Bio

Maya Guil­mard is French-Amer­i­can, and is trilin­gual in Eng­lish, French, and Span­ish.  She has a Bach­e­lor of Arts in biol­o­gy and botany from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia in Char­lottesville.  She was a research assis­tant in sev­er­al lab­o­ra­to­ries, includ­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia San Fran­cis­co Med­ical Cen­ter.

She lat­er trav­elled exten­sive­ly through­out India, study­ing med­i­ta­tion, Rei­ki, as well as Ayurvedic mas­sage.

Maya then stud­ied Acupunc­ture, Her­bol­o­gy, TuiNa mas­sage, as well as Med­ical QiGong and TaiQi at Five Branch­es Uni­ver­si­ty, a col­lege and clin­ic of TCM (Tra­di­tion­al Chi­nese Med­i­cine), in San­ta Cruz, Cal­i­for­nia.  She treat­ed many patients in the uni­ver­si­ty com­mu­ni­ty clin­ic.

She also was an intern in the hos­pi­tals in the Zhe­jiang Col­lege of TCM in Hangzhou, and in the Cheng­du Uni­ver­si­ty of TCM in Sichuan, Chi­na.  She holds a Mas­ters in Tra­di­tion­al Chi­nese Med­i­cine (MTCM) from Five Branch­es Uni­ver­si­ty.  She is a Diplo­mate of Ori­en­tal Med­i­cine, US Board Cer­ti­fied (NCCAOM), and is a Licensed Acupunc­tur­ist and Her­bol­o­gist, Cal­i­for­nia State Board Cer­ti­fied (CAB).

From 2006 to 2008, Maya had a pri­vate prac­tice in Barcelona, and also worked in an acupunc­ture clin­i­cal tri­al focus­ing on back pain as well as oncol­o­gy in the Hos­pi­tal de Mataro in Catalun­ya, Spain.

In 2010, she worked as a vol­un­teer at Yayasan Bumi Sehat, a non-prof­it clin­ic, doing Acupunc­ture and Chi­nese herbal med­i­cine for preg­nant women, chil­dren, and babies, in Bali, Indone­sia.  She has also done vol­un­teer work in South India Peru, and France.

From 2008 to 2011, Maya prac­ticed acupunc­ture at the Lotus Health Cen­ter in Grass Val­ley, Cal­i­for­nia.  From 2011–2013, she also has been doing acupunc­ture for weight loss and diges­tive con­di­tions at the Cam­biati Well­ness Pro­gram, a weight loss detox and cleanse pro­gram in Wal­nut Creek, Cal­i­for­nia.

She now has opened her own clin­ic in down­town Neva­da City.   She spe­cial­izes in mus­cu­loskele­tal pain man­age­ment, res­pi­ra­to­ry con­di­tions, diges­tive issues, women’s health, pre­na­tal and post­par­tum care, and emo­tion­al con­di­tions.