The Healing Eastern Arts for Life Center
The HEAL Center
The HEAL Center was founded to provide effective natural treatments for pain and other conditions to the community. In particular, the HEAL Center utilizes traditional Eastern medicine, a proven natural medical system with a long history of use.
More and more, people are clamoring for effective natural healthcare and preventative medicine. They want to avoid high risk surgeries with long recovery times, addictive pain killers, and pharmaceuticals with lasting side effects.
Traditional Eastern Medicine has been tested andrefined over thousands of years, providing effective healing using relatively non-invasive methods. The recovery time is very short when done properly. This style of medicine distinguishes itself through diagnostic methods and principles that treat people as individuals with unique needs. Furthermore, traditional Eastern medicine focuses on not only overcoming disease, but also building the foundation for better long-term health. It has a reputation for wide range of effectiveness on a variety of internal and external maladies. Much of that reputation has been borne out by modern scientific study.
The HEAL Center wants to bring traditional Eastern medicine to the community through a highly-trained and experienced professional. It focuses on introducing this medicine to people in the community who have the most need and least access to this type of service. The HEAL Center currently focuses its efforts on the following groups:
Senior Citizens: People with chronic pain, travel difficulties, and a fixed income
Mobility Impaired: People who struggle to travel to seek treatment (wheelchair bound patients, stroke victims, etc.)
The HEAL Center is a 501(c)(3) public charitable organization and a Missouri nonprofit corporation. Donations to the organization are tax deductible.
More and more, people are clamoring for effective natural healthcare and preventative medicine. They want to avoid high risk surgeries with long recovery times, addictive pain killers, and pharmaceuticals with lasting side effects.
Traditional Eastern Medicine has been tested andrefined over thousands of years, providing effective healing using relatively non-invasive methods. The recovery time is very short when done properly. This style of medicine distinguishes itself through diagnostic methods and principles that treat people as individuals with unique needs. Furthermore, traditional Eastern medicine focuses on not only overcoming disease, but also building the foundation for better long-term health. It has a reputation for wide range of effectiveness on a variety of internal and external maladies. Much of that reputation has been borne out by modern scientific study.
The HEAL Center wants to bring traditional Eastern medicine to the community through a highly-trained and experienced professional. It focuses on introducing this medicine to people in the community who have the most need and least access to this type of service. The HEAL Center currently focuses its efforts on the following groups:
Senior Citizens: People with chronic pain, travel difficulties, and a fixed income
Mobility Impaired: People who struggle to travel to seek treatment (wheelchair bound patients, stroke victims, etc.)
The HEAL Center is a 501(c)(3) public charitable organization and a Missouri nonprofit corporation. Donations to the organization are tax deductible.
Elizabeth Barrett, LAc, MSOM -- Executive Director
Titles: Eastern Medicine Practitioner, Licensed Acupuncturist, Executive Director of the HEAL Center
Specialties: Acupuncture, Custom Herbal Medicine, Qigong, Taijiquan, Pain Relief, Mobility and Structural Improvement
Certifications: Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (DOM), Master of Oriental Medicine (MSOM), Licensed Acupuncturist (LAc)
Additional Higher Education: M.S., Cellular & Molecular Biology, UMKC; B,S., Biology, UNI; B.A., Philosophy, UNI
Ms. Barrett is an Eastern medicine practitioner with extensive experience in both the United States and China. She began her Eastern medicine studies in China in 2005, interning with a well-known herbal medicine specialist in Xi'an, China, named Dr. Xi Yong. While living there for two years, she also became a lineage holder in the Chen Xiaojia style of Tai Chi Chuan under Master Xing Yan and extensively studied Wushu and Qigong (a style of gentle moving meditation). She became fluent in Chinese. Ms. Barrett has since returned to China to continue her study six times.
Ms. Barrett obtained her Masters of Oriental Medicine (MSOM) certification at the Florida College of Integrative Medicine, one of the oldest Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) colleges in the United States. She obtained the 3000 hour degree (with more than 1000 clinical hours) and completed four national board exams to earn the Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (DOM) certification from the NCBAHM (the national certifying board for TCM in the United States). During her time as a student and Eastern medicine practitioner in Florida, Ms. Barrett was able to refine her traditional Eastern diagnostic skills through study with Dr. Leon Hammer (of the Shen-Hammer pulse system known at Classical Chinese Pulse Diagnosis) and his 20 year apprentice, Dr. Jamin Nichols, Dr. John Hsu, and Dr. Lim Chuanyew, a renowned spinal and four-limb acupuncture and Tui'na specialist. She has been in independent practice for 10 years and has served thousands of patients.
Specialties: Acupuncture, Custom Herbal Medicine, Qigong, Taijiquan, Pain Relief, Mobility and Structural Improvement
Certifications: Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (DOM), Master of Oriental Medicine (MSOM), Licensed Acupuncturist (LAc)
Additional Higher Education: M.S., Cellular & Molecular Biology, UMKC; B,S., Biology, UNI; B.A., Philosophy, UNI
Ms. Barrett is an Eastern medicine practitioner with extensive experience in both the United States and China. She began her Eastern medicine studies in China in 2005, interning with a well-known herbal medicine specialist in Xi'an, China, named Dr. Xi Yong. While living there for two years, she also became a lineage holder in the Chen Xiaojia style of Tai Chi Chuan under Master Xing Yan and extensively studied Wushu and Qigong (a style of gentle moving meditation). She became fluent in Chinese. Ms. Barrett has since returned to China to continue her study six times.
Ms. Barrett obtained her Masters of Oriental Medicine (MSOM) certification at the Florida College of Integrative Medicine, one of the oldest Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) colleges in the United States. She obtained the 3000 hour degree (with more than 1000 clinical hours) and completed four national board exams to earn the Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (DOM) certification from the NCBAHM (the national certifying board for TCM in the United States). During her time as a student and Eastern medicine practitioner in Florida, Ms. Barrett was able to refine her traditional Eastern diagnostic skills through study with Dr. Leon Hammer (of the Shen-Hammer pulse system known at Classical Chinese Pulse Diagnosis) and his 20 year apprentice, Dr. Jamin Nichols, Dr. John Hsu, and Dr. Lim Chuanyew, a renowned spinal and four-limb acupuncture and Tui'na specialist. She has been in independent practice for 10 years and has served thousands of patients.
Board Members
2018-present
Leslie Thomas, President
Scott Post, Vice President
Patricia Barrett, Secretary-Treasurer
Leslie Thomas, President
Scott Post, Vice President
Patricia Barrett, Secretary-Treasurer