Dr. Groebner has an undergraduate degree in Physics from Portland State University, a Masters in Acupuncture from the National College of Natural Medicine (NUNM) in Portland, OR and a Doctoral in Acupuncture from the Pacific College of Health Sciences in San Diego, CA.

She works as a team lead, educator and advisor to the Board for the Acupuncture Relief Project (ARP) in rural Nepal and is a a volunteer member of the State of Oregon’s Emergency Reserve Pool of Healthcare Volunteers (SERV-OR). She serves on the Leadership Committee for the American Society of Acupuncturists (ASA) and is a past Board member of the Oregon Association of Acupuncturists.

For the the last seven years, she taught the two-year Integrative Biomedicine series for Classical Chinese medicine students and Chinese Medicine Ethics and Jurisprudence for both CCM and dual-degree naturopathic students at NUNM.

Since 2011, her focus has been on providing trauma-informed care for women’s health, labor and birth and the postpartum. In her work with ARP, she has provided care and supervised clinicians in providing primary care in rural environments with limited resources. Her clinical experience encompasses infectious medicine, stroke rehabilitation, orthopedic care and chronic disease care (COPD, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer).

She worked for a decade as a professional chef, training under Veronica Macias, Roy Yamaguchi, John Sikhattana and Yoshi Kojima. She continued her training in Chinese medicine nutrition, particularly for postpartum care, with Dr. Benson Huang. Her training in herbal medicines was in Shanghan Zabing Lun theory with Dr. Arnaud Versluys and Sharon Weizenbaum. Even so, her preference is to use locally available foods and herbal medicines to limit the environmental and economic impact of shipping herbs across the globe. Dr. Glen Nagel, Ryan Drum, Michael Pilarski, Rosemary Gladstar, Matthew Wood and Dr. Aviva Romm have been her biggest teachers in regards to medicines that grow in this area.

Experiencing houselessness as a teenager inspired her to help underserved populations. She spent many years working as a case manager and legal advocate through the YWCA’s SafeChoice shelter program and taught math and science skills for displaced Russian immigrant women in Washington State. She worked on the streets as an HIV educator for houseless youth in Olympia and through the Red Cross with high school students in Hawaii. Her acupuncture internship was completed with David Frierman at OutsideIn, a Portland non-profit that serves the houseless.

Self-cultivation is an important part of her philosophy. She has been training in Taiji since 2008 with Sifu PikShan Ko, a fifth-generation lineage holder from the Kwong Sai Jook Lum Temple Praying Mantis School, Hong Kong, 1967. In addition to this, she have a dedicated yoga practice following instruction from my mentor, Denise Payne, since 2004.