Acupuncturists

Brooke Ezra Torf-Fulton
DACM, LAc

Focus: Adult and Pediatric Internal Medicine and Sport Medicine

Massage therapists

Katie Cunnagin
LMt

Focus: Massage Therapy

Michelle Mora
LMt

Focus: Massage Therapy

Dr. Brooke Ezra Torf-Fulton
DACM, LAc

Dr. Brooke Ezra Torf-Fulton focuses on both adult and pediatric Internal Medicine, with an additional passion for sport medicine and mental health.

From personal experience, Dr. Brooke understands that being sick can be the scariest moment in someone’s life. While working as an emergency medic, she saw how truly debilitating diseases could be. She wanted to utilize the insight she had gained as a patient of Chinese Medicine to help people throughout their health journey – from preventive medicine to chronic disease and even symptom relief.

Dr. Brooke graduated from American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco with a Doctorate of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM) and Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine (MSTCM). She worked in the rehabilitation ward of California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and LifeLong Ashby Health Center in Berkeley as part of an integrative care system. She has also provided community acupuncture at both Glide and the Women’s Resource Center in San Francisco.

In her free time, you will find her out on the trails backpacking with her son and husband and their dog, traveling, scuba diving, skiing, or cooking.

Dr. ANGELA KELSEY-GIDDINGS
DACM, LAc, RN

Dr. Angela’s focus is on adult Internal Medicine with an additional passion for mental health and hormone balancing.

From her time as a nurse and her own life experience, Dr. Angela understands the importance of trusting and working together with your practitioner through the natural transitions of life, the curveballs, and the all-out accidents. While working as a medical-surgical nurse at Stanford Hospital, she saw the amazing feats a human body is capable of with the support of a team.  When life found her on the receiving end of her team’s care, she found passion in deep listening and wanted to grow into a type of practitioner who could attend, understand, and help patients uncover their healing journey. Bringing together science and the mystery of the human spirit. 

Dr. Angela graduated from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco with a Doctorate of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM) and a Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine (MSTCM). She worked in the stroke rehabilitation ward of California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and at the community clinic as part of an integrative care system. 

Hailing from Minnesota, the ‘Land of 10,000 Lakes’, she loves anything and everything outdoors – especially if it involves water. In her free time she known to be found wandering in the woods foraging or frolicking, having dance/cooking parties in the kitchen, gardening, and hiking with her family. 

Dr. Angela’s life motto is: “It is a good day when there is even a chance of seeing a whale.”  While she would like to tell you that this attitude is because of something deep – because you have a chance to see something bigger than yourself – it’s mainly because if you have a chance of seeing a whale it means you’re at the ocean and she truly loves the ocean.

Dr. Anna Rainwater, DACM, LAc
DACM, LAc

Dr. Anna Rainwater holds both a Doctorate and Master’s degree in Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine from Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts in Asheville, NC. Her postgraduate training emphasized classical Chinese medicine, differential diagnosis, and integrative approaches to chronic and complex conditions. Anna's clinical focuses include autoimmune disorders, women’s health, and the somatic manifestations of emotional trauma.

Her diagnostic and treatment approach is both evidence-informed and rooted in classical East Asian medical theory. Dr. Rainwater is particularly skilled in working with layered, multifactorial cases that require a holistic view of the patient’s physiology and psycho-emotional landscape. She utilizes a range of modalities, including acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, food therapy, and lifestyle recommendations tailored to each patient’s individual presentation as it evolves.

Anna brings a grounded, methodical presence to her clinical work, balanced by a strong sense of attunement and cultivation. She views Chinese medicine as a comprehensive, adaptive medical system designed to address any and all ways a person could present. It is with deep respect for the tradition — and the patients she serves — that she continues to refine and offer her practice.

While not at the clinic, Anna is likely laughing loudly, delving into anything outdoors, traveling, meditating, or generally taking every opportunity to deepen her practice and her love of life. 

Katie Cunnagin
LMT

Katie’s fascination with the human body grew from decades of experience coaching gymnastics. She was dedicated to learning as much as she could about strength and flexibility training to help her athletes perform their best and avoid injury. While coaching full time in Seattle, she developed her own over-use injury which led her to discover the amazing healing capabilities of massage.

In 2015, after spending a year travelling the globe, she moved with her husband to Bend and enrolled at Sage School of Massage. What started as a science-minded career move evolved into a life-changing revolution in her entire way of thinking about health and wellness. She has worked in various settings including an injury/treatment-focused clinic, a high-end spa, and private practice. At Aqua Terra Health, Katie is excited to work as part of a team of caring and dedicated healthcare professionals. She focuses on helping her clients connect with their bodies and strives to empower them to actively participate in their healing process and wellness routine.

Katie also teaches in the massage program at Central Oregon Community College where she brings her passion for massage to the classroom and helps her students build strong foundations, develop good body mechanics, and encourages humility and kindness toward their clients… skills that will benefit their future practices for years.

Besides massage, she loves traveling, being outside, practicing yoga, growing food and flowers, and spending time with people who love her and inspire her to be her best, most authentic self.

Natasha Krasen
LMT

While one might say that Natasha found massage therapy through a series of winding and unexpected roads, it feels equally, if not more true to say that it found her. It is “work” that doesn’t feel like work to her, work that she understands as an art form, work that she is enthused, fascinated and energized by. Helping others is the most rewarding, purpose-fulfilling way to spend her days and she is honored and deeply grateful every time she gets to join alongside her clients in their healing journey.

