Dr. Sarah E. Rivkin, DAHM, LAc, Dipl. OM (任昕蕾) (she/her)

Although the heart of her practice is women's and children's health, Sarah successfully treats a wide range of conditions—from joint pain to digestive problems, infertility to insomnia. Her treatments go far beyond acupuncture, encompassing herbs, movement, massage, nutrition, and lifestyle counseling.

Sarah is a New York State-licensed acupuncturist and is nationally board certified in Traditional East Asian Medicine by the NCCAOM. In addition to seventeen years in private practice, she is an experienced writer, teacher, and editor in the field of Traditional East Asian Medicine. She was on the faculty of the post-graduate Chinese Herbology Certificate Program at Tri-State College of Acupuncture, where she co-designed and implemented a unique case-based learning curriculum, and has taught the integrative gynecology course for master's degree students at Pacific College of Health and Science. She has also taught at the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine (SIEAM) and the Won Institute of Graduate Studies.

Her writing has been published in Chinese Medicine and Culture, The Lantern, Medical Acupuncture, Convergent Points, and the North American Journal of Oriental Medicine (NAJOM). She was recently featured on the Qiological podcast discussing her research on case studies and narrative medicine. She has served on the advisory board of Easy Eats, a health and wellness magazine and spent four years as an editor for The American Acupuncturist, a professional journal previously published by the American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AAAOM).

She currently serves on the advisory board and is the Director of Community & Outreach for White Pine Circle, a community for practitioners of East Asian Medicine. Other past professional activities include a term on the board of the Acupuncture Society of New York (ASNY), the state professional organization for acupuncture. She lectures publicly on a variety of topics, including keeping healthy with Traditional East Asian Medicine, qi gong, and acupressure for infants.

Sarah has a Doctorate in Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine from the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine (SIEAM), a Master of Science in Traditional East Asian Medicine from Touro College, and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Northwestern University in Comparative Literary Studies. She completed a two-year internship at NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn (formerly Lutheran Medical Center) in the obstetrics, oncology, and orthopedic-neurological rehabilitation departments. After completing her master’s degree, she continued to provide acupuncture at NYU Langone for labor and delivery patients, as part of an ongoing research study.

Her additional education has included an advanced 300-hour certification in Traditional Japanese Acupuncture and three cycles of the two-year Graduate Mentorship Program with Sharon Weizenbaum. She has extensive training in the application of classical herbal formulas from living master herbalists Dr. Huang Huang, Dr. Feng Shi Lun, and Dr. Yu Guo-Jun. Sarah has also completed the Engaging Vitality program, integrating osteopathic palpation and acupuncture, with Dan Bensky, Chip Chase, and Marguerite Dinkins. She is a longtime qigong student of Master Zhongxian Wu. Her expertise in movement analysis additionally stems from many years of training in Iyengar yoga, the Alexander Technique, and Dalcroze Eurythmics.

Sarah lives with her family in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Outside of work, she enjoys long nature walks with her dog and exploring the cultural and artistic richness that first drew her to New York City twenty-five years ago.