Let me Guide You Back To Health! Everyone has a story about their health. I listen to your story. I want to know what has helped and what hasn't helped. Together we come up with a plan to get you back on the path towards health. I can help with many different problems - especially those related to digestive health and pain management. I have a unique way of looking at the body and have many different tools I can use to help you.
Not only am I a licensed Acupuncturist, I have a MS in Oriental Medicine and a BS in Nutrition. I am a Loomis Digestive Health Specialist which means I have A LOT of hours of training in Enzyme Nutrition.
I look at digestion first! If you can't digest your food, you can't get the nutrition you need to get healthy! By changing your digestion, you change your health!

Many Disciplines. One Patient.

In the spirit of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a primary goal of Essential Health Acupuncture is to provide our patients with a broader understanding of health and more lasting sense of well-being. Instead of a disease-centered focus, Traditional Chinese Medicine applies a patient-centered approach that addresses the whole person rather than simply his/her symptoms.

Essential Health Acupuncture combines the disciplines of modern science with the wisdom of ancient healing and takes advantage of the knowledge of several disciplines including, acupunture, tui na (Chinese body work), cupping therapy, diet/nutrition education, physical, mental and emotional health, and Chinese herbology. Other medical modalities that are being utilized are also taken into account to provide the utmost care for the individual. This allows patient and provider to work together to develop an integrated diagnostic and therapeutic plan that will best address the whole patient.

I am a licensed acupuncturist, advocate of women's health, lover of plants and animals. I believe in reducing stress and increasing happiness. I love my job.

As an acupuncturist, I provide more than just acupuncture. I like to use my hands and cupping when muscles and tendons are sore or injured. If food and diet is an underlying cause, let's discuss realistic dietary changes that will help you to feel better right away. You're stressed? Anxious? Need to make a few changes in your life but not sure where to start? Let's talk about it.

Our husband and wife dynamic duo have been practicing Traditional Chinese medicine, herbal medicine and acupuncture since 2001. The couple has been voted Best of Boise and Top Doc of Eagle many years in a row. They treat all difficult, chronic, illnesses, pain, injury and women’s health including: infertility, miscarriage, hormonal imbalances, menopausal challenges & any and all pain syndromes. They take the most difficult infertility cases in the U.S. through telemedicine with their mastery in sophisticated and complex herbal medicine, functional medicine testing and nutraceutical therapies. The Burrises have had nearly 700 babies born from their work and have been featured as medical authorities and experts in the Idaho Statesman, The San Diego Union Tribune, USA Today, Fox News and NPR radio. Doctors of TCM and acupuncture , who once treated infertility, now refers all of her infertility patients to the Burrises due to their unprecedented depth of knowledge, experience and success. Reproductive endocrinologists have referred their own wives for a natural approach to their own infertility. Ms. Burris is completing her dual doctorate in 2024 in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Mr. Burris has two additional years of training in martial arts, meditation and medical massage from the Taoist Sanctuary in San Diego. Ms. Burris was featured as “The Babymaker” on the cover of HERLIFE magazine and was honored by Evergreen herbs as one of their Top doctors in the U.S.. Both of the happily married couple taught graduate students at their alma mater, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine now known as Pacific College of Health Science in San Diego in a variety of classes and Mrs. Burris was the first person to be honored by their alma mater as as success in the field of TCM and acupuncture .