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Clear, shallow water with sunlight reflections creating wavy patterns on the sandy bottom.
Dr. Sophia Santamaria with long, wavy blonde hair smiling outdoors, wearing a white shirt and layered necklaces, with a background of trees.
Dr. Sophia Santamaria with long, wavy blonde hair smiling outdoors, wearing a white shirt and layered necklaces, with a background of trees.

Dr. Sophia Santamaria, doctor, educator, consultant, and professional rabbit-hole explorer.

Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture

She shares knowledge, connect people to resources and possibilities, and helps you see beyond the answers currently sitting in front of you.

Maybe you don’t need another answer. Maybe you need another way of seeing it.

Maybe you don’t need another answer. Maybe you need another way of seeing it.

I believe knowledge changes what we can see—and once we can see more, we have more choices.

My work is about sharing that knowledge and connecting you to more: more perspectives, resources, practitioners, ideas, tools, treatments, people, questions, and possibilities.

I may have the answer. I may know someone who does.

Or I may ask you something that makes you look at the entire thing differently.
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Dr. Sophia Santamaria performing acupuncture on someone's lower back with thin needles.

Shifting Your Perspective

You’re curious and genuinely like learning.

You’ve been given an answer—about your health, business, life, or something else—and part of you is still thinking, “Okay… but is that really the only answer?”.

  • You want hope, but you also want honesty.

  • You’re open to science and the unconventional

  • You don’t need everything to fit perfectly into one camp before you’re willing to explore it.

  • You want to understand why, not just be told what to do.

You want more knowledge, resources, connections, and more ways of looking at what’s in front of you. Maybe you even have a big idea, dream, goal, or possibility that other people think is a little crazy. Somewhere underneath all of it, you believe—or at least want to believe—that there could be another way.

If that sounds like you, come curious. We have a lot to talk about.

“You won’t feel like an ‘appointment.’ It’s a visit to someone who is genuine and intuitive, someone who cares for your well-being and will listen to and hear you.”

Inez C

How to Work with Me

You might be here to feel better, build something better, learn something new, or bring a different perspective into a room. My work spans health, business, education, and speaking—but the common thread is always the same:

More knowledge, more possibilities, and more ways forward.

Work With Me Online

Personalized coaching and consulting for people who want deeper insight, new perspectives, resources, connections, and a realistic plan for what comes next.


Business Consulting

For wellness business owners ready to create, refine, expand, or completely rethink what they’re building—from services and client experience to strategy, systems, training, and the details that make something exceptional.


Learn with Me

Online courses, professional education, and continuing education designed for people who want to understand more—not just memorize what someone told them.


In-Person Care

Acupuncture, Chinese medicine, bodywork, and integrative care through Midwest Acupuncture and Pain Treatment Center in Wisconsin or at weekly intensives in Del Rey Beach Florida, and limited private in home appointments in Los Angeles, CA.

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Speaking and Teaching

Bring me into your event, organization, classroom, or community for conversations that make people think, question, laugh, learn, and leave seeing something differently.

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Hi. I’m Sophia, I ask a lot of questions.

I’m a doctor, educator, consultant, and lifelong collector of powerful information. 

My work has taken me through hands-on clinical care, Chinese medicine, teaching, wellness business development, and a whole lot of rabbit holes along the way.

But the thing I’m best at isn’t fitting people into one system: it’s seeing the person in front of me, digging deeper, and figuring out what else might be possible.

I’m endlessly curious. I ask questions. I connect dots. I share what I know, tell you when I don’t know, and probably know a person, resource, practitioner, book, treatment, idea, or completely different direction worth exploring.

I don’t believe my job is to make you dependent on my answers. 

The more you know, the more choices you have, and the more authority you have over what comes next.

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There might be another way.

If you came here looking for answers, a different perspective, a new resource, or simply wondering what else might be possible, you’re in the right place. Come curious—we’ll figure out where to go from here.

Have a question or not sure where to start? Reach out. I’m happy to point you in the right direction.