What are the opening hours?

Monday 11am - 7pm Wednesday 9am - 5pm Thursday 11am - 7pm Friday 9am - 1am

Thrive Acupuncture and Wellness

Home
United States
Santa Rosa, CA
Thrive Acupuncture and Wellness

Call Directions Website Contact the practice

Welcome to Thrive Acupuncture and Wellness! You’re likely here right now because you’re ready to experience greater physical and mental well-being.

📍Santa Rosa, CA: 2880 Cleveland Ave, Ste 5
📆Booking: thrive-acupuncture.janeapp.com
☎️(707) 527-0868
🖥️thrive-acupuncture.com
✨Gentle, Effective Acupuncture + 🌿Custom Herbs for Pain, Stress, Immunity, Digestion, Hormones & Complex Health Conditions We hope to inspire you to become proactive about your health and help you find the best course of action for your specific needs. Maybe you’re tired, stressed out, in pain, or frustrated that you don’t have the vitality to enable you to live the life you dream of. You know you could use more energy, joy, and balance in your daily life. If you’re like many of our patients, you’re seeking an alternative or compliment to conventional medicine. You want to get to the root cause of your health problems, not just put a temporary bandage on them. Your goal is total life wellness and transformation. Get your health and well-being back using the gentle, safe, and highly effective natural healthcare system of Chinese Medicine. Christina Ness LAc, Dipl OM, MSTCM is passionate about helping people live an emotionally and physically balanced life filled with joy and vitality. Christina has helped hundreds of patients with a variety of health issues ranging from chronic pain and sports injuries, allergies and sinusitis, to depression, anxiety, PMS, and insomnia. Christina believes that everyone possesses an inherent natural state of health and well-being; however sometimes this vitality needs help shining through. Christina is committed to helping people find their inner physical and mental well-being and educating people about how they can live the fullest, most vibrant life so they can continue to thrive for as long as they live.

10/28/2026

GLP-1s and constipation… You have not had a normal bowel movement since you started the GLP-1. Nobody warned you about this part. Or it got mentioned once, in a list, and you assumed it would settle.

It didn't settle. Here's why.

GLP-1 medications work by slowing digestion, including how quickly food moves through the stomach. That slowing is part of how the medication works. But for some people, things slow down a little too much farther down the line too… and constipation becomes a real problem.

Which is why the standard advice isn't working for you. More fiber into a system that isn't moving usually makes it worse. More bulk, same stalled transit.

Water helps a little. Magnesium helps some people. But sometimes your digestive system needs more support getting back into a comfortable rhythm.

You should not have to choose between the medication and having a gut that works. And here's the important part: helping you have regular bowel movements does not mean we're trying to counteract your GLP-1 or make it less effective.

✨ Acupuncture can support healthy digestive motility and bowel function while you continue to get the intended effects of your medication. The goal is to help your body find a better balance so the drug can do the job you're taking it for without your digestion paying the bill.

If you're on a GLP-1 and your bowels have stopped cooperating, we can help. In Chinese Medicine, Fall is the season of the Lung and Large Intestine. These are the systems that govern letting go, physically. This is exactly the right time of year to address it.

Schedule your appointment online or reach out with questions:
Thrive Acupuncture & Wellness
📍 2880 Cleveland Ave, Ste 5, Santa Rosa, CA
☎️ (707) 527-0868
📩 [email protected]
📆 Book Online—Tap Contact Us at the top of our page

10/26/2026

A Win From The Treatment Room
Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathy w Megan Rauch

A patient came in who was undergoing chemotherapy for a second bout of breast cancer and had recently been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. She was suffering from chemotherapy-induced neuropathy in her hands and feet. It was so severe that she could not stand for long. It felt like walking on rocks, and shooting pains going up her legs would frequently wake her up at night. This kept her from her normally active lifestyle, and she felt exhausted from the disrupted sleep.

After trying everything Western medicine could offer for her neuropathy pain, she was still suffering. Her doctor suggested that acupuncture might help. I love working with patients who have tried so many things without getting the relief they want, but are still willing to try something new rather than giving up hope for feeling better.

