In pursuit of her lifelong desire to “heal the world,” Tzivya Kraus has spent the last 15 years seeking wisdom and gaining expertise in healing traditions from around the globe. She is the founder and owner of Transformation Healing Arts, which offers a variety of professional services to expertly guide patients on their journey to health and wellness.
Since 2010, Tzivya has been a licensed acupuncturist and NCCAOM Board Certified Diplomat of Acupuncture. Her training includes Traditional Chinese Medicine, Five Element, and Kiiko Matsumoto-Japanese styles of acupuncture. She had the great fortune to complete a Clinical Fellowship in Acupuncture concentrating on women’s health, labor and delivery, and clinical research under the expert tutelage of Dr. Claudia Citkovitz at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY.
Tzivya cherishes her work at NYU-Lutheran Medical Center as an acupuncture preceptor teaching, training, mentoring, and supervising acupuncturists in acupuncture and acupressure methods to assist women during the perinatal period, and particularly during labor and delivery. Additionally, she participates in clinical research studies investigating connections between acupuncture and labor/postpartum outcomes. Tzivya’s faculty position as a clinical supervisor with the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, NY, both onsite and offsite at NYU-Lutheran, brings her great joy.
Tzivya is a licensed and nationally certified massage therapist. Over the last 12 years, she has worked in a private practice, a wellness center, and at clients’ homes delivering the healing touch massage therapy provides. She has attained specialized training in Ayurvedic and traditional massage modalities for the perinatal period, and in pediatric massage and Shonishin.
Tzivya is passionate about women’s physical, spiritual, and emotional health, fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing, and has been a DONA International certified birth doula since 2002 to serve women in birth and beyond. Throughout her tenure as a doula, she has had the honor to accompany and witness well over a hundred births. She has been fascinated by pregnancy since the age of five when her kindergarten teacher became pregnant and appointed Tzivya temporarily in charge of the class during bouts of morning sickness. Tzivya is also an experienced postpartum doula and nanny, and has worked with children from birth through adolescence. She maintains close connections with a community of midwives, doulas, and birthworkers with whom she spiritedly spreads the treasures of Traditional Chinese Medicine.