Tracy Zollinger, LAc

Tracy is great. I trust her. I have seen her for a couple of different things over the years, and both times I felt so much better. One time was emotional in nature. I had had a very traumatizing experience and went to her to help my nervous system calm down. She was excellent and her treatments made a big difference. I recently went to her for back pain. I have seen several acupuncturists for this over the years and her treatment was by far the best I have ever had. It was deeply effective. I also like her perspective on life and feel she is full of wisdom. I highly recommend her.

Tracy helped me a great deal in the late stages of my pregnancy. She is down to earth, knowledgeable, and supportive. She listened and asked clarifying questions to understand my challenges and used acupuncture to delay labor when my contractions started early. She was the first person to strongly encourage me to slow down, which I believe also played a huge role in allowing me to carry my baby to term.
Once I had been in early labor with ongoing but stalled contractions for more than two weeks, Tracy freed up time in her busy schedule to treat me with acupuncture and acupressure, and baby arrived that evening!
Tracy was very flexible and gave me lots of time on the table as I needed it. She responded to my requests to make the environment as comfortable as possible — dimming the lights, increasing white noise to dampen other sounds, etc. Highly recommend her!

I would like to highly recommend Tracy Zollinger! I took my infant son to her when he was about 5 or 6 months old for sleep issues b/​c he was waking ever 45 mins (read: Mama was delirious!). I had had such effective results myself with acupuncture for a variety of issues (nerve pain in foot, TJM, hormone balancing), and so I was confident Tracy would be a wise choice to consult with re: my infant’s sleep. She recommended the Chinese herb called Tummy Tamer made by Gentle Warriors (
). My son went from waking every 45 mins (with digestive distress was my theory) to sleeping 3 – 4 hour stretches after he started on the Tummy Tamer liquid formula (only 3 small droppers/​day). I too then started getting at least one sleep cycle/​night! Thank you Tracy!

I highly recommend Tracy! I had several nagging health issues and Tracy gave me the «big picture» care that I was missing from my individual doctors. She looked at everything I was putting into my body and suggested changes. Weight gain has also been a problem and Tracy educated me in current theories of weight loss. I thought I knew how to lose weight but my 90’s information wasn’t working. Tracy got me on the right track and now I’m slowly losing weight. I had acupuncture before and while it was very helpful, it was also painful. Not so with Tracy. I actually napped during the treatment. Tracy is very attentive, supportive, and well informed. I really appreciate her!

I’ve been seeing Tracy for over a year and I only have good words for her. Each one of her sessions have been amazing! She places the needles so well, that I often fell asleep with the needles on. I would totally recommend Tracy for anyone needing acupuncture, which can help in a wide variety of health problems.
Tracy supports you in whatever road you decide taking. It’s been an amazing experience. Thank you Tracy!

Tracy is wonderful! Originally came in for knee pain but she has helped me with so much more. Have started that wonderful female odyssey that comes with approaching my fifth decade of life. Adding to this was the end of my mother’s courageous battle with cancer. Needless to say I was a mess on several levels for about six months. Tracy was there with me through it all. She treated me with acupuncture and herbs. Her help was priceless.
After getting me on a good path with treatments that started weekly and moved to bi-​weekly and finally monthly she released me from treatment almost three months ago but still keeps in touch via e-​mail. Feels good knowing we can communicate and if necessary I can get a visit or two to get back on track.
Am now training for a marathon and feeling great. Don’t think I would be able to say that without Tracy’s help, healing hands and kind spirit!

I had been suffering greatly from a very sore, painful leg for at least a month before I read the Unilocal reviews of Tracy’s and decided to use her services. After a little more than a month of weekly treatments I am very pleased to say the leg is back to normal and I’m am feeling great about it… I can walk normally again! Every week Tracy would listen to my story of aches and pains and then proceed to design a treatment for me. Every week brought new relief till where I am today — free of pain! I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Tracy for anything — she’s terrific!

I visited Tracy for hand numbness due to keyboarding and Reynauds syndrome (cold fingers). Tracy knew exactly how to treat my issues. Her office has a very inviting and calming atmosphere. Each visit, Tracy took the time to discuss my progress and offered recommendations on how to get the most out of my treatments — mainly by discussing ways for me to take my daily herbs.
I found the treatments very effective and highly recommend Tracy if you are considering acupuncture.

I had a terrible issue with my neck and shoulder. A friend referred me to Tracy. I’d never visited an acupuncturist before, but was open to finding a solution to my neck pain.
After one visit with Tracy the issue completely disappeared and has not come back. I now see her monthly for general well-​being support and am very grateful to have found her.
She is kind, competent, and very skilled at what she does.

