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Over 40 Years Acupuncture Experience

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Meet Your Team.

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Our Combined Experience:

  • Over 40 years combined Acupuncture Experience
  • ​Graduated from an accredited 4-year Acupuncture program with over 3500 hrs of study/clinic experience
  • ​Continued our education to receive the highest level of Board Certification with Doctorates of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
  • Passed national boards from National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM)
  • Certified in Injection Therapy
  • Certified in Acupuncture Facial Rejuvenation
  • ​Certified Hari Traditional Japanese Acupuncture Practitioner
  • Certified Taishi Shonihari Pediatric Acupuncture Practitioner
  • Certified Kampo Chinese/Japanese Herbal Medicine Practitioner 
  • Certified Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist
  • Certified Koshi Balancing Structural Acupuncture and Sotai Practitioner
  • Certified in Clean Needle Technique
  • Certified in Medical MicroNeedling
  • ​Certified in MPS Pain Therapy
  • Certified in MPS Scar Release Therapy
  • ​Certified in AMI Basics Therapy
  • Tested in the areas of Acupuncture, Biomedicine, and Chinese Herbology.
  • To renew our licenses, we are required to keep up our Continued Education hours every 2yrs for the Florida Department of Health and every 4yrs for the NCCAOM certification.  This keeps us constantly learning and improving our knowledge of acupuncture and oriental medicine. 

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Doctorate of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
NCCAOM® Board Certified Acupuncture Physician
Diplomate of Acupuncture
​Master of Acupuncture Oriental Medicine
CranioSacral Therapy Practitioner

Certified by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Certified in Advanced Techniques in Facial Acupuncture

Certified in MPS Pain Therapy

Certified in MPS Scar Release

Certified in AMI 850 Therapy
Certified in AcuPoint Injection Therapy
Certified in Microneedling

Bachelor of Health Science
Bachelor of Business Administration

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Christine Yastrzemski, DACM, A.P., Dipl. Ac.
Founder / Owner of A Way of Life Acupuncture

About Your Team of Doctors

Gretchen Lorenson A.P., Dipl. OM.

NCCAOM® Board Certified Acupuncture Physician
Diplomate of Oriental Medicine
Master of Acupuncture Oriental Medicine
Certified Hari Traditional Japanese Acupuncture Practitioner
Certified Taishi Shonihari Pediatric Acupuncture Practitioner
Certified Kampo Chinese/Japanese Herbal Medicine Practitioner 
Certified Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist
Certified Koshi Balancing Structural Acupuncture and Sotai Practitioner

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