The Starting Point To Transform Your Health

Carla is an acupuncturist licensed in California, US and British Columbia, Canada.  She also obtains National Certification of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in US.  She holds a degree in Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine and a Bachelor degree in Business Administration major in Finance.  Throughout her path to become an acupuncturist, she has interned at HeCares Integrative Medicine clinic for 4 years.  Dr. Frank He at HeCares is specialized in orthopedic and internal medicine.  She has also interned at California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) focusing on treating post-surgery recovery and post-stroke rehabilitation.  Currently, she is affiliated with HeCares Urgent Care and Urgently Ortho clinic in SF to focus on orthopedic, pain and post-surgery recovery patients.  

Her Passion:

Carla is very keen to promote mental wellness that can greatly reduce the risk of developing any chronic issues. She has been following the teaching of Dr, Yvonne Farrell, the author of Psycho-Emotional Pain and the Eight Extraordinary Vessels.  She finds eight extra vessels treatments are extremely effective for emotional disorder.  She always obtains positive results for patients with PTSD, depression, and chronic stress disorder.

Chinese Culture: 

Carla grew up in HK where a well-integrated western and eastern culture is deeply seeded on her path to Chinese Medicine.  She often combines herbs in her daily diet and shares home recipes with friends and patients.  Her favorite Chinese festival is Mid-Autumn Festival because she loves the moon cakes and the lanterns!

Adventures:

Carla is a travel and hiking enthusiast.  She loves mountains and always travel to countries with beautiful landscape. Her favorite treks are Quilotoa Loop in Ecuador; Everest basecamp trail in Nepal;  Mestia, a highland townlet in northwest Georgia in the Caucasus Mountains.  

She always travels with ear seeds to save room in her backpack for boxes of medications. She has a lot of great experience in using ear acupuncture points to help others while she’s backpacking in other countries.  When she visited a village in Africa where malaria was prevalent, she used ear seeds to help people who can’t afford medication to keep the fever and headaches subside.  That was her first amazing experience with auricular points.  Another occasion when she was flying to Asia, a little girl sitting next to her with severe allergies that she normally would sneeze non-stop throughout a 10-hours flight. Carla has asked the mom’s permission to put some ear seeds on the girl's ear and massage gently on some pressure points prior to take off.  The girl had not had a sneeze during the whole flight.