About the Author
Amanda Cohen, M.A., L.A.c. Fellow earned her Master’s Degree from Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine and is currently a Doctoral student at Emperor’s College, specializing in stress reduction, stress related diseases, and diminishing the side effects of cancer treatment.
Amanda is writing her Doctoral Dissertation on Generalized Anxiety Disorder from an integrative medical perspective: eastern, western, and functional medicine views on anxiety. Ms. Cohen earned her Master’s Degree in Health Psychology and Social Ecology from U.C. Irvine and graduated cum laude from Cornell University, majoring in Psychology and Cultural Anthropology. Amanda helped pioneer a sustainable acupuncture clinic in Kandy, Sri Lanka in 2012 with the One World Health Project. In 2013, she was a clinical intern at the Venice Family Free Clinic, an integrative medical clinic in Santa Monica. Currently, she is a Doctorate Fellow at the Disney Family Cancer Center at Providence Saint Joseph’s Medical Center helping to ease the side effects of cancer treatment for her patients. She is also working with a local non-profit to provide free acupuncture to veterans with post traumatic stress disorder and brain injury. Ms. Cohen has her acupuncture practice in Los Angele, with a westside location in Beverly Hills and an eastside location in Los Feliz, near Griffith Park. For more information, please visit her website: www.sourcepointwellness.com