Retreat Acupuncture specializes in the renewal and rebalancing of your own vital healing energy through acupuncture, herbs, and other treatments derived from the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). We offer personalized, holistic acupuncture and herbal medicine treatments. By applying TCM principles to modern lifestyles, we help our patients understand their health and encourage them to take an active part in their healing process.

We strongly believe in integrating the knowledge of western medicine and the wisdom of eastern medicine to ensure you are on the right path to your destination. We work closely with many local Reproductive Endocrinologists, OB/Gynecologists, and other physicians and specialists to ensure that you get the exact care and support you need.

Our team of compassionate, experienced and highly qualified practitioners have completed extensive post graduate training in reproductive health, women’s and men’s health, pregnancy (pre and post natal), pain management, sports medicine, internal medicine and mental health.

Julie Hackmann, L.Ac.
Founder of Retreat Acupuncture

Julie is committed to approaching each patient individually and compassionately with a holistic approach to medicine. Her passion is for ‘Wellness’ and she is grateful and proud to practice this form of medicine to assist patients to achieve optimal health and wellness. Julie uses a number of healing tools, therefore providing treatments that are unique to each patient’s condition. Julie combines the best of Traditional Chinese Medicine with experience in the Western sciences to formulate a unique and caring style of acupuncture that is based on ancient tradition and the best of modern science. Her approach to healing is to help get patients involved in their health and helps to create a new sense of wellbeing.

Julie Hackmann, L.Ac. obtained her four year masters degree from American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco. She is certified to practice acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine both nationally and in the state of California. Prior to becoming an acupuncturist, Julie was a chemical engineer in the pharmaceutical industry. She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from Virginia Tech.

Julie is a professional member of the national infertility organization, RESOLVE, as well as the American Pregnancy Association, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), and NorCal Fertility. Julie specializes in women’s health, fertility and pregnancy support as well as internal medicine, pain management and preventative wellness.

    Julie has extensive post graduate training in treating:
  • Infertility/Reproductive Health
  • Pregnancy – Pre and Post Natal
  • Women’s Health/Gynecological Complaints
  • Menopause
  • Men’s Health – Reproductive, Prostate, Erectile Dysfunction
  • Pain Management/Sports Medicine
  • Internal Medicine: Chronic illness, Diabetes, Cancer, Cardiovascular Illnesses
  • Auto-Immune Conditions
  • Detoxification
  • Preventative Wellness/Health Maintenance

Jennifer Little, L.Ac., earned her Master's of Science degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM) in San Francisco. She is a California licensed Acupuncturist, Herbalist, and practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine with ten years of experience as a holistic health practitioner. Prior to this, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida State University in Communications with minors in Biology and the Humanities.

While working at the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic and the Stroke and Rehabilitation Center at the California Pacific Medical Center, she was a key member of a team of health care practitioners focused on providing patients the best care possible with an integrative approach. Jennifer has done extensive post-graduate work in women's health, fertility, obstetrics, internal medicine, pulse diagnosis, herbal medicine and acupuncture through seminars, workshops and internships. During and after graduate school, she has interned with with pulse master Robert Levine, and has worked with fertility expert, Lifang Liang, with whom she worked closely with to write and edit an integrative gynecology textbook for TCM practitioners and students that was published by Blue Poppy in 2010. She is currently co-writing a book of detailed gynecological case studies to accompany the text book that will further guide practitioners in treating their patients according to their specific dynamic set of signs and symptoms.

In addition to treating patients at the ACTCM Community Clinic and ACTCM Ear Clinic, Jennifer maintained a thriving bodywork practice during school through her private practice, integrative clinics, and the JCCSF. She specialized primarily in pre- and post-natal care, bodywork for athletes, and rehabilitation from trauma, injury, and repetitive stress. As a massage therapist and Reiki practitioner, she began to cultivate her intuitive sense of working effectively with a person as a whole being. In Eastern philosophy and medicine, there is no separation between body, mind and spirit, and this paradigm plays an intrinsic role in her approach to healing.

With the whole person in mind, Jennifer approaches each patient individually. Mindful of both the symptoms, known as the "branch" in Chinese Medicine, and the underlying reason why the person is experiencing them (the "root"), she incorporates complimentary modalities including acupuncture, Chinese herbal formulas (internal and external), bodywork, moxibustion, cupping, energy work, mindfulness training, homeopathic remedies, flower essences, supplements, nutritional and dietary therapy, and exercises into her treatment plans for patients in order to assist them in discovering a balanced and radiant sense of well-being.