Dr. Carolyn Mayo is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, specializing in pain management and women’s health. She earned her Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine from the Acupuncture & Integrative Medicine College, Berkeley. Carolyn went on to receive her Doctorate in Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco. Her clinical experience includes Alta Bates Hospital, Lifelong Primary Care Clinic, San Francisco Prenatal Clinic and the Bay Area Veteran’s Acupuncture Clinic. In 2014, Carolyn founded Piedmont Acupuncture & Integrative Wellness to serve the community in Oakland, the same town where she was born and was raised.
Carolyn takes the time to listen to all of your health concerns and works with you to find the most effective and nurturing path toward restoring health and well-being. She has had particular success in treating those with chronic and acute pain from injuries, stress and anxiety, digestive disorders, gynecological conditions, infertility, as well as with pre-natal and post-natal care.
Carolyn was first drawn to the study of medicine as an undergraduate student of psychology and neuroendocrinology at the University of California, Davis. She decided to pursue a profession in Traditional Chinese Medicine after using acupuncture, nutritional therapy, and herbal medicine to treat her chronic migraine headaches. She is continually inspired by what traditional Chinese medicine can achieve and takes great joy in helping others benefit from this medicine as she did.
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Chelsea Rutherford, D.A.C.M., L.Ac. is a doctor of Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and herbalism. She received her MSOM (Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine) at the Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College in Berkeley, CA in 2015 and went on to complete her professional doctoral work, graduating from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco, CA in 2019. Her work in the alternative medicine field began in 2005 at The Heartwood Institute, a residential school where she studied whole foods nutrition counseling with Paul Pitchford, learned shiatsu, Swedish massage, and various other forms of bodywork, meditation, Tai qi, and qi gong. She studied energetic medicine at the International Institute of Medical Qi Gong in Monterey, CA with Sifu Jerry Alan Johnson, and learned Western herbalism in Mendocino, CA with Liz Migliorelli, of “Sister Spinster”. Additionally, she has worked with Olympic and collegiate athletes at the University of California, Berkeley offering orthopedic acupuncture. Chelsea incorporates all of these teachings into her healing work with her patients.
She has traveled internationally to study on two separate occasions in China (2013 and 2019). The most recent trip in April of 2019 was made possible by a full scholarship she was awarded to study at the Henan Hospital in China, where they integrate Western and Chinese medicine together seamlessly. She studied there for two months, working in various different departments in the hospital, studying with a number of doctors specializing in pain, digestive ailments such as liver and stomach cancers, insomnia, hepatitis, paralysis, infertility, while also working on learning Mandarin. Additionally, Chelsea traveled to Japan in 2019 to work with several different doctors, focusing mainly on Japanese style needling technique, palpation, and using moxibustion to treat breech presentation pregnancies.
She currently maintains a private practice in Oakland, CA and previous to COVID-19 restrictions, she works as a community acupuncturist for low-income people over the age of 55 in Oakland, and maintains an internship with a former teacher at an oncology clinic in El Cerrito, CA, integrating Western and Chinese medicine together, treating innumerable conditions and various forms of cancer.
Her areas of specialization include internal medicine, digestive ailments, orthopedic pain and injuries, insomnia, anxiety, depression, herbalism, nutrition counseling, among other conditions. She uses her years of diverse training to bring a unique experience that is tailored to each patient, inviting them into homeostasis. She strongly believes in this medicine as it helped her profoundly in her own healing journey.
Outside of her healing arts practice, she is a singer and musician, takes dance classes, practices yoga, is an avid gardener, cook, mushroom hunter, and crafty creative. She is deeply curious and fascinated by the efficacy of inner emotional growth and development and sees herself as a lifelong student.
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Dr. Vivian Wong is a licensed acupuncturist in California with a doctoral degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She specializes in recovery assistance from sports injuries, work-related chronic postural imbalance, and post-stroke rehabilitation.
Vivian customizes acupuncture sessions for individual clients to balance their body’s external and internal connections and improve their postural alignment. The goal for all clients is to help them maintain long-term wellness once their immediate symptoms are relieved.
With over ten years of sports massage experience, Vivian combined manual techniques with acupuncture techniques, learned from Whitefield Reaves’s sports acupuncture and traditional Nei Jing masters, to help clients achieve efficiency within their bodies’ potential to heal.
Her past clients include professional swimmers, college men’s swimming team, marathon runners, jiu-jitsu enthusiasts, hikers, and other working professionals with chronic pain. She has also helped clients to increase their daily life functions from stroke rehabilitation and pain reduction management from PMS symptoms.
Vivian received her master’s and doctoral degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the University of East-West Medicine in 2016 and 2019. She is fluent in Chinese and conversant in Japanese. Vivian has a BA in the Japanese language from UC Berkeley and studied at Tokyo University as an exchange student.
Vivian is interested in personal enrichment through walking and traveling. She has enjoyed visiting nature-infused walking destinations on seven continents. Vivian is also a Tai Chi and Qi Gong enthusiast and practices weekly with the Cal Tai Chi group.
To contact Vivian, please email her at vivianwonglac@gmail.com or call her at 510-520-6712