Welcome to Acupuncture with Dixie
Let’s Begin Your Healing Journey
I believe the body knows how to heal—it just needs the right support. Using acupuncture and holistic therapies, I help restore the natural flow of energy disrupted by pain, trauma, or stress. Healing begins when patient and practitioner are in sync. Together, we create space for balance, relief, and the body’s innate wisdom to rise. This is the space I hold as we begin your healing journey.
Healing is possible—your body simply needs gentle support to remember its own wisdom.
~ Dixie Mullineaux
Discover Healing Through Acupuncture
Reconnect with your body’s natural rhythm —relieve pain, restore balance, and renew your energy.
Welcome to my practice. I’m Dixie Mullineaux, and I help people tap into their body’s innate ability to heal through the ancient and powerful practice of acupuncture.
In Chinese medicine, we understand that energy — or Qi (pronounced “chee”) — flows through the body in pathways called meridians. These meridians are like rivers, and they move through every part of you — your organs, your muscles and bones, your emotions, your thoughts, your spirit.
Just like rivers in nature, these energetic pathways can become blocked, depleted, flooded, or “polluted.” That can happen because of injury, chronic stress, emotional trauma, repressed feelings, poor diet, or long-term illness. And when Qi can’t move freely, symptoms begin to surface — pain, fatigue, anxiety, digestive issues, tension, inflammation, brain fog.
That’s where acupuncture comes in.
How Acupuncture Works
Acupuncture works by gently guiding your body back into balance. Ultra-fine needles—about the width of two hairs—are placed at precise points along energy pathways called meridians. Stimulating these points improves circulation, calms the nervous system, and activates the body’s own ability to heal and restore itself.
For more than 5,000 years, this system has been used to support health and well-being. Today, the World Health Organization recognizes acupuncture for helping with a wide range of concerns, including:
Relieving pain and tension (headaches, migraines, back and neck pain, joint issues, sciatica)
Calming the nervous system (reducing anxiety, improving sleep, easing stress)
Supporting digestion and immunity (from gut discomfort to general wellness)
Balancing hormones and emotions (including menstrual and menopausal symptoms)
Aiding recovery (from addiction, withdrawal, and the effects of chronic stress)
Reconnecting body and mind (restoring a sense of equilibrium and vitality)
Acupuncture is gentle, effective, and deeply restorative. It doesn’t force the body—it reminds it. It helps your natural intelligence reset and return to harmony.
Gua Sha: Deep Relief for the Body and Nervous System
Over the years, I’ve come to deeply value Gua Sha as one of the most effective hands-on tools in my practice. It’s simple, ancient, and incredibly powerful — especially when your body is holding onto pain, tension, or stress that just won’t release.
Gua Sha is a traditional Chinese technique where I use a smooth-edged tool to gently glide along the skin in slow, steady strokes. It’s not painful — in fact, many patients describe it as grounding and deeply comforting.
Beneath the surface, Gua Sha works into the fascia — the connective tissue that wraps around your muscles and bones. When tension, poor posture, injury, or even emotional strain build up, fascia tightens and holds on. Gua Sha helps release that holding, soften the tissue, and restore healthy blood and energy flow to areas that need healing.
I often use it for:
Neck and shoulder tightness
Headaches or TMJ
Low back and hip pain
Postural imbalances (like “tech neck”)
Chronic stiffness or muscular fatigue
Tension tied to old emotional experiences
But Gua Sha isn’t just about the physical body. It helps shift the nervous system out of “fight or flight” — the stress state so many of us live in — and invites the body into “rest and repair.” That’s where true healing begins.
— that’s when the real healing starts.”
For me, Gua Sha is more than a technique — it’s a conversation with the body. Every stroke tells a story. Every release opens the door to deeper harmony.
Like acupuncture, Gua Sha is rooted in the rhythms of nature — the same rhythms reflected in the Five Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. These elements help me understand each person’s unique constitution, emotions, and healing path.
Whether it’s releasing Wood’s stored frustration in the shoulders, cooling Fire’s excess heat, or grounding Earth’s worry, these elemental forces guide me in fine-tuning each treatment with clarity and care.
The Five Elements: Earth, Metal, Water, Wood, Fire
A core part of how I practice is rooted in the Five Element tradition — an elegant, time-honored way of understanding people, health, and life itself.
Each of the Five Elements reflects a seasonal rhythm and an emotional–spiritual aspect of the human experience:
Wood (Spring): Growth, vision, movement — associated with the Liver & Gallbladder, and the emotion of frustration or anger when out of balance.
Fire (Summer): Joy, connection, warmth — linked to the Heart & Small Intestine. When unbalanced, it can show up as anxiety, restlessness, or loneliness.
Earth (Late Summer): Nourishment, stability, empathy — connected to the Spleen & Stomach. Imbalances may cause overthinking, digestive issues, or worry.
Metal (Autumn): Letting go, grief, refinement — governed by the Lungs & Large Intestine. When this energy is stagnant, we may feel unresolved grief, rigid thinking, or chronic fatigue.
Water (Winter): Wisdom, rest, resilience — tied to the Kidneys & Bladder. Disharmony may show up as fear, burnout, low back pain, or deep exhaustion.
In Five Element acupuncture, your symptoms tell a story. My role is to listen to that story — and help guide your body back into its natural seasonal rhythm, so you can feel more like yourself again.