Barbara Gosse, MSOM, LAc, is an acupuncturist and Oriental medicine practitioner at the Bloomington Natural Care Center. Barbara has more than a dozen years of experience as an acupuncturist and Oriental medicine practitioner with Hennepin Faculty Associates in Minneapolis. She has worked extensively in a variety of diverse settings, including at Hennepin County Medical Center in the internal medicine division, treating patients in surgical ICU, pediatric ICU, and high risk labor and delivery. She also treated patients in a number of drug treatment facilities, and worked with women in a state prison facility.

Barbara has supervised student interns in the Minnesota College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine’s teaching clinics. She is also trained in therapeutic massage, having worked as massage therapist for more than a decade in New Mexico and Minnesota.

She received her Master of Science in Oriental Medicine degree from Southwest Acupuncture College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

“Oriental Medicine was a natural progression of study for me,” explains Gosse. “Prior to being a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), I was a massage therapist for 15 years. But I wanted to practice health care in a deeper manner, and felt my choices were medical school, or the study of TCM. Traditional Chinese Medicine won out because I knew I would not be able to provide the kind of patient care I am interested in if I practiced allopathic medicine.”