Over the course of 12 acupuncture sessions: She started sleeping better right away. The shooting pains became less frequent. Gradually, she was able to do more and remain on her feet for longer periods. And even before the end of her series of 12 treatments, she went on a special trip to visit family and was able to enjoy herself, travel comfortably, and sleep well. This was a huge improvement from where she had started.

Now, she's taking a break from treatments to see how well her improvements hold, but said she’ll be back. I told her to make an appointment as soon as the first whisper of symptoms return. Then we can figure out a maintenance schedule to help keep her active.

It is incredible to see the progress patients can make with regular acupuncture, even during chemotherapy. Helping them manage side effects and enjoy life with more ease while facing health challenges is what makes this work so rewarding.

–Megan Rauch, LAc

Schedule your appointment online or reach out with questions:
Thrive Acupuncture & Wellness
📍 2880 Cleveland Ave, Ste 5, Santa Rosa, CA
☎️ (707) 527-0868
📩 [email protected]
📆 Book Online—Tap Contact Us at the top of our page

10/25/2026

A Great Trio for Staying Healthy--Cold & Flu Prevention Tip

For years, our tried-and-true easy plan for people who are motivated to stay healthy for a trip, holiday gathering, or big event has been:
1. Gan Mao Ling Chinese antiviral pills
2. Xlear Nasal Spray
3. Propolis Throat Spray

This trio works so well because it’s portable and doable. Patients will buy it for themselves and their family or travel partner. Just get everyone their own spray bottles because eeeewwww to sharing those!

And so many patients have told us over the years that they avoided catching the thing that everyone else got at the family holiday trip. Or when everyone they were traveling with got sick and were down for the count, they only got a very mild version and got back to life quickly.

Stock Up & Stay Healthy
Next time you're in, pick up what you need to have your own little stay-healthy kit ready to go. Or give us a call or email and we'll have everything ready for you to pick up.

Thrive Acupuncture & Wellness
📍 2880 Cleveland Ave, Ste 5, Santa Rosa, CA
☎️ (707) 527-0868
📩 [email protected]
📆 Book Online—Link in Bio

10/24/2026

Propolis Throat Spray Cold & Flu Prevention Tip

You know where else colds, flus, and viruses enter, hang out, and reproduce? The throat. So let’s get in there and deliver some potent antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory goodness to stop them from taking hold and soothe the throat.

Propolis Daily Throat Spray by Beekeeper’s Naturals has bee propolis extract in a spray that’s easy to use and carry with you. Propolis is known as the “defender of the hive” because it keeps sensitive beehives and colonies healthy. Propolis contains a high concentration of polyphenols, flavonoids, Vitamin C, and B—all known to support immune health. And BONUS: this spray tastes like honey.

Here’s how to use Propolis Throat Spray:
1-2 sprays on each side of the back of the mouth into the throat.
🔹Prevention: 1 spray on each side morning and night.
🔹Exposed: 2 sprays on each side after exposure to colds/flus.
🔹Colds, Flu, Virus Symptoms: 2 sprays on each side throughout the day when cold/flu symptoms have started.

You can use it or increase it if you're run down, your throat is tired from talking/presenting/singing, or if you’re around more people, traveling, or if someone around you gets sick. If you're motivated to stay healthy for a gathering or a trip for example, I recommend you start using it twice a day a week before the event, and continue until you are back to your usual rested self.

My throat gets run down easily and I talk a lot, so I use this morning and night– 1 spray on the left and 1 on the right of the back of the mouth into the throat. I use it extra anytime my throat feels tired or if there is something going around.

Thrive Acupuncture & Wellness
📍 2880 Cleveland Ave, Ste 5, Santa Rosa, CA
☎️ (707) 527-0868
📩 [email protected]
📆 Book Online—Tap Contact Us at the top of our page

10/24/2026

Xlear Nasal Spray Cold & Flu Prevention Tip

To prevent and reduce the symptoms of respiratory colds, flus, and viruses it’s a good idea to get in the nose and sinuses and stop them where they enter, hang out, and reproduce. It also helps soothe, clean things up, and open your airway so your upper respiratory system can be a better first line of defense.

