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Quiet, structurally grounded care for nervous systems, faces, and bodies shaped by lived experience.
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acupuncture.
The Foundation
Acupuncture is the base layer of all my work.
From here, there are two ways to receive care:
shared, through community acupuncture, and individual acupuncture.
Public Acupuncture: Shared Care.
Small-group acupuncture in an aesthetic, calm, shared space. Treatments are streamlined and focused, with chairs arranged for privacy and silence. Ideal for regular nervous system support, pain relief, and ongoing wellness at a lower cost.
Very minimal talking done during the session. Learn more here.
Not suitable for face-down treatments.
Book online here.
Private Acupuncture: Individual Care.
One-on-one acupuncture sessions tailored to your needs, your nervous system, and your capacity for depth.
Private care is offered in two formats.
Functional Acupuncture
45–60 minutes, focused treatment
Sessions are efficient, body-led, and treatment-forward. There’s space for brief check-ins and the emphasis is on the medicine doing what it does best.
This is a good fit if you want relief without a long session and/or prefer to keep things simple and contained.
Learn more here.
Book online as a new patient here. Book follow ups here.
Integration Acupuncture
90 minutes; the deep work
This is acupuncture and working at a deeper level of patterning.
Sessions include acupuncture, extended time, and room for what emerges. We follow the thread your body brings forward, whether that’s physical, emotional, or structural.
Note: overwhelmingly, these sessions get referred to as “therapy” by patients due to the often transformative nature of the work, and it’s important to note that this is not therapy. In fact, I often recommend working with a therapist in conjunction with these sessions to best unpack what comes up during integration acupuncture.
Book follow up integration acupuncture here.
Please note that as a new patient you must first complete a comprehensive initial appointment.
facial re:cognition
Feminist Facial
the in-person work.
Imitation may be the highest form of flattery, but at the end of the day, there’s only one Feminist Facial
This is the original Feminist Facial — the one with a cult following; the one that changes faces (and perspectives).
A deeply structural, emotionally attuned in-person treatment that blends facial acupuncture, fascia release, lymphatic flow, and ritual.
Known for its visible lift, remembered for how it makes you feel: unmasked, softened, and unmistakably yourself.
Learn more here.
Book Online:
Face Forward
the group work.
Join Chryssa twice a month (once in Dobbs Ferry, once in Ossining) to learn at home facial gua sha and massage techniques, designed to get you to know your unique facial anatomy in a way that cultivates a loving relationship with it rather than the combative and abrasive one we are led to believe we should have with our faces.
Sign up here.
Foundations
the at-home work.
This is where you learn to work with your own face through a better understanding of what shaped it.
Foundations is a self-paced course in structural facial repatterning through the five elements. It starts with a deep feminist re-education and goes on to include gua sha, facial exercises, and relaxation techniques.
You’ll be guided to feel, see, and support the systems beneath your skin, without falling into the trap of perfectionism or performance.
It’s not self-care. It’s structural repair, ritualized.
Learn more here.
groups
Acupuncture Book Club
listen to books. get stabbed. stay weird.
A laid-back small-group acupuncture session paired with a shared audiobook. Come for the story, stay for the nervous system reset.
The time commitment varies depending on book length. Your acupuncture session is still personalized to you. It’s one hour of book listening and acupuncture combo, and half an hour of discussion.
It’s part book club, part collective nap, and fully weird in the best possible way.
Find books and start dates here.
Face Forward
gua sha group therapy.
If you’ve tried facial gua sha because of TikTok, you need to come to Face Forward and learn how to actually use your tool.
Here you not only learn proper technique, you also learn more about why social media marketing telling you that you need to fix your face works on you in the first place.
Come for the lift, stay for the injection of feminist code into your facial routine.
Book online here.
The Commons
Post-acupuncture Parallel Play.
Every Thursday after the 9:30am and 12:00pm Public Acupuncture groups, participants of those groups just get to… stay.
Wanna nap in your chair? Go for it. Catching up on your reading or listening to podcasts or the latest episode of your show? That’s cool too. Work on your laptop or phone (no meetings, though! This is a silent endeavor!).
