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    Through advanced Traditional Chinese Medicine assessment, personalized nutrition, and lifestyle coaching, we help restore the communication between your brain and body so you can move beyond pain, fatigue, stress, digestive issues, and chronic health challenges.

    “Comprehensive life balancing” – E.W.

Solo Acupuncture Practice in Stamford, CT — Address the Underlying Causes, Not Just the Symptoms

20+ Years of Traditional Chinese Medicine Experience

Mark Gutkin, L.Ac., M.S. uses individualized acupuncture, advanced Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnostics, Eastern nutrition, and herbal medicine to help patients address chronic pain, digestive problems, stress-related symptoms, sleep problems, and complex health concerns.

Schedule your FREE consultation here (or book an initial visit to start your journey). 

Why Treat the Symptom When We Can Look Deeper?

Pain, fatigue, digestive problems, insomnia, headaches, and emotional stress rarely exist in isolation.

Traditional Chinese Medicine examines the relationships between these symptoms and the body’s broader patterns of function.

My job is to identify those patterns and develop a treatment plan specifically for you.

My task is to read what is not yet on the page.

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Frequently Asked Questions

I help people understand what their body has been trying to communicate

if you’re unable to find answers to the following questions:

  • Why stress settles into the neck
  • Why grief affects breathing
  • Why digestive issues worsen under pressure
  • Why lower back pain often appears during prolonged exhaustion
  • Why inflammation persists after the injury heals
  • Why healing stalls

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National Institutes of Health (NIH) studies have shown that acupuncture is an effective treatment alone or in combination with conventional therapies to treat the following:

Stress related illness:
Irritability, restlessness, tension, fatigue, migraine headaches

Chronic, acute muscular-skeletal and injury-related pain:
joint pain: neck, shoulder, elbow, back pain and strains
Charley horses and muscle pain and spasms

Respiratory syndromes:
asthma, allergies, common cold, cough, rhinitis

Gastrointestinal problems:
heartburn, constipation, diarrhea indigestion, IBS

Gynecological syndromes:
menstrual irregularity, PMS, cramps, fertility issues, menopause and midlife syndromes

Neurological conditions:
tingling, numbness in the limbs, peripheral neuralgia, restless leg syndrome

Behavioral and psychological problems:
anxiety, panic attack, depression, insomnia, etc

Psychosomatic issues
illnesses with a physical basis without physical evidence

Idiopathic conditions
unexplained pain, cramps

  • First Visit (~90 min):
    • Thorough evaluation of symptoms and health history
    • Eastern diagnosis based on a determination of:
      – Patterns (organ systems / Zang or Fu)
      – Elements involved based on the Five Elements Theory
    • Lifestyle and Diet evaluation
    • Individualized treatment plan
    • Acupuncture treatment (please see My Approach page)

     Next two weeks:
    Bi-weekly acupuncture sessions (~60 min) & Herbal Prescription (if needed)

    Week three:
    Re-assessment. Four to six visits might be advised if the symptom(s) are not fully resolved*

    *All cases are different and the treatment plan is determined per individual progress.

    Next three months:
    Bi-monthly maintenance visits. We recommend staying with the treatment for at least 3 months to experience long-term relief.

If you have an injury to a muscle or joint, it’s best to get treatment as soon as possible. There’s a lot we can do for you with both acupuncture and herbal medicine for early stage acute injuries. Acupuncture can be very helpful at any stage of the healing process, whether it’s acute or chronic.

Initial Visit – 1.5hrs

Follow-up – 1hr

The office is no longer accepting New Insurance cases.

Patients who are willing to submit on their own will be issued a Superbill (a detailed receipt with procedure and diagnostic codes) to be sent to their insurer for reimbursement.

  • Whenever possible, wear comfortable clothing that is easy to fold above the knee/elbows
  • Please avoid wearing colognes, perfumes or other fragrances as it might interfere with the diagnostic process

Yes. Ideally, a light meal or fruit is recommended prior to the visit. This will prevent dizziness or light-headedness after treatment

Commonly, you will feel a reduction or elimination of your main symptom after your treatment. This will last approximately 1-7 days in our experience, and then begin to come back. We recommend patients come in either weekly for their first 4 sessions. After that, we progress and will recommend a long-term treatment plan.

For chronic conditions you will need several treatments to gradually re-educate your body and nervous system into proper functioning. For acute conditions, things will often resolve more quickly than with chronic cases.

As an added benefit, acupuncture often heals things beyond your main reason for the session. And with Mark’s nutritioon and lifestyle changes, you will notice other benefits (sleeping better, alertness, clarity, better digestioon).  This is because acupuncture has such a broad effect on your nervous system, which is one of the reasons acupuncture excels at treating complex conditions and health issues.

In general, acupuncture is not a painful experience. It feels like a quick small pin prick that goes away instantly

Children can get acupuncture. Our clinic will see children for treatments ages 12 and older. We ask that all minors be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian for their treatment.

We accept checks, cash, Zelle, and Venmo.

HSA, FSA, and Credit card transactions will be charged a 3% processing fee

  • Early cancellations are those that occur more than 24 hours before your appointment time. There is no charge for early cancellations. Please reach out over email whenever possible. If the appointment is rescheduled before the 24-hour window it will be considered an early cancellation.
  • Late cancellations occur within the 24-hour window (less than 24 hours) and are subject to a full fee. Please use text or email to reschedule.

Please enter the building between to Kumon and the Nail Spa so there won’t be a need for the elevator

In the event you GPS takes you to the entrance by the liquor store please take the elevator to the 2nd level

Mark is a graduate of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (PCOM) in NYC. He holds a Master’s Degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine. He is licensed to practice in CT and is board-certified in Oriental Medicine (acupuncture and herbal medicine) by the National Certification Commission For Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).
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Monday – Friday 10.45 am – 6.30 pm
Saturdays 10 am – 4.30 pm
Hours by appointment

Please park on the side next to the nail salon
Enter the long hallway next to the dispensary
The office is the last door on the right

111 High Ridge Road,
2nd Level
Stamford, CT 06905

(203) 533-9463

Mark Gutkin, LAc. MS is a licensed and board-certified acupuncturist and herbalist with 20 years of clinical practice. After a serious car accident and months of being wheelchair-bound, he rehabilitated himself post-operatively to full mobility through visualization, traditional, and alternative therapies. Today, his passion is to empower patients who suffer from emotional and digestive disorders, chronic pain, and idiopathic conditions to take responsibility for their own healing and sustain a better quality of life. Mark holds a Master’s Degree from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and a national certification of Dipl. O.M. by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM)

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“comprehensive life balancing” – E.W.

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