Meet your Team
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harmony acupuncture
Our VISION
At Harmony Acupuncture, we are honored to practice the powerful ancient medicine of acupuncture. We love being able to spend quality time with patients and to be effective in our treatments. We truly believe that when a patient and practitioner come together it’s a meeting between two experts. As the patient, you always know your body best. It’s our duty to be a respectful listeners and create the most effective treatment plan for your specific needs. Enabling the body to heal itself is our passion.
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Kristen phipps, L.AC
ACUPUNCTURIST
Kristen received her Master’s of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2011 from the AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in Austin, Texas. She then returned to Salt Lake to provide acupuncture in her hometown.
Kristen has extensive experience treating a broad range of conditions during her many years of work in both community and private acupuncture clinics in Salt Lake City and Austin. While her interests and specialities range from pain, autoimmune conditions, and emotional conditions like depression, grief, and anxiety, she is particularly interested in women’s health. She is a graduate of the Maternity Acupuncture and Mentoring Peer Support (MAMPS) program, which is currently the only research driven post-graduate training in the field of maternity/obstetric acupuncture offered in the West. Kristen also holds senior membership in the Obstetric Acupuncture Association (OBAA), which holds acupuncturists to the highest standards of education and experience in obstetric acupuncture care.
Kristen’s personal mission is to help alleviate suffering in any way that it shows up in someone’s life. Kristen has been studying shamanism for the past 25 years and also teaches yoga privately. She currently sits on the board of DOPL, the Utah Acupuncture Licensing Board.
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Bea hammond, L.AC
FOUNDER, ACUPUNCTURIST
Bea is a third generation healthcare provider. She grew-up in Berlin, Germany. She received her Master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) at the Five Branches Institute in Santa Cruz in 2001. After practicing acupuncture in California for seven years, she opened the Harmony Acupuncture Clinic here in Salt Lake City in 2008.
She specializes in infertility and women’s health but also treats a variety of other health problems, including mental and physical disorders related to stress, post-surgical recovery, migraine headaches, digestive disorders, immune deficiencies and various pain syndromes, as well as side-effects from cancer treatments. She has worked as an Acupuncture Detox Specialist, providing ear acupuncture to youth in the juvenile justice system to reduce their withdrawal symptoms, cravings and stress. Bea has done a lot of volunteer work with cancer patients. She set up the acupuncture program at The Cancer Wellness House here in SLC, where she has been providing free treatments for the last nine years.
She has been a board member of the Cancer Wellness House, the Utah State Acupuncture Licensing Board and the Utah Infertility Resource Center Advisory Board.
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Hannah Dwertman, L.AC
HERBALIST
Hannah received her Masters of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese medicine from Maryland University of Integrative Health in 2017. She’s originally from Cincinnati and has a bachelors degree in Religious studies from American University.
Her experience includes six months in Asia studying Chinese medicine and language. She is a certified National Acupuncture Detox Specialist and POCA Auricular Acu-technician Trainer. Her initial Chinese herbal medicine training was with Evan Rabinowitz and she has since completed a graduate mentorship program with Sharon Weizenbaum. She offers herbal consultations at Harmony Acupuncture, which include individually designed prescriptions.
Hannah is an avid believer in accessible healthcare, and is interested in the intersection of health, economics, and ethics. She also sees patients at Wasatch Community Acupuncture.
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Bianca Miller, DOM, L.AC
ACUPUNCTURIST
Bianca is a nationally certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbology, Licensed Acupuncturist in the states of Utah and Colorado, and Doctor of Oriental Medicine in the state of New Mexico.
Bianca received her Master’s degree in Science of Oriental Medicine in 2013, and her background spans both Chinese and Western medicine, having studied Psychology, Medical Assisting and Nursing.
Bianca treats a wide variety of health issues across age groups, such as orthopedics, pain management, post-surgical rehabilitation, women’s health care, emotional balance, sleep, respiratory disorders, digestive problems, palliative oncology care, and preventative care.
She has a special interest in women’s health, having previously trained as a doula. As a clinician, she has assisted women in a variety of women’s health issues, such as menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, postnatal care, menopause, and psycho-emotional health.
Additionally, she has had clinical experiences in hospital settings treating patients undergoing cancer treatments, as well as in post-surgical rehabilitation care and pain management.
Bianca believes that good health is an inner resilience that allows a person to meet the demands of life. She was born and raised in the Brazilian countryside among a few healthcare provider relatives, and was the first in her family to live abroad. She has always been interested in the relationship between man and nature, as well as in holistic healthcare and helping people feel their best.
Our political mission
At Harmony Acupuncture we acknowledge that we wouldn't be able to practice East Asian Medicine, or have our jobs and careers, without Asian people.
Hate crimes against people of Asian descent have been part of this country's history and are currently increasing at alarming rates since the pandemic. People from the same culture as the medicine's origin that we are practicing here are being discriminated against and killed every day. As practitioners of European descent at Harmony Acupuncture, we are working on dismantling white privilege and supremacy. We take responsibility and accountability in decolonizing East Asian Medicine (EAM). We don't use the term "Oriental" anymore even though most of our professional degrees and licensing boards still do. This term is racist, sexualized, and it commodifies how the "West sees the East."
We support our colleagues of Asian descent and we continue to challenge ourselves by unlearning racism and speaking out and taking actions against hate and discrimination.
What People Are Saying
“Thank you for being so helpful the day after my IVF transfer. You kindly made time to see me on the day I called in. It was important to me that I do everything I could to help things work out and I panicked when I heard late in the process about the benefits of acupuncture. You were very accommodating and knowledgeable during a time of emotional stress for me, I can’t tell you how nice that was. Thank you! I was lucky enough to have the process work and am now almost 10 weeks along with TWINS.”
— amy
“The first time I went to see Bea I was very skeptical about acupuncture and I was really not excited about the being stuck with needles. I left there amazed! I was surprised at how acupuncture is both effective and non-invasive. It has truly wonderful effects and you don’t even know the needles are there. I am glad I trusted Bea enough to let her help me.”
— stephanie
“My experience with acupuncture has been fantastic. I had never tried it before, but decided to try it after suffering from infertility caused from PCOS. My first session was so relaxing and released a positive rush of emotion that I hadn’t anticipated. I did 4 sessions during one cycle and was excited when I ovulated 3 days earlier than I ever had. I was elated when I discovered a short time later that I was pregnant. I feel very strongly that acupuncture was the difference in this cycle that allowed me to correct my luteal phase defect and relax, which helped me get pregnant so quickly. I recommend it to anyone suffering from PCOS or infertility, in particular related to hormone imbalances. Bea was very caring through the process and treated my body as a system rather than treating one specific ailment.”