Reina Santiago is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico. She enjoys assisting clients with a wide variety of health goals including enhancing vitality, resilience and overall wellness, relieving pain and stress, balancing emotions,  harmonizing digestion, calming anxiety, and flowing with change. Her practice also involves helping clients prepare for and recover from surgeries, dental work and life’s adventures.

She earned her BS in psychology from the University of Illinois, and her MS in Educational Psychology from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale ( SIUC). As a graduate assistant, she helped students at SIUC’s Wellness Center. The summer before finishing at SIUC, she completed a Shiatsu course at New Mexico Academy for Healing Arts. This enabled her to work as an acupuncture assistant while finishing her counseling degree.

From Illinois, Reina came to New Mexico to study Oriental Medicine at Southwest Acupuncture College (SWAC). While at SWAC, she treated in several Japanese specialty clinics, off site oncology and foster care clinics. Outside of school, she studied and earned her Reiki Level 3 Degree.  She received SWAC’s Fourth Treasure Award for academic achievement

2003 to present: Reina is a licensed Doctor of Oriental Medicine in New Mexico and is nationally certified by NCCAOM as a Diplomat of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbology.  Education continues to enriches her practice. She completed the Barral Visceral Manipulation series in 2008. She enjoys attending seminars with Daoist Master Dr. Jeffrey Yuen including 2024 class on Meditation for Self Cultivation and Healing. Other workshop studies have included Utilizing Chinese Medicine to Treat Intergenerational Trauma, reflexology, activating stem cells with acupuncture,  and various 8 extraordinary meridian uses.

The greatest gifts and learning come daily with clients, friends,  kitties, , family and Nature. Thanks to all☀️