MSAcCHM, L.Ac
Dayna Caccia
THE PRACTITIONER
On the recommendation of her therapist, she tried acupuncture. What she expected was symptom relief. What she found was a complete system of medicine that matched how she had always understood the world: that the body moves in cycles, that symptoms carry meaning, and that health is not a fixed destination but a living relationship between what's within us and what surrounds us.
Within months, she had enrolled at Pacific College of Health and Science, where she earned her Master of Science in Acupuncture with a Chinese Herbal Medicine specialization. She is board-certified and licensed in New York State.
The body doesn't need to be fixed. It needs to be remembered.
Dayna Caccia is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist practicing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She came to Chinese medicine the way most people do — through a door she didn't know she was looking for.
BEFORE MEDICINE
Before acupuncture, Dayna spent years as a landscape architect — moving through the world with the understanding that humans and land are not separate systems. That we are shaped by the same forces, subject to the same cycles, and are most ourselves when we are in right relationship with both.
Chinese medicine felt like a fluent translation of something I had always known: that the body, like the land, moves in seasons. That the role of the healer is not so different from the careful observer who knows when to intervene and when to step out of the way.
A landscape architect’s eye
That ecological, pattern-based lens is still the one she brings to every treatment.
CLINICAL PHILOSOPHY
Chinese medicine was built on a foundational observation: that the patterns governing the natural world also govern the body. That the same principles animating the turning of seasons, the flow of rivers, and the rhythms of light and dark are alive in every system within us.
Dayna's clinical practice draws on this framework with precision — reading the body the way a landscape ecologist reads terrain. Symptoms are not problems to be suppressed but signals to be understood. Treatment is not intervention but restoration of the conditions the body needs to do what it already knows how to do.
She works with a small, intentional clientele, offering the kind of unhurried, diagnostically thorough attention that most modern medicine no longer makes room for.
The body as landscape
AREAS OF DEPTH
Dayna's practice centers on the place where hormones, stress, and the nervous system converge. The terrain where so many people find themselves exhausted, dysregulated, and told that nothing is wrong.
Hormonal health & cycle regulation
Menstrual irregularity, PMS, PMDD, endometriosis, PCOS, perimenopause. Addressing root patterns, not suppressing symptoms.
Fertility support
Natural conception and IVF adjunct care. Working with the full picture: constitutional, hormonal, emotional.
Nervous system & burnout recovery
For the chronically overwhelmed. Restoring the capacity to rest, recover, and feel at home in the body again sparking more creativity and openness.
Stress, anxiety & emotional health
Bringing the nervous system out of the patterns it learned to survive and into ones it can thrive within.
Where she focuses
THE DEEPER ROOT
The tradition Dayna grew up alongside — Celtic cosmology, the seasonal wheel, the old land-based ways of knowing — did not feel separate from her clinical training. It felt like the same thing, spoken in a different tongue.
Celtic tradition holds that the land is alive with intelligence. That the body is not separate from the earth it came from. That healing happens in relationship; relationship with the self, with the season, with the cycles that move through all living things.
These are not just poetic ideas. These are methods.
The threshold seasons such as Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh, Samhain mark the body's own turning points: when to rest and when to emerge, when to release and when to gather. This framework shapes how Dayna reads timing, understands hormonal and nervous system rhythms, and why she believes so much modern suffering is not pathology, but displacement from the cycles we were made to live within.
The Celtic way of seeing
CERTIFICATION
Training & Licensure
Board Certified
National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM)
MS in Acupuncture
Chinese Herbal Medicine Specialization — Pacific College of Health and Science
Licensed Acupuncturist
New York State — L.Ac.