Founded in 2010 and located in Portland, Oregon, this inclusive healthcare center focuses on chiropractic and alternative medicine. Their integrated healthcare includes chiropractic services, acupuncture services, massage services, naturopathic medicine, auto injury recovery, and nutrition consulting.
What makes this practice different is that they believe in providing healthcare to everyone, especially those whose bodies might be judged or stigmatized by society. That means people who are queer, transgender, disabled, fat, or other body types that tend to face discrimination or risk. The people at Asha feel that everyone deserves to feel comfortable in their own bodies, no matter how diverse or different. Everyone deserves to be listened by healthcare providers and treated with respect.
Asha Integrative Wellness provides inclusive healthcare and empathy to those who especially have trouble finding caring providers who are interested in the patient’s welfare. The team at Asha welcomes all body types. They prefer to focus on the whole person rather than one body part. Their approach to medicine encompasses a host of alternative treatments which would include acupuncture, which uses tiny needles inserted into certain areas of the body to promote wellness, and the natural remedy approach of naturopathic medicine that seeks to avoid harmful side-effects more traditional medications can cause.
Those who search for that healthcare provider who accepts diverse body types and treats the patient as a whole, rather than a body part, Asha provides a welcome alternative to the usual traditional clinic. They are not just a medical group practice, but also a community.
