Welcome to your healing journey! With a tailored, personalized approach, I help women navigate the mind-body connection using holistic and energetic approaches.
Valerie Christina Acupuncture & Women's Wellness is a private, women-only practice offering acupuncture, herbal medicine, sound therapy, somatic breathwork and life coaching. 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.
01/22/2026
Hormonal imbalance isn’t a willpower problem.
It isn’t a discipline issue.
And it isn’t a personal failure.
Hormones respond to stress, sleep, nourishment, emotional load, and nervous system capacity. When those demands exceed what the body can sustain, the system adapts.
Symptoms aren’t evidence that your body is broken — they’re evidence that it’s been working very hard on your behalf.
I wrote a new article reframing hormonal imbalance through a trauma-informed, acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine lens.
✨ New on Substack:
Hormonal Imbalance Isn’t a Personal Failure
Modern life places demands on the nervous system that the human body was never designed for.
Constant stimulation.
Chronic stress.
Very little space to recover.
Acupuncture isn’t about forcing relaxation or “fixing” symptoms.
It works by supporting regulation — helping the nervous system shift out of survival mode and back into coherence.
That’s why this ancient medicine feels surprisingly relevant right now.
I wrote a new article exploring how acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine support modern nervous systems living under constant pressure.
✨ New on Substack:
Acupuncture for Modern Life: Ancient Medicine for a Nervous System Under Pressure
There are seasons when nothing is “wrong,”
yet everything feels unsettled.
You may be functioning.
You may be capable.
You may even be successful.
And still — something is shifting beneath the surface.
This isn’t pathology.
It’s transition.
I wrote a new essay exploring what it means to be between versions of yourself — and how coaching can support clarity and integration without fixing, forcing, or pathologizing the process.
If you’re feeling restless, tired, or quietly called toward change, this piece is for you.
✨ New article on Substack:
When You’re Not Broken—You’re Between Versions of Yourself
Some of what you’re carrying didn’t begin with you.
Modern science now confirms what Traditional Chinese Medicine has taught for thousands of years:
our bodies carry history.
Epigenetics shows us that stress, trauma, nourishment, and environment can influence gene expression across generations.
In TCM, this is understood through Ancestral Qi (Yuan Qi)—the deep constitutional energy we inherit and steward throughout life.
Healing doesn’t erase the past.
It creates the conditions for regulation, repair, and new patterns to emerge.
Acupuncture works at this intersection—supporting the nervous system, calming stress physiology, and helping the body release what no longer needs to be carried forward.
What you regulate, you do not pass on.
✨ New article now live on Substack:
“Epigenetics & Ancestral Qi: Healing Beyond Generations”
I hear this often. And it’s usually not because someone isn’t resting enough.
When the nervous system has spent a long time in survival mode, it can struggle to fully downshift — even when life finally slows down. Rest becomes non-restorative, and people start to wonder what they’re doing wrong.
I shared a new reflection on nervous system fatigue — why rest doesn’t always work the way we expect, and how gentle, body-led support (including acupuncture) can help the system relearn safety.
If this resonates, you’re not behind — and you’re not failing at rest.
We’re often taught to expect healing to feel dramatic—a breakthrough, a release, a sudden shift.
But in real life, especially when the nervous system has been under stress for a long time, healing often arrives quietly.
Less reactivity.
More steadiness.
A body that no longer feels like it’s always on guard.
I shared a new reflection on what healing actually feels like when it’s body-led and nervous-system informed, and how acupuncture can support this slower, more sustainable process.
If you’re on a healing path that feels subtle or nonlinear, you’re not behind—and you’re not doing it wrong.
When you’ve spent months—or years—caring for others, it’s easy to forget what it feels like to be grounded in your own center.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Earth element reminds us that true nourishment begins within. 🌾 If your energy has been scattered, your body tired, or your spirit stretched thin, this reflection is for you.
✨ The Earth Within: Reclaiming Center After Caregiving Depletion
In TCM, the Metal element governs breath + letting go. For caregivers, learning to exhale what’s not ours restores balance + calm. 🌬️
In this week’s article, I explore how caregivers can honor grief as a natural, purifying force and use a simple somatic breathing ritual to release emotional residue from the body.
Caregiving is a sacred act of love — yet the emotional and energetic weight of tending to others can quietly deplete our center. Through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine, we explore how the Earth element (Spleen and Stomach) governs nourishment, boundaries, and our capacity to stay grounded in service. Includes a somatic self-care ritual to help you “digest the day.”
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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.