Xlear did a study during the pandemic that showed that using it helps people not get sick from respiratory viruses after exposure. Xlear combines xylitol and grapefruit seed extract in a fine mist that gets all up into your upper respiratory system. The xylitol soothes the membranes and opens up the biofilm to allow what is stuck in there to wash out. The grapefruit seed extract is antiviral & antimicrobial.
Together they:
-Open things up
-Block the adhesion of bacteria & viruses
-Hydrate and clean the membranes
-Support your sinuses in protecting you from respiratory bugs.

Here’s how to use Xlear:
2 sprays in each nostril, 2-5 times per day. Wait a bit, then blow your nose to clean it out.
-Prevention: Xlear morning and night.
-Exposed: Xlear after exposure to colds/flus.
-Colds, Flu, Virus Symptoms: Xlear throughout the day after cold/flu symptoms have started.

Use it when:
-You're run down
-Around lots of people
-Traveling
-Someone around you gets sick

If you're motivated to stay healthy for a gathering or a trip, for example, I recommend you start using it twice a day a week before the event, and continue until you are back to your usual rested self.

I use Xlear morning and night year-round. I already had a handle on my sinuses, still my respiratory health improved using Xlear regularly. I use it more often if there's a bug going around, I'm feeling run down, or if I am extra motivated to stay healthy.

Pro-Tip: Xlear is also great for allergies.

Schedule your appointment online or reach out with questions:
Thrive Acupuncture & Wellness
📍 2880 Cleveland Ave, Ste 5, Santa Rosa, CA
☎️ (707) 527-0868
📩 [email protected]
📆 Book Online—Tap Contact Us at the top of our page

10/23/2026

Check out our latest newsletter:
😤🐝Staying Healthy Through Cold & Flu Season Part 2 & A Clinic Win 🐝😤

Inside you’ll find:
1) Part 2 in our series on our favorite ways to stay healthy--Your Nose & Throat Need Some Love This Cold & Flu Season! These are two ridiculously easy things I use myself, especially when I'm traveling, around more people, or just feeling a little run down. And they happen to be two of the three most popular don’t-get-sick products we carry at Thrive.

2) A Win From the Treatment Room with Megan--Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathy

3) Schedule Heads Up: Your future self will thank you for booking now because it’s getting darker earlier, election season is here, and there's a whole lot of holiday extra coming your way!

💌 All the details are inside the newsletter on our website blog (Link in Bio)

Thrive Acupuncture & Wellness
📍 2880 Cleveland Ave, Ste 5, Santa Rosa, CA
☎️ (707) 527-0868
📩 [email protected]
📆 Book Online—Link in Bio

10/21/2026

Tears lately? Like, WTAF is going on with this crying?! Are you depressed? Did your meds stop working? Where did your motivation go?

It’s the season. Seriously.

Right now, at this exact point in the year, everything outside is letting go. The light is shortening. Things are dying back. A cycle is ending, visibly, everywhere you look.

Your body is not separate from that. If you feel heavier in October you are responding accurately to your environment.

And some of what you're carrying isn't personal at all. There's a specific grief moving through people right now that has nothing to do with their own lives--grief about the state of things, about what's unfair, about a world that keeps asking you to absorb more than a person can absorb. That's not fragility. That's what it feels like to be paying attention.

So no. We don't think the goal is to stop feeling it. But there's a difference between feeling something and being flattened by it. If it's changing how you sleep, how you eat, whether you answer your texts, whether you can get up--that's a system running out of capacity to hold what it's holding.

In Chinese Medicine, grief lives in the Lungs, and Fall is Lung season.

Not all sadness is depression, and not all depression is the same thing. Grief and sadness can look like a specific kind of depression.

