Jude is a highly experienced licensed acupuncturist and physical therapist in North Carolina, bringing over 23 years of expertise in integrative medicine. With a BS in Health and Human Sciences from James Madison University, a Master’s in Physical Therapy from Old Dominion University, and a Master’s in Oriental Medicine from the International Institute of Chinese Medicine, he is uniquely equipped to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western healing modalities. Jude is board-certified in Oriental Medicine, Acupuncture, and Chinese Herbal Medicine by the NCCAOM and holds certification in Trigger Point Dry Needling. From 2015 to 2016, he served as the National Liaison for the North Carolina Association of Acupuncture and Asian Medicine.

Jude has trained extensively in multiple acupuncture styles, including Kiiko Style, Yuan Qi Acupuncture, SA’AM, and Orthopaedic Acupuncture. His studies in Chinese herbal medicine with renowned experts Sharon Weizenbaum and Suzanne Robidoux further enhance his comprehensive approach. Specializing in orthopaedics and pain management, he seamlessly integrates Eastern and Western techniques to provide effective, personalized care.

Before joining Triangle Acupuncture Clinic, Jude served as an outpatient orthopaedic physical therapist and acupuncturist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Kernersville, N.C. There, he treated a wide range of conditions, from acute and chronic pain to vestibular and balance disorders and post-surgical rehabilitation. His passion lies in helping patients regain mobility, reduce pain, and improve their overall well-being through a balanced and holistic approach to healing.

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Rick Oberg, LAc, is a dedicated healer with nearly two decades of experience in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. A summa cum laude graduate of the Midwest College of Oriental Medicine, Rick is nationally licensed and board-certified in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine by the NCCAOM. He holds state licenses in North Carolina and Wisconsin and specializes in chronic pain managment, tinnitus, insomnia, infertility, pregnancy care, labor promotion, and breech baby acupuncture. He also has extensive expertise in autoimmune diseases, and treating anxiety and depression.

Rick’s passion for treating autoimmune conditions runs deep—long before his formal education, he sought solutions to help his family cope with chronic pain and immune disorders. This mission became personal when his youngest daughter faced a life-threatening autoimmune illness at just six years old. Since then, he has dedicated himself to understanding and treating these complex conditions, helping patients regain control of their health.

Rick has mastered a wide range of techniques, including dry needling and cupping, to provide effective, lasting relief. He has a special place in his heart for working with Veterans, understanding the unique physical and emotional challenges they face. He is also experienced in working with patients of all ages,

Rick thrives on solving difficult cases and has a wealth of knowledge in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Japanese Acupuncture, Ayurvedic Acupuncture (Marma Puncture), and Korean Acupuncture. His deep understanding of herbs and supplements allows him to cut through the noise of modern wellness trends, offering patients clear, personalized guidance on diet and lifestyle changes.

Known for his kindness and compassionate care, Rick is committed to empowering his patients with the tools they need to live fully, achieve their goals, and reclaim their well-being. Whether you’re facing a chronic condition or seeking balance and vitality, Rick is ready to help you navigate your journey to better health.

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Katherine Rowe is co-owner of Triangle Acupuncture Clinic and Director of the Fertility Wellness Program. She is nationally licensed and board-certified in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine by the NCCAOM and holds state licenses in North Carolina and California. Katherine specializes in women’s health, including fertility, pregnancy, and menstrual health, and also treats anxiety, mental health, and cancer-related symptoms.

She began her career as a research biologist at UNC hospitals but found her calling in preventative health, actively working with people to help them feel their best. This lead her to study Classical Chinese Medicine at Five Branches Institute in Santa Cruz, CA. In 2004, she co-founded Triangle Acupuncture Clinic, now a trusted provider in the Triangle community, integrating Eastern and Western medicine.

Katherine is passionate about working with cancer patients, having completed an advanced training certification program with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She uses acupuncture to help manage stress, insomnia, nausea, pain, and fatigue during and after treatment. With 20 years of experience, she is also highly skilled in treating body pain, including low back pain, sciatica, and upper back and neck tension. She frequently treats neuroma-type nerve pain under the toes in aging women, a condition that responds well to acupuncture.

