Migraine Treatment in Golden Valley, MN
You’ve tried the medications, but the attacks keep coming.
At Everybody Healing Center, we focus on what's actually driving your chronic migraines. We offer drug-free, evidence-based migraine and headache treatment in Golden Valley, MN, using acupuncture, dry needling, and Chinese herbal medicine.
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Acupuncture for Chronic Migraines & Headaches
Treatment for migraines, tension headaches, and head pain that hasn’t responded to meds.
Led by Dr. Christopher Johnson, Doctor of Chinese Medicine, Everybody Healing Center treats migraines and chronic headaches with individualized acupuncture, dry needling, and herbal medicine. We see patients from Minneapolis and across the western Twin Cities metro who are still looking for real relief and migraine prevention.
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More Than Pain Relief —
Real Preventive Treatment
If you're searching for migraine help, it's probably not your first try.
Most people we meet who experience migraines have already done the rounds — the medications, the specialists, the advice to keep a headache diary and wait. And they're still losing days to migraines they can't predict.
The truth is, managing attacks one at a time was never going to be enough. The medication you take during a migraine does nothing to stop the next one from coming. It can even trigger its own medication overuse headaches.
We focus on both halves of the problem: easing the migraine you're in, and treating what keeps them coming back, so there are fewer to deal with.
If that's the relief and prevention you're really after, let's talk about what's realistic for you.
You don't have to keep organizing your life around the next attack.
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Types of Headaches & Migraines We Commonly Treat
Chronic migraines and headaches come from very different places, and they rarely respond to a one-size-fits-all fix. At Everybody Healing Center, we use acupuncture and integrative medicine to treat migraine and headache symptoms based on the pattern your body is showing.
Chronic Migraines
If you get 15 or more headache days a month, eight or more of them migraines, you likely have chronic migraine. Acupuncture is a drug-free chronic migraine treatment backed by clinical research, and over a course of care many people get fewer migraines that hurt less.
Vestibular Migraines
Migraines that come with dizziness, balance trouble, or motion sickness, sometimes without much head pain at all. Our vestibular migraine treatments often include acupuncture to calm the triggers behind the episodes and help you feel steadier day to day.
Tension Headaches
Tension headaches usually feel like a tight, band-like ache from stress, posture, or muscle tension. They are among the most common types of chronic headaches we treat. Tension headache treatment usually starts with acupuncture.
Cluster Headaches
Cluster headaches bring some of the most severe pain there is, so cluster headache treatment here means careful, coordinated care. We can work alongside your neurologist to help manage your symptoms and make the cycles more bearable.
Cervicogenic Headaches
Cervicogenic headaches start as neck pain and travels up into your head – so treating only your head won't fix it. Cervicogenic headache treatment targets the neck muscles and nerves where the pain actually begins, using acupuncture and dry needling.
Menstrual Migraines
If your migraines line up with your cycle, hormones may be part of what's setting them off. Our menstrual migraine treatment pairs acupuncture with Chinese herbal medicine to address those patterns at the root — a hormonal migraine treatment that fits naturally with the fertility and hormone care we're known for.
Post-Concussion or TBI Headaches
If headaches have stuck around for weeks or months after a concussion or head injury, you're dealing with some of the hardest ones to shake. Acupuncture can support your recovery, and we coordinate with your care team while you heal.
TMJ Headaches
If you clench or grind, jaw tension may be driving headaches around your temples, behind your eyes, or up the side of your head. We use acupuncture and dry needling for TMJ pain to release the jaw and the muscles around it, easing both the clenching and the headaches that follow.
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Headache & Migraine Treatment Options
There’s no single protocol for headache and migraine relief, because head pain isn’t a single condition. What we reach for depends on how your symptoms present, what’s driving them, and how your body responds. Most plans draw on some combination of the following.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture for migraines works by calming an over-reactive nervous system, improving circulation, and easing the triggers that bring on attacks. There’s real clinical research behind acupuncture and electroacupuncture for migraine prevention, and for most patients, treatment is gentle, relaxing, and builds gradually over a course of care.
