Marshall Acupuncture & Herb Clinic: A Community Focused Acupuncture Clinic in Downtown Marshall
Centrally located in downtown Marshall, our clinic is proud to serve Madison County’s healthcare needs. Our practitioners are deeply passionate about natural health and taking time with our patients. We have a fully stocked pharmacy of close to 130 Chinese medicinal herbs that allow us to custom make our formulas to meet each individual need. When you come to see us, you may receive raw herbs to cook at home or a bottle of herbal pills, essential oil formulations, lifestyle recommendations, as well as what types of foods can aid your healing process.
We have five practitioners: Callan Welder, Becca Nicholson, Ruthy Celis, Philip Kendall, and Leah Vautrot.
Our team offers a wide variety of services including: acupuncture, massage, Thai massage, reiki, herbal remedies, essential oils and Yi Jing sessions.
Meet the Team
Callan Welder, LAc MAOM
Callan is a native to Madison County and graduated from Madison High School in 1996. His love for mountains, snow and skiing led him out West to Wyoming and Montana after college. Suffering from two compressed vertebrae in his back from a skiing accident in 2007, he turned to Acupuncture and discovered its healing power.
Callan completed a four year masters degree in Oriental Medicine, including Acupuncture and Chinese Herbology, in 2014 from Daoist Traditions College for Chinese Medical Arts in Asheville, North Carolina. After graduation, Callan opened Marshall Acupuncture & Herb Clinic in downtown Marshall. Bringing Chinese Medicine to his home town is a dream come true. Callan’s commitment to health and wellness has led to a thriving clinical practice that has helped hundreds of people in the community.
Callan raises his three beautiful children with his wife, Allison on the farm he grew up on. They host work traders year round and hold workshops and retreats in this rich biodiversity of nature and community. He also serves the community as a Qi Gong teacher and Chinese astrologer (Yi Jing consultant) through his teacher, Daoist priest Wu Dang Chen. He also incorporates earth based spiritual practices as an initiate in the Andean Tradition from Peru. He currently continues his Chinese medicine education as a student with Andrew Nugent-Head in Asheville, North Carolina.
Becca Nicholson, L.Ac Dipl. Ac.
Becca grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, and moved to Marshall in 2021. She has a background in the arts, music, and languages. She enjoys bringing her artistic sensibilities and creativity to patient care, honoring the uniqueness of each individual and their needs and goals. Becca comes from a family of allopathic medicine practitioners and became interested in Chinese Medicine via her dad—a physiatrist who found acupuncture in his search for better, non-pharmaceutical ways to address chronic pain. She is especially interested in using acupuncture to support emotional balance, pain management, hormone health, and headache disorders such as migraine disease. Becca utilizes a variety of treatment methods, including cupping, bodywork, electroacupuncture, and nutrition therapy. She loves the beauty, simplicity, and completeness of Chinese Medicine and feels honored and excited to be offering it to her community here in Marshall.
Becca is a nationally certified Diplomate of Acupuncture (NCCAOM), licensed in the state of North Carolina, and received her masters degree from Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine in Boone, North Carolina.
Outside of the clinic, Becca sings and writes her own music. She also loves hiking in our beautiful mountains, traveling, knitting, and is an aspirational gardener.
Ruthy Celis, LMT
Ruthy is a licensed massage and bodywork therapist specializing in injury and pain management. She has been practicing since 2005 and graduated from Rising Spirit Institute of Natural Health in Atlanta, Georgia. Currently she is the owner of The Muscle Whisperer Massage Therapy serving the Madison County, North Carolina area.
Ruthy is extremely passionate about helping her clients understand the origins of their physical pain and discomfort. As an LMT she uses a variety of techniques to cater each session to the individual's needs such as: deep tissue, neuro-muscular therapy, lymphatic drainage, myofascial release, trigger point therapy, stretching, mobilization and Thai massage techniques.
She enjoys learning and developing new skills to better help her clients and has a background in weightlifting and athletic training which helps her to understand the body through functional movement.
When Ruthy isn’t at work she enjoys spending time learning about the natural world and healing through outdoor activities, meditation practices, bodywork practices and reading. She is a mother of three and enjoys spending time with her family. Learn More About Ruthy
Phillip Kendall, LMT
Phillip is a licensed massage and bodywork therapist who is passionate about helping his clients find relief from chronic stress and injuries as well as the everyday impacts of our modern world.
Phillip’s personal healing journey began after a wake-boarding accident in college that unexpectedly introduced him to the world of alternative medicine, although be it several years later. During that time he became much more aware of the connection between mind, body, emotion, and spirit. It was an awakening in many ways and eventually this lead him to study bodywork and become a massage therapist.
Growing up, Phillip was very active playing sports and immersing himself in the great outdoors. Much of his love for bodywork and massage stems from his interest in cultivating functional strength and flexibility for everyday life and longevity. Phillip loves anatomy and continuing to learn about how amazing our bodies really are. His approach to massage and bodywork integrates his studies and practice in relaxation massage, deep tissue, myofascial release, trigger point, cranial sacral therapy, and resistance stretching.
Phillip graduated from the Asheville School of Massage and Yoga in 2017. He’s also a Certified Health Coach, Certified Yoga Instructor, and an Eagle Scout. When he’s not working as a massage therapist he helps steward his family’s small organic farm near Max Patch.
Leah Vautrot, LMT
If you’ve been feeling stuck—physically, emotionally, energetically—Leah’s your go-to. A Reiki Master since 2011 and certified in Manual Lymphatic Drainage since 2017, she blends these two powerful practices into one deeply restorative session that gets things moving on every level. Her work clears congestion in the body while unraveling energetic blocks that can keep you feeling heavy, foggy, or out of alignment. This isn’t just relaxation—it’s reset, release, and realignment in one deeply intuitive session.