About Healing Spring Acupuncture

Healing Spring Acupuncture is located in Tucson. We are a locally owned, private practice operated by Robin Cupp, L. Ac., serving patients in Tucson and the greater Tucson region. Our Tucson Location

We take pride in offering compassionate, specific alternative health care solutions for our patients. We practice traditional Chinese medicine, as well as a combination of services -- including acu-stimulation meridian techniques that achieve acupuncture results without the use of needles.

Whether you are familiar with traditional Chinese medicine, or it all seems new to you, we'll demonstrate and explain the benefits that many Easterners have known about for thousands of years. Particularly if you have a health issue that modern medicine can't solve, you owe it to yourself to apply our proven health practices - you may find yourself fully healed in no time.

About the Practitioner: Robin Cupp L.Ac

Education, Training, and Credentials

Robin studied Oriental Medicine at Ruseto College in Boulder, Colorado under the tutelage of renowned Chinese Master Pao Chin Huang.  He completed the certificate program and moved to Tucson where he set up private practice in 1996.  He joined the faculty at Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ASAOM), and in 2000 was named Academic Dean.  He completed his Masters degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine the following year. Robin now has 15 years of hands-on healing experience, and he continues to educate fellow healers and healing students from around the world. 

Philosophy of Healing

Robin’s understanding of Oriental Medicine (combined with the experience gained through his own healing journey) enables him to engage the natural healing potential inherent in each of us.

Robin believes you cannot separate Spirit and Health.  He is a strong and compassionate advocate for his patients -- and he works to resolve physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of illness and disease.

Pioneering Applications for a Healing Practice In the early days of his practice, Robin was unhappy that he couldn't always help every patient -- particular with the allergy elimination techniques he’d learned.  Although these techniques had a 60% success rate, that wasn’t good enough for Robin or his patients.  He began to incorporate contemporary energy psychology techniques such as EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to enhance the effectiveness of clearing emotional blockages – a frequent, underlying component of allergies ignored by western medicine.

The results were astounding.  The treatment success rate for allergy suffers jumped from 60% to over 95%.

Encouraged by combination-therapy results, he focused on a particular patient suffering from debilitating Hepatitis C.  He applied a variation of TAT (Tapas Acupressure Technique) in conjunction with traditional acupuncture and, to his delight, the patient fully and rapidly recovered. Robin’s application of techniques was groundbreaking.  Robin could now often help release infections like MSRA or Candida in one office visit.  For many, Robin’s treatments offer relief from infections, both chronic and acute, that modern medicine cannot yet conquer despite decades of revolutionary advances in antibiotics.

Over the years, Robin’s techniques and healing approaches have continued to break ground.  He now successfully incorporates Applied Kinesiology with acupuncture, and integrates meridian therapies that often don’t require the use of needles.

Today, he maintains an active private practice and conducts continuing education seminars for health professionals, particularly those interested in Applied Kinesiology and Allergy Elimination.

Personal Background

Robin Cupp L.Ac, developed an interest in acupuncture and alternative healing methods as part of his own, personal healing journey.

Robin remembers “seeing an acupuncture book on a display at the library when I was 14 and I was struck by how strange and, yet, wondrous that the Chinese would heal physical conditions by placing needles in specific locations on the body.”  Later, in his 20’s, he had a roommate who found acupuncture helpful for his colitis, and that motivated Robin to try it for his own health problems.

In the 1980’s Robin sought help for very real physical symptoms.  A physician was unable to diagnose or help the condition, and told Robin he “should see a psychiatrist.” Frustrated and suffering, Robin began exploring alternative approaches to health. Although initially skeptical, he determined he had nothing to lose and sought treatment from acupuncturists and alternative healers.  To his surprise and delight, these healers helped him to a full recovery.

He later traveled extensively in Asia, (Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and was drawn to the Herb Shops with their fascinating smells and the secrets that they seem to hold.  Robin’s real education in healing began when he studied Jungian dream work with Ron Masa Ph. D., who Robin describes as a “brilliant man with a fascinating, deep base knowledge base and one of the funniest people he had ever known.”  Over a three year period Robin discovered how health, energy, and spirit are intertwined in his own life. 

"I felt like I could help others with what I had learned.  Three years earlier, when I'd left my engineering career, I only knew that I wanted my own business. Now a career in healing called out to me. I made a leap of faith and started acupuncture school - one of the best decision I've ever made."