DR. HEATHER BIERY DAOM, LAc
Dr. Heather Biery Wellner is a licensed doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, owner of Heather Biery Acupuncture, Massage & Natural Medicine. Heather Biery Acupuncture and has been serving the Gunnison valley for over 18 years. With more than 10,000 patient visits, she is the most experienced doctor of Acupuncture in Crested Butte. She is a Nationally Certified (NCCAOM) and California and Colorado Licensed Acupuncturist and Oriental Medicine Practitioner. In addition to the Masters degree required for licensing, Dr. Wellner’s background includes a 3 year Doctoral Fellowship at American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM) in San Francisco, specializing in treatment of women’s health in gynecology, fertility as well as treatment of pain and sports medicine recovery. She has a four-year graduate degree from ACTCM and a bachelors degree with honors from Stanford University.
Dr. Wellner has completed an additional three year program in Japanese herbal medicine
KAMPO with renowned herbalist and author Nigel Dawes, in addition to the masters degree requirement in Chinese herbal medicine. The degree of Doctorate in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine is an accredited, advanced degree for licensed acupuncturists requiring an additional 3 years of study, a dissertation, and internship with master practitioners of 20 years. Dr. Wellner is one of very few Doctors of Acupuncture in the United States.Dr. Wellner has advanced training in orthopedics with George Stretch ND, an orthopedic specialist, and Whitfield Reeves, L.Ac., 30 year practitioner and author of The Acupuncture Handbook of Sports Injuries and Pain, as well as Master Yu-Tai Fu, award-winning Qigong Master and traditional “bone-setting” healer from Beijing. She has also trained with Dr. Sadhna Singh, fertility specialist, and Claudia Citkovitz L.Ac., Director of the Acupuncture Program at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, where she is a labor and delivery specialist, as well as Raven Lang L.Ac. midwife and acupuncturist, author of the Birth Book and “The Art and Science of Obstetrics”. As a practitioner, Dr. Wellner has worked and trained in a variety of hospital and clinical settings, including internships with talented gentle Japanese style clinician Dr. Cameron Bishop and 30+ year practitioner of Japanese Koshi (Structural) Balancing Jeffrey Dann, L.Ac.
Dr. Wellner practices and teaches Qigong Healing, Taiqi and Taiyi Riding the Wind Sword Form, which she learned from Master Liping Zhu and Master Yu in China. She loves to ski around Colorado in the winter and mountain bike in the summer. She hikes the mountains and valleys near her home in Crested Butte with her kids Juliette and Theo and her dog Gracie.
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