Her training also includes an Advanced Clinical Internship at Zhe-Jiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China and she has studied under leading experts like Dr. Randine Lewis, the author of The Infertility Cure, Jane Lyttleton, a world renowned infertility and Chinese Medicine specialist and Sharon Weizenbaum, a classical Chinese Medicine scholar. As a fellow of the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine (ABORM) since 2008, she ensures safe, complementary care for women undergoing fertility treatments.

Katherine is our lead herbalist for TAC Tea, and creates all of our in-house made Herbal Tea formulas. She lives in Durham with her husband and two children, proudly cheering for the Tarheels.

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Daerr, a Wilmington native, has devoted her career to helping people achieve lasting wellness. After earning a BS in Psychology from Appalachian State University, she transitioned from real estate to holistic health, earning her Master’s in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Southwest Acupuncture College in Boulder. Board-certified by the NCCAOM since 2000, she practiced in Wilmington for 14 years before joining Triangle Acupuncture Clinic in Raleigh in 2015.

With an integrative approach, Daerr blends modern biomedical insights with the proven wisdom of traditional medicine. She specializes in pain management, neurodegenerative conditions, sleep and hormonal imbalances, anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, and digestive health. Using acupuncture, cupping, gua sha, neuromuscular massage, and personalized herbal medicine, she tailors treatments to each patient’s unique needs. Committed to holistic healing, she collaborates with allied healthcare providers to offer comprehensive care.

A leader in her field, Daerr has served as President of the North Carolina Society of Acupuncture and Asian Medicine and represented the profession at national conferences. She believes in the power of big dreams, embracing the words of Albert Einstein: “The person with big dreams is far more powerful than the one with all the facts.”

Daerr has recently began studying Esoteric Acupuncture, and has refined her cosmetic acupuncture skills by welcoming our newest service, Intergrative Microneedling and Facial Rejuvination.

**Daerr offers a unique blend of acupuncture, bodywork and hands-on modalities that require more one-on-one time than most common acupuncture sessions. All visits with Daerr are for an extended time of 75-90 minutes, and Return Visits are $135.

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Allyson (she/her) is Nationally Board-Certified in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine. She graduated from AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in Austin, TX in 2018.

She specializes in Women’s Health and provides evidence-based care to treat common reproductive and gynecological issues such as painful and irregular menstruation, endometriosis, PCOS, sexual dysfunction & trauma, fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, & hormonal imbalances.

Allyson has found her life’s work in Chinese Medicine she views it as an integral addition to our modern healthcare system. Her background in integrative healthcare settings provides an important framework for her approach to patient care.

She believes that true healing is a process of returning to our most authentic, vibrant selves and requires a mutli-disciplinary approach that is trauma-informed, somatic and individualized. She sees physical symptoms as merely one piece of a large, complex puzzle and is passionate about acknowledging the spiritual, emotional, & energetic aspects of the body as well. Thus, her goal is to take the time to understand each patient’s unique concerns, life circumstances, and history to offer the most comprehensive care possible.

In addition to her acupuncture license, she has spent time in immersive study of traditional medicine and herbalism in the Amazon of Peru and Ecuador as well as in India. These experiences coupled with her clinical education provide her with a unique and multi-faceted approach to health and well-being.

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Patrick Marron, LAc, graduated from the prestigious AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in Austin, Texas. He is nationally licensed and board certified in both Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He maintains a state license in both North Carolina and Texas. Patrick is a Fellow of the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine, ABORM. This credential ensures that his work with couples trying to conceive is both safe and complimentary. Patrick specializes in infertility care and women’s health and also enjoys pain management and sports medicine.

Patrick honed his infertility skills at the Texas Center For Reproductive Acupuncture (TCRA), one of the largest and busiest reproductive acupuncture clinics in the country. Over the course of thousands of patient visits, Patrick utilized specific acupuncture and herbal protocols with couples looking to conceive. This particularly rewarding work ignited a passion for not only supporting fertility but in the process helping transform a woman’s quality of life by improving pain and symptoms associated with their menstrual cycle. Listening carefully and taking a holistic approach to treating hormonal imbalances is Patrick’s specialty. As a part of many fertility successes, he has been blessed to see lives improve and families grow.

