Christine Friel, Acupuncturist, Founder of Double Happiness Health
Christine Friel founded Double Happiness Health in February 2005 in the Potrero Hill area of San Francisco. She has been practicing acupuncture since 2003, and massage therapy since 1992, and has Traditional Chinese Medicine specialties in women’s health and fertility and orthopedics, including joint pain.
Christine enjoys bringing her variety of skills—acupunture, herbal medicine, nutritional counseling, and manual therapy techniques– to tailor an individualized approach to each patient to achieve their optimal health. She supports their healing with an ongoing individualized treatment plan.
Christine earned her Masters Degree at the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences in Traditional Chinese Medicine and was licensed by the state of California in 2003. She interned at Shu Guang Hospital in Shanghai. Christine is a Diplomat of the National Board of Acupuncture Orthopedics (DNBAO) and earned a board specialty in Acupuncture Orthopedics with Lerner Education at Cedar Sinai Hospital in 2007. She has specialized in oriental reproductive medicine and has been a fellow of ABORM (American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine) since 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. 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 live more fully.