Use the time as yours, because that’s what it is.
Book online here.
Not Sure Where to Begin?
Start where your body says yes.
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FAQ
What does acupuncture help?
Broadly, it helps each and every bodily system: circulatory, cardiovascular, digestive, excretory, endocrine, exocrine, integumentary, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, renal, urinary, reproductive, respiratory, and skeletal systems.
If you’re looking for more specifics, check out this page which has a detailed list from the World Health Organization on what acupuncture has been proven empirically to help with. Anecdotally, we have plenty of testimonials from satisfied customers, largely having to do with the life-changing manner in which acupuncture has affected them.
Do you offer any discounted treatments?
Feminist Facials come in 1, 2, and 3 month packages and are 10, 15, and 20% off, respectively.
1 month (4 sessions) expires 4 weeks from purchase
2 month (8 sessions) expires 8 weeks from purchase
3 month (12 sessions) expires 12 weeks from purchase
Public Acupuncture Memberships offer 4 sessions in a 30 day period for $380.
Where do you stand on working with western medical practitioners?
Article 160, Section 821 1.1 (b) of NYS Education law requires any acupuncture professional to advise you to consult with your physician regarding the condition for which you are seeking acupuncture treatment.
But it’s not just Article 160. We think you should do this, too! We work in tandem with your doctors to provide you with the best possible healthcare, which means we are always encouraging of our clients to make sure they are seeking care for any and all medical concerns, and making sure they are taking advantage of all preventative screening that western medicine provides.
Each medicine has its strength and its blindspots and we aim to fill the spaces that allopathic medicine tends to leave, just as we cannot provide the bloodwork, imaging, and pharmaceutical scripts that your MD or DO can help you out with.
Do you take insurance?
We do not directly bill your insurance company, and are out of network with most major insurance companies. From there, it depends if you have acupuncture coverage in your individual contract.
Superbills are provided upon request but do not guarantee reimbursement. We do not submit claims, clinical notes, or additional documentation to insurance companies.
Our CPT code pricing is based on Fair Health Consumer average pricing for the zip code 10562.
Does acupuncture hurt?
The tools of our trade are indeed needles, but they’re not the needles of your doctor’s office. Some acupuncture is completely sensation free — people won’t even know their needles are in! — and other sessions are necessarily full of different sensations. Most often, it’s the sensation of the energy moving in your body. That can feel freeing, that can feel uncomfortable, that can feel curious. If it’s painful, always let us know.
What’s your cancellation policy?
As a a small and local business, we value our clients and aim to provide the highest quality of care. In addition to providing stellar treatments, we cultivate relationships.
In order to do maintain that balance, be a functioning business, and know we’re doing the best work we can, Well Collab Acupuncture strictly enforces its 48 hour cancellation and rescheduling policy.
If violated, you will be charged in full for your session. (If the appointment is a package appointment, it will be considered used; if the appointment was supposed to be covered by insurance, the card on file will be charged for a regular acupuncture appointment.)
In order to cancel or reschedule, we would need you to:
utilize the cancel/reschedule option in your Jane patient portal or
48 or more hours prior to your appointment, call or text. If you don’t catch a human answering the phone, you must leave a message. We cannot assume that a missed call could be about a cancellation or rescheduling! As much as we appreciate that people think we practice magic, we actually don’t, and that means we also do not read minds. Bummer! or
email us at hello@wellcollab.com
We aim to provide you with ample opportunity to reschedule or cancel prior to those 48 hours through automated email reminders and text messages!
Why a rescheduling policy?
Here’s an example: if a patient calls same day for a Monday appointment and reschedules to Friday (emergencies happen!) as per 48 hour rescheduling policy, but then cancels that Friday appointment online within 48 hours, then this is simply a workaround to the a same-day cancellation for the Monday appointment.
While the subsequent rescheduling doesn't violate the cancellation policy, it does violates the rescheduling policy.
We obviously have this in place for a reason! Thank you for understanding that while we love helping you in ways that sometimes make us feel more like an integral part of your world rather than business owners, we are still business owners and this is how we pay all our bills!