Chico Community Accupuncture

Chico Community Acupuncture is Chico’s first dedicated community acupuncture clinic.  Started in 2010, we are thriving and blessed to offer effective, affordable, accessible care to Chico and surrounding areas.  CCA is part of a national cooperative of community acupuncture clinics called People’s Organization of Community Acupuncture (link to https://www.pocacoop.com/).  Visit their website for a fountain of information about people like ourselves, making acupuncture easy to access, to communities around the world.  There is also a complete listing of other clinics around the country.

We define Community Acupuncture as the practice of offering acupuncture:

1. in a setting where multiple patients receive treatments at the same time;
2. by financially sustainable and accountable means, whereby community acupuncture clinics depend directly on the support of the people who receive acupuncture in them, rather than on grants, donations, or other funding;
3. within a context of accessibility, which we create by providing consistent hours, by making frequent treatments readily available, by offering affordable services,  and by lowering all the barriers to treatment that we possibly can, for as many people as we possibly can, while continuing to be financially self-sustaining.

Olivia Peters-Lazaro, L.Ac.

Olivia Peters-Lazaro is a licensed acupuncturist (L.Ac.) in California. She attended Five Branches University in Santa Cruz where she earned a Masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine. After her third year at Five Branches Olivia traveled to Hangzhou, China to study at Zhejiang University where she was able to observe Traditional Chinese Medicine being used in the hospitals. Olivia has specialized training in treating pregnant women and kids. She apprenticed with Raven Lang, a leading expert in Traditional Chinese Medicine obstetrics and pediatrics in the United States.

She interned at Nurture Acupuncture, a bay area clinic that exclusively treats women and men for fertility health. Olivia grew up in Chico. After being gone for many years, she returned to start Chico Community
Acupuncture.

Hopi Jane Wilder, L.Ac.

Hopi Jane Wilder, L.Ac. is nationally certified by the NCCAOM and a licensed acupuncturist in Oregon and California. She practiced sports massage and shiatzu for 15 years in California and Colorado. She found that often massage was not enough to relieve old work, sports and surgery related pain, however. This led her to begin an apprenticeship in 2000, which continues today, with Michael Turk, L.Ac. learning his acu-regeneration technique for pain-relief. She’s also studied extensively with the “father” of the sports acupuncture field, Whitfield Reeves, L.Ac.

Hopi completed her Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine at the Southwest Acupuncture College in Boulder, Colorado. During school, she also trained for a year with one of the top Chinese herbalists and authors in the country, Jake Fratkin, O.M.D., L.Ac. Fratkin’s specialties include allergies, digestive issues and pediatrics. She produced Chinese herbal tinctures for patients at his clinic and kept his apothecary stocked.

Martial arts have fascinated Hopi since high school.  She practiced various “hard forms” throughout the years, such as Bagua and Karate, before finding internal Kung Fu.  Fortunately she was able to study Chen style Tai Chi and Qi Gong with Bing Lee, a Master of the internal martial arts in Denver, Colorado.  When she decided to move back to her hometown of Chico, he gave her permission to teach classes and pass on some of the secrets he generously shared during her three and a half years in his lineage.  Some benefits of internal martial arts are injury rehabilitation, stress-relief and mental focus.

Hopi was born and spent the first six years of her life in South America.  She is bilingual in Spanish and English.  It is her dream to bring Chinese medicine to the Latino community. In 2011 she had the great opportunity to practice acupuncture in remote Mayan villages in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.  It is her personal belief that everyone deserves equal access to good health care.

Other interests of Hopi’s are hiking, mountain biking, and other outdoor sports.  It was through her own injuries that she discovered the effectiveness of acupuncture and kick-started her journey to becoming an acupuncturist.  Her specialties include musculoskeletal injury rehabilitation, stress-reduction, weight-loss, and chronic pain relief and women’s health.  She is nationally certified and a licensed acupuncturist in Oregon and California.