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John Patton, M.A., A.P.,L.M.H.C, Dipl. Acup, Fellow Phsycotherapy AP, LMHC, LNCCAOM certified, Florida State
John Patton, M.A., A.P.,L.M.H.C, Dipl. Acup, Fellow Phsycotherapy Quick Facts
Main Areas: Acupuncture, Oriental Medicine, Psychotherapy, Stress Management , Nutritional CounslingCareer Focus: Wellness through Maintenence and Prevention
Affiliation: American Association of Acupuncture, American Psychotherapy Association, Florida State Oriental Medicine Association, Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Association
John is a Licensed Acupuncture Physician, a Board Certified Diplomat in Acupuncture (NCCA) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, a Board Certified Fellow in Psychotherapy. A graduate of the University of South Florida, he received his bachelors degree in Psychology in 1970 and his Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling in 1972. John first studied Oriental Medicine with Mushio Kushi at the East West Foundation Programs at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1976-77. He then continued his formal studies at the New England School of Acupuncture with Dr. Tin Yau So and graduated in 1979. In 1980 he began an apprenticeship with Dr. Peng-fee Wang in private practice in the mountains of West Virginia and continued this tutorial for two years. John has worked in the fields of Oriental Medicine, Functional Medicine, Wellness Aging, Mental Health, and substance abuse. He directed a research and demonstration project for the Administration on Aging in Florida, was the Director of Group Homes for a comprehensive Mental Health Agency in Virginia, and has done extensive work in the field of substance abuse and treatment centers for substance abuse. John has also been Nationally Board Certified in Rehabilitation Counseling, Therapeutic Massage, and Shiatsu. John has worked as Staff Trainer and Treatment Director in Mental Health. He has conducted workshops and training seminars in Florida, Virginia, California and West Virginia in Human Growth, Awareness Training, Stress Management, Relaxation Training, Wellness, Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Shiatsu and Massage. He is currently in private practice in Naples, Florida and is director of the Healing Arts Center, offering oriental medicine, nutritional counseling, psychotherapy, and therapeutic massage.
"John's medical background combined with his psychotherapy training allows him to offer an uncommon holistic approach to serving his patients. John's acute intuition, experience and communication skills enable him to rapidly diagnose and treat patients with accuracy that is rare. All of the above in conjunction with his sincere care for the well-being of his patients create John's unique healing gift." -A Patient
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Acupuncture is a system of medicine that has its theoretical foundations in the maintenance of health and well-being. Acupuncture utilizes the energy of the body to accomplish the treatment of illness and disease and the maintenance of health and well-being. This is done through the utilization of small stainless steel. Silver or gold needles, a heat treatment called moxibustion and through massage and pressure applied to specific treatment points known as acupuncture points. These points lie along pathways, more traditionally called meridians or channels, along which the electromagnetic energy or life force of the body flows. While the human body is a field of electromagnetic energy, it does have specific major pathways across which the chi or life force of the body travels.
Over the years and through empirical study, research, and evaluation, it has been verified that the life force of the human body can be identified, manipulated, encourage, and discouraged. This occurs manually or physically, emotionally or mentally, and spiritually or energetically. Beginning with the egg and the sperm; the combination of these two entities, both charged energetically, on contact create a third entity. Now mutually charged or energized by this combination this new entity develops its own life force as a result of this combination. It is the untouchable, unseeable aspect of life that is the force that actually creates it. This dynamic force is the essence of creation and life. When this dynamic force no longer exists within the body, life no longer exists. When illness and disease through the diminishing of this force gain access to our mental, physical and spiritual bodies the disharmony that results manifests as illness. Illness at any level is experienced as disruption and discomfort. The treatment of this disruption and discomfort and the goals of the treatment are the result of diagnosis based on the traditional diagnostic tool of the acupuncture physician. Those tools are the history of the individual. The information gathered through the pulses, through the tongue and though the symptoms currently being experienced and related by the individual. Therefore, given these parameters, illness and disease can manifest only after an energetic imbalance has existed within the human electromagnetic field or body for an extended period of time. Out of this imbalance arises the opportunity for illness and disease to manifest. Through the treatment of this disharmony and rebalancing of the electromagnetic field of the body, disease and illness can be resolved.
Acupuncture can treat conditions of the skin, digestive system, the muscular skeletal systems, the nervous system, the respiratory system, the cardiovascular system, the urogenital system and the reproductive system. Acupuncture is also used in the treatment of mental illness, substance abuse and addictions. Acupuncture can also treat trauma or injury. Examples of this are whiplash, complications of concussions, muscle strain and tendinitis. Acupuncture can treat chronic and acute pain, sports related injuries, gynecological concerns, headaches, high blood pressure, poor circulation, incontinence, constipation, viral outbreaks, infertility and menopausal related symptoms. The goal of acupuncture is: 1) the resolution of the disharmony that exists within the energy field of the body and 2) to recreate, through subtle suggestion, balance; Assisting the body through the stimulation of acupuncture points to redirect its life force and to accomplish the healing necessary to recreate harmony.
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Contacting John Patton, M.A., A.P.,L.M.H.C, Dipl. Acup, Fellow Phsycotherapy
John E. Patton A.P., L.M.H.C.
Board Certified Acupuncture Physician
Board Certified Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Healing Arts Center
971 Michigan Ave.
Naples, FL 34103
(239) 262-6828