Tracy is wonderful at what she does! She is my only experience with acupuncture — I am very impressed with her dedication, knowledge — she is very intuitive and takes your whole health into consideration. I’ve had adult acne for 20 years (age 20 – 40). She has helped me tackle the problem from the inside out — an approach that no primary care physician or dermatologist I’ve seen over the decades had any interest in pursuing. My skin is healthier than its been in 20 years (I’m also seeing a holistic skin care specialist — see Conscious Skin Care on Unilocal). She’s even fixed problems I didn’t know I had! Did you know PMS symptoms aren’t a necessary part of womanhood?! Who knew?! I love that Tracy never discredits Western Medicine, but offers this alternative approach. She is practical about human-​limits to lifestyle changes too — very refreshing. I highly recommend Tracy.

Let me preface this by saying that despite that we’ve had an acupuncturist in my family for nearly 20 years, I’d never tried it and had NO interest in doing so.
Then my back, damaged in a car accident and past the period where the driver’s insurance co. would take care of it, went out. I was paralyzed on the right side of my torso, and could NOT afford three weeks on my back.
In desperation, since nothing had helped on previous episodes, I turned to Unilocal for an acupuncturist in Alameda. That’s when I found Tracy.
A month later, it went out again, worse. One session and I was moving like something other than a robot.
From what I’d seen of Oriental medicine before, I was very skeptical — I expected things like foot baths to treat bronchitis, and my Western Medicine-​sympathetic brain couldn’t wrap itself around it. I went only because I was literally desperate.
But rather than something that required *any* suspension of disbelief, what I got was not too dissimilar from what I’ve had at physical therapists’ offices, only this was actually effective.
Instead of applying patches to my skin through which electro-​stim current flows, they used a similar technique through needles — getting the current RIGHT INTO the knot, achieving in minutes what neither P/​T or massage had been able to do in months.
I also ended up seeing her for tendinitis in my heel, damaged in a work accident. I took P/​t for five months with almost no effect and rather than letting worker’s comp put me on super-​steroids with nasty side-​effects, I talked them into letting me go to Tracy. After four sessions, the tenderness is MUCH decreased and I even had painfree days for the first time in a year.
No one believes more than a convert. Call me highly religious.

I came to Tracy because at the age of 44 I was at my wits’ end due to lifelong, severely painful, heavy and irregular periods. I most likely have endometriosis, and all my Western medicine docs are lost when they’ve exhausted their arsenal of drug it or cut it – that’s all they’ve got. So I thought I’d try TCM/​acupuncture instead of surgery and did some searching and found Tracy, who specializes in women’s issues and happens to practice close to where I live. I’ve been receiving treatment for about a year now and for the first time in my life, my periods are regular and bearable. Instead of seven to ten days of being unable to function, I’m now just down to two days of discomfort. If only I tried this years ago! We’re still working on getting things to function right, it’s a long process, but I trust that things will keep getting better. Then she can help me through menopause!

Traci is a devoted, super knowledgable and gifted practitioner. We received an amazing presentation on the stress process as part of our women’s course, we all felt enlightened and well informed, she knew just would be beneficial to us!
Thank you Tracy

I absolutely loved working with Tracy. I first sought out Tracy’s expertise in my 4^th month of pregnancy when I was having migraines. She treated me and suggested that I remove dairy from my diet to see if it helped. Her treatments and removal of cow dairy got rid of my migraines within a WEEK! I had been having multiple a week for almost 3 weeks by the time I sought out treatment. I started seeing Tracy again around 36 weeks into my pregnancy for relief of back discomfort. As we progressed closer to my due date Tracy made a house call when I was having signs that the baby might be coming to do treatment to help push things along. Little man was giving us a false alarm and decided to stay in a little longer until his actual due date. In the two weeks leading up to his due date I saw Tracy often and every treatment gave me relief. The last treatment I received the afternoon prior to my little man’s arrival helped push my labor along. I am a true believer in acupuncture and the effectiveness of it. My contractions picked up in the early evening a couple of hours after seeing Tracy. They stayed very mild but consistent until the next morning around 6:30am when my real labor kicked into high gear. Within 6 hours my little man was born in the comfort of our home with midwives. I plan to continue my treatment with Tracy as needed. I love her technique, warm personality & humor. I highly suggest you check her out if you are looking for a great acupuncturist.

Let me start off with saying how great Tracy is.
She help me recover after I had thrown my back out at work in Jan 2013. I am a firm believer that acupuncture is the best. I have tried all modern medicine for back injury and nothing work’s for me. I admit this is not a quick fix, it does take time and having Tracy there to help you recover is by far the best. She is very kind and understanding and she knows what she is doing.
Now I’ve thrown my back out and in dire need of her help. I wouldn’t be seeing her again if it didn’t work.

