Melissa Stein

Melissa's career in health and healing began over 25 years ago with the study of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts. During that time she became an avid yoga student and was instantly drawn towards the field of mind-body medicine.

​Upon graduation she began studying massage therapy and also continued to delve deeper into her studies of yoga and meditation which took her to India where she started teaching while living in a meditation retreat center. While in India she helped out by cooking in the center's kitchen and came upon many books relating to nutrition and eastern medicine. This is where the concept of 'food as medicine' became a passion for Melissa and upon coming home from India, she decided to study Chinese medicine and Acupuncture. One of her main goals for Open Circle Acupuncture & Healing is to draw upon all of these different areas of healing that she has learned and make it a place for ongoing learning, education and inspiration.

Melissa graduated from acupuncture school in 2006 and has been passionate about her continuing studies in the areas of women's health & pain relief. Throughout her many thousands of treatments over the past 11 years, she has also observed the power of acupuncture to relieve stress & anxiety. The amazing part about this, is that once the stress is lessened even a small amount, healing of many different aspects of the physical body from pain, to sleep etc. begin to resolve as well. She has dedicated her career to trying to make this powerful mind-body medicine accessible to as many people as possible.