Boston’s Premier Acupuncture & Functional Medicine Practice
This includes offering functional medicine services, acupuncture and health coaching for both women and men.
WellFit Studio helps women with IFV, pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause, and helps men improve their physical and sexual health, such as low libido, erectile dysfunction, stress management and more.
Dr. Anna Israel employs cutting-edge resources to work with each patient that walks through the doors. We want you to live your best life.
Our Beliefs & Foundation for the Acupuncture & Functional Medicine Services We Offer
Trust Your Body & Trust Us
Your body tells a story, and we listen. Consider us your #1 source for holistic, integrative care. People come here to feel better, and that is our goal.
Quality Over Quantity
We put quality care first and foremost. We’re committed to being here for you every day – we believe in you and the power of healing. Be prepared to learn and heal, evolving physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Holistic Approach
We take a holistic, integrative approach so our patients can achieve and maintain optimal wellness. We encourage you to investigate our healing strategy, which includes acupuncture for both women and men, nutrition and body work. These modalities complement each other and are thus even more effective.
WellFit Studio’s Experienced Practitioner, Dr. Anna Israel
Dr. Anna Israel herself is proof that integrative health is life-changing, through the discoveries she made concerning her own health issues. She is thankful for the challenges she has undergone, as these tribulations provided an invaluable perspective on healing. Whatever you are feeling and experiencing is most likely something that Anna has struggled through at some point. And if not, she has definitely healed someone who has.
Growing up, Anna suffered through a long list of health issues: sports injuries, physical pain, respiratory pain, hormone imbalance, digestive issues, brain issues and more.
She found that getting to the core issue was nearly impossible – answers were surface-level. Solutions lacked personalization , were one-sided and seemed to have negative side-effects. It was as though very few practitioners (both eastern and western) had ever gone through pain and suffering similar to that of their patients. This realization sparked a fire in Anna, setting her on a mission to discover and learn as much as possible.
On her health journey Anna found solution after solution, and realized that integrative health meets people where they are. It instilled the lesson that reaching sustainable results is a gradual process, and as a result, she set out to pay her discoveries forward and open her own healing center.
Growing up, Anna was raised much differently than most American children. Her Buddhist household was into natural health and a strict macrobiotic diet. For instance, she had tofu sandwiches for lunch as she trained for the Junior Olympics! At age 14 she started eating a mainstream diet, and the more conventional foods brought on illness, allergies and PMS-related pain for the first time ever. As time passed, her body was deteriorating from years of competitive training, and Anna sought help seemingly everywhere. She was prescribed numerous medications, had misdiagnoses that included a brain tumor and major depression. One doctor advised her to take over 36 supplements. Anna will never forget being told by another doctor, “some things you have to unfortunately live with.”
That was when she reached her limit – Anna began to seek her own answers and has done so every day since. The journey of learning and returning to natural health was not easy. It took great dedication to understand how her body and brain function best. Simply put, the art of acupuncture, holistic nutrition, detoxification, exercise and yoga changed her life.
In her teens, Anna trained competitively both internationally and in the Junior Olympics, in the difficult sport of Dressage. This training played a huge role in how and why she is unlike any other practitioner in her profession today.
Anna has spent most of her life training horses, powerful animals, and still does today as a hobby. Dressage is all about balance and harmony between the rider and the horse. There is an internal and external awareness, and sensitivity is needed to pick up on subtle non-visible cues.
Anna can skillfully observe these subtleties in horses and in people, and has studied neurolinguistic programming, a coaching tool that plays an integral role in the success of her practice.
What began as friends asking Anna for advice and life-coaching tips turned into strangers seeking her out to help them with their lives, physically and mentally. Learning strategies and techniques in life coaching directed Anna’s purpose towards helping people.
As Anna says, “to offer hope to the hopeless is the greatest feeling in the world.”
Combining her own experiences, research, thousands of training hours – along with traveling internationally to heal others – Anna offers an arsenal of unique integrative health treatments. If you have a problem, she will work tirelessly with you to find the root cause.
Anna is honored to have also been trained in Results Coaching through Tony Robbins Research International, with the goal of continuing to help people through the United States and internationally.
As an addendum to Anna’s bio, several years ago she was exposed to black mold and developed Bell’s Palsy. With Bell’s Palsy, half of the face becomes paralyzed and those suffering this condition will lose the function of a full smile, and the ability to close an eye. Anna had a severe case, and was told by doctors that her prognosis was poor. It seemed that nothing she did was helping – including her own acupuncture, herbs and functional medicine treatments. In fact, she was advised that she may never heal.
However, as always Anna stayed positive and was determined to figure out a way to heal. It took her 6 months of research along with trial and error, but today she is completely healed. If you know anyone struggling with Bell’s Palsy, Dr. Anna Israel is the person to see.
Dr. Anna Israel’s Credentials Include the Following
Degrees
- Doctor of Eastern Medicine and Acupuncture from American College of Chinese Medicine (May 2020)
- Master’s in Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine
- B.S. Animal Science & Pre-Veterinary Medicine
- Results Coaching Training Institute
Certifications
- Massachusetts State Medical Board Licensed Acupuncturist & Herbalist
- Diplomate of National Committee of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
- Intermediate Nutritional Response Clinician
- Morphogenic Field Testing Provider
- Certified Egoscue Postural Therapist
- Functional Medicine Certificates in Mastering Brain Chemistry (Apex)
- Functional Medicine Certificates in Mastering Blood Chemistry (Apex)
- Functional Medicine Certificates in Mastering Thyroid Chemistry (Apex)
- Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM): Applying Functional Medicine In Clinical Practice
- Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM): Advanced Module GastroIntestinal Module
- Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM): Advanced Module Detoxification
- Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM): Advanced Module Energy
- Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM): Advanced Module Hormones
- Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM): Advanced Module Immunology
- Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM): Advanced Module Cardiovascular
- The American Academy of Anti-Aging – Peptide Certification Course
- The Human Longevity Certified Coach (in progress)
Other Certifications
- Robbins Research International, Results Coach
- Coaching Training Institute, Life Coach
- Accelerated Master NLP Practitioner Certification
- North American Riding for the Handicapped (NAHRA) Certified Instructor
- CrossFit Level 1 Personal Trainer
- Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher
Request an Appointment at Boston’s WellFit Studio Today
Now’s the time to take control of your health inside and out. WellFit Studio in Boston is the acupuncture and functional medicine practice for you. Call (617) 266-0323 or request an appointment online to get started with Dr. Anna Israel. It will be the best decision you make for your health today.
