Dr. Chantelle Korver, DAOM

Chantelle is a bilingual Spanish speaker, with a Doctorate of Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine, and a minor in Human Health Sciences. She has always been passionate about helping people, and developed an interest in natural medicine at a very young age. While traveling, she developed a respiratory illness, and her great aunt took her for a walk to pick flowers, which they made into a tea. At the time, Chantelle was confused as to why she was being made to consume plants – but by the next day, the illness was completely gone. Many years later, she learned about Bastyr, and felt called to go there and start learning all that she could. Bastyr had the top-rated acupuncture school in North America, and Chantelle quickly fell in love with the medicine.

In addition to the required curriculum for graduation, Chantelle completed every elective that the acupuncture program offered, as well as many courses from other Bastyr programs. The courses covered topics such as sleep, oncology, traumatology, craniosacral therapy, Ayurveda, exercise science, massage, and more. She also took as many extra acupuncture and Chinese herbal shifts as she could, as she wanted to learn from as many different supervisors as possible, in as many different settings as possible. This included rotations in hospitals, and also clinics serving refugees and more disadvantaged people.

After graduation, she did training for facial and cosmetic acupuncture, and did a two-year apprenticeship with a Master Tung Acupuncture specialist (a system of acupuncture which dates back to ~350 BCE).

She loves working with working with fertility and women’s health, as well as the intersection between psychosocial-emotional and physical pain. She believes that physical and emotional pain are closely intertwined, and that this medicine is uniquely powerful in its ability to address both.