About the Practitioner

Kelsey Schwind Fernandez, Dipl. O.M., L.Ac. 

In 2003 Kelsey co-founded Art of Natural Healing, a highly acclaimed acupuncture & wellness clinic in the western suburbs of Chicago. As a wellness practitioner for 19 years, Kelsey has been revered for her outstanding success in treating a wide range of acute and chronic illnesses, as well as infertility with the use of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.

Kelsey’s extensive experience and success through the use of acupuncture and herbal medicine, including the collaboration with her patient's primary care providers, has resulted in the restoration of health and vitality to of over one thousand patients.

With the launch of her new and solely owned business in 2018, Xceed Acupuncture, Kelsey took her innate passion for healing and appreciation for our military veterans and began working with the local Veterans Administration hospitals in the Chicago area. By 2019 over fifty percent of the clinics patients were made up of our nation’s well deserving veterans.

Kelsey’s business approach has always been to eXceed her patient's expectations every step along the healing journey and placed extreme emphasis on quality care and patient knowledge. With the advent of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2019, mandatory shutdowns and remote learning requirements for her four children, Kelsey decided to close her beloved clinic and begin a new online herbal consultation business at XceedWellness.com and is now seeing a limited number of patients at the beautiful Estuary Center in Naperville.