Dianna Dean, MTCM, L Ac

Dianna is compassionate and professional and I would highly recommend her to anyone seeking the best alternative care. She customized her treatment for my needs and was very generous with her time. I can count on Dianna to listen and understand what my problem is. When I seek medical care from regular western doctors I often feel like they are in a hurry to diagnose you and only treat your symptoms so they can move on to the next patient. With Dianna I feel like she is really invested in taking the time to treat the core of the problem so that I get lasting results.

I have been treated by Dianna for 3 years. After spending a huge amount of time (19 years) trying traditional and nontraditional medicine to treat my very acute asthma, I decided to try Dianna. Wow– for the first time, I had someone attuned to what I had been experiencing, and was (for the first time in my treatment history) looking at the whole human being, rather than my poor lung function.
What I think I appreciate most about Dianna is her dedication to her patients, and her ability to see beyond what you verbalize. I’ve sent my daughter, my husband and others to Dianna for treatment of so many different health problems.
Dianna’s intention and life force make her an amazing healer.

A warning, if you’re considering going to Dianna: You might expect that «alternative» caregivers are warm, open, caring — Dianna isn’t really like that. She’s quite awkward, a bit brusque, and doesn’t connect with or listen to people. I first noticed this when scheduling appointments over the phone, there were strange pauses and a sense that she was bothered. I understand some people have trouble on the phone, and hoped it would be better in person.
Another note — the address says 404, that’s not her office anymore — spent several minutes looking for suite 404 before tentively stepping into another room with her name, that looked like an empty treatment room with no one around. creepy!
At our appointment, Dianna spent much more time making pronouncements than listening to my symptoms or history. At one point, as I was trying to explain about an ankle injury and the extensive physical therapy I did, and the exercises I still do, she repeatedly interrupted saying «so you stopped doing your exercises» — I kept trying to explain to her that I hadn’t, but she wouldn’t listen — I couldn’t understand until later she said «well, you were laughing, that shows you weren’t taking it seriously» Wow! I laugh because I’m trying to be friendly and because it’s uncomfortable to talk about yourself so much — but she took offense to that, apparently. She got quite stern and went into a lecture that again assumed I wasn’t doing anything about my ankle, again not listening to what I was trying to tell her, and of course ignoring the fact that I was shelling out quite a bit of money to see her in an attempt to do everything I could for the injury.
One last thing — Dianna herself admits to being «organic» with time, that she often doesn’t start appointments on time and let’s others run over — so if you’re a schedule type of person, you are definitely better to go somewhere else. In my appointment, she ran so far over time we only did a very brief treatment (which i felt no improvement from), and I was still very late to my next appointment despite telling her up front I needed to be out at a specific time. I wish I had walked out the minute I felt uncomfortable with her attitude, and saved myself the money! in fact, I lost even more money because my next appointment rightfully didn’t tolerate Dianna’s «organic» schedule.
I think acupuncture has a lot of potential but I won’t be coming back here. I recommend you save yourself the trouble and money as well.

I went every two weeks while I lived out in Seattle and I wish I could’ve taken her with me when I moved.
Have some anxiety? She’ll put it in check. A bum knee? Fixed. Ever go to Mexico, get Montezuma’s Revenge then take wicked powerful medicine to get rid of it that messes up your entire system? She can handle it all.
She’s incredibly skilled with the needles, the herbs and the tuning forks. (You’ll see, it’s incredibly relaxing.) With every session I walked away feeling more rejuvenated, more centered and more… me. My Seattle job was fairly stressful at times and this was the one thing that kept me sane.

Dianna is a very amazing acupuncturist and Chinese medical professional who has helped me through some tough sports injuries. I went to her earlier this year after trying all sorts of things for my plantar fasciatis and patella tendinitis. All Western medicine had failed me, and I was very bummed because playing sports keeps me healthy and happy.
I did not go in as a believer, but as a skeptic, willing to give anything a try. The first session knocked out about ¹⁄₃ of the pain, and within three visits I could play sports again. I keep going because it helps me with my overuse injuries and overall wellbeing. It is pretty amazing how much I can feel things change when she puts in a new needle.
She has also helped my wife with all sorts of stuff — moods, women’s health issues, energy, sleep, a whole lot.
Dianna is very meticulous and a very serious student of all things health-​related. I trust her with my health, and am soooo happy I have found her.