Sean A. Tuten, MSOM, Dipl. OM (NCCAOM), DOM (NM)

Dr. Sean Tuten has been in private practice for 23 years and has been teaching throughout the U.S. and internationally since 2004.  From 2000 - 2008 he and Dr. Elizabeth Checchio founded and directed the Village Health Project, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that partnered Chinese medicine with grassroots NGOs and indigenous N’angas for HIV/AIDS relief in Zimbabwe. 

He designs proprietary formulations for a large international producer/distributor of Chinese herbal patent medicines and served as an associate professor for many years at the Southwest Acupuncture College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Dr. Tuten founded the Classical Acupuncture Mentorship in 2016 to be a comprehensive didactic & clinical training program in the primary and complement channels of classical acupuncture.

He has practiced in his beloved State of New Mexico since 2002.


What People Are Saying

Sean is hands down the best medical practitioner I have ever worked with and I have worked with some of the best in the world. His approach, which seems to be about treating the spirit through the body, has changed my life (and body) and I could not be more grateful. His no-nonsense and incredibly knowledge based approach is backed by huge heart and commitment to his patients that is a rare combination. I wish every person I love could see and get treated by Sean. It would change the world... 

— R.W. Santa Fe, New Mexico

I have been seeing Dr. Tuten for several years now, and will continue to do so for as long as he is in practice.  Insightful, skilled and compassionate, I wholeheartedly recommend him to friends and family, and to my own patients - particularly those who have hit a wall in western medicine.

-C. M. Santa Fe, NM

My treatments with Dr. Sean Tuten have been some of the most positive experiences in my life, during one of the most difficult times in my life. I have been dealing with a major health crisis and the treatments I have received from him have helped me physically, mentally and most importantly, emotionally. I have such a positive mind set now thanks to Dr. Tuten’s treatments that I know I can make it through this current health challenge. Before coming to him for treatments my mental and emotional states were all over the place, filled with worry and doom and I was unsure of every decision I was making. I tried many other modalities to help me to stay in a positive space and I always found myself going back to the negativity. After several treatments with Dr. Tuten I felt an actual shift in my mindset and my emotional state and I have to say it has stuck.  Consulting with him and being treated by him through this whole process and keeping in mind the healing suggestions he has given me helped me to move forward in what was best for me. I am so happy I have him as part of my health team, and if anything negative ever tries to take over my mental or emotional state in the future I will continue to remind myself of my treatment times with him and all that has been accomplished from the treatments. I highly recommend Dr. Tuten for your health journey.

— A.K. Albuquerque, New Mexico

The medicine Dr. Tuten practices is incredibly rare and precious in this day and age, based in a foundation of intact and vital ancient understandings that most modern Chinese medicine has entirely lost touch with, Sean has studied his craft deeply. His technical proficiency in needling, cupping, guasha, lancing, herbs, etc., and his incredibly bright mind make him phenomenal in the realm of diagnosis and and artist in his application of treatment. Overarching all his truly superlative and seemingly natural skill is a deep caring for all his patients, and a kind, unconventionally  nurturing manner. I can never decide which I find more valuable: his administration of needles and general treatments which are always powerful, supportive, and transformative, or his sage advice and good humor via his occasional ‘pep talks’ full of sound advice on how to take better care of myself.

I feel incredibly fortunate to have such an adept practitioner and all around good intelligent human at my back, aiding me in being as healthy as possible, and helping in navigating the unavoidable pains and vicissitudes of life.

— J.H. Northern New Mexico

“We all have a limitless potential to actualize that which we hold most precious.  Almost without exception, the thing standing in our way is ourselves.”

— Dr. Sean Tuten DOM