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Women’s Health & Menstrual Care

Support for Cycles, Hormones, and the Full Arc of Reproductive Health

 

Your reproductive health is an intelligent system—dynamic, responsive, and deeply connected to your overall well-being. Whether you’re navigating painful periods, hormonal shifts, fertility-adjacent concerns, or changes across the reproductive lifespan, your symptoms are not inconveniences to push through. They’re meaningful signals from the body that deserve care.

Many people are told that cramps, heavy bleeding, PMS, mood swings, or irregular cycles are “normal.” They’re common, but that doesn’t mean you have to live with them. Conditions like PMS, PMDD, endometriosis, fibroids, ovarian cysts, amenorrhea, perimenopause symptoms, and cycle-related migraines can all improve with support.

At ECHO, we approach women’s and menstrual health through the lens of East Asian Medicine—grounded, gentle, precise. We work with the body’s natural rhythms rather than against them, using acupuncture, herbal medicine, and thoughtful assessment to restore circulation, regulate hormones, stabilize mood, and help your system find a more harmonious baseline.

Common Experiences We Support

  • Painful or cramping periods

  • PMS or PMDD (mood swings, irritability, anxiety)

  • Irregular, heavy, or absent cycles

  • Endometriosis, fibroids, or ovarian cysts

  • Cycle-related migraines, fatigue, or brain fog

  • Hormonal imbalance or difficulty regulating rhythms

  • Symptoms while discontinuing birth control

  • Preparing for conception or supporting fertility, whether you’re just beginning or already actively trying

  • Pregnancy-related support (nausea, fatigue, aches, sleep changes, emotional shifts)

  • Perimenopause transitions (sleep, mood, hot flashes, cycle changes)

  • Emotional reactivity or depression around the cycle

  • Pelvic, lower abdominal, or low back pain tied to hormonal patterns

Our Approach

This work isn’t about forcing the body into a schedule—it’s about restoring the conditions that allow it to regulate itself. Your care is individualized, guided by what we learn from your symptoms, cycles, constitution, and lived experience.

Sessions may include:

  • Acupuncture to regulate circulation, ease pain, and support hormonal and nervous-system stability

  • Herbal medicine to address deeper systemic patterns influencing the cycle

  • Moxibustion or gentle warming therapies, especially for cold-type cycles or cramping

  • Support for emotional, energetic, and stress-related shifts over the month

  • Lifestyle and rhythm-based adjustments tailored to your pattern and phase


Improvements often ripple outward—into sleep, digestion, energy, clarity, and emotional steadiness.

What to Expect

You don’t need a formal diagnosis to begin. Whether you’re experiencing a known condition or simply want an easier, more predictable cycle, this care offers a grounded path toward feeling more stable, supported, and at home in your body.

Related Services

Our service pathways for addressing menstrual health include:

  • Tending the Terrain — for menstrual health, hormonal balance, and cycle regulation
    Learn More | Book a Session

  • Clarifying the Path — herbal consultation without acupuncture
    Learn More | Book a Session

  • Reclaiming Calm — for nervous system and emotional regulation
    Learn More  |  Book a Session

  • Restoring Ease — for chronic menstrual pain, pelvic pain, or menstrual migraines that may qualify for insurance coverage
    Learn More  |  Book a Session

  • Scar Therapy — gentle work for cesarean, laparoscopic, or abdominal scars that may affect circulation, pelvic comfort, or cycle rhythms
    Learn More  |  Book a Session

Frequently asked questions

Contact

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5427 SE Glen Echo Ave

Gladstone, OR. 97027

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Referrals
If you are a provider who would like to refer to ECHO, please use our HIPPA-compliant referral form

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Serving Gladstone, Milwaukie, Oregon City, Jennings Lodge, and Oak Grove, OR

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