About Mika Ichihara, M.S., L.Ac., LL.M., B.Phar.
Master Practitioner - Teacher
Licensed acupuncturist - herbalist (Japan) - Pharmacist (Japan) - Reiki Master - Feng Shui Practitioner - Meditation Teacher - Qabalah Teacher
Mika Ichihara has practiced integrative healing for over two decades. She has helped thousands of patients from all over the world with her unique integrative treatments. She is passionate about healing as an opportunity to grow and gain access to new levels of consciousness. Her integrative healing addresses the root cause of illness and empowers the patient to activate their awareness, becoming proactive for their healing and growth.
Mika is gifted with an extraordinary capacity for healing, and at the same time, awakens innate healing processes within patients, helping them transform their lives more meaningfully and purposefully with healthy living.
Background
Since her younger days, Mika has lived a life of resilience and innovative achievements, which has solidified her mission to live with love and compassion. Raised in Japan, she developed an early interest in Western Medicine; she obtained a degree in Clinical Pharmacy from Kobe Pharmaceutical University.
While a freshman at age 19, she experienced her first spiritual awakening, inspiring her to work for global human rights, humanitarian operations, and peace-making. After obtaining advanced law degrees in international human rights in Japan and the U.K., she worked for the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations in New York, and subsequently, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, currently UN Women) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
While it outwardly appeared as if she had set her life’s purpose on championing human rights, she began questioning the root cause of war and peace. She eventually decided to seek an alternative action to international organization-led initiatives, which revealed she had no choice but to depart from the United Nations.
While she was familiar with Western Medicine because of her professional background, she came across Eastern Medicine and alternative therapies when her personal life was overshadowed by a series of unexpected crises.
She was skeptical of Eastern Medicine at first, but she was amazed at how quickly it helped her restore her health and vitality physically and spiritually. This second awakening fueled her to pursue extensive training in Eastern Medicine modalities and other forms of alternative healing, including Reiki, meditation, Feng Shui, Qi Gong, and yoga.
This process of self-empowerment brought forth a vibrant, new outlook for Mika. With her Western and Eastern medicine and peace-making backgrounds, paired with her desire to help people with compassion, she realized the inextricable link between good health and consciousness, seeing them as crucial pillars for individuals to build empowered lives driven by purpose.
Healing - Spiritual Growth - Peace
She believes that global peace cannot be separated from individual inner peace. Internal anger, fear, and anxiety may be the root cause of conflict in relationships with others, generating a negative collective consciousness promoting global conflict/war. This should be replaced with love, compassion, peace and trust. Her purpose is to help individuals heal, so that they become the messengers of love and compassion to share with others and work toward global peace and harmony.
This holistic belief became the cornerstone for founding her practice, Love & Compassion Integrative Healing Center, in New York City in 2006. In 2021, she relocated to Charlotte, NC to seek a slower-paced lifestyle surrounded by nature. She enjoys hiking the Blue Ridge Mountains and surrounding areas. Currently, she maintains remote/virtual office as well as dual locations in Charlotte and New York City, traveling between these cities monthly.
Disclaimer:
Please note, Mika Ichihara, M.S., L.Ac. is a licensed acupuncturist and holistic practitioner, and not a medical doctor. Always consult a medical doctor or appropriate physician to discuss your conditions and receive their medical advice. You should not rely on this website for diagnosis or medical advice, which serves solely as general holistic guidance to your conditions. Mika Ichihara may provide general information about medical conditions and treatments. However, the information provided by Mika Ichihara and this website is not a substitute for medical advice. Mika Ichihara assumes no responsibility or liability for any consequence resulting directly or indirectly from action taken based on her holistic advice and the information or material on or linked to this site.