About Shel
Dr. Shel di Montagna, DAOM, KICP is a Doctor of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine, Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner and integrative health expert specialized in creating sustainable health strategies that bring confidence, ease and creativity to family wellness goals.
Licensed in both pediatric and adult acupuncture, Dr. Shel blends a wealth of experience with integrative modalities to create custom integrative medicine treatment programs.
- acupuncture/ electroacupuncture/ acupressure
- advanced functional medicine lab analysis
- custom supplement, food & lifestyle programs
- pediatric song/story/play treatments
- rehabilitative therapeutic yoga asana
- cupping structural realignment
- moxa heat therapy
- vagus nerve ear stimulation
- neurodivergent holistic learning protocols
- therapeutic nutrition
An accomplished student and former teacher, advocate and family resource specialist, Dr. Shel’s unique style of family medicine utilizes college degrees in Sociology, Early Childhood Education and Community Health Science. Her earlier contributions as a social scientist and educator focused on research in the social construction of early childhood commercialism, antibias literature & curriculum program development, unique home learning educational plans and foundational health liasonship for kids with special health concerns.
Completing six years of training in Japanese and Chinese medicine, she has extended mentorship with renowned pediatric physician acupuncturist, Dr. Lucy Hu (China) and studied closely with Holly Guzman, OMD, a well known integrative Doctor of Oriental Medicine tackling complex health disorders in California. After years of clinical practice, she continued to an extensive 4-year clinical Doctorate in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, with honored mentorship in Neurology from Dr. Suzanne Robidoux (Toronto, ON/China), H.A.N.D.L.E. Holistic Neurodiversity Learning Strategies with Dror Schneider (Anthroposophy tradition, Country Georgia) and in Pediatrics with Robin Ray Green (California/Idaho, USA).
As integrative health science has evolved, so have Dr. Shel’s educational pursuits, leading her into Functional Medicine Advanced Lab Analysis, Supplementation & Nutrition with her most recent studies at The Institute for Functional Medicine and The Kalish Institute. Awarded as a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, Dr. Shel continues case study mentorship to offer the highest level of biomedical testing and corrective, data-driven non-pharmaceutical programs to families and patients internationally, in her mission to reestablish education and empowerment- forward standards of health and wellness.
She is most passionate about harmonizing stress disorders of the gut- brain axis by optimizing biochemical pathways of mind and body to improve stress resilience, digestion, immunity, sleep, body composition, brain function and detoxification pathways. After two years of development, in 2023, she launched and has proudly lead The “StressCase” Study, offering partially-subsidized integrative care for families struggling to thrive due to overwhelm of the mental and physical stressors of modern life.
Led by an insatiable awe of the natural sciences and humans within it, Dr. Shel has garnered a rich alchemy of health resources from decades of collaboration with families, students, patients and mentors. It is her passion, privilege and purpose to liaise these resources back into the community in their honor.