Calandra Center for Health and Wellness is an acupuncture and healing center in Chicago, Illinois. Offering a variety of therapies, classes, and workshops on natural healing and alternative treatments which include acupuncture, NAET allergy elimination, Reiki, traditional Chinese medicine, herbology, and energy healing methods. Reiki classes, Tai Chi classes, Mindfulness classes are also available.

Licensed Acupuncturist, RN/BSN, Diplomate of Acupuncture in good standing with NCCAOM. Certified in Facial Rejuvenation.

Our clinics are dedicated to help and support each patient. Our goal is to help out patients physically, emotionally and spiritually to achieve best quality of life. From the ancient time, foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine had been emphasize on prevent diseases from occurring, stop diseases from progressing, early treatments and cures. And it has always been our focus. With our clinics, we give our patients the best care. Each patients is being evaluated and tailored with a individual treatment plan to achieve maxium benefits.

Our vision is to help create a healthier and more active community. We believe in providing a unique approach of combining alternative medicine with conventional medicine, and public education for patients to understand their body and better care themselves.

One of the many techniques that distinguishes us is that we are one of the few Full Body & more experienced clinical practitioners in the area. Our practitioners combined have more than 50 years of clinic experiences and are generation acupuncturists who follow my family’s foot step. Acupuncture, Cupping, Guasha, TuiNa are some of the modality we offer.

The practitioners in the office participate, and are in network with most of the insurance companies including, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna and United Healthcare. It is important to us, that we give our patients the best healthcare experience, from the minute they walk in the door, to the time they walk out.

At Santa Cruz CORE, we have a passion for what we do. We make an effort to spend significant time and energy with each patient to ensure their needs are met. For us, it’s more than just acupuncture; our acupuncturists work with multiple healing modalities during an acupuncture session to get you feeling better. Working to create positive change in the body, we use a combination of needling, moxa, gua sha, cupping, ear seeds, massage, and Tai Chi and Qi Gung. Each individual is treated as such, an individual with an unique body and we use our various tools to create the most healing we can in each session.