Jenna Rucker, LAc

Jenna Rucker is a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Maryland. She received her Master of Acupuncture degree from the Maryland University of Integrative Health in Laurel, Maryland in 2016. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Writing Seminars and Psychology from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 2010. Jenna has practiced in Howard, Baltimore, Frederick, and Anne Arundel counties, serving a diversity of patients in a variety of settings, including correctional facilities, private and community acupuncture clinics, and integrative healthcare clinics. She focuses on treating chronic pain, chronic illness, and women's health issues and supporting emotional wellness for people struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes.
Jenna combines three major traditions in her acupuncture practice: 5 Element, TCM, and Master Tung. Jenna also incorporates gua sha, cupping, acupressure, electroacupuncture, Chinese Dietary Therapy, and lifestyle coaching in her practice. Jenna is an Usui Reiki Master and enjoys learning about other energy healing methods, such as chakra healing and energy field healing, Taoist Internal Alchemy, Shamanism, Emotional Freedom Technique, and Energy Psychology. She believes studying other complimentary energy healing methods allow for a deeper level of insight when diagnosing and treating using Chinese Medicine and acupuncture.
Jenna first came to acupuncture and Chinese Medicine reluctantly, as a patient. She now credits acupuncture with “saving her life” twice and recognizes that acupuncture treatment has prevented the need for her life to be saved countless times after that.
The first time acupuncture helped save her, she was in her early twenties and was quite sickly, underweight, and having difficulty digesting most foods. A gastroenterologist diagnosed her with gastroparesis. The doctor told her she would have to be on medications, many of them with severe side effects, for the rest of her life, and if that did not work, she may even have to get a feeding tube. Quite upset about this, Jenna went to see an acupuncturist for help even though she was somewhat skeptical. After a few months of treatment, she no longer had any gastroparesis symptoms and never had to go on the medications. She was quite impressed that Chinese Medicine could heal her when conventional medicine offered only drugs and surgery to manage symptoms. She then decided to study Chinese Medicine and acupuncture so she could help other people like her: people who had reached the limits of what conventional medicine could offer and who needed a deeper level of healing.
The second time acupuncture helped save her, she was twenty-five years old and in graduate school studying Chinese Medicine. A holistic MD diagnosed her with chronic Lyme disease after she developed chronic joint pain and symptoms of both chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. She almost had to drop out of school because of severe pain and weakness all over her body, chronic exhaustion, and crippling brain fog. After several months of antibiotics and Chinese herbs, regular and consistent acupuncture treatment, and applying what she learned in school to heal herself, Jenna slowly and progressively became well again and was able to resume and finish her studies.
After her prolonged experiences with chronic illness and chronic pain, Jenna became even more committed to using Chinese Medicine and acupuncture to help heal people and free them from unnecessary pain and suffering on all levels: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.