About

Sharon Yeung MS, L.Ac., Doula

Founder of Five Seasons Healing

Sharon Yeung is a Licensed Acupuncturist, Board Certified Chinese Herbalist and Childbirth Doula. She received advanced clinical training in hospitals throughout China in gynecology, pediatrics and classical herbal medicine and has worked in the obstetrics, oncology, and neurological & orthopedic rehabilitation departments at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to attaining her masters degree in Oriental medicine, Sharon graduated with honors from Wesleyan University.

Sharon is certified with the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association for her work with acupuncture in addiction and recovery. She applies the integrated mind & body Chinese medicine approach to treating adults and children with ADD and other behavioral conditions. Sharon volunteered with the Tibetan Health Care Project in India treating Tibetan refugees with acupuncture. In addition to her graduate work in Chinese medicine and biomedical sciences, her training with Tom Bisio and Frank Butler in Zhenggu Tuina and with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in Body Mind Centering has enhanced her ability to recognize the body’s innate signs of harmony and imbalance.

Sharon believes that her role as a Chinese medicine practitioner is to help relieve the suffering of the body as well as of the heart. She is grateful to be in a medical profession she loves and endeavors to offer Chinese medicine’s healing potential to all her patients. Sharon enjoys teaching martial arts to children and is a longtime practitioner of Iyengar and Anusara yoga, Hungga kungfu, and Vipassana Meditation.

Klara Kadar, MSTOM, LAc, LMT

Acupuncturist

 

Klara Kadar is a New York State Licensed Acupuncturist and a Diplomat in Oriental Medicine. Her rigorous training focused on the incorporation of both Eastern and Western medical paradigms for the treatment of illness in order to achieve optimum health.

Klara has studied both here and abroad and holds a certificate of training from the Beijing Traditional Medicine Training Center. In New York, Klara worked with Claudia Citkovitz at the Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, where she utilized her experience as a labor doula, providing acupuncture to women during childbirth for pain relief and improved labor outcomes. Klara has also worked alongside prominent practitioners of infertility acupuncture where she developed the passion and expertise for working with couples trying to achieve pregnancy.

Believing in principles of nourishing life and the preservation of health that is at the heart of Traditional Chines Medicine, Klara aims to help find balance and prevent negative shifts in health from occurring. Incorporating a variety of tools in her practice of acupuncture, from traditional Japanese acupuncture techniques, Chinese herbs, electro-acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion, nutritional therapy, as well as massage, her ability to pull from multiple disciplines has rewarded her continued success in the treatment of women’s health and infertility, pediatrics, emotional disorders, and general health and wellbeing. As a licensed massage therapist, Klara has a tactile understanding of the body equips her for thorough care of sports injuries, pain syndromes, and musculo-skeletal issues.

Alyssa Proujansky, MS, L.Ac., Dipl. C.H.

Acupuncturist

Alyssa believes that each minuscule choice or action is part of an intricate framework stretching from the past through to the future, defining where we each stand in the present. Embracing this idea in her practice of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, Alyssa believes that no choice is too small or insignificant to inspire change. Alyssa’s treatments focus on the ways in which our emotional lives influence our physicality, and vice-versa. Patients seeking treatment for one symptom often experience a cascade of improvement in other, seemingly-unrelated areas. Alyssa has treated patients for a wide variety of concerns, including women’s health, internal medicine, anxiety, depression, addictions and eating disorders, allergies, chronic headaches, insomnia, chronic pain, sports injuries, and many more. Through her extensive studies in pattern differentiation, diagnosis, acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine and nutrition, Alyssa creates individualized treatment plans addressing each person’s unique needs, providing a starting point for growth, development and change. Alyssa is a New York State Licensed Acupuncturist and Diplomate in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine, MS in Traditional Oriental Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in New York, and member of the Acupuncture Society of New York (ASNY). She completed postgraduate training in advanced techniques in herbal medicine and women’s reproductive health, as well as training in treating addictions and emotional disorders.