Through the use of theories and techniques of a medicine that is thousands of years old, I will help bring you to a healthier more balanced place in your body and mind. East Asian Medicine is based on the individual according to their current and past state of health. Each treatment is tailored to that individual moving them toward balance and their best health step by step, treatment by treatment.

I am an acupuncture physician in a multi-disciplinary practice with chiropractors and massage therapists; we specialize in pain.

health and disease come from a complex interaction of physical, emotional, dietary, genetic, environmental, lifestyle, and other factors. I prefer safe, effective, non-invasive, and supportive therapies to treat a patient as a ‘whole person’

Nueces Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine is a small private clinic conveniently located near the UT campus in downtown Austin. It provides acupuncture, herbal medicine, and traditional Chinese therapies such as cupping, tuina, moxibustion and dietary counseling.

Alabama born and in practice since 1989, Dr. Mick is one of the first American born doctors of acupuncture and Oriental medicine in the country having training in the U.S., Europe and China. After completing a bachelors degree in pre-med health sciences on the East coast, masters and doctoral degrees in acupuncture and Oriental medicine on the West coast, Dr. Mick worked as an acupuncture intern at two TCM university hospitals in China

Upon returning from China, Dr. Mick has served as a professor and clinical supervisor at two acupuncture and Oriental medicine colleges and worked with medical doctors at integrative clinics around the U.S., Europe, Central and South America. Dr. Mick has successfully treated thousands of patients for a wide variety of conditions through decades of practice, including work as an acupuncturist volunteer for numerous Church medical missions in the U.S. and abroad.