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‘As Healing For Me As It Is For My Patients’: New Mom Leaves Career in Finance To Launch Acupuncture Practice on Forest Street

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Maria Zervas Batista first came to acupuncture as a patient, in 2002. Fresh out of the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in marketing in hand, she’d been living for one year in New York City and working in finance. “It was so overwhelming and there was a lot of stress, and one of my friends suggested that I try acupuncture,” the Boca Raton, Fla. native and Wilton mother of three kids under three years old recalled on a recent afternoon. “It was so amazing.