Dry Needling
When tight muscles in your neck, shoulders, or jaw are setting off your headaches, dry needling targets those knots directly. A thin needle gets the muscle to release, easing the tension that refers pain up into your head. Dry needling for headaches is especially useful for tension and neck-driven presentations, and many people feel looser after a session or two.
Chinese Medicine
Herbal formulas work systemically, supporting the patterns underneath recurring head pain, which makes them a strong fit for hormonal and menstrual migraine. Every formula is built for your body and coordinated around any medications you’re already taking.
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Benefits of Acupuncture for Migraines
Every patient’s experience is different, and we don’t promise outcomes we can’t stand behind. That said, clinical studies and our own patients consistently point to the same kinds of gains over a course of treatment:
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Fewer and less severe attacks over time
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Support for reducing reliance on medications
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Better sleep and less sensitivity to light and sound
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Fewer lost days — for work, family, and the things that matter
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A calmer stress response and fewer of the tension patterns that set headaches off
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A treatment plan that adjusts as your pattern changes
Why Choose Everybody Healing For Migraine Treatment
We provide practical care focused on real improvement.
We specialize in the complicated cases — the migraines and headaches that haven’t budged for anyone else. Dr. Chris’s dual training in acupuncture and dry needling lets him tell muscular and neck-driven head pain from neurological migraines and treat each accordingly. We can coordinate with your neurologist or primary care provider, and because head pain is different for everyone, we reassess and adjust as you go.
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Licensed Acupuncturist | Doctor of Chinese Medicine | Master of Acupuncture
Dr. Chris came to acupuncture the same way many of his patients do — by needing it. After years of chronic pain and neurological symptoms following a serious accident, he found real relief through acupuncture when nothing else had. That experience shapes how he approaches every head- and nerve-pain case he sees.
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FAQs
Learn more about our acupuncture services or call us to find answers to your questions.
How does acupuncture help migraines?
Think of it as prevention rather than a rescue remedy. Instead of chasing an attack once it's already started, acupuncture helps relieve migraines by working between episodes to make your system less reactive to your triggers. Done as a series of treatments, that's what changes the bigger picture: not a quieter afternoon, but a calmer month.
How many sessions before migraines improve?
It depends on how long your headaches have been around and what’s driving them. The research on migraine prevention generally points to a course of at least six sessions, and some patients notice shifts sooner. We’ll give you a realistic timeline at your first visit rather than stringing you along.
Where are acupuncture needles placed for migraines?
It depends on your pattern, but the points are rarely just on your head. We commonly needle the hands, feet, neck, and shoulders, and sometimes the ears — locations chosen for the triggers behind your headaches, not only where the pain shows up. Most people are surprised by how little they feel during a session.
Is acupuncture safe with my migraine medications?
Generally, yes. We review your full medication list during intake, time any herbal medicine around your prescriptions, and stay in contact with your prescribing providers. The goal is to work alongside your current care, not around it.
Does insurance cover acupuncture for migraines?
Coverage varies by plan and condition, and guidelines change. Many patients use HSA or FSA funds. We’re happy to run a courtesy benefits check at your first visit so you know exactly where you stand before committing to anything.
Can acupuncture cure migraines?
We won’t tell you it will. Whether migraines can be fully resolved depends on their cause, how long they’ve been around, and factors specific to you. What we can say honestly: acupuncture can have a meaningful impact on reducing the frequency and severity of headache symptoms. Better sleep and fewer interrupted days are realistic for many patients — and that's the goal worth working toward.
Book Your Migraine Treatment Consultation
If you’ve been managing migraines without real improvement, there may be more available to you than you’ve been offered.
Dr. Chris will give you an honest assessment of what treatment could look like and what's actually realistic for your situation.
Call now to schedule your consultation.
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Our Migraine Patients Come to Us From...
Located in Golden Valley, MN, serving patients across the Minneapolis metro area.
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Golden Valley
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Minneapolis
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St. Louis Park
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Plymouth
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Minnetonka
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Hopkins
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Edina
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Wayzata
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New Hope
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Crystal
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Robbinsdale
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Brooklyn Center
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Brooklyn Park
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Maple Grove
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Eden Prairie
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