Dr. Katherine Echo Kim, L.Ac. ADS Integrative Stress Management | Westport, CT

📍Location: Westport, CT USA

Katherine Echo Kim, D.Ac., L.Ac. ADS
D.Ac. -- Doctor of Acupuncture
L.Ac. -- Licensed Acupuncturist (CT, NY)
ADS -- Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist
Nationally Board-Certified Diplomate (NCBAHM)

Dr. Kiki Kim earned her doctorate in Acupuncture from Pacific College of Health & Science and a Master of Science from Tri-State College of Acupuncture. She completed her AcuDetox training at Lincoln Recovery and trained directly with Dr. Michael O. Smith, NADA founder. For nearly five years, she was the only acupuncture-trained ADS at St. Vincent's Hospital's pioneering Integrative Stress Management (ISM) clinic in New York, treating disaster victims in the wake of 9/11 with acupuncture and energy work. The ISM became one of the world's first hospital-based, holistic stress-management programs that has been widely researched and replicated internationally since.

For the two decades since, she has run a private acupuncture practice in Union Square NYC and Westport, CT. She holds additional certifications in clinical hypnotherapy and EMDR, and has completed overseas Zen monastic training alongside secular training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the Yale Stress Center and through Mindful Schools, giving her rare depth across clinical and contemplative modalities.

She is the creator of Ancestral Acupuncture, an original clinical framework that integrates acupuncture with Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems model and Bert Hellinger's Family Constellations work, treating trauma, anxiety, and stress-related conditions at the level of inherited and systemic patterning rather than symptom alone. Her clinical focus spans stress management, anxiety, depression, panic disorder, PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, bereavement, and trauma.

With her extensive years of clinical expertise, Dr. Kim trains a new generation of practitioners in AcuDetox, integrative medicine, and clinical stress management delivery methods.

She recently served as a member of the NCBAHM Artificial Intelligence Taskforce, advising on ethical AI education and adoption and contributing to national policy guidance for the acupuncture and herbal medicine professions across North America.