About Me
Marisa Webb, a licensed acupuncturist and practitioner of East Asian Medicine, who initiated her study of acupuncture in 2019 and earned her Master of Acupuncture in 2022. She formerly worked in the technical field and has a very intensive research-oriented science background. After college, she worked in a Molecular Biology and Physiology lab at the medical school doing research on Insulin under John C Lawrence Jr. III. Followed by an internship at a silicon wafer manufacture which lead her to a semiconductor startup in Silicon Valley. Subsequently, she moved to TX to work for a silicon wafer manufacture during which time, she obtained her MBA. After graduating, she worked in various roles as part of the Leadership Development Program within AT&T. Prior to obtaining her Masters in Acupuncture through Middle Way Acupuncture Institute in Mt. Vernon, WA, she has earned both a Chemistry degree and Chemical Engineering degree in addition to a MBA with focus in investment finance.
After moving to Washington state in late 2010, a calling came in late 2018 for her to pursuit Chinese Medicine, something that she’s had an interest in studying ever since 2008, 10 years prior. Marisa became an acupuncturist because of her interested in medicine, and in all aspect of wellness and healing, both as a patient and as a practitioner. She is also very interested in the esoteric embodiment of energy healing. Her working history in the science and business worlds in addition to working in medical research and technical startups offered her the uniqueness of skepticism of the left brain; yet, she welcomes the balance of the spiritual and energetic aspects of healing of the right brain.
Marisa has a good understanding of technology and sciences and is well aware of the basis and explanations using scientific logic and concepts. Yet she believes one must also acknowledge what isn’t always visible to the eye, the spiritual aspect in our overall well-being. And that we must admit what we do not know, instead of a denying the existence (of the unseen) which is the fundamental basis of Chinese Medicine in terms of Qi, Hun and Po, and that of “Essence”. The 3 treasures of Chinese Medicine that keep all living beings alive and well.
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, and compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in action and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate with yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”
- Lao-Tze