About Soulfire Medicine
Soulfire Medicine is a boutique, founder-led practice specializing in acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and overall wellness of the mind, body, and spirit.
Established in Asheville in 2021, our space is designed to create an immediate shift in your nervous system. Our treatment rooms offer a calming sanctuary, and an on-site apothecary allows for hand-crafted tinctures made custom to your unique blueprint for healing.
But our work together transcends the clinic. The “medicine” in Soulfire Medicine is anything that helps you come into deeper relationship with reality, with yourself, and with the life you have been given. Sometimes that is acupuncture or herbal medicine. Sometimes it is understanding trauma. Sometimes it is myth, meaning, grief, laughter, beauty, embodiment, truth, adventure, or finally seeing something clearly enough that it can begin to change.
We will be honored to welcome you, and to guide you on this journey.
Meet the doctor
Dr. Christina Velderman, DACM, L.Ac.
Dr. Christina Velderman, founder of Soulfire Medicine, is a nationally board-certified Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, herbalist, author, speaker, and educator dedicated to helping people transform pain into power and reclaim the radiant, joyful life they were meant to live. She is licensed to practice acupuncture in North Carolina and South Carolina.
Named the 2024 Acupuncturists Without Borders Volunteer of the Year, Dr. Velderman’s work in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene brought free, trauma-informed acupuncture to over 800 survivors in crisis.
Shortly before the storm, her first-of-its-kind textbook Ethics for Acupuncturists was published internationally to facilitate the discussion of medical ethics for an ancient medicine practiced in the modern world. She serves as the Academic Dean at Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts, where she brings visionary leadership to developing the next generation of healers.
Here at Soulfire Medicine, she specializes in the treatment of acute and complex trauma, chronic illness, major transitions, and the search for happiness, offering a unique and deeply integrative approach to healing.
Healing lit by her own soulfire
Dr. Velderman doesn’t just treat trauma — she understands it from the inside out. Born into intergenerational trauma and poverty, she spent decades battling depression, complex PTSD, anxiety, autoimmune illness, endometriosis, and substance use issues. By her 30s, she was completely disabled, trapped in a cycle of diagnoses, prescriptions, and despair. And then, she learned how to heal.
Her journey led her through the depths of illness and back into vibrant wellness, an experience that shaped her life’s mission: to guide others through their own profound transformation.
With advanced training in Daoist and Classical Chinese Medicine, Five Elements Energy Healing, Core Shamanism, integrative medicine, and somatic trauma resolution, Dr. Velderman weaves together a powerful synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern understanding. Her work honors the innate intelligence of the body and spirit, helping each person find their way home to themselves.
Healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken—it’s about unlocking the door to the next level of your life. Dr. Velderman is here to hold the lantern while you step over the threshold.
HERE’S THE THING.
If it doesn’t set your entire soul on fire, it’s not your life’s purpose. Keep looking. Try as many roads as it takes. Burn the maps and bust through the roadblocks.
The whole universe is waiting for you to recognize the unique genius your soul came here to express.
Your Life is Your Medicine
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