

Harvest Seed Acupuncture promotes optimal wellness while incorporating harmony and balance by providing patients with quality holistic health care through Acupuncture, Oriental Medicine, and alternative therapies.

At Harvest Seed Acupuncture, we guide and encourage our patients to make knowledgeable choices concerning their health and well-being which moves them towards happy, contented, and balanced lives. Working together to achieve optimal health for your emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical well-being is our goal. Acupuncture and Healing Herbs focuses on the whole person.

Our healing space will be calming and peaceful to enable a journey of healing by sight, touch, and spirit in a confidential setting. Perseverance, unconditional acceptance, and faith will be at the cornerstone of my business.

I look forward to meeting you and restoring your health to a state of balance. Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of your health plan.

Rhonda received her Master’s Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) from Northwestern Health Sciences University (NWHSU) in Bloomington, Minnesota in 2014. NWHSU requires more than 156 semester credits, 3,000 contact hours and 720 supervised clinical practice hours with patients for meeting graduation criteria.

Rhonda is a Licensed Acupuncturist (L.A. c) through the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice.   Here is a complete guide to the Minnesota State Statues scope of practice for Acupuncture.

Rhonda holds a Diplomate in Oriental Medicine (certified in both Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine) by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).

During her clinical rotations, Rhonda interned at University of Minnesota Fairview East Bank and West Bank Hospitals, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, Salvation Army ~ Minneapolis Harbor Light Center, Edith Davis Teaching Clinic, University Health Services, Bloomington Natural Care Center (all located at NWHSU) and lastly held a student intern assistant position in the Herbal dispensary while at NWHSU.

At the University of Minnesota hospitals, Rhonda provided treatments to patients in surgery, oncology (cancer), organ transplants, birthing center, and mental health illness.   At Children’s Hospital, Rhonda treated children with organ transplants, families (Mom/Dad, siblings) and staff. The internship at Salvation Army where patients were treated for drug additions, anxiety, and depression heightened Rhonda’s interest in serving patients who desire to heal.

“I am humbled by the variety of ways that we can treat in Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine no matter what my patients are facing. I have always had an interest in healing in a natural way as our bodies are unique and adaptable”. We focus on the root of the problem not just the symptoms or disease.

Personally, I turned to TCM when I had extreme pain in my neck/shoulder/back that would not go away with traditional treatments. This health problem also affected my respiratory system.

If you would like to hear more about Rhonda’s personal story about her transition to Oriental Medicine.

Rhonda uses her passion to specialize in treating emotional issues (anxiety, depression, and fear), acute and chronic pain, women’s health issues (PMS, menopause), men’s health issues, digestive issues, supplemental cancer care, insomnia, allergies/respiratory issues (which she experiences herself) and headaches.

Rhonda is a member of the Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Association of Minnesota (AOMAM) which is committed to advancing Acupuncture and Oriental medicine as a means for enhancing health and well-being. Rhonda serves on the AOMAM Board of Directors where she serves as Treasurer. If you would like to learn more about the current activities of this organization or join as a public member to support our organization, please click here for more information.

Rhonda lives and works in Northfield where she is a member of Emmaus Church and teaches Divorce Care offering compassion during a difficult time to participants. She enjoys camping, biking on the Luce Line Trail, gardening, and traveling. Rhonda is a board member of Cannon River Watershed Partnership where she serves on the Executive Committee as well as Personnel Committee. She is a Master Naturalist Volunteer for state of Minnesota . Rhonda volunteers at Carleton College Arboretum restoring an 880 acres Oak Savannah and the Prairie Creek Wildlife Management Area. Rhonda is a member of Northfield Master Gardener Club and involved in Northfield Herbal group. Lastly, Rhonda is a committee member of the Northfield Earth Day annual event.

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While the earth remained, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Gen 8:22

We sow the seed - God produces the harvest. A cheerful heart is good medicine. Proverbs 17:22