Biography
Sachiko Nakano M.Ac., EAMP
Sachiko graduated from the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine (NIAOM) in 1995, and was hired at NIAOM as the first resident in Public Health Acupuncture. At that time, NIAOM was the second oldest school of acupuncture school in the US. Sachiko went on to establish numerous acupuncture programs, including:
• King County North Rehabilitation Facility (1996)
• King County Cedar Hills Alcohol Treatment Center (1996)
• Neighborcare Health 45th Street Clinic Homeless Youth Program (1997)
• Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS) (2000)
• Neighborcare Health Rainier Beach Medical Clinic (2002)
• King County Community Center for Alternative Programs
(CCAP, a day reporting center within the criminal justice department) (2005 and 2011)
• BowLake Community Center (2006)
She has served as a clinical supervisor in these clinics and in NIAOM’s outpatient clinic since 1995. Sachiko went on to become a part-time clinical supervisor Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine (SIEAM), and she supervises students at ACRS. She also has a private contract with ACRS and Rainier Beach Medical Clinic to provide her services to their clients.
Sachiko has been an active National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) member since 1993, and a certified NADA practitioner since 1995. She completed her NADA clinical training at Hennepin County Hospital (Minneapolis) and Seattle Midvale Treatment Center. She has observed programs at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, New York, and a detox program in Portland, Oregon. Sachiko became a NADA registered trainer in 2007 before going on to help establish NADA Japan in 2016. She now serves NADA Japan as an advisor.
She has provided acupuncture services to highly diverse populations and in a broad range of settings, from maximum-security prisons to residential treatment programs: from boot camps to children's programs.
In addition to her public health career, Sachiko has been studying Japanese style acupuncture and Toyohari Meridian Therapy in the US and Japan since 1995.
Continued Education
Sachiko is consistently engaged in continuing education, expanding on her approach to the regular acupuncture treatment modality and finding new ways to provide benefit to her clients. She has been studying Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques® (NAET®) since 2002. In early 2019, she began to incorporate The I.M.A.E.T. (Immune Modulation & Allergy Elimination Technology) biofeedback system and NAET® techniques into her practice. The addition of energy frequency medicine has given her work new dimension and energetic concept awareness.
In 2005, Sachiko took a weekend hypnotherapy course in 2005 that led to studying Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) – study of mind of language in 2007, Mental Emotional Release ® (MER®) Technique in 2011, and discovered Huna, the ancient Hawaiian energy medicine, in 2009.
Sachiko is a student of Huna at Halau Ho`omanaloa (School of Energetic Empowerment) in Kona, Hawai`i. In this work, she continues her focus on disciplines related to connecting with the elements, spiritual/mental/emotional/physical connections, releasing negative emotions, Ho`oponopono (known as the forgiveness process), and many others. She was initiated in all 36 symbols of the ancient energy symbols, Na Ao Opua Kilokilo Ka Haiki A Na Lani, in 2013.
Sachiko completed the Clairvoyant program from the Psychic School in 2022 and the Peeling The Onion Graduate Program at Psychic Horizons Center in 2023.
Board Certification
Washington State Acupuncture license: #WA242
The National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) Dipl. Ac. #3019
Registered Hypnotherapist in Washington State: #HP10001678
NADA Registered Trainer #4081
References
Huna – huna.com
IMAET – imaet.com
NAET – naet.com
NADA – acudetox.com
NADA Japan – http://www.nada-japan.com
NLP – nlp.com
Psychic School - https://psychicschool.com, https://www.psychichorizonscenter.org
Toyohari - toyohari.org
https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2019/04/08/chasing-life-japan-acupuncture.cnn
Caption: One of our teachers, Taniuchi sensei (Toyohari, Japanese style acupuncture), featured on CNN.com.