Dr. Abbey Jo Shulkin · Integrative Wellness
You've tried to fix the problem.
Let's find out what's keeping it going.
- You're carrying emotional pain from your past.
- You lose the weight, gain it back, and start over.
- Chronic pain is running your sleep, your workouts, your days.
- You simply want to look and feel like yourself again.
I help people get to the root of what's keeping them stuck — physically, emotionally, and energetically — so they can create meaningful, lasting change.
Book a free 15-minute phone callNot sure which treatment is right for you? That's exactly what we'll talk about.
Start here
What would you like to change?
Choose the problem you want help solving. You don't have to know the treatment — only what's bothering you.
Heal from the past
Trauma & Timeline Therapy®
You may understand exactly why you feel the way you do — and still repeat the same reactions, fears, beliefs, and behaviors.
I'm ready to move forwardBreak the weight-loss cycle
Holistic Weight Loss & Life Shifts
If you've lost weight only to gain it back, the answer may not be another diet. Life Shifts works on the patterns underneath it.
I'm ready to break the cycleGet out of pain
Acupuncture, Laser & Shockwave Therapy
When pain keeps coming back, masking the symptom may not be enough. Treatment is built around your body, not a protocol.
I'm ready to feel betterLook as vibrant as you feel
Natural Facial Rejuvenation
Refresh your appearance without looking like someone else. The goal isn't a different face — it's a healthier one.
Explore facial rejuvenationWhy you're still stuck
You've already tried to fix it.
I don't believe every problem can be solved by looking only at the symptom. Your body affects your emotions. Your emotions affect your behavior. Your habits affect your health. And your past can still be shaping what you do today.
Physical
What is actually happening in your body right now — pain, function, sleep, energy, capacity?
Emotional
What experiences, emotions, beliefs, or behavioral patterns may be holding the problem in place?
Energetic
Where has your natural sense of balance and well-being been disrupted, and what restores it?
Because you aren't a collection of symptoms. You're a whole person.
Holistic weight loss
The Life Shifts Weight Wellness System
If another diet were the answer, wouldn't it have worked by now?
You know how to diet. You've probably done it more times than you can count. You lose the weight. Something happens. You start overeating again. The weight returns.
"This time I'll really stick to it."
Then the cycle starts again. Life Shifts was created to address what traditional diets leave out — not what to eat, but why you keep going back. It helps you identify and change the habits, patterns, behaviors, and emotional triggers that keep the cycle alive.
The goal isn't another successful diet.It's to stop needing one.
I built Life Shifts out of my own way through years of struggling with food. Read that story.
Book a free Life Shifts callTrauma & emotional change
Timeline Therapy® and hypnotherapy
You can't change what happened. But you can change what happens next.
Sometimes an experience ends and its emotional impact doesn't. You may find yourself carrying anger, fear, sadness, hurt, guilt, or limiting beliefs long after the original experience is over — and understand it all intellectually while still wondering:
"Why can't I just let this go?"
Timeline Therapy® and hypnotherapy offer approaches for working with subconscious patterns and unresolved emotions connected to past experiences, so that yesterday stops making today's decisions.
The purpose isn't to relive your past.It's to help you move forward.
What a session looks like
- Start A free 15-minute phone call. Nothing else is decided before that.
- You stay awake This is guided conversation, not sleep. You're aware and in control throughout.
- Your past You won't be asked to relive events in detail or describe more than you want to.
- Two sessions A one-hour intake, then the session itself — set aside up to three hours for it.
- Where By Zoom, or in person at Carmen Care in Boca Raton, where I'm medical director.
- After Monthly follow-ups are optional. Most of the work happens in those first two sessions.
- Training Certified hypnotherapist, trained in Timeline Therapy®.
Chronic pain
Acupuncture and integrative therapies
What would you do if pain weren't making the decisions?
Would you exercise again? Sleep through the night? Travel? Play golf? Pick up your grandchildren? Go for a walk without calculating how much you'll hurt afterward?
Chronic pain doesn't just affect your body.It makes your life smaller.
