Our Acupuncturist

Sarah Fick is a 7th generation Appalachian Ohioan. She is a co-founding organizer with Athens Rock Camp for Girls+ and Athens Book to Prisoners. She worked in the worker-cooperative movement through Casa Nueva in Athens, OH for 6 years. She received her Bachelors of Science in Education from Ohio University, Summa Cum Laude. She worked as a Public Health Educator, teaching healthy relationships skills to middle and high school students for 4 years, before switching to crisis intervention advocacy. She has worked in the violence prevention and rape crisis movement for a total of 6 years. Sarah brings her interests in community organizing and trauma informed care to her practice of Chinese Medicine. Sarah graduated from Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine in Sugar Grove, NC, Magna Cum Laude, in July of 2025. In her free time, she likes to garden and spend time with her animals. 

Specialties

Sarah’s interest in Chinese Medicine was sparked through her own health journey. After a Traumatic Brain Injury and several years battling Long Covid symptoms, she knows what it’s like to move through the world with an invisible disability and to have symptoms minimized and shoved aside by Medical Doctors. During the course of her training at Jung Tao, she was also able to study outside of class with two mentors in Boone, NC, Burton Moomaw and Theo Copley. These mentors studied extensively with Ann Cecil Sterman, author of Advanced Acupuncture; a clinical manual, in the lineage of Jeffery Yuen, an 88th Generation Daoist Master. Sarah’s study of the Compliment Channels has allowed her to work with folks with debilitating and difficult to treat chronic illnesses such as IBS, Chronic Fatigue, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Uterine Fibroids, Systemic Fungal Infections, ALS, Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders, and other forms of Long Covid. She’d be thrilled to help untangle the symptoms your doctors think are mysterious and might all just be in your head.

Acupuncture is an Ancient healing modality that is over three thousand years old. It involves the stimulation of specific points on the body via the insertion of fine needles or the application of heat or friction to bring balance to the body’s systems. Acupuncture stimulates the body’s natural healing ability, easing pain of the body and/or the spirit. In addition to needles, your acupuncturist may also use the following during your treatment:

• Moxabustion (a lit mugwort cigar used to warm points or areas of pain)

• Guasha (scraping over the skin using a tool lubricated with oil)

• Cupping (the use of suction to affect tissue)

• Tuina (Chinese medical massage).

PRICING

Private Acupuncture Session - Sliding Scale $60-$100 (Pay what you can).

Insurance Options Coming Soon.

See our Community Care page for details about our reduced rate community acupuncture days.

TO SCHEDULE CALL/TEXT/OR EMAIL SARAH DIRECTLY AT:

ov.acupunc@gmail.com ~ 740.409.6028