Dr.Kenneth O. Carter, affectionately called “Dr. Khensu” by some, has been blessed to train with the best—pre-medicine at Johns Hopkins, med at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, internship and residency at Albert Einstein/Montefiore, masters of public health at Columbia University, public health acupuncture at the Lincoln Recovery Center, and mainstream acupuncturist at the Complementary Medicine Center in Columbia, MD.  He currently serves as the President of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA, the governing association for AcuDetox), and is employed as a psychiatry emergency room physician with Carolinas Medical Center.  He is also a part-time practitioner of integrated psychiatry and auricular acupuncture (AcuDetox) and full body acupuncture at the Center for Vibrational Wellbeing, aka Center Vibe.  He brings over 25 years of experience in integrative health and acupuncture.

Center Vibe is a holistic wellness hub for Intentional Living.  Center Vibe’s mission is to serve the Charlotte metropolitan community by offering natural, affordable, simple ways to promote mind, body, and spirit wellbeing and create positive shifts in the lives of its clients.   It does so in an environment that is caring, loving, stress-free, and energetically conducive to healing and creating better lives.  
Center Vibe is a hub in that it is the only facility in Charlotte to offer such a wide variety of services, classes, and space rentals, all promoting wellness and Intentional Living, and always with a service and community interest focus.  The foundation of its Intentional Living approach is AcuDetox, a low-cost effective five point auricular acupuncture procedure sanctioned by NADA that helps to bring the mind and body back into balance, thus enhancing the effectiveness of any other service and treatment. See Center Vibe’s ad for a listing of its core services.  See its article for more on our Intentional Living program.

Margaret Thornton is the CEO/President of Center Vibe and Xonna Clark is its Executive Director.  They may be reached at (704) 875-0585.  The Center is located at 1111 Hawthorne Lane, Suite 100, Charlotte, NC 28205 (Plaza Central area).