The Akin Team.
Personalized, collaborative care is how we believe healthcare should be.
With decades of experience across reproductive health, we collaborate to help you thrive. Together, we complement your primary medical provider, giving you whole person care for your emotional, mental, and physical well-being.
Our current Locations
San Francisco
East Bay
Los Angeles
Virtual (across California)
I love being a witness for patients as they grow their families. I’ve always been a “helper” and being able to share what I know to give people agency, helping them advocate for their own health is a very satisfying feeling.
On a deeper level, I believe that the way we parent our babies shapes them and, in turn, shapes the future world. Can you imagine what the world would be like if more people were well-loved, emotionally nourished, self aware, and who deeply trusted themselves and their worth?
I love sharing space and time with my patients, developing trust, and witnessing their transformations via that embodied liminal place that acupuncture provides — it restores balance to the mind, body, and spirit.
I love getting to work virtually and in-home with patients because it allows me the opportunity to work with people in the environment that they spend most of their time and problem solve at the course. I also get to meet people’s pets!
I invite birthgivers into a space that is validating, nurturing, exploratory, and meaningful. A space where they are invited to share their truths in an unfiltered way. Where they can be unapologetically vulnerable and free. It's a space that for many is the first time they have truly been seen.
I do this work because it is important for me to acknowledge and remember the forgotten. This means shining light on the needs of marginalized communities, reminding people of their wonderful qualities and strengths, and staying connected to traditions that are important to my clients.
My hands-on approach is helpful to address any restrictions of tissue and create better mobility of the organs so they can function more effectively. This type of work can be supported for those who are trying to conceive naturally or to help those who are preparing for IVF or IUI to increase their success rate of implantation.
Education and empowerment. I love empowering my patients to make educated decisions concerning their health and fertility. For my fertility patients, knowledge and understanding of the female and male reproduction process is essential in identifying potential problems, knowing how to optimize and preserve fertility, and knowing when to seek ART (assisted reproductive technology).
My sessions are fun, light hearted, informative, intuitive and intend to provide a sense of connection to you and your body to empower you with tools to manage and/or overcome your symptoms.
Whether you are experiencing conflict or transition in relationships or career, are relocating, coping with the illness or death of a loved one, processing pregnancy loss and abortion, or struggling to navigate a mental health diagnosis, I look forward to meeting you where you are at. A core focus of my practice includes issues of identity and self-worth.
I offer integrative midwifery care for those planning a hospital birth with their doctor, but also wanting the time with a healthcare provider to discuss wellness, childbirth choices as well as alternative modalities to encourage a healthy pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
I am constantly inspired by my patients who consistently show up for themselves, who courageously share their stories of personal challenges, fear of the unknown, loss, and/or grief, and through this process, they inevitably open and evolve into even better human beings.