And to be clear: we are pro every tool in the toolbox. If medication helps you, take it. If therapy helps you, keep going. We’re not here to replace any of it. We’re here to add to it. No judgment, ever. Just provide more support. For you feeling better.

If this late summer to fall transition has you down, you're tired of explaining it away, come in.

Schedule your appointment online or reach out with questions:
Thrive Acupuncture & Wellness
📍 2880 Cleveland Ave, Ste 5, Santa Rosa, CA
☎️ (707) 527-0868
📩 [email protected]
📆 Book Online—Tap Contact Us at the top of our page

10/19/2026

Painful periods, cramps, endometriosis: Your period pain “management system” is not normal. Because painful periods don’t have to be “just how things are”. Common is not the same as normal.

Period pain is information. It tells us about circulation, about inflammation, about how well things are moving and where they're stuck. Cramping that severe almost always means something isn't flowing the way it should--and that's true whether you have an endometriosis diagnosis or you've been told everything looks fine.

If you do have endometriosis: you already know the surgical and hormonal options and you may have tried them. ✨Acupuncture and 🌿Chinese Herbal Medicine work alongside all of it. We're addressing inflammation, circulation, and pain. We're not replacing your care team.

This is one of the things this medicine does best, and it's one of our favorite things to treat, because the change is so clear. Most patients notice a difference by their second or third cycle.

You don't have to keep planning your month around cramps. Let's talk about how much better your periods can be.

Schedule your appointment online or reach out with questions:
Thrive Acupuncture & Wellness
📍 2880 Cleveland Ave, Ste 5, Santa Rosa, CA
☎️ (707) 527-0868
📩 [email protected]
📆 Book Online—Tap Contact Us at the top of our page

10/17/2026

Herbs We Want You to Have BEFORE You Get Sick Option 3

Immune + and Lonicera Complex Pills:
This is another pill option that's particularly easy if your focus is prevention. Maybe you know your immune system is weaker and needs some support, or you’re not around a lot of people normally, but want to boost your system for when you’re going to be.

Instead of taking one formula, you're combining a decent dose of immune-boosting herbs with a tiny dose of antiviral herbs. These are both based on classical formulas with a few modern herbs added to make them more well-rounded and effective in modern times.

Two bottles of Immune + and one bottle of Lonicera Complex last about a month at the prevention dose. If you actually get sick, you can stop the Immune + and take a larger dose of the Lonicera Complex, or start one of the other antiviral options.

If you want antiviral herbs to have on hand call, email, or ask us at your next appointment. We can help you figure out which option makes the most sense for you and make sure you know how to take it.

Thrive Acupuncture & Wellness
📍 2880 Cleveland Ave, Ste 5, Santa Rosa, CA
☎️ (707) 527-0868
📩 [email protected]
📆 Book Online—Tap Contact Us at the top of our page

10/17/2026

Schedule Heads Up!
Here's a heads up to our savvy patients who know that they are going to need some consistent support through the next several months. Yup, it's getting darker earlier. And election season is here. And there's about to be a whole lot of holiday extra on your plate--treats, shopping, celebrations, meals, family visits and obligations.

Our schedule is open through December and there are some schedule changes around Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. So hop on our online scheduler (or bring your calendar to your next visit) and get yourself the spots you want.

We'd love to help you have a plan to stay healthy, keep your digestion in check, stop the seasonal depression from setting in, and build some reserves to get through winter so you still have some oomph in the new year!

Schedule your appointment online or reach out with questions:
Thrive Acupuncture & Wellness
📍 2880 Cleveland Ave, Ste 5, Santa Rosa, CA
☎️ (707) 527-0868
📩 [email protected]
📆 Book Online—Tap Contact Us at the top of our page

Address

2880 Cleveland Avenue, Suite 5
Santa Rosa, CA
95403

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 7pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 7pm
Friday	9am - 1am

Telephone

+17075270868

Website

https://thrive-acupuncture.janeapp.com/, http://thrive-acupuncture.com/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Thrive Acupuncture and Wellness posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.