Alchemy of Conception

Acupuncture for Fertility, Pregnancy, & Hormonal Balance

One of Marissa Anca’s areas of expertise is hormone balancing and fertility. She is a fellow of American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine, and has specialised training in the field of infertility, so you you know you are getting the best possible up to date care on your journey to conception.  

Anca uses acupuncture, nutrition and Chinese herbs to balance the body’s energies and help to:

1. Reduce Inflammation to aid embryo implantation

2. Increase blood supply to the pelvis and uterus to support a health ovarian follicle.

3. Offset the effects of stress on reproductive hormones

4. Balance reproductive hormones

5. Support and enhance the effect of ART (Artificial Reproductive Techniques) such as IVF or IUI.

6. She works hand in hand with your OB/GYN or reproductive endocrinologist to make sure you have coordinated care.

She offers her patients an opportunity of a new way of thinking about themselves, their body and their health thereby dispelling the myth of “infertility”. Having experienced her own difficulties in fertility, and using her knowledge of Chinese medicine to assist in having her children, Marissa has tremendous compassion and empathy for her fertility and pregnancy patients. Above all else Marissa teaches her patients that they are whole and not broken. She will work with you to support whatever methods you may be using to conceive so that your chances of success are greatly increased.

If you are trying to conceive, Marissa can help you by analyzing a full workup of your hormones. From there she can develop a diagnosis and treatment plan to help you conceive. Whether that is naturally or with medical reproductive therapies, you will be supported so that pregnancy is achieved. 

If you aren’t trying to conceive but would still like help regulating your cycle, mitigating pain, balancing your hormones or alleviating any symptoms you may have, it would be Marissa’s pleasure to assist you. 

Acupuncture and herbal medicine offer safe, cost effective and non-invasive methods to reproductive health and can treat the following conditions:

• Advanced Maternal Age

• Amenorrhea

• Anovulation

• Endometriosis

• High FSH Levels

• Hormonal Imbalances

• Immunologic Infertility

• Luteal Phase Defect

• Male Factor Infertility (except sterility)

• Polycystic Ovaries

• Recurrent Miscarriage

• Tubal Obstruction

• Unexplained Infertility

• Uterine Fibroids

Note: Traditional Oriental medicine cannot treat infertility due to physical deformities such twisted fallopian tubes.

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With the help with Anca and her amazing needles, I am pregnant and due in May! I owe a great deal to Anca.

/  Emily C /

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Anca has helped me so much throughout the years. I had a high FSH while trying to get pregnant with my second child and after some research learned that acupuncture can help. Well, she's 7 years old now so it completely worked out and Anca was so caring and reassuring and made my pregnancy more relaxed.

/  Alisa G.  /