Thea Wellness & Acupuncture is a queer-owned, woman-owned Bay Area business that is deeply invested in the movement for patient-centered healthcare. Owner Dr. Tehea Robie is a hospital-trained acupuncturist and doctor of Chinese herbal medicine. Dr. Tehea is a co-author of “A Retrospective Study of Acupuncture in the Emergency Department in a Public Safety-Net Hospital”, the abstract of which was presented at the Society for Acupuncture Research in 2019. Dr. Tehea draws on her years of work in mental health and manual therapy. Areas of particular interest are: integrative medicine, emotional distress due to trauma, pain relief and the neurobiology of PTSD.