About Christine Friel, L.Ac., DNBAO, FABORM

Acupuncturist, Founder of Double Happiness Health

Christine opened Double Happiness Health in February 2005 in the Potrero Hill area of San Francisco. Practicing acupuncture since 2003 and massage therapy since 1992, she enjoys bringing a layered skill set to her work with patients to optimize their health. Utilizing acupuncture, herbal medicine, nutritional counseling, and manual therapy techniques, she tailors each treatment plan to the individual. After earning her masters degree at ACCHS in Traditional Chinese Medicine and being licensed by the state of California in 2003, Christine interned at Shu Guang Hospital in Shanghai. She has pursued continuing education including advanced studies in orthopedics- evaluating and  treating musculoskeletal pain- as well as studies in gynecology with a focus on fertililty. In 2007 she earned a board specialty in acupuncture orthopedics with Fred Lerner at Cedar Sinai Hospital. She was certified by the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine in 2010. Over the years Christine has studied Craniosacral therapy with the Upledger Institute, as well as Chi Nei Tsang, a Taoist visceral and energetic manual therapy with Mantak Chia and Gilles Marin. When neecessary, she integrates osteopathic  principals to manual therapy treatments, she specializes in Tan/Tong style acupuncture as well as scalp and trigger point acupuncture.

Passionate about providing lifelong self-care skills to those she treats, her philosophy entails partnering with her patients to achieve their health goals so that they can more fully live, setting out clear pathways toward those goals and when possible, measured outcomes.

About Bettina Roeper, L.Ac.

Acupuncturist

Bettina Roeper was born and raised in Germany and moved to San Francisco in 1998 to study Psychology at the San Francisco State University. After receiving her Bachelor degree in Psychology, Bettina started her holistic healing path in 2002, when she enrolled for the Swedish Massage Program with the San Francisco School of Massage. While studying massage, she became certified to practice Usui Reiki. Bettina deepened her holistic healing quest by taking Cranial-Sacral therapy classes with the Upledger Institue. She continued to expand her training with a four-year Masters Degree from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco.

In addition to her professional training in the Bay area, Bettina practiced at a Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Yunnan, China, with a focus in Gynecology pediatrics and pain management. She is qualified to treat a variety of ailments; her special interests are pregnancy, postpartum and pediatrics.

About Our Name: Double Happiness Health

Double Happiness means “marriage” or “union” in Chinese culture. We think of it as the union of mind and body, and a refection of the unity of all life forms.

Double Happiness Health also views the union between Eastern TCM practices and principles with Western medical protocols and clinical research as a powerful means of providing effective, affordable, community health