I LOVE LOVE LOVE Teri at Calandra Acupuncture! Ive been going to her for about 5 years on and off and every time it is soooo worth it. I absolutely can see my health improve through her care and she is kind, gentle, and just so special! I could not have found a better acupuncturist in the South Loop. I absolutely love Calandra Acupuncture!

If you are sick, and tired of being unwell, start your natural reset process here. You will certainly start your journey with one of the very best representations of what peace, love , and joy through Mrs Calandras life work. Open your hearts and you will open your mind.

I had such a difficult time this past year both mentally and emotionally and was referred to Teri and her team from another one of my trusted care providers. My husband is in the high-risk category, so I didnt want to have to do any in-person sessions, and was so happy to know that Suzanne was able to do distance reiki over the phone. I had never tried reiki before and it was honestly quite life-changing. Suzanne has a welcoming demeanor that put me at ease. I also very much appreciated her flexibility whenever I needed a last minute appointment. I highly recommend Suzanne...but hoping that writing this review doesnt book up all her time, as I hope shell still have time for me! :)

I saw Teri in the Spring of 2019 for fertility assistance. After 1 month of Acupuncture and Reiki for me, and Reiki for my husband, we were pregnant! It was a shock and a delight and this post is certainly overdue! We now have a 10 month old baby boy and I will be sure to visit her again when we’re ready for baby #2. Relaxing and calming environment to provide much needed stress relief during an unknown time! Thank you Teri!

I started seeing Teri a year ago in an effort to get my menstrual cycle on track after years of suffering through irregular periods and daunting symptoms of PMS. I am thrilled to share that my cycle has never been so consistent and the PMS...MILD (if at all). Its incredible how acupuncture works with your body to help itself heal! And have I mentioned Suzanne?! If you schedule an acupuncture/reiki combo session you get the pleasure of having Suzanne share her gifts of energetic work with you. I can feel her energy just thinking about it! Oh, and Charlotte, the charming woman at the front desk who you get to exchange meaningful conversation before/after your appointment! I love this place! I feel like family here and nothing can beat that!!

Im someone with severe allergies and was non Responsive to most medical procedures so I got desperate. A friend of mine With similar condition from the other side of the world told me she had NAET treatments done for her and that it worked. I’m a medical professional and very skeptical of many therapies but I tried Calandra back in 2015. I can say with confidence that for me it was the cure! I would be out for months with asthma and get it all through the year and sometimes just Be homebound and dosed with steroids. After NAET I started living life, traveling eating without fearing an allergic reaction and even was comfortable around many things that used to cause allergies Animals dust etc. This is on going treatment and I sometimes still get bad reactions but they are only 1-2 days/episodes a year versus majority of the year prior to NAET. Calandra is a game changer.

When I first went to Teri, I was scared of the needles and skeptical of whether acupuncture would work. At my first appointment, Teris calm and warm presence helped to soothe my anxiety about the needles. I soon realized that the acupuncture was helped me to work on issues that even my doctors had not been able to solve. Teri is professional and dedicated to her patients, and I always feel like I am in good hands with her. Four years later, I am still going to Calandra Center for Health and Wellness and look forward to every visit.

In August & September, I was taking a Five week intensive training program in Chicago when I injured my knee (pulled a tendon) on the third day. By day five, I was barely able to walk , my knee area was inflamed & very swollen, and my pain level was 12 on a scale of 10. Teri was able to fit me in her schedule, evaluate and treat my knee. With the first treatment I felt immediate relief, pain down to a 10. During the remaining four weeks of training, she worked on my knee for seven more treatments and I was able to walk and eventually bend my knee; all while avoiding any type of invasive surgery. She is in short a highly skilled acupuncturist who also is very kind and caring. I highly recommend Teri Calandra.

Teri is amazing and on another level when it comes to healing. I have been seeing her for several years. She has helped me through two pregnancies and several medical (cold, allergies, migraines)/psychological (depression, anxiety) issues. I take my two young children to see her when they are sick and before they are scheduled to receive vaccines. I have seen a reduction in symptoms after Teri treats them for colds, flu and vaccines. My daughter used to get a high fever and cold symptoms after receiving a vaccine until I took her for treatment with Teri. She uses acupressure (so no needles) with children and they love her. I highly recommend one visit with Teri and you will understand what an effect she can have on your life.

Teri IS a healer! When you feel lost with your immune system being non responsive to traditional medicine and the only way out is NO WAY or through the high dose steroids and heavy antibiotics or immunotherapy injections (where you become manic, and fat, and at risk for diabetes all the colorful list of side effects)... but worse judged by many of the unknowing internal medicine, family practice doctors who think they know more about dermatomes and the sense of impending doom... here then comes Teri. 20 sessions of NAET Acupuncture in Chicago and I have learned more about my body and how to be good to it. I have not gotten a respiratory infection in over 2 years since i started. I used to get 3 heavy ones lasting half the year (at one point i quit my job because i was always at home in discomfort) I know everyone may respond differently but I came to Teri after years of trying nearly everyday to get help with my immune system. Shes exceptional. So if you are in Chicago or Arlington Heights and you are seeking Acupuncture, Reiki, Immune System Matters, Difficult to treat problems (even something as simple as pain or a cold that wont go away) or as complex as Fertility. Her center is worth a shot. Shes your Chicago Acupuncturist!

I developed Interstitial Cystitis when I was 21 years old, and after trying everything-- I finally tried NAET while I was living in Tennessee. It was successful and gave me my quality of life back! I ended up moving to Chicago, where Teri was my next NAET practitioner. Although I had mostly been well from the IC for several years, I would have the occasional issue crop up such as a bladder infection or a very sudden, random food sensitivity (the most memorable one being pain upon eating anything sweet combined with red wine). Every time, Teri was successful in finding the root cause (even when it was something completely weird and unexpected, like the sweet + wine thing) and helping me to address it.Teri is the most intuitive healer I have ever worked with (and Ive had some REALLY great ones), and it amazes me the stuff she finds-- for instance, there was a time when I kept having some scary recurrences of pain that mimicked bladder infections, which turned out to be emotion-based. I had never been one to put much stock into stress or emotional trauma equating to a physical pain in X area... but guess what, thats what was causing some of those issues.I actually live out of state now and have a great local NAET practitioner (once you try NAET, I promise you will not want to be without a practitioner!). But every so often when I have something going on in life (i.e., changing jobs, relationship questions, etc), I still contact Teri for life coaching. She has been very instrumental in helping me through times when Ive felt stagnant or had limiting beliefs. She is very reasonably priced, very accessible (whenever I had a quick question, she would quickly answer it via email), and has a really down to earth, sincere bedside manner. I wish I still lived in close proximity to her practice!I am 34 now, and to summarize, there is no way I could have lived with IC or its residual effects for 13 years without having gone through NAET. To put things into perspective: I am symptom free to the point where if something does feel weird-- I know its unusual, and I get myself to my NAET practitioner. If youre looking for the best NAET practitioner (or Chinese Medicine/Acupuncturist) in the Chicagoland area, look no more-- go see Teri (early on, I saw two others in that area before going to her, and she is THE best). Especially if you have a difficult or impossible to treat issue such as the one I had. I know this treatment modality definitely saved my quality of life, and in turn, my life. If you are in pain, I hope you will give NAET-- and especially Teri-- a try, as I believe you will get the relief and the answers for which youve been searching.