Resources & Trusted Support
Welcome to a trusted circle of support. Here you’ll find a thoughtfully curated collection of practitioners, services, and tools that align with Wholeness Acupuncture’s values. Each resource has been carefully selected for their integrity, skill, and commitment to whole-person care.
Whether you’re seeking additional healing support, personal growth, or guidance in another area of your life, these referrals are here to complement your journey toward balance and well-being.
Why These Resources?
Finding the right support can feel overwhelming — especially when your health and growth matter deeply. These practitioners and organizations have been carefully selected for their professionalism, experience, and heart-centered approach.
You can explore these resources with confidence, knowing they reflect the same dedication to wholeness, quality, and compassionate care that guides this practice.
Whether you’re seeking additional healing support, personal growth, or guidance in another area of your life, these referrals are here to complement your journey toward balance and well-being.
Explore our Resources
Your Wellness Circle empowers individuals to thrive through a holistic approach to well-being.
Deirdre offers personalized coaching to help clients build their unique “wellness circle” by
balancing areas like therapy, fitness, and mindfulness.
Located in Avon, Connecticut, Dr. Selinda Shepherd, PT, DPT is a dedicated pelvic health specialist.
She focuses on identifying and resolving the root cause of pelvic health issues,
helping clients find lasting relief instead of temporary fixes.
Holistic Health Code is a leading functional medicine
practice delivering personalized, root-cause care for people
who want more than symptom relief—they want results.
Lactation Care & Breastfeeding Support. Let’s Do This Together.
It’s time to enjoy your breastfeeding experience! I have created Oh, Baby! with love, compassion
and knowledge to help you meet your breastfeeding goals.
Somatics of Belonging
Welcome to a place where all of you belong
AYNA MEREDOVA is a community healer who works outside of the western model of pathology
to help people reconnect with their body’s innate wisdom and remember their way back to health and wholeness.
Her work is relationally oriented, and she supports the deep integration of all our internal parts.
Because of her style, she is fantastic at helping people navigate relationship challenges of all sorts – including
their relationship with their own bodies. Because this work is gentle and deeply attuned, it is ideal
for folks working with chronic pain and post-traumatic stress. As an immigrant, Ayna loves
supporting other immigrants on their journeys of belonging to themselves and the communities they call home.
She looks forward to supporting your journey towards wholeness.
Heart-centered guidance for your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey.
FROM NURSE TO DOULA
Bri Rice began working as a doula to help clients have more positive,
affirming birth experiences. She uses 12 years of experience as a Labor & Delivery RN combined
with her experience as a Certified Birth Doula, to provide clients
with conscientious birth support that has a “love first” mindset.
Lotus Pelvic Health & Wellness in Avon, Connecticut is our area’s trusted
authority in pelvic floor physical therapy. With a team of
3 expert doctorate level clinicians, Lotus is a specialty clinic offering one-on-one,
60-minute care for pregnancy and postpartum recovery, pelvic pain,
bladder and bowel dysfunction, sexual health, post-surgical rehab, and men’s pelvic health.
Their team of doctorate-level pelvic floor experts provides inclusive,
trauma-informed treatment for women, men, and gender-diverse patients alike.