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Integral Alternative Medicine LLC

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Integral Alternative Medicine LLC

Founded by Maria Cristina Torres, a veteran physician who shifted to holistic medicine and healing.

Helping women over 40 at her alternative medicine practice in Chicago and remotely. She offers personalized care and coaching with natural solutions. We provide Eastern Medicine, including Acupuncture to the Chicago area community. We believe that every patient deserves personalized treatment and that we can help you to take control of your health.

09/05/2025

Living with a chronic illness or autoimmune condition can feel overwhelming. Even with great medical care, many women still find themselves exhausted, anxious, or stuck. That’s where holistic care can make all the difference.

At Integral Alternative Medicine, we don’t replace your doctors, we support you in the ways traditional care often can’t. Acupuncture helps ease pain and tension, herbal medicine restores balance, and hypnosis calms stress and anxiety.

You are more than your diagnosis.

Holistic care gives you comfort, relief, and emotional support alongside your medical treatment, because healing is about treating the whole person, not just the illness.

Learn more about how we can help you through this season: https://www.integral-clinic.net/contact

09/03/2025

In today’s world, many women turn to acupuncture for pain, herbs for hormone balance, or hypnosis for stress, but real healing comes when we stop treating symptoms in isolation and start supporting the whole self.

At Integral Alternative Medicine, we integrate holistic health practices, acupuncture, herbal medicine, and hypnosis to create a powerful, balanced approach to wellness. This synergy helps calm the nervous system, regulate hormones, release emotional patterns, and restore energy in a way that lasts.

The result isn’t just fewer symptoms, it’s deeper sleep, steadier moods, more vitality, and the confidence of feeling truly supported, body, mind, and spirit.

👉 Read the full blog post here: https://tinyurl.com/4hypvx58

09/01/2025

Chronic illness is more than physical. It impacts every part of your life. But there is hope.

With a holistic approach, we help women living with autoimmune conditions find relief from stress, improve their energy, and feel like themselves again, while continuing their medical care.

It’s time for support that sees all of you. Book a consultation today to get started: https://www.integral-clinic.net/contact

08/28/2025

It’s time to send your kids to college…

College students are under more pressure than ever. Panic attacks. IBS. Exhaustion. These are the early signs, and if we step in now, we can change their path.

At Integral Alternative Medicine, we help students regain balance through acupuncture, herbal medicine, hypnosis, and holistic coaching.

Help your child thrive, not just survive. Learn more about how you can help them here: https://tinyurl.com/mtf7us7t

08/26/2025

Quitting doesn’t have to be a battle.
Hypnosis offers a gentle, proven way to release habits like smoking or drinking by working with your mind, not against it.

You’re not broken. You just need a new approach. 🌿

Book your hypnosis consultation today and read our latest post to learn how you can step into freedom: https://tinyurl.com/yevt2wed

08/22/2025

When holistic healing works together (acupuncture, herbal medicine, hypnosis) it creates something powerful: lasting balance.

No single approach can do it all. That’s why we combine the wisdom of Eastern medicine, the science of the mind, and compassionate care to help you feel your best.

Learn more about how to begin your journey toward true, integrated wellness: https://tinyurl.com/4hypvx58

08/20/2025

Struggling to break a habit like smoking or drinking?
Most of the time, it’s not about willpower, it’s about reprogramming the part of your mind that’s running the show.

Hypnosis is a gentle, powerful tool that helps you finally get unstuck. Ready to step into change that lasts?

✨ Book your session today and learn more about how hypnosis can help break bad habits here: https://tinyurl.com/yevt2wed

08/12/2025

There is power in aging.
There is clarity in stillness.
There is purpose in Winter.

Our latest blog explores post-menopause as the most integrated season of womanhood. Less about endings, more about arrival.

Discover rituals, herbal medicine, and how coaching supports this sacred chapter.

🌿 https://tinyurl.com/ckyv5pbs

08/07/2025

After the deep transformation of Autumn, we arrive at Winter, the season of rest, reflection, and profound wisdom.

This is the final post in our Seasons of Womanhood series, and it’s perhaps the most misunderstood phase of all.

🌬️ Welcome to Winter — a time not of fading, but of arriving.
Post-menopause isn’t an ending. It’s a powerful homecoming.

You’ve lived, loved, lost, and learned. Now your body, your heart, and your spirit are ready for integration, not hustle. Winter asks us to slow down, honor our wisdom, and live with intention.

From nourishing herbal allies to nervous system support and redefining your legacy, our newest blog post explores how to thrive in this chapter of life.

It’s time to reimagine aging.

✨ Read the full post here: https://tinyurl.com/ckyv5pbs

08/05/2025

Perimenopause is not a problem to fix.
It’s a passage to walk with grace.

🍁 Read our new post on the Autumn of Womanhood: https://tinyurl.com/59mwwyb6

08/01/2025

After the full bloom and outward energy of Summer, we enter Autumn — the inward turning, the slowing down, the great shift.

In the Seasons of Womanhood series, we now arrive at Perimenopause, a phase often misunderstood, yet rich with transformation and wisdom.

What if perimenopause isn’t the beginning of the end, but the beginning of something more powerful?

In this week's blog, we explore the Autumn of womanhood:
🍁 What your symptoms are really telling you
🌿 How to use herbs and coaching to ease the transition
🌀 What it means to come home to yourself in midlife

This is not a decline. This is a refinement.

👉 Read the full post: https://tinyurl.com/59mwwyb6

07/30/2025

There’s a phase in life when the world seems to orbit around you, babies, businesses, deadlines, dinners. You are the heartbeat of your home and your work. But who is holding space for you?

In The Summer Season of Womanhood, we talk about what it means to live in full bloom, and how exhausting that can be.

You’ll find tips on:
🌸 Nervous system care during times of intense giving
🌿 Herbal allies for fertility and emotional balance
🌀 Coaching tools to stay anchored through it all

If you’re in the thick of it — parenting, caregiving, creating, or all three — this post is for you.

💛 Read via the link below and remember: You’re not alone.

https://tinyurl.com/yfw5jnn9

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1609 Sherman Avenue Ste 205
Evanston, IL
60201

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm

Website

https://www.integral-clinic.net/

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After many years in the western medicine world, Cristina Torres turned to a holistic approach with Traditional Chinese Medicine. She is a health consultant, providing acupuncture treatments and Chinese herbs consultations to the Chicago community. We believe that every patient deserves personalized treatment, we listen and come up with a plan to support your health and wellness goals. Take control of your health!