our practitioners

Jennifer (Jenny) Corbin is a seasoned acupuncturist and the founder of Barefoot Doctor. She opened the clinic in 2009 after graduating from a 4-year Master of Oriental Medicine program in Albuquerque, NM, and after practicing in Philadelphia for 9 years.

Jenny's early work experience in Philadelphia as a clinician in a nonprofit HIV clinic, within a physical therapy center, and in her own private practice led to her conviction that she needed to find a sustainable way to practice acupuncture for both herself and her clients. She realized that nonprofits can lose funding, individual's health insurance often cuts them off from helpful therapies, and private treatment costs make acupuncture unaffordable to many. She found her solution through a training led by the founders of POCA, a supportive co-op of acupuncturists focused on bringing acupuncture to as many people as possible in a sustainable way. She chose Fishtown and its increasingly diverse community as the home for her clinic.

Jenny has over 20 years of experience in treating a wide array of complaints, and she greatly enjoys being able to meet a diverse range of health-related needs. She has focused much of her learning and practice for the past 15 years in the treatment of fertility, pregnancy, and women’s health, with both acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. She also loves treating children!

Jenny is happy to live in and be an active part of the Fishtown community. Outside of her time in the clinic, she helped form a neighborhood co-op preschool, and has served as a board member for Friends of Hackett, a non-profit fundraising group for her local elementary school.

 

Rachel is an NCCAOM nationally certified and PA state licensed acupuncturist.  She studied acupuncture and graduated from POCA Tech(Peoples Organization of Community Acupuncture) in Portland, Oregon. POCA Tech specializes in preparing acupuncturists to practice community acupuncture, with a social justice lens. She studied various highly effective styles of acupuncture which are conducive to the community acupuncture setting.

Rachel grew up locally in the suburbs of Philadelphia and discovered her passion for alternative health while studying Psychology and Holistic Health at West Chester University. She is excited to be back in Fishtown where she first discovered community acupuncture here at Barefoot Doctor as a client and front desk volunteer, and she looks forward to bringing the knowledge she gained from her schooling in Portland back to Philadelphia!

Charlie Blaskovich has been practicing massage for nearly 30 years, and has practiced in several neighborhoods in Philadelphia since 2016. Some of the therapy styles she incorporates into her sessions include injury rehabilitation, trigger point therapy, deep-tissue, active release therapy, relaxation, and Swedish massage. She also often incorporates the use of gua-sha (scraping) and cupping as adjuncts to manual massage.

Getting regular massage and bodywork can prevent future neck, back, and hip issues, and can aid body awareness and mindfulness. Charlie believes that self-care isn’t a luxury, but a necessity for physical and emotional wellbeing.