Reclaim Your Health

Dr. Lei is amazing! She genuinely cares about helping her patients get to the root of the problem — not just fixing the symptoms. She explains how physical ailments are usually caused by emotional stresses and she works diligently to help relieve you of these problems. During my first session with her, she examined my feet and was able to tell me things about my personality that she could never know being that this was our first meeting together. After that session, I was hooked! :) Dr. Lei is filled with so much love and light — just being in her presence is healing. Her space is great and always relaxing. She’s a great listener and truly wants to help people learn how to listen to their bodies more carefully in order to live a healthier life. I can’t thank her enough for all of her help! :) Hi-​Five!!! ;D

Dr. Lei is AWESOME. She was highly recommended to me by a friend and ended up working on me all through graduate school. She helped me with both my bodily and mental stresses during that time. I was always amazed how she would be able focus in on where my tension was and equally amazed how she would find areas that were holding tension that I wasn’t even aware of! There is so much truth that we all hold stress and negative emotions in our bodies and Dr. Lei is masterful on understanding how my body does that and how to help my body process it and let go. I may not understand 100% how she does what she does, all I know is: it works!
I’m bummed that I’ve since grad school, I’ve moved away and no longer can see her but next time I am in this area, you can bet I’ll be getting in!

I was introduced to Dr. Lei in massage school as my anatomy instructor; the entire class was blown away at her ability to guide us through the body. She was so impressive when she did minimal assessments on students in the class that I enlisted her to help my mom who is suffering from dementia and pains in her leg. Previously my mom went to various chiropractors and none of them helped decrease the pain. Dr. Lei has devised her own technique, which looks at the physical, emotional, and chemical aspects of the problem. My mom has been seeing her weekly for months now and when my mom does her homework, we witness profound changes (increased memory, elevated moods, etc). Dr. Lei is incredibly patient, understanding, intuitive, and supportive. I can’t thank her enough for how much she has helped my mom. Her approach is so holistic which is why it works so well.

I think everyone finds what works best for them in their journey of healing and self-​discovery. Tamara has found a perfect mix of united the physical and emotional and their relationship which is enormously powerful when understood and addressed. She is one of the most encouraging, joyful and compassionate doctors I’ve yet to meet and I’m so convinced I’m going to be looking into the training she is offering on her ‘source technique’ which she offers periodically. I cannot recommend her highly enough and have my dear friend Melani to thank for the reference!

I used to get migraine headaches 3 to 4 times a week. A former roommate used to encourage me to «go see his chiropractor». I asked if she would make my headaches go away, and all he replied was, «She’ll make you better.»
At the time, his simplicity and lack of elaboration was confusing and unconvincing, but I trusted my roommate (and now I understand more about what he meant). One summer, I had some time, I had some money, and I made an appointment. If I had only known the peace and healing I would find, I would have shown up at her door much sooner, yo!
Working with Dr. Lei has not only decreased my migraines significantly (I still get them, but now maybe 15 times a year as opposed to 150), she has also helped me create a totally more healthy, gentle, and happy existence, in many more areas of life than I could have expected. For me, she is a great body worker and a therapist who works with more than just your mind and language. My body apparently holds and communicates much more than I am consciously aware of. Dr. Lei is the ambassador/​translator who helps me make connections that might never have crossed my mind and which make amazingly clear sense after I have made them.
Off the top of my head, I can think of at least 5 friends and colleagues who now see her on the regular, and we often comment on how grateful we are to have found her, and how much better our lives are as a result of our work with her.
Do NOT go see her unless you are ready for miraculously positive life changes. Seriously (some people might really not be ready).
Also, I make visiting her in the new location in Berkeley a little sojourn from the daily grind. There is Monterey Market and Berkeley Natural Foods — both carry the basic hard-​to-​find high quality foods that further support my health and development. The little flower shop that is kitty corner to Dr. Lei’s office always has a fragrant box of gardenias, and lovely Anna will always sell me one or two. Oh, and there’s New York style pizza slices up the street from Monterey Market…
I come from Oakland, and traveling the 80 during peak hours is no bueno for me, so if I am traveling then, I will usually take Market/​Sacramento all the way, which is a breeze.
Dr. Lei works in Berkeley 3 evenings a week, 3 – 7 ish, and it is super easy to communicate with her (she is an avid texter, too), so scheduling is also a breeze!

I came to Dr. Lei after looking around online for a chiropractor that could help my back pain after a car accident. I really liked her holistic approach to healing. Her office has a zen-​like feeling and she plays soothing music while she works on you. I felt so relaxed. She tells you exactly what to expect. When she was working on my back and shoulder muscles, she warned me that I would feel sore the next day. I did get sore, but it felt good at the same time, like she had loosened a bunch of knots. I only saw her 2 times, and unfortunately was not able to continue my chiropractic care with her due to insurance issues. I was referred to Dr. Mark Miller by the lawyer handling my car accident case. He was also very good, but to be honest, I wish I could have stayed with Dr. Lei because I liked her methods better.

Dr. Lei has an innate gift for healing like no one I have met before. After spending an hour and a half in our initial consultation, she was able to give me insight into my life that 10+ years of counseling did not come close to. All of this simply by testing reflexes (some in places I did not know had reflexive abilities), taking my blood pressure from both sides of my body and listening to me give a brief history of my life.
Her ability to detect what the body is trying to communicate to the conscious self is one of the most integrative approaches to medicine I have ever experienced.
There is a reason her practice is called, «Reclaim Your Health.» I highly encourage you to find out why and what it can mean for your life.

I was referred to Dr. Lei by two of my co-​workers and it has changed my life! Dr. Lei has taught me how my emotional pain transfers into my physical pain and how I can manage and control it by taking time to acknowledge my personal needs. Now I know what I need to do to immediately treat my aches and pains instead of just suffering silently hoping they will go away on their own. I am much more in tune with my body through her counseling and look forward to our next appointments to share with her my triumphs and setbacks. She is a great listener, has the strongest hands to work out the worst pains I’m experiencing and most importantly, genuinely cares about my well-​being. By the end of our sessions, I always feel more confident and determined to improve upon my health. I recommend her highly!