FIRST LOOK BUSINESS Mindful Spirit Acupuncture Texan starts new career o ering medical services in Grapevine in underserved eld B ecky Upchurch has met BY CODY THORN
2023 HEALTH CARE EDITION
“IT IS PRETTY WONDERFUL WHEN PATIENTS GET OFF THE TABLE, AND THEY FEEL BETTER.” BECKY UPCHURCH, OWNER
and her husband, Stephen, moved to North Texas in early 2022. “In Austin there is an acupunctur- ist on every corner, but it is a needed service in this area,” she said. “This was the sweet spot between people who could bene t from acupunc- ture, and people being open-minded about it, being health-conscious and wanting to try something they haven’t tried before.” She has four treatment rooms available. Some of the most-treated issues are neck and back pain, sciat- ica issues, numbness, Parkinson’s, and bromyalgia, Upchurch said. The clinic’s focus areas include pain management, sports medicine, facial rejuvenation and stress relief. She says the relief that acupunc- ture provides is less invasive than surgery and cost less and is more natural than drugs. Upchurch also o ers a variety of cupping treatments, which is a series of cups placed on a patients’ mus- cles that removes toxins. There are various techniques—sliding, ash/ re or suction, Upchurch said. Other treatments areas include digestive disorders and weight loss. Stomach issues are usually addressed using a mixture of needles, electric current frequency, cupping and herbal medicine, Upchurch said. “I always wanted to own my own clinic,” she said. “It is pretty wonder- ful when patients get o the table, and they immediately feel better.”
what she felt is a need in the medical community to the Dallas-Fort Worth area by opening an acupuncture clinic in Grapevine. Mindful Spirit Acupuncture opened May 6, and Upchurch said she is relishing the chance to do something that came up during a discussion with a friend. The query was perhaps hypothetical at the moment: If she could start over, what kind of a job would she do? “I loved the work I was doing, but something was missing,” Upchurch said. “It was not feeding my soul.” She took the question to heart, and her answer was to go to medical school, which was her ‘aha moment.’ Upchurch started looking at options and discovered the Acad- emy of Oriental Medicine at Austin Graduate School of Integrative Medicine. She put in her two-week’s notice at her job as data scientist at Dell Technologies in Round Rock, near Austin, and started a new career journey in 2018. “Those same tools and skills used in data science t right into this,” she said of her studies in medicine. She nished the four-year program with her third graduate degree, passed all four national boards and is licensed by the Texas Medical Board. Upchurch saw the number of acupuncture specialists in the Dallas-Fort Worth area lacking com- pared to other areas of the state. She
Becky Upchurch opened Mindful Spirit Acupuncture in May in Grapevine.
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There are four treatment rooms at Mindful Spirit Acupuncture.
The client receives a facial rejuvenation treatment from Upchurch.
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COURTESY STEPHEN UPCHURCH
MOVING THE NEEDLE There are a number of treatments and services Becky Upchurch provides at Mindful Spirit Acupuncture in Grapevine.
Pain management
Facial rejuvenation, eczema, psoriasis
Sports medicine
Neurology and numbness
Hair restoration
Mindful Spirit Acupuncture 2800 William D. Tate Ave., Ste. 300, Grapevine 817-210-6694 www.mindfulspiritacupuncture.com Hours: Mon., Fri. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Tue., Thu., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; Sun., Wed. closed.
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