Welcome to your healing journey! With a tailored, personalized approach, I help women navigate the mind-body connection using holistic and energetic approaches.
I'm Valerie Christina, a Board-Certified Licensed Acupuncturist and TCM Herbal Medicine Practitioner, Somatic Breathwork Facilitator, Sound Therapist, and Holistic Life Coach. From pain management, hormonal health, to a full body nervous system reset, I help you live your life with greater energy, calm, and well-being.
09/22/2025
Feeling sluggish? Quick detoxes often backfire, leaving you drained. True liver support means balancing both Phase I & Phase II detox pathways — and timing matters. The best window is just after your period, when your body is most resilient.
Learn how to align cleansing with your cycle for safe, lasting results.
Hormones shape everything from mood to fertility to energy. Stress, burnout, and modern pace can disrupt this delicate system. 🌿 Acupuncture, yoga, and qigong are proven to lower cortisol, ease PMS, support thyroid health, and calm menopausal symptoms. In TCM, Kidney, Liver, and Spleen form the foundation of women’s cycles and vitality.
When ancient rhythm meets modern science, true hormone harmony emerges.
Safety Has a Map in the Body: Polyvagal Theory & TCM
Why do we sometimes feel calm and connected, while other times shut down or overwhelmed?
Polyvagal Theory explains how the vagus nerve shapes our sense of safety. TCM maps fear and resilience through the Kidney & Water element. Together, they reveal how the body’s “safety pathways” can be reawakened through acupuncture, breath, and somatic practice.
What TCM Knew About the Gut-Brain Connection (2,000 Years Ago)
Science now confirms what Chinese medicine has taught for centuries. TCM calls the Spleen and Stomach the root of postnatal Qi — the source of both vitality and clarity of mind.
Curious how microbiome research and Spleen Qi theory align?
What happens when modern red light therapy meets the wisdom of acupuncture? Science shows red light boosts cellular energy, reduces inflammation, and supports healing. Chinese medicine teaches us acupuncture points are portals into the body’s energy network.
Together, they reveal the body as a living web of light — where ancient maps and modern medicine meet.
Somatic Echoes of the Collective: How Our Bodies Mirror Shared Stress
Why do some days feel heavier, even when nothing in your life has changed? On anniversaries like 9/11, our bodies can mirror the weight of collective trauma — tight stomachs, worry, restless energy. Science shows we’re more interconnected than we realize. And that means your calm can ripple outward, too.
How Acupuncture Resets Your Nervous System in Minutes
In this video, I’ll show you how acupuncture activates your brain-body connection to calm your nervous system and create real healing.
09/11/2025
Your Body Knows How to Heal
Beneath symptoms and stress, there is a quiet intelligence—a current of tissues, nerves, and energy—always moving toward balance.
Acupuncture doesn’t force healing from the outside; it simply awakens what has always been within.
09/11/2025
Your Fascia is Talking—Are You Listening?
Did you know your fascia isn’t just connective tissue? It’s a living web of communication that acupuncture can ‘tune’—like plucking strings on an instrument.
09/11/2025
Discover how acupuncture activates the body’s hidden web of fascia and interoception—the sensory system that connects body, mind, and emotion. In this video, we explore new research on fascia as a living communication network, how acupuncture taps into these pathways, and why this may explain both physical and emotional healing.
Did you know your fascia is more than connective tissue?
Modern science shows fascia is alive, responsive, and even acts like a sensory organ — carrying signals that influence pain, stress, and emotional memory. Acupuncture taps into this “living web,” awakening hidden interoceptive pathways that help you feel more connected to your body — and more present in your life.
The body doesn’t lie. 🌱 Tight shoulders, a racing heart, or digestive unrest often reflect subconscious beliefs and unprocessed emotions. Modern research in psychoneuroimmunology, placebo effects, and epigenetics shows how thoughts shape health.
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Haven Acupuncture & Wellness provides personalized holistic care approaches to our increasingly fast-paced lifestyles, including acupuncture, herbal medicine, aromatherapy, essential oils, and bodywork such as cupping and tuina.
This type of mind-body-spirit modality offers you a unique experience to treat physical symptoms such as pain and injury, while also working on the neurochemistry involved in mental health, sleep, and other stress responses. This lets your body do the work it has been designed to do through your own immune and neurological pathways in the body.
Acupuncture and herbal medicine can be used in conjunction with other forms of care to speed healing.
The World Health Organization recognizes acupuncture as an effective therapeutic approach, and has named over forty conditions which respond favorably to acupuncture, including:
Pain syndromes: migraines, headaches, sciatica, low back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain and stiffness, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, arthritis, tendonitis, bursitis, fibromyalgia, automobile and sports injuries, joint pain, strains and sprains.
Supportive therapy: post-operative pain and rehab, adverse reactions to cancer treatments, stroke rehabilitation, infertility treatment, induction of labor, malposition of fetus.
