Practice Focus Statement

My practice focus is to provide individuals of all ages with comprehensive physical care, touching all aspects of health: the biochemical body, the emotional body and the structural body. I not only help patients gain greater balance in their bodies and lives, thus decreasing and often eliminating pain, but also teach patients a new way of looking at their body so they can better take care of it. To find out more about how this is possible, please contact the office and speak with Dr. Paul McKenna about setting up a complimentary consultation.

Dr. Paul McKenna studied at the University of California, Berkeley www.berkeley.edu for three years. During this time he also completed intensive massage courses at McKinnon Institute of Professional Massage www.mckinnonmassage.com in Oakland, California. He finished his undergraduate studies in 1991 at Fairhaven College www.ac.wwu.edu/~fhc, a small college of roughly 300 students. Fairhaven College is a part of the larger Western Washington University www.wwu.edu, a university of 11,000 students, located in Bellingham, Washington. Through Fairhaven College, he completed a self-designed degree entitled, "Eastern & Western Approaches to Healing and Life". This degree combined various disciplines, such as Death and Dying, Eastern Philosophies, Sociology, and the sciences, as preparation for chiropractic college.

He began his chiropractic studies at Palmer College of Chiropractic West www.palmer.edu/PCCW/PCWmain.htm in the Bay Area before transferring to Western States Chiropractic College www.wschiro.edu in Portland, Oregon. He completed his Doctorate in Chiropractic in 1996, and then moved to the state of Washington to begin practicing.

Dr. McKenna's first exposure to chiropractic care was as a patient when he was eleven-years-old, so by the time he attended chiropractic college, he was already well versed in an understanding of different approaches to chiropractic care. During his graduate studies, he completed advanced training in a few of these different approaches, most notably Applied Kinesiology www.icakusa.com, Sacral Occipital Technique www.sorsi.com, and Neuro Emotional Technique www.netmindbody.com. His years in Washington working both in other offices and also in private practice allowed him to develop his own unique approach to combining these chiropractic disciplines.

• Applied Kinesiology (AK) www.icakusa.com
• Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) www.netmindbody.com
• Sacral Occipital Technique (SOT) www.sorsi.com
• McKinnon Institute of Professional Massage www.mckinnonmassage.com

Dr. McKenna was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and came to the United States when he was four-years-old. Although no longer fluent in Spanish, he is familiar with the language and would like to someday regain fluency. He lived in France for one year as an exchange student following high school, and is still conversational in French to this day.

When not helping his patients feel better, Dr. McKenna enjoys reading, spending quality time with friends and family, listening to music, cooking good meals, taking walks, and partaking in all the other wonderful aspects of living in beautiful, sunny California.