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Services Offered at Centered Richmond Acupuncture
Acupuncture
Acupuncture stimulates your nervous system, hormones, signaling pathways and more in ways that reduce inflammation, improve circulation, and help your body shift out of a stuck stress response. That’s why it’s effective for chronic pain, digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, and stress-related symptoms. Treatment is based on what’s actually driving the problem, not just where it hurts. The needles are hair-thin, and most patients relax so deeply they fall asleep.
Holistic Orthopedic Acupuncture
Orthopedic acupuncture targets the specific muscles, tendons, nerves, and joints involved in your pain. It’s anatomy-driven, using detailed knowledge of musculoskeletal structure to release tension patterns, reduce local inflammation, and restore normal movement. My personal approach is more whole body versus the approach of dry needling, which typically just involves sticking needles where there is pain. In my clinic, we will look at for example whether what’s going on in your hips is affecting your knees.
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Chinese herbal medicine draws on over 2,000 years of continuous clinical refinement, and it’s one of the most powerful tools I use in practice. Formulas are prescribed based on your specific pattern of symptoms, not a one-size-fits-all approach, which is why the results can be so significant. Patients dealing with hormonal imbalances, chronic digestive issues, inflammation, and sleep problems often see changes they’d stopped expecting. The herbs I prescribe are manufactured under Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards, tested for heavy metals, pesticides, and microbial contaminants, and held to guidelines set by the US Pharmacopoeia and World Health Organization. They come as easy-to-use dissolvable granules.
E-Stim Therapies
Electroacupuncture uses a very mild electrical current between acupuncture needles to amplify the body’s response to treatment. The stimulation triggers your nervous system to release endorphins and other natural anti-inflammatory compounds, making it especially effective for chronic pain, nerve-related conditions like numbness and tingling, post-surgical recovery, and stubborn musculoskeletal injuries that haven’t responded to other treatments. The sensation is a gentle pulsing or tapping that most patients find surprisingly comfortable. You will barely feel it!
Frequently Asked Questions
Meet your Acupuncturist – Maegan N. Hodge, L.Ac.
I became an acupuncturist because I needed one. My own health struggles led me to Chinese medicine, and what I found changed everything. That experience is what drives the way I practice: thorough, persistent, and unwilling to settle for “just managing symptoms.”
I hold a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine from the National University of Natural Medicine, a BA in Psychology from the University of Virginia, and I am nationally board-certified through the NCBAHM. I have been treating patients since 2010 and opened Centered in 2014. Since then, I have helped thousands of patients across Richmond Va, from the Fan District and Church Hill to Short Pump, Midlothian and Glen Allen. Patients have traveled from across state lines and from other countries and continents to become patients here.
At Centered, we work in tandem with your other medical providers, filling the gaps that conventional care leaves behind.
Want the full story? Read how I got here. Spoiler: it started with horrible allergies.
Looking for the Most Glowingly Rated Clinic?
With tons of five-star rave reviews, Centered: Richmond Acupuncture is one of the highest-rated and most glowingly reviewed clinics in the region. Patients consistently praise our warm, thorough care, noticeable results, and how deeply heard and supported they feel here. If you’re looking for a place where both your symptoms and your story matter—you’ve found it.
We offer complimentary consultations. We also provide Traditional Chinese Medicine herbal biotherapies.
Complimentary Consultations
First, we establish your most important health and wellness goals.
Second, we create a treatment plan together, including the services that are the best fit for YOU. We include a suggested number of sessions and overall cost. We include several payment options, with cost reductions built in.
Third, we get you scheduled and track your progress over time to ensure that you are on track to meet your goals.
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Enjoy our Focus on Quality
At Centered: Richmond Acupuncture & Wellness, our acupuncture Richmond VA patients are the joy of our clinic and the reason we are happy to show up to work every day. Namely, we take joy in watching their process.
Many patients who have come to see us have even been struggling with their health, or have recently been in the hospital with serious health conditions. A patient can go from being miles away from their desired state of being – miserable, unhappy, sometimes even crying during their consultation to brighter and happier, smiling and laughing over weeks or months. It’s hard to believe until you experience it for yourself!
Acupuncture Results Not Guaranteed Of Course, But We Give Ourselves a Deadline!
Of course, not everyone needs or gets those amazing results, but we do everything we can to ensure you do. We accomplish this by having patients fill out weekly progress charts and periodic outcome assessments to check progress. If clients or patients are not responding to care within a predetermined amount of time, we are always happy to refer them to a suitable alternative. This is how we work to provide the best quality care locals can find.
What you will never experience here is being told that you need to keep coming for multiple months or years before you might see results. If acupuncture and TCM herbs are going to work for you, we should start seeing some changes in one to two months TOPS. I am always happy to fire myself and try to get you a good referral if we are not seeing any progress in this amount of time.
View Your Health in a New Way
If you live in the Richmond, Virginia area including the Fan District, Church Hill, Short Pump, Midlothian, or Glen Allen, and you have been considering acupuncture or Chinese medicine, we hope you will give Centered a chance. We know it can feel like a leap of faith, especially if you have never tried it before. Those are actually our favorite patients to work with.
We take pride in helping you feel comfortable with the process!
Page last reviewed by Maegan Hodge, L.Ac., MSOM, NCBAHM Board Certified. June 2026.
Typical Office Hours Contact Info
20 N 20th St, Suite A, Richmond, VA 23223 | Telephone: (804) 234-3843 | info@centeredrichmond.com
Monday 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Tuesday 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Thursday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am – 2:30 pm