Kate Truka-Tartuk, LAc, earned her Master of Science from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, which integrates millennia-old traditional medicine with modern Western research and training.

Kate is currently enrolled in a Chinese Medicine psychology and trauma certificate program, as well as a functional and integrative medicine professional training program.

Kate has 20 years of experience in Ayurveda and yoga, and has taught Hatha and restorative yoga for 15 years. She has worked in integrative medicine settings since 2009, serving patients at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and California Pacific Medical Center rehabilitation and cardiac care units.

At the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, she worked on a clinical research trial studying how pranayama (breathing practices) and yoga attenuate the side effects of chemotherapy. She was a staff acupuncturist on another clinical trial of community acupuncture for patients with painful diabetic neuropathy.

At Camden Center, Kate is an integrative therapist who offers patients classic and non-needle forms of acupuncture, nutrition from an Eastern medicine lens, moxibustion, cupping, tui na, essential oils, sound therapy with Acutonics®, yoga, and Qigong.