I started seeing Tracy several months ago because I was having some challenges with infertility. She was incredibly kind, compassionate, and sympathetic. I knew when I first met Tracy that I would be having IVF down the road and she helped my body prepare for IVF and cope with all the IVF medications.
This was my first experience with acupuncture and Tracy always took the time to answer all of my questions. She also asked me questions about small details that helped me understand what was going on with my body.
During the IVF process my embryo transfer took place on a Sunday. I was truly touched that Tracy gave up her Sunday to treat me with acupuncture directly before and after the transfer to increase my chances of success.
One of the things that impressed me most about Tracy is that she took what my «western» doctor said and supported it with acupuncture and an eastern medicine philosophy. I’m convinced that merging eastern and western medicine has led me to a successful outcome and I couldn’t have done it without Tracy’s help and support!

I recently had a bought with the flu that kept dragging on. I woke up on a Monday still sick and decided I had it. I looked at Unilocal reviews and decided to call around and Tracy got back to me right away. Squeezed me in that same morning. She treated me with acupuncture and herbs and I felt great and full of energy again within a couple of days. I continued to see her for treatment for hayfever which started up at the tail end of the flu. I am very grateful for her and will continue to keep seeing her for what ails me!

I’ve been seeing Tracy for a little over a year to treat my asthma, PMS, and various stress-​related symptoms stemming from generally living my life in overdrive. From the very first session, Tracy has struck me as calm, knowledgeable, thorough, intuitive, funny, caring, patient, and inquisitive in a non-​judgmental way.
She’s also very honest and direct, which I completely appreciate. She told me upfront that she could treat the imbalances in my body but if I didn’t make some lifestyle changes, too, I would just keep recreating the same symptoms. No one has ever laid it out for me quite like that before! But I wasn’t in the least offended because she was so respectful about it. She referred me to a therapist and within 6 – 7 months, I had worked through some of the mental patterns that kept me stuck in the emotional holding patterns that were so seriously affecting my health when I first showed up in Tracy’s office.
Now I just see her once or twice a month, mostly for maintenance but also for «stuff» that comes up. I take the herbs and supplements she recommends and did a cleanse under her care in the spring which detoxed my system and had the added benefit of improving my dietary habits after the month-​long program ended.
One more thing: Tracy is incredibly connected. Whenever I need a referral, she knows exactly who to send me to. And the best part is, everyone she refers me to is just as smart, sharp, and professional as she is!
I feel much, much stronger and healthier since I started seeing Tracy. If you’re even remotely thinking about seeing an acupuncturist or herbalist, schedule an appointment with Tracy. Whatever is ailing you, she can help. And if for some reason she can’t, she’s sure to know someone who can.

After being told by Western doctors that I would be in pain for the rest of my life and there wasn’t much they could do about it other than to try and manage my pain level I decided it was time to seek out some help from more traditional healers. I found Tracy on Unilocal and impressed by the reviews decided to give her a try. I am so glad I did. Tracy is a true healer. She is helping me to understand how my body works, providing treatment and suggestions on how to not to just «manage» my pain but to dramatically improve my overall health and wellbeing.
I’ve been going to Tracy for a little over three months now and have nothing but positive things to say about her and my experience. I am on a tight budget and it has become clear to me that Tracy cares more about her patients then her own personal pocketbook and will always suggest the best course of action, even if it is to cut back treatments, or supplement an herb for a treatment session. Choosing to operate her business this way has always amazed me, as so many people seem to care more about the money and is one of the things I admire about her.
I have already begun recommended Tracy’s services to family, friends and co-​workers. If you’ve ever wondered if Acupuncture could work for you but are nervous, scared or just downright skeptical, go see Tracy, I can’t say enough good things about her.
Oh and one other thing that I appreciate. Her office is totally paperless. She is always readily available to answer any e-​mail questions I have. She E-​mails me all my bills and next appointment reminders, important articles, instructions etc. And any time I’ve ever written her an e-​mail I’ve gotten a response within a couple of hour’s tops. Can’t say enough good things about her. I’m grateful I found her.

Tracy is amazing. She literally changed my life. I had never had acupuncture before and it was highly recommended that I try it for my menstrual cramps which were debilitating. Within a month of seeing her once a week, the cramps, moodiness and bloating were gone. I didn’t think it was possible since no doctor I had seen could do anything for me except prescribe vicodin.
Tracy had educated me about my body and about getting into balance. I look forward to seeing her and having her poke me. She is a genius with the needle and the herbs. In fact I think she is so incredible I have purchased her services for friends so that they can experience her treatment also.
When I see Tracy I always leave feeling better, reassured, nurtured and relaxed. I’ve had her treat back pain, colds, depression, cramps, moodiness, acne, you name it.
Everyone would should go!