Krissy Barritt is an Acupuncturist at Mountain View Pain Center, seeing patients at Lakewood. She holds a master’s in traditional Chinese medicine, is a licensed acupuncturist and a registered nurse, and has worked in healthcare for more than fourteen years. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Kristen (aka Krissy) Barritt, MSTCM, L.Ac, RN, has a diverse healthcare background with over 14 years of experience. She blends eastern, western and functional medicine into her treatments.
Krissy has extensive experience in musculoskeletal conditions especially post concussion/whiplash/migraines and pelvic floor conditions. She has certifications in Sports Medicine Acupuncture tm, trigger point Acupuncture/dry needling, clean needle technique, acupoint injection therapy, and pelvic floor therapy. Krissy often uses adjunct therapies including electro stim (TENS), cupping, and myofascial release. She’s currently pursuing her Advanced Level Diploma in Fertility Support Acupuncture. When not nerding out on all things medicine, you can find her hitting the slopes or curling up with a good book.
Krissy is licensed in two traditions at once. She is a registered nurse and she holds a master’s degree in traditional Chinese medicine, which means a conversation about what your imaging showed, what your medication is doing and what your other clinicians have said is not a conversation that has to be translated for her. Patients who have been sent between systems and had to carry the explanation themselves tend to notice that first.
Her clinical emphasis is musculoskeletal, and whiplash and migraine are two of the patterns she works with most. Her certifications include sports medicine acupuncture and trigger point acupuncture, and she uses cupping, myofascial release and electrical stimulation alongside the needling. Where the answer is not acupuncture she says so and the rest of the practice is in the same building.
The problems she sees most are back pain, neck pain, knee pain, migraines and neuropathy.
The first appointment is mostly questions and examination. Where the pain is, what it does over a day, what has already been tried, how you sleep and what else is going on, because the pattern matters as much as the location. Then the needles, which are the part people worry about and the part that surprises them: they are single-use, sterile and about the width of a hair, and most patients describe insertion as a dull heaviness or nothing at all rather than as a sharp pain.
You lie still for roughly twenty to thirty minutes with the needles in place, and a fair number of people fall asleep. Cupping is often used alongside it for tight, guarded muscle, and dry needling is a related but different technique, which the comparison page explains. Relief after one session is common but not the point: acupuncture is generally judged over a short course rather than a single visit.
Where acupuncture is not the right tool, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic and Pain Management are in the same building and on the same chart, so a change of direction is a conversation rather than a new referral and another wait.
Krissy sees patients at Lakewood. That page lists the address, the hours and what a first visit involves.
For the rest of the team, see the Colorado Acupuncture providers page, or acupuncture in your area. No referral is needed for Acupuncture at Mountain View Pain Center.
Acupuncture coverage varies more between plans than any other service line we offer. Some plans cover a set number of visits a year, some cover it only for named conditions, and some do not cover it at all. Medicare’s coverage of acupuncture is narrow and condition-specific. Our team verifies your benefits before your first visit and tells you what yours covers, so the number is known in advance rather than after.
Availability changes from week to week, so the honest answer is to ask. Request an appointment online and say you would like to see Krissy, or call and our team will tell you what is open at Lakewood. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
It is one of the patterns Krissy works with most. Whiplash leaves a mix of joint irritation and muscle guarding, and acupuncture is aimed at the second of those. It is often used alongside Chiropractic or Physical Therapy rather than instead of them, and all three are in this practice.
Some people get useful results and some do not, which is the honest answer. It is judged over a short course rather than one session, and what gets tracked is frequency and duration rather than whether a single headache stopped. Our acupuncture for migraines page goes through this in more detail.
Different training, different reasoning, and often a different sensation, although both use a fine filiform needle. The comparison page sets them side by side. Krissy is certified in both.
No. Acupuncture at Mountain View Pain Center does not require a referral, and neither do Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Pain Management. Coverage varies widely between plans, so our team verifies your benefits before your first visit.
Day or night, seven days a week — and we’ll text you back to get you scheduled. No referral is needed, and our goal is to see you within the same week. Colorado scheduling runs through one number for every Colorado clinic: (720) 749-5599.
