Balanced Thistle Acupuncture

Balanced Thistle Acupuncture is an acupuncturist in Fort Collins, CO, located at 2001 S Shields St Building E STE 201. The clinic provides evidence-informed acupuncture, functional medicine, and holistic beauty care, with a focus on women's health. Its specialties include fertility support, perimenopause and menopause, PMS, PMDD and painful menstruation, PCOS and endometriosis, stress, anxiety and insomnia, facial and jaw pain, headaches, and male hormone health. The team also treats patients navigating IVF or IUI, pregnancy and postnatal care, digestive concerns, and irregular or painful cycles. Balanced Thistle holds a rating of 5.00 from the customers who have reviewed it.

The clinic blends Chinese medicine with modern techniques and evidence-based research, treating concerns with customized precision. Its practitioners include Sara Bates, a licensed acupuncturist who earned a Masters of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in 2012, practiced in Nashville, and has specialized in women's health from the beginning; she became a birth doula in 2015 and trained in using Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and acupressure to prepare women for birth and aid in labor. Brooke Wells Recchia, also a licensed acupuncturist, is a northern Colorado native who began her healthcare journey with a degree in Sports and Exercise Science from the University of Northern Colorado.

Balanced Thistle was the first clinic in Northern Colorado to offer Gua Sha and Cupping facials, and the first to bring Yoni Steaming to the region. Its aesthetic team delivers holistic facials rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and its beauty menu is clean, injection free, and health oriented. Yoni steams are performed in private treatment rooms by steam certified, licensed acupuncturists and herbalists who take a full gynecological history and customize herbs, steam intensity, treatment length, and cycle timing. Steams can be purchased individually, as a package, or added to an acupuncture appointment.

The clinic sits on South Shields Street, a short walk from Spring Creek and about 0.2 miles from Hill Pond. Fischer Natural Area and Rolland Moore Community Garden are both roughly 0.3 miles away, as is West Prospect Road.

With a perfect rating from its reviewers and a team trained in both Chinese medicine and functional approaches, Balanced Thistle brings together acupuncture, herbal medicine, and holistic beauty care for women in Fort Collins.