Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine & Somatic Healing in Ventura, CA
Dr. Brian Falk, PhD, LAc — Integrating Chinese Medicine and Depth Psychology
Feeling stuck? Your body might be trying to tell you something.
Maybe you can't take a full, deep breath. Maybe there are emotions you sense living somewhere in your body— but you can't quite reach them. A part of you feels numb, cut off, or like it stopped speaking a long time ago. Or perhaps you've arrived at an impasse: a place where life has paused, and your next step simply won't come.
These aren't separate problems. In Chinese medicine and depth psychology, the physical and emotional are always in conversation. When the body holds onto stress, grief, or unresolved experience, it often speaks through pain, tension, fatigue, or shutdown— symptoms that conventional medicine can struggle to explain.
Using acupuncture, Chinese medical massage, transformational breath-work, and Active Imagination, Dr. Falk creates the conditions for that listening— helping the unseen become known, the stuck become fluid, and the held become released.
How Healing Happens At Unified Medicine
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Chronic pain, nerve damage, migraines, sciatica, arthritis, stress & more.
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Visceral, Shiatsu & abdominal work targeting physical & emotional holding.
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Lab testing, nutritional counseling & custom herbal remedies.
Meet Dr. Brian Falk
Brian Falk, PhD, LAc, is a practitioner of Chinese Medicine and a scholar of Depth Psychology. He holds a Master's in Chinese Medicine from Five Branches University and a PhD in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. His work explores how traditional healing practices and psychological inquiry intersect to support meaningful and lasting transformation.
He maintains a clinical acupuncture practice in Ventura, California while also teaching and writing on topics such as dreams, somatic awareness, and the therapeutic power of touch.
What Patients Are Saying
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John
“For years I have had a ‘nerve damage’ issue in my shoulder down to my elbow. In one session I was completely healed.”
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Gabrielle
“I’m not even sure what is causing my migraines or my persistent back pain, and yet he can pinpoint it, relieve the pain, and the pain actually stays away long term.”
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Danielle
“One of many things that sets Brian apart is his use of Chinese medical massage...His treatments are consistently potent.”
Conditions Commonly Treated
·Back pain & sciatica
· Migraines & headaches
· Neck & shoulder pain
· Chronic fatigue
· Anxiety & depression
· Fibromyalgia
· Digestive disorders
· Insomnia · Arthritis · Infertility · TMJ · Neuropathy
· Stress & nervous system imbalance
· Emotional pain manifesting as physical symptoms
Including conditions where the cause is unknown, unseen, or unresolved by conventional medicine.
Where Ideas Take Shape
Chinese Medicine & Depth Psychology:
An Integrative Healing Microcredential
A 6-week online microcredential program for clinicians, researchers, and students. Covers the mind-body continuum, psychic structures, internal organs, anxiety, depression, insomnia, acupuncture, herbs, and dietetics through both Chinese medicine and depth psychology frameworks.
Offered through Pacifica Graduate Institute Extension
Jun 3rd- Jul 8th