Palm Beach Healing Arts

Palm Beach Healing Arts operates out of a clinic on South Australian Avenue, in the corridor between Belvedere Road and Palm Beach International Airport, a part of West Palm Beach that is more office park than boutique retail, which suits a practice built around one-on-one clinical work rather than walk-in traffic. The practice is owned and run by Katherine Borse, who holds a master’s degree in Oriental Medicine from the Atlantic Institute of Oriental Medicine, earned in 2010, along with an earlier degree in Buddhist studies and philosophy from New College of Florida. That academic background, part East Asian medicine, part contemplative studies, shows up directly in how the practice is structured.

Acupuncture is the foundation of the clinic’s work, and the practice describes it as “incredibly effective at dealing with transient, short term headaches” among other conditions, reflecting the kind of pain management and symptom relief that draws many first-time patients to acupuncture in general. But Palm Beach Healing Arts does not stop at needles. The practice folds in functional medicine, herbal medicine and supplements, integrative nutrition coaching, and lab testing and diagnostic work, treating the acupuncture table as one tool among several rather than the entire offering. Patients can also book one-on-one coaching sessions, either online or in person, along with yoga guidance and meditation instruction, and the practice periodically runs wellness retreats and educational workshops for people who want a deeper dive than a single appointment allows.

Borse founded the practice in West Palm Beach in 2013, and it has stayed a fixture of the local integrative health scene since, eventually growing enough that in 2023 she added a second base of operations in Tulum, Mexico, offering virtual consultations to patients who split time between South Florida and Mexico or who simply prefer remote coaching between in-person visits. The West Palm Beach clinic itself runs by appointment only, so this is not a spa a person can pop into on a whim between errands; calling or emailing ahead to info@palmbeachhealingarts.com is the way in.

For anyone newer to acupuncture or functional medicine, Palm Beach Healing Arts is a useful example of how those two worlds increasingly overlap in South Florida. Rather than treating Chinese medicine as an alternative to conventional lab work and nutrition counseling, the practice treats them as complementary, pulling from supplement lines and lab panels alongside traditional needle work and herbal formulas. That kind of blended approach can appeal to patients managing chronic issues who have already tried a purely conventional route, or to people who want acupuncture but also want someone reviewing their bloodwork and daily habits in the same conversation.

As a small, single-practitioner-led clinic rather than part of a larger medical group, Palm Beach Healing Arts represents the kind of independently owned wellness business that tends to fly under the radar in a city known more for its resort spas. It is worth knowing about for anyone in West Palm Beach looking for acupuncture paired with a more holistic, whole-person approach to care, and for patients who want a practitioner who studied both the clinical and contemplative sides of wellness before opening her own doors.