About Margaret
The Early Years
Margaret spent a decade job-hopping in New York City before returning to graduate school in the late 1990s to study acupuncture and herbal medicine. She trained at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine*, one of the nation's oldest accredited colleges granting Master’s degrees in Chinese Medicine, and apprenticed with a foremost expert in the field of women’s health and reproductive medicine. She continues to study alongside the most respected names in the field, growing the breadth and depth of her practice.
*Now called Pacific College of Health and Science
In Practice
She began in private practice in 2002, and since then has logged almost 18,000 patient hours, treating a broad range of conditions. In her first decade of practice, she focused primarily on fertility and gynecology. Over the years, she’s continued working in women’s health while expanding her practice to treat the children of her original patients, as well as their partners, siblings, parents, grandparents, and friends. A byproduct of genuine connections with entire families and an innate desire to continually learn, this organic growth results in a continually evolving skill-set that addresses a range of patient needs. She’s privileged to witness firsthand how this simple, thousand-year-old practice has expanded its reach, and believes in the power of small changes to create big differences.
Since March, 2020
Margaret’s work is informed by her warmth, compassion, and humor. After the COVID-19 pandemic, she further committed to professional growth and returned to graduate school. She’s earning a second Master’s degree in psychotherapy from Syracuse University, which will culminate in her Marriage and Family Therapy license. She is eager to expand her services with this natural extension of her current practice.
Contact Margaret at Margaret@sikowitz.com to learn more about connecting with her for an acupuncture appointment at her Brooklyn or Manhattan location.
*Now called Pacific College of Health and Science
Uniquely Margaret
Judgment-free, compassionate and well informed, she brings her 22 years of practice and real-life experience into each treatment, which launched her expansion into her current training in psychotherapy.
After decades of developing meaningful personal connections with thousands of patients, Margaret’s decision to return to graduate school to earn her Master’s in psychotherapy was an obvious choice. She is currently a clinical intern at The Root Therapy, a multidisciplinary group practice working with individuals, couples, and families to empower and guide them toward positive change. While interning, she’s developing skills across a range of therapeutic interventions including somatic practices, Gottman, Internal Family Systems, solution-focused, narrative and behavioral approaches.
Integrating and expanding her clinical skills continually informs Margaret’s work. Many of her patients have remarked that her acupuncture sessions are therapeutic for both mind and body, so this is a natural next step. She is training under stellar clinical supervision and while doing so, following the standard of care - maintaining a separate clinical relationship with her therapy clients. Click here to inquire about this practice and to schedule with Margaret.
Margaret’s deep knowledge of the human body informs her therapy practice and her training in psychotherapy continues to support her work with acupuncture patients. She looks forward to the continued evolution of her practice.