Dr. Eliza is accepting new patients in January 2025!
Dr Eliza is licensed as a naturopathic doctor in both Washington and Oregon and is additionally licensed as an acupuncturist in Washington. She accepts patients in Oregon for telemedicine care but is out of network with most Oregon-based insurance plans. Please contact the front desk for more info on insurance coverage and scheduling.
Eliza Hofkosh-Hulbert, ND, L.Ac.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Dr. Eliza is a licensed Naturopathic Physician and Licensed Acupuncturist who aims to serve people of all bodies, all genders, and all cultural backgrounds. She focuses on working with patients at the intersection of chronic pain and mental health concerns, and most enjoys working with people who experience a spectrum of complex conditions — including PTSD, sleep disorders, anxiety and depression, fibromyalgia and ME/CFS, chronic headaches and jaw pain, chronic neck and back pain, POTS and dysautonomia, and other interrelated concerns.
Dr. Eliza’s experience has taught her that healing happens in safe relationships. She works to practice health care that is trauma informed, culturally appropriate, and affirms each person’s right to make decisions for their own body and life. This practice is rooted in decades of working for health justice and learning from body liberation frameworks such as disability justice, harm reduction, and Health At Every Size. She continues to study, learn, and grow in practice every day, and finds that her patients are some of her greatest teachers.
Dr. Eliza’s training provides a wide range of treatment tools, as well as several different “lenses” that can be used to diagnose an issue and understand its cause. She works together with patients to choose a combination of tools for each treatment plan, including:
Acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, and other Chinese medicine treatments
Gentle bodywork such as CranialSacral therapy and myofascial release, drawing on over 10 years of practice as a massage therapist in her previous career
Somatic counseling (more details below)
Pain neuroscience education, which teaches patients how to decrease the brain’s pain signals
Prescription medications
Western and Chinese botanical medicines
Nutritional supplements and weight-neutral nutrition counseling
Standard and functional lab testing
Creating routines and habits to connect with nature and support the patient’s goals
After graduating in 2018 from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, Dr. Eliza completed a two-year CNME-accredited primary care residency with a focus on complex chronic illness, chronic pain, and mental health. She went on to work as a primary care provider where she offered culturally appropriate and gender-affirming care for her LGBTQIA2S+ community as part of a general family practice. While she no longer offers primary care, she continues to enjoy serving her LGBTQIA2S+ community.
Washington Acupuncture License # 61540192
Washington ND license # 61539016
Oregon ND license # 4199
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Dr. Eliza practices holistically, which means addressing the many interconnected factors that shape each person’s unique health situation — including our lived experiences, genetics, neurotransmitters, hormones, digestion and the microbiome, environment, relationships, beliefs, and the systems in society that affect us. As an acupuncturist she practices the Shen-Hammer pulse diagnosis system, which emphasizes the relationship between mental-emotional and physical health. Additionally she continues to pursue continuing education in evidence-based psychiatric prescribing, counseling techniques to help support her patients, and cutting-edge pain science.
Dr. Eliza has studied as a beginner in several different somatic (body-based) counseling methods as well as in CBT, DBT, IFS/Parts Work, and relational/humanistic counseling. However, she does not have the same depth of specific training as a psychiatrist or a licensed mental health counselor and so for some patients will suggest seeing one or more of those care providers in addition to working with her. For all patients, she is very happy to collaborate with other providers if you are already working together.
Outside of the office, you can often find Dr. Eliza cooking with friends and chosen family, organizing for justice and liberation in her communities, hanging out with trees, or taking pictures of her dog and cat snuggling together.
She is grateful to her teachers for generously inviting her to practice within lineages of Classical East Asian medicine, and to the Duwamish and Coast Salish people who continue to steward their land where she now lives.