“Thank you for your healing hands and heart—gentle, peaceful, unwound, lighter, brighter and realigned.”

About Us

Crossings Healingworks is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to bring ancient healing traditions that restore and renew the body-mind-spirit of those touched by trauma – creating peace for one family, one community, one world – one person at a time.

Crossings Healingworks offers patient-centered, complementary medical care that tends the body, mind and spirit of people whose lives have been touched by trauma. We assert that both individuals and systems can change.

Our work is rooted in the latest research and experience with centuries-old approaches that help people find internal peace, access creative expression, create heart-to-heart connections, give and receive nurturance, and find value in themselves and for others in the human family.

Crossings Healingworks is associated with Crossings – A Center for the Healing Traditions, which has been serving the complementary health care needs of the community since 1992 and is located in downtown Silver Spring, above Whole Foods Market.

Alaine D. Duncan, M.Ac., L.Ac., Dipl.Ac., is Crossings Healingworks Executive Director.

Learning, practicing and loving Chinese medicine since 1988, she is a Crossings Co-Founder and Director. Crossings has grown from just two acupuncturists in 1992 to over 25 providers of acupuncture, physical therapy, psychotherapy, and a variety of types of therapeutic bodywork, as well as classes for the lay and professional community in yoga, meditation, qi gong, trauma recovery and Chinese medical philosophy.

Ms. Duncan brings a wealth of experience in Complementary and Alternative Medicine gifts to trauma resolution:

• She is credentialed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as the Assessing Acupuncturist in a Henry Jackson Foundation funded study of Acupuncture and PTSD.
• She works one day a week treating Veterans at the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center at the Washington Veterans Administration Hospital.
• She is the local coordinator of the Foundation for Human Enrichment’s Somatic Experiencing/Trauma Resolution training and will complete her training in Somatic Experiencing in 2007.
• Ms. Duncan also founded and served as Board Chair and Clinical Director of Underground Railroad - A Community Center for Recovery and Wellness, an acupuncture-based substance abuse treatment program from 1997-2003.
• A Class of 1988 Acupuncture Master's Degree student at the TAI Sophia Institute, she served as an adjunct faculty member there from 1995-2000.