Rather than working from a single protocol, I build an individualized plan for recurring and chronic pain. Depending on what your body needs, it may draw on:
The aim is to support pain reduction, improve function, and help you get back to the things pain has taken away.
A rotator cuff injury left my shoulder and right arm useless for three months. As soon as I started seeing Dr. Abbey it started getting better.Alex M.
Two dislocated shoulders after an accident, one already operated on and still painful. Her combination of acupuncture and natural medicine got my life back on track.S.M. · Verified patient
As an athlete I push my body to its limits. She helped my sciatica, shoulder and knee heal, and I've been able to keep working out consistently.Ax-Core Workouts
Neck and shoulder pain from hours at a computer — it hurt to turn my head. After treatment my range of motion came right back and the pain was gone.M.K. · Verified patient
Reviews from patients of Dr. Shulkin's prior practice. Individual results vary.
Book a free pain consultationNatural facial rejuvenation
Cosmetic facial acupuncture
Look refreshed. Not "done."
You don't want a different face. You want to look in the mirror and see a healthier, brighter, more vibrant version of the one you have.
Cosmetic facial acupuncture and integrative facial treatments can be used to support circulation, skin vitality, and a refreshed appearance as part of a natural approach to facial rejuvenation.
Thorough, with a lovely technique. I had a facial acupuncture lift and saw results almost immediately, along with facial cupping and acupuncture for other pain points.M.W. · Verified patient
Review from a verified patient of Dr. Shulkin's prior practice. Individual results vary.
The goal is not to change your face.It's to look like the best version of yourself.
Book a facial rejuvenation callWhy work with Dr. Abbey
One practitioner. Many ways to help you change.
I'm Dr. Abbey Jo Shulkin — Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, licensed acupuncturist, certified hypnotherapist, and a longtime health and fitness professional. I'm also medical director at Carmen Care in Boca Raton.
I've spent decades studying health and transformation from several directions at once, which means you don't have to assemble a team of specialists who never speak to each other. One person can look at the whole picture.
Credentials are only part of the story. I also know what it feels like to want to change something in your life and have no idea how. Working my way through my own long struggle with food shaped how I understand behavior change today, and became the foundation for the Life Shifts Weight Wellness System.
Don't just ask how to make the symptom disappear.Ask what's keeping the problem going.
- 01 Acupuncture & Chinese medicine
- 02 Hypnotherapy & Timeline Therapy®
- 03 Behavior change
- 04 Weight wellness
- 05 Nutrition & fitness
- 06 Laser & shockwave therapy
- 07 Herbal & homeopathic approaches
In their words
What it's like to be her patient.
Several doctors told me acupuncture wouldn't solve my problem. Every treatment she gave me was successful.Natasa S.
I was nervous about acupuncture and she made me comfortable right away. Very professional, and she truly cares about her clients.Shawna N.
I've been seeing Dr. Abbey for several years. She's treated a range of issues for me, always with great results.Marni
A severe abdominal injury and a long time in pain. She was careful, she relaxed me, and my pain levels dropped. The treatment was tailored to me.J.E. · Verified patient
My first acupuncture appointment, and it went fantastic. She's a well-rounded doctor who can help you enhance your life.Luisana C.
A true professional with a personal approach, treating patients with extensive knowledge and genuine care.Mariya S.
Reviews left by patients of Dr. Shulkin's prior practice, Gold Coast Holistic Medical Specialists, on Google and Zocdoc. Individual results vary; these describe individual experiences and are not a promise of outcome.
The next step
You don't need to know which treatment you need. That's my job.
Do I need acupuncture? Would hypnotherapy help? Is Life Shifts right for me? You don't have to answer any of that before we talk. Start by telling me four things.
We'll use your free 15-minute phone call to talk about what's happening and decide together whether my approach is a good fit for you. No obligation. Just a conversation about where you are, where you'd like to be, and the most appropriate next step.
Or email dr.abbeyjoshulkin@gmail.com · Serving Florida, in person and online.