Founder’s note

Welcome! I am so happy you’re here. My name is Jackie, founder and clinician here at FOURTHOUSE!

After 8 years in the corporate world, despite working for truly fantastic companies with tremendously brilliant colleagues and friends, I was lacking in fulfillment and feeling as though there was something else out there for me to explore. While still working in the tech industry, I completed the health coaching program with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), which ultimately laid the foundation for my transition to the wellness industry several years later. Eventually I fully pivoted and pursued my doctorate from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Why Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)? A question I have asked myself many times over the past several years, always returning to the others in the field who inspired me. Since 2012 I have been under the care of several tremendously talented acupuncturists, who were able to hold space for my physical body and encourage my emotional and spiritual growth in ways no other doctors had done before. I was amazed that TCM considered human physiology at the physical, mental and spiritual levels simultaneously, paying attention to each and every symptom as an indicator of a person’s overall health and wellness. I felt seen and cared for all at once, and found myself more and more enamored with the medicine as the years went on. In my second year of the program I had my first child, and almost instantaneously my lightbulb moment occurred: postpartum recovery is neglected by the medical field, and ultimately ripe for disruption. 

I founded FOURTHOUSE on a mission to elevate postpartum recovery care, by cultivating a network of board-certified experts focused on supporting women through their transition to motherhood. You are not alone on your journey, we are here to support you.