Dr. MICHELLE HESSBERGER, ND, LAc, Dipl, Ac, MS

Dr. Michelle Hessberger is a Connecticut Licensed Naturopathic Physician and Licensed Acupuncturist in Orange who specializes in optimizing individual and family health through the use of natural therapies. She recognizes that each patient is more than the sum of their medical conditions and strives to enhance their vigor and vitality so they can achieve their optimal level of health. Accordingly, each individual is assessed and treated based upon their unique characteristics, which may be ascertained through an extensive intake and physical exam as well as conventional and alternative laboratory testing. Subsequently, each person may be treated using natural therapies such as diet and lifestyle counseling, acupuncture, herbal medicine, water therapy, qi gong, craniosacral therapy, homeopathy, massage, mind body medicine and natural supplementation.

Dr. Hessberger is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine and Acupuncture Institute as well as a Diplomate of Acupuncture. Additionally, she holds a Master’s Degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of New Haven and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Science with minors in biology and psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Her prior expertise as a professor and scientist further enhance Dr. Hessberger’s objectives of providing the best-individualized care for each patient. Her specialties include general care, pediatric and family health, pain conditions, autoimmunity, women’s health and fertility, and environmental medicine. While her practice includes treating patients of all conditions, she commonly treats children and adults with digestive disorders, stress and anxiety, obesity, pain conditions, Lyme and other Tick-borne diseases, allergies, autoimmune conditions, Diabetes, hypertension and heart conditions, anxiety/depression, and high cholesterol.