Meet your acupuncturists

Hallie Beaver (she/her) is a licensed East Asian Medicine Practitioner and Acupuncturist, certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). She is a graduate of Middle Way Acupuncture Institute, where she now serves as the school’s librarian, and is currently continuing her studies in the Chinese herbal program.
Her first experience with acupuncture was at a community clinic in Salt Lake City while she was an undergraduate student. She was amazed by her faster recovery from injuries, improved ability to manage stress, and the deeper sense of calm she found through treatment.

The community clinic model remains close to her heart, as it allows people from all backgrounds to access Chinese medicine and acupuncture. Hallie shares the World Health Organization’s belief that healthcare is a human right—not a privilege.

She has a particular interest in orthopedics, rehabilitation, and scar treatment. A former avid snowboarder, Hallie has spent plenty of time rehabbing her own injuries and has seen firsthand how acupuncture can reduce inflammation and pain, improve range of motion, and help people return to the activities they love.

Outside the clinic, Hallie enjoys cooking, mountain biking, camping, and catching films at the Pickford.
Nicole Lemire (she/her) is a licensed East Asian Medicine Practitioner and Acupuncturist certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture (NCCAOM). 
Nicole's exploration of sociology, health, and ecology, through organic farming and permaculture, ultimately led to her study of acupuncture and East Asian medicine. Observation and study of the natural world and its cycles and systems continues to inform her practice and her approach to the cycles and systems of the human body. Her philosophy of health revolves around healing relationships — between various parts of the body, between the individual and their environment, and among all living things.
She has received training in hatha, yin, and therapeutic yoga, biodynamic cranial sacral therapy, vipassana meditation, and qi gong. She is also a student of internal martial arts through the North American Tang Shou Tao Association.
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She spends her free time learning in the garden, playing in the ocean, dancing, and exploring.



Elisa “Moon” Yeen Weiss (they/she) is a licensed East Asian Medicine Practitioner and Acupuncturist certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture (NCCAOM.)
I grew up with my Daoist Chinese grandmother who was a Jin Shin Do acupressure practitioner, environmentalist, and human rights advocate that lived close to the land in her forested cabin on the Salish Sea. I am deeply inspired by my grandmother, Meiling, and other ancestors to reclaim the indigenous healing traditions of my Chinese, Ashkenazi Jewish, and Irish ancestry through acupuncture and herbalism. I worked many years as a field ecologist, educator, and yoga teacher before finding my way back to East Asian Medicine. I developed a proclivity for the power of observation: the cycles of nature, both within and without our bodies, reflect how we are a part of the greater cosmos. As a naturalist, poet, medicine maker, dancer, and martial art practitioner, I find endless inspiration in the mystery of nature, the forces that create us, and the potential to come back into balance with the rhythms and cycles of our earth/body. I give continued thanks to the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) and Nooksack people on whose land I was born, and it is my aim to explore settler responsibility through indigenous solidarity, and by recognizing the oppressive structures that inequitably affect specific groups who all deserve the right to healthcare and holistic healing. With the liberation of all beings as a throughline in my work, I look forward to providing care through community acupuncture. I give gratitude to all my teachers, the more-than-human kin, my ancestors, and this medicine that moves through us.