Molly McIntyre Acupuncture · Crested Butte, Colorado

About Molly

Molly’s path into healing work has never followed a straight line — and that’s by design. What began as a curiosity about the world beyond her own has grown, over more than two decades, into a practice that honors the whole person: body, mind, spirit, and everything in between.

Where It Began

Long before she carried any credentials, Molly was drawn to the mystery of what she couldn’t yet see. In high school and college, she traveled through South America with Amigos de las Américas, living with local families in rural communities and doing whatever service work was needed. Those early experiences — immersed in lives and worldviews far from her own — planted a lasting curiosity about the depths of human experience.

She earned a B.A. in Spanish Literature from the University of Iowa, then went on to complete a second bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN) at the University of Portland. For three years, she worked as a Labor and Delivery nurse — front-row witness to one of life’s most powerful thresholds. It was there she recognized that her real calling lived in the deeper mysteries of healing, not just the physical.

That recognition led her to a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine at Southwest Acupuncture College in Boulder, Colorado, where she began to understand a truth that still guides her work today: lasting healing happens when we address every layer — mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical — together.

Credentials

  • Master of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Southwest Acupuncture College (2005) — a four-year, 3,000-hour program including over 1,000 hours of supervised clinical practice
  • Colorado State Licensed Acupuncturist, License #1136, licensed since August 2005
  • Diplomate of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture and Chinese Herbology), National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM)
  • Registered Nurse, license # 0122113, active Colorado license, maintained continuously alongside her acupuncture practice
  • In private practice since 2005 — over 20 years of full-time clinical experience

A Lifetime of Learning

Molly has never stopped studying. She considers herself a lifelong student of healing, and her practice today is shaped by decades of training with respected teachers and traditions from around the world:

  • Beijing, China (2002) — studied acupuncture at the International Training Center
  • Toyohari (2006) — a nine-month training in this gentle, non-insertion Japanese style of acupuncture
  • Pain & Sports Medicine (2005, 2015) — advanced pain treatment training, including study with Dr. Tan and with Matthew Callison on motor-point pain management
  • Pediatric Acupuncture — taught as a pediatric instructor at Southwest Acupuncture College (2010–2014), a specialty she also brought home, raising her three children with the principles of Chinese medicine
  • Functional Medicine (2015) — trained in the Lebowitz Protocol, a kinesiology-based approach to gut and immune health that supports the body’s healing capacity from the ground up
  • Five Element Acupuncture — ongoing study with Marlow Brooks (2012–present)
  • Shamanic Studies — training with Jyoti Wind and the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (2012–present)
  • Medical Intuition — certified through The Practical Path (2020–2021), a 100-hour program with a 60-hour clinical practicum in intuitive client readings
  • Light Running and Reiki (2025-present)  — studied with Judi Theis
  • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT 2021) — trained in 2021, now woven into sessions to help move trauma through the body’s energetic and somatic systems
  • Psychedelic Sitting Training (2021)– trained with Medicinal Mindfulness in Boulder, CO.
  • Ketamine Assisted Training (2023) trained with Jen Montjoy PNP, Resilience Tuscon in Tucson, Arizona.

I am the grateful mama of three beautiful children who are thriving young adults now, and I’ve been married to my husband, TJ, for 26 years. I was fortunate to raise my kids with Chinese medicine at the center of our home — it gave me the confidence to treat them myself and to feel strong in my decisions about their health and wellbeing. We used shonishin (a gentle, needle-less style of acupuncture that uses tapping and brushing), acupuncture, and herbal medicine for the everyday illnesses that come with raising children.

Marriage, too, is its own journey of personal and relational growth. TJ and I are deeply grateful for the storms we’ve weathered together — and for how much this medicine, and the deep internal work it asks of us, has helped us weather them. In many ways, this is exactly what has led me to the work I’m honored to practice today.

Somatic work is everything to me. Learning to move stored energy — the kind that shows up as trauma, or stuckness, or being unable to move forward — is what allows for real flow and real change. It’s the heart of what I hope to offer every person who walks through my door.

How It All Comes Together

These days, Molly draws on this full body of training as one integrated practice, not a menu of separate techniques. A session might include acupuncture, medical intuitive reading, shamanic healing, or EFT — whatever the moment calls for — always aimed at reaching the root of what’s asking to be healed, not just its symptoms.

If you’re curious whether this kind of integrated care is right for you, reach out — Molly would love to hear your story.