Having navigated (and continuing to navigate) learning about her congenital bilateral hip dysplasia a few years back, her work is strongly influenced by a deep and firsthand felt sense of discomfort, pain, restricted movement, and frustration. From this place, she daily journeys into how she can bring more ease, fluidity, functional and optimal movement to her body, as well as to that of her clients. It is through this internal experience that she is able to relate and collaborate with her clients on a deep and authentic level which she has been told not only supports her clients’ physical well-being, but energetic, emotional and spiritual well-beings as well. Her approach is also strongly influenced by myofascial work, nervous system regulation, passive range of motion and the ability and power to tune in, listen to the body and utilize various modalities at any-given time. As each day is new and we are new in it, so is each session she shares with her clients.

In her free time, you can find her both resting and rejuvenating through movement of various forms, especially when it includes sunshine and fresh air. Whether it is cycling, dancing, rock climbing, or anything in between, including trying new and nerve racking things such as scuba diving, she comes to life when exploring what her body is not only capable of, but wants to express and work through. While she once identified as someone fear ridden and highly anxious, it has been though these experiences and activities that she has come to believe in the power and ability we have to progress and evolve, to take our aches, pains and anxieties and transmute and transform them and once more, will be honored to join alongside you in your healing journey!

Benjamin Lee
LMT

Benjamin is honored to join the Aqua Terra team in providing collaborative care that supports each client's unique path toward health and well-being. Having recently relocated to Bend, he brings more than 23 years of experience as a therapeutic bodyworker and educator, along with insights from a lifetime of learning in movement and the healing arts. His work is dedicated to helping people reconnect and feel more at home in their bodies.

Benjamin approaches bodywork through the lens of wholeness, recognizing the dynamic inter-relationship between structure, function, and the nervous system. While relieving pain is often part of the process, his passion lies in identifying and helping to release the restrictive patterns of dysfunction in the body, regulating and re-educating the nervous system, and creating space for the body's innate capacity to reorganize toward greater ease, resilience, and vitality in an upward spiral process he affectionately calls "Awesomerizing"—the practice of becoming more integrated, capable, and authentically yourself.

Each session with Benjamin is uniquely crafted, drawing from his breadth of experience and understanding of the body as an interconnected whole. He is especially interested in the ways our physical, emotional, and energetic lives inform one another, and believes that when the body shifts from being an energy drain to becoming a wellspring of internal resourcefulness, we often discover greater clarity, confidence, and capacity in every aspect of life.

Since establishing his private practice in 2004, Benjamin has worked in clinical, spa, and athletic settings, including the Pacific Northwest Ballet, while also teaching massage therapy and continuing education for professionals for more than two decades. He believes that educating his clients, and empowering them to be active participants in their own process is an integral component of his work and efficacy, and that the most expansive possibilities for learning and healing emerge through trust, curiosity, and consistent, cumulative care over time that co-creates genuine change. He considers it a privilege to partner with clients on that path.

Outside the treatment room, Benjamin continues his explorations through climbing, skiing, dancing, yoga, and other embodied practices that serve as ongoing forms of movement research and fun.

michelle Mora
LMT

For Michelle, the human body is endlessly fascinating. More than ten years into her career as a Licensed Massage Therapist, she continues to be inspired by the way our bodies adapt, compensate, heal and quietly tell the story of how we move through life. She believes there’s always something to learn—through anatomy, through experience and through listening to what each person brings into the treatment room. Even after more than a decade, that sense of curiosity is what continues to inspire her every day.

Her passion lies in deep tissue and therapeutic massage, with a focus on pain relief, injury recovery, improving mobility, and restoring function. Clients often describe Michelle’s work as intuitive, saying she has a knack for finding muscles and areas of tension they didn’t even realize were contributing to their discomfort. Rather than focusing only on where pain is felt, she enjoys exploring how the body is connected, knowing the source of discomfort is often found somewhere unexpected. Every session is guided by clinical knowledge, careful observation and the unique needs of the person on her table.

Michelle believes the best outcomes come through collaboration. She enjoys helping patients better understand how they move, recognize patterns that may be contributing to discomfort, and work toward meaningful, lasting improvement. Her goal is for every patient to leave feeling heard, cared for and able to move through life with greater ease.

Joining Aqua Terra Health felt like a natural fit because of its collaborative, patient-centered approach to care. She values lifelong learning and is always looking for opportunities to deepen her understanding of anatomy, movement and therapeutic bodywork so she can continue providing the highest level of care to her patients.

Outside of the clinic, Michelle loves creating with her hands, roller skating, and spending time with friends, her partner, and her black cat, Spooky. She’s drawn to folklore, moonlit skies and creative pursuits that spark curiosity and inspire her to weave a little magic into everyday life and the world around her.

Nick Rasmussen
LMT

Nick may be young, but his understanding of the healing journey is rich. Having been an  athlete for much of his life he has been through the injury recovery process many times;  with a laundry list quite literally from head to toe. Nick also has experience working with  trauma, making trauma-informed care a true commitment.  

Informed by a B.S. in biology, his training as an LMT, and being a Corrective Exercise  Specialist, Nick’s work aims to restore function and balance. Recognizing the whole person and helping to illuminate and address areas of restriction. There is a tendency for the  human system to seek balance, his hope is simply to encourage this process, and be a  collaborator toward a fuller potential. Nick is honored every time he gets the opportunity to  put his knowledge and skills to work. 

Outside of the office you will probably find him hiking along the river or in the mountains,  crawling in his flower garden, having a star wars marathon, or hanging out with his best pals  Birch and Maggie. Birch was invited to the photo, but he had other plans…