Stephanie Albert holds a doctorate in acupuncture and Chinese medicine from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. With a long-time interest in health and wellness, her journey into Chinese medicine began when she learned about the strong bond that acupuncturists forge with their patients. She is grateful for the opportunity to get to know her patients in depth, and to use that knowledge to help them make sustainable changes in their lives. She has benefitted from practicing at the renowned Lotus Center in San Francisco, working closely with Dr. Jung Kim with a focus on Korean Saam acupuncture, and interning at the Haight-Ashbury clinic in San Francisco.
Stephanie is passionate about enabling patients to heal themselves with minimal intervention. With a particular interest in research and integrative medicine, she focuses on making evidence-based suggestions for her patients whenever possible. While she is happy to tackle any issue that brings a patient into the clinic, she has worked most in-depth with male and female fertility issues, stress and anxiety, insomnia, and pain.
A San Francisco native, Stephanie is a recent transplant to Sonoma County. She loves edible gardening, baking cookies, hiking amongst trees, and rocking colorful cowboy boots whenever possible.
Vladi Starkov is a Licensed Acupuncturist, Herbalist, and natural health practitioner in Sonoma County who comes from a lineage of women healers in Bulgaria. From an early age, she was fascinated by her grandmother’s stories about herbs, healing, and medicine. She always knew this was her calling, and in her teens became interested in Eastern philosophy, meditation, and Yoga. While pursuing her BA at Boston University, a friend suggested she see an acupuncturist for a medical condition. She was instantly intrigued by the holistic way this treatment led to miraculous results and addressed the entire human being. This experience along with her first class in Chinese Medicine in college helped set her on a path of healing and study.
Vladi has been practicing as an acupuncturist for many years, successfully addressing a wide variety of health conditions. She loves to help people who are ready to Flourish! Vladi is committed to facilitating and supporting her clients in their radical transformation. She has helped people with diverse pain conditions, fertility trouble, her pregnancy-related complaints, emotional problems, PMS, skin and digestive issues and many others. She has had more than 5,500 hours of academic and clinical training in Chinese Medicine theory, Western Medicine, Acupuncture, Herbology, Medical Qigong, and Nutrition and is a graduate of the prestigious Five Branches University. Vladi, an expert Santa Rosa acupuncturist, holds extensive training in the areas of pain, women’s health, fertility, Ayurveda and psycho-spiritual emotional balance.
Before founding Flourish Integrative Health in Santa Rosa, Vladi graduated from the renowned Doctorate Program at the International Institute of Medical Qigong and earned DMQ status (Doctor of Medical Qigong). She has had the greatest honor to be a student of renowned Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson in his Taoist mysticism, Medical Qigong and TaiJi classes for five years. Vladi loves to integrate “the best of the East” and is currently pursuing deeper training in Ayurveda and enjoying both the similarities and differences from her previous training. She is also a Certified Massage Therapist, with specialties in Asian Bodywork, namely Shiatsu, Lotus Hands, and Ayurvedic massage.
She loves living in California and enjoys hiking, dancing, singing in harmony, meditating, doing Yoga and Qigong, studying Buddhism, traveling internationally, and growing.
