Our Story
San Francisco Community Acupuncture has been offering affordable healthcare to our community since 2007!
We provide attentive and quality acupuncture treatments in a quiet group setting for a sliding fee. Our goal continues to be offering a variety of treatment options to meet the needs of our diverse patient population.
Acupuncture does not need to be expensive to be effective!
For those that prefer one on one sessions we also have 4 private treatment rooms and offer acupuncture, massage and cupping treatments.
Practitioners
Rebecca Rizzetta, L.Ac., CMT
Rebecca is a California Licensed Acupuncturist. She has also been a Certified Massage Therapist for over 20 years and is trained in many deep-tissue and Swedish modalities. She received her Masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2006. She studied at Zhejiang University in Hong Zhou, China and worked in cancer, pediatric and gynecology clinics. She also worked in San Francisco at the CPMC Stroke and Rehabilitation Center, The San Francisco Women’s Community Clinic, and the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s Community Clinic and for the San Francisco Ballet.
Dr. Rebekah Sitty, L.Ac., CMT
Rebekah is a Nationally Certified and California Licensed Acupuncturist and Oriental Medicine Practitioner. She is also a Certified Massage Therapist focusing on trigger points and deep tissue work. She received her Masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2005. During her schooling she chose to augment her studies by taking additional classes with Fred Lerner, DC, Matt Callison, L.Ac., Margaret McMeekin, L.Ac and other orthopedic specialists. She has worked in San Francisco at the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, the CPMC Stroke and Rehabilitation Center, The San Francisco Women’s Community Clinic, the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s Community Clinic and also for the San Francisco Ballet.
Alice deYoung, L.Ac.
My passion is to create accessible, dignified, and non-judgmental settings that support patient-centered healthcare. I hold a Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and completed my under-graduate at UC Berkeley. Before finding Chinese medicine, I contributed to care at Lyon-Martin Health services, an LGBTQI Community Clinic, and Golden Gate OB-GYN, both in San Francisco. While at ACTCM, my background in social justice and commitment to integrated health afforded me to provide trauma-informed care to under-resourced communities at GLIDE Memorial Clinic, and ACTCM Community and Auricular Clinics; I continue this work as a volunteer Acu-Punk at HealthRight360. As a Bay Area native raised in Parma, Italy, I am fluent in Italian and Spanish, and always love learning new languages as a humbling way of building community. Languages spoken: Italian, Spanish.
Melissa Craven, L.Ac.
Melissa received her Masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2007. Soon after being licensed in 2008, she co-founded Circle Community Acupuncture, which was located in SOMA, and managed the clinic until its closure in 2023. Recently, she has worked on a pilot study examining chronic pain conducted by UCSF and begun working at the SF Department of Public Health offering private and group acupuncture in public health clinics all over the city. She has a special interest in using acupuncture to support mental/emotional health, menstrual and menopausal challenges, chronic and acute pain and digestive and immune health.
Dr. Nicole Han Cirelli, L.Ac, Dipl. OM
Nicole is a California Licensed Acupuncturist and herbalist and is NCCAOM certified. She received her Masters Degree and Doctoral Degree from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco and her Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Union College in NY. She has treated patients at Tiny Needles, the ACTCM Community Clinic, the ACTCM auricular clinic, and Glide Memorial Clinic, whose mission is to provide healthcare and other necessities to people most in need. She is experienced in treating chronic and acute pain, mental/emotional health, GI diseases, insomnia, and women’s health. She finds it necessary to have a holistic approach to balancing mind, body, and spirit. She utilizes acupuncture, herbal medicine, nutritional and lifestyle guidance to provide individualized treatments in community setting. Nicole is dedicated and passionate about serving her community through quality, effective, community acupuncture, and is constantly inspired by the power of people to heal through acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
Igor Alekseev, L.Ac., DACM
Igor is a California Licensed Acupuncturist. He received his bachelor degree in Kinesiology, with a focus on Exercise and Nutrition Wellness. He earned his Masters of Science and Doctoral degrees at ACTCM. His foundational clinical training comes from the ACTCM Community clinic as well as the Auricular Acupuncture clinic at ACTCM. He treats patients privately for general wellbeing, pain, overuse and sports injuries. He uses postural analysis and muscle testing to guide diagnosis and treatment. Standard treatment can include acupuncture, massage, cupping, moxibustion, and herbs. His general approach is to treat patients holistically, utilizing different modalities of Traditional Chinese Medicine in order to address physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of wellbeing. Languages Spoken: Spanish
Lisa Shaw, L.Ac.
Lisa Shaw, L.Ac is a Nationally Certified and California Licensed Acupuncturist.
She received a Masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College in Berkeley,CA in 2016.
She has worked in the Sports Department at the University of California, Berkeley, at the Center For Elders Independence, the SF Homeless Prenatal Clinic and with Oakland Acupuncture Project. She is also certified in Facial Acupuncture.
Brett “Fox” Ray, L.Ac
Bret (he/him) is a California licensed acupuncturist, Chinese medicine practitioner, Taiji and Qigong instructor. He found his way to Chinese medicine in his own healing journey through depression, anxiety and ADD. Having studied the techniques and philosophy of Chinese medicine, he is equipped with methods and modalities that seek to bring balance and wellness to the whole individual. Fox employs acupuncture, herbal medicine, massage and other forms of Chinese Medicine to treat pain, fatigue, stress, mental health, and digestion. He also offers techniques of meditation, qigong, and Tai Chi to provide his patients with the same secular techniques that helped him find peace and well-being. Languages spoken: Spanish, French, Levantine Arabic.
“ Thanks Rebekah and Rebecca!
I can’t say enough about the greatness of this clinic and the women who run it. I was sick four times in three months last winter and came to see them in February, skeptical of acupuncture but desperate to feel better. I literally haven’t been sick since! OK, not everyone will experience a miracle cure like me, but this is high-quality health care at a very low price. The group setting is very peaceful. I go every two weeks and have literally never felt better.”
— Erin O.