Dr Giulietta Octavio, DACM

The work spans private clinical care, teaching, writing, and organizational training, and the practice is based at a suite in San Anselmo.

Each private visit begins with a review of what someone is experiencing, along with their health background, sleep patterns, how they move, what and how they eat, how well they recover, and how they manage everyday tasks. Sessions are planned around the individual and the kind of appointment they book, not a standard sequence. Depending on the case, the practice can draw on Chinese medicine, needle-based acupuncture, manual body work, directed movement, breathwork or meditation, herbal advice, and supportive therapeutic devices. Clients often come in for pain, slow recovery, poor sleep, stress, hormonal shifts, digestive complaints, or concerns that touch several systems in the body at once.

Virtual consultations review symptoms, history, patterns, and current health practices, and can include a Chinese medicine consultation, herbal guidance where appropriate, and a health and recovery plan. They are offered to people who live outside the area.

Aesthetic care uses microneedling, which creates a controlled micro-injury meant to prompt the skin's repair response, sometimes alongside red and near-infrared light. It is offered for texture and tone, fine lines and early photoaging, post-acne texture, and overall skin quality. Results develop gradually, and the practice screens for situations where treatment should be postponed or avoided.

Code Calm teaches a method called SNAP (Stop, Notice, Allow, Plan, Choose), which aims to help people regain access to their own responses under pressure rather than to eliminate activation or produce calm. Options include two 90-minute online Foundations classes, a monthly live Circle practice group, keynotes, interactive workshops, and customized training for organizations. The site attributes endorsements to a Medical Director at Recovery Without Walls and to the Health and Safety Chair of Marin Professional Firefighters IAFF Local 1775, and lists membership in Marin Perinatal Resource.

Care is built around each person's assessment and needs, and the aesthetic work is conservative and evidence-informed, supporting the skin's own repair processes.