In addition to being a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, Patrick has been a licensed massage therapist for over 10 years. He received his massage training from Potomac Massage Training Institute in Washington, D.C. Patrick’s vast and ongoing study of anatomy and physiology are pivotal to his pain management treatments. His understanding of various bodywork modalities allows him to incorporate this knowledge into acupuncture for pain management. Patrick’s treatment sessions are extremely gentle while also being highly therapeutic.

Patrick is originally from Annapolis, Maryland. When he is not exploring Chinese Medicine, he spends his time learning how to play the piano, hanging out in nature, and Skyping with his three brothers and three nephews back in Maryland.

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Chris Helmstetter, LAc, is a nationally licensed and board-certified acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist, specializing in chronic pain management. He holds state licenses in North Carolina and California and co-founded Triangle Acupuncture Clinic in 2004.

Chris’s journey into acupuncture began while working as a substance abuse counselor in New York, where he witnessed acupuncture’s transformative impact on addiction recovery. This experience led him to train at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx, earning his Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist (ADS) certification in 1998. He later deepened his expertise, earning a Master’s in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Five Branches Institute in 2003.

Over the years, Chris’s focus expanded from addiction-related pain to chronic and complex pain conditions. Drawing from a diverse range of acupuncture styles—including Balance Method (Dr. Richard Tan), Tung’s Acupuncture (Dr. Wei Chih Young), Motor Point Acupuncture (Matt Callison), and Classical Acupuncture (Jeffrey Yuen)—he tailors treatments to address both physical and emotional pain. He specializes in sports injuries, orthopedic conditions, autoimmune pain, and the intricate overlap of physical and emotional suffering. He also works closely with local veterans, and cancer patients looking for relief.

Beyond clinical practice, Chris has been an active leader in the acupuncture field, serving on the boards of the North Carolina Society of Acupuncture and Asian Medicine (NCSAAM) and Acupuncture Advocates. His approach centers on listening deeply to each patient’s unique story and crafting personalized treatments to restore balance and well-being.

In his free time, Chris enjoys growing a wide variety of produce in his garden. Every spring, he hosts TAC’s “Taste the Tomato” event, where we give away different breeds of tomato sproutlings to patients to help them get started growing their own vegetables.

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Bethany Hauch, LAc, graduated from the New England School of Acupuncture, the oldest college of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine in the United States. Bethany is nationally licensed, and board certified in both Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Prior to beginning her Eastern medical training, Bethany had professional experience in Western medicine as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and medical writer/editor.

Bethany’s journey toward becoming an acupuncturist began in a somewhat unusual way. During her veterinary medicine days, she was introduced to the power of acupuncture while using it to treat horses. After seeing horses responding so positively to this “alternative” medicine, she decided to try it for her own chronic migraines and was hooked when she experienced a full cure of her condition. Seeing the pathway that had opened, she decided to take a chance, go back to graduate school and change her profession so that she could use acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine to help people.

Bethany has a great deal of experience treating a wide array of conditions, including women’s health, morning sickness, gastrointestinal disorders, anxiety, stress management, weight management, hypertension, high cholesterol, fatigue, acute and chronic pain, migraines, allergies, sinusitis, and sleep disorders. She has a particular interest in fertility (male and female), pregnancy, and menopause. Bethany is trained in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), Master Tung, Dr. Tan, Japanese, and esoteric acupuncture styles, and uses techniques to match each individual patient’s needs. Bethany has also completed several courses on breathwork and loves teaching her patients breathing techniques to enhance their treatments.

Bethany’s philosophy of care is to establish and build upon a collaborative relationship with each one of her patients. Her primary goal is to provide an open atmosphere in which her patients can explore and embrace what she has to offer as an acupuncturist and Chinese herbal medicine practitioner. She also wants to inspire her patients to improve their health and make positive changes in their lives beyond the treatment room. This means that she often incorporates diet and lifestyle suggestions patients can take home with them; work they can do to complement and prolong treatments provided in the clinic.

In her spare time, Bethany enjoys spending time with her family (especially in the NC mountains), jogging, hiking, reading, and doing nerdy things like crossword and jigsaw puzzles. She is also obsessed with her Bird Buddy (don’t get her started on it…).

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