Dr. Bobbie Jo Putnam is a Doctor of Acupuncture and educator whose decades of clinical work revealed recurring patterns in human development, health, and transformation. The Gates of Seven & Eight grew from this exploration was born and bred in rural Michigan. She grew up in a working-class family and witnessed firsthand what chronic illness can do to folks. While fully acknowledging that suffering is a part of being alive, she sees no reason for people to suffer any more than they have to.

B.J. earned her Doctor of Acupuncture degree from the Won Institute for Graduate Studies and obtained her license to practice acupuncture in Pennsylvania in 2010. She went back to school in 2017 to receive formal education in Chinese Herbal Medicine and was issued a license to practice Oriental Medicine in 2019 which has allowed her to incorporate Chinese Herbal Medicine into her practice. B.J. has served on the board of directors for the Association for Professional Acupuncturists where she fulfilled the role of Education Coordinator, Vice President, and President before phasing out and letting the next generation take the lead and was a faculty member of the Won Institute for Graduate Studies for ten years.

Before her leap of faith into the acupuncture world, B.J. was a massage therapist and attended Irene's Myomassology Institute in Southfield, MI. She enhanced her massage training by completing an apprenticeship in Somatic Functional Therapy with Ramon Nunez, D.Ac.. Some of her favorite continuing education she has dived in to include pelvic floor acupuncture, using herbs to address PCOS and endometriosis, orthopedic acupuncture, and supporting perimenopause with acupuncture, herbs, diet, and exercise. She is an expert in Women’s Health, working to ease people through the transitions of life, and has a deep passion to help people of any gender with pelvic floor dysfunction.

B.J. is a determined novice gardener, occasional dancer, sometimes martial artist, and along with her husband, a tolerated companion for two very handsome cats named Dylan and Lugh. Regardless of what the humans think, the cats are not impressed by their human’s DIY home improvement shenanigans.