About     

Dr. Elizabeth Maximin, DAOM, L.Ac. is an intuitive mentor, and doctor of East Asian medicine with a decade of clinical and energetic experience, having provided thousands of treatments. She is the founder of Listening Medicine, a sacred approach, that bridges classical diagnostics, cosmological insight, and subtle energy work to support healing at various levels of the body.

She received her Master's degree with honors at a Taoist lineage school called the World Medicine Institute, in Honolulu, Hawai'i. The school carried a branch of the Shan Tan school from China led under the direction of the 64th heavenly Taoist master, Chang Yi Hsiang (Lily Siou, PhD). The practitioner was trained to assist Shihfu Chang in her acupuncture and herbal medicine treatments and observed the use of medical qigong during treatment protocols. Later, Dr. Elizabeth taught acupuncture treatment strategies, qigong, and was a clinical supervisor at the school. She also has a Diplomate of Oriental Medicine, signifying competency in East Asian Medicine, Acupuncture and Point Location, Chinese Herbology, and Biomedicine.
 
She earned a clinical Doctorate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, where she studied herbal medicine and qigong, with celebrated teachers in China and Taiwan.  Her research capstone was titled, "Methodologies of Cosmological Symbolism in Eastern Medicine", and included information from classical Chinese texts.  
 
Dr. Elizabeth has provided numerous health workshops across the state of Hawai'i, including a Living Well series at the Halekulani hotel that covered topics such as numerology, crystals, dream interpretation and manifestation techniques.  Previously, she coordinated multiple programs in the non-profit field, providing services for local families and trainings to professionals.  She was trained in motivational interviewing, trauma informed care and has a gold level Feng Shui certification with the International Feng Shui Guild.  In her free time, she enjoys dancing.