New York PAPA Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine

Harmony Wellness Center, owned by licensed acupuncturist Christina Prieto, is a TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) practice serving Winter Park, Orlando, Maitland, and surrounding communities. Founded in 2005, Harmony Wellness Center was born from Christina’s deep commitment to holistic healing. With a B.S. in Professional Health Studies and an M.S. in Oriental Medicine (cum laude), and enriched by extensive additional training during her externship in China, Christina provides acupuncture, Chinese and Western herbs, nutritional therapy, cupping, moxibustion, auricular/ear-seed work, acupoint injection therapy, and Meridian Balancing.

At Harmony Wellness Center, you’ll find a warm sanctuary designed for healing where every visit receives her personal attention and continuous guidance.

Comprehensive, Personalized Treatments
The acupuncture clinic offers a wide spectrum of therapies, including:

• Traditional Acupuncture
• Auricular Acupuncture (ear seeds)
• Fire Cupping
• Gua Sha
• Chinese and Western herbs, nutritional therapy & supplementation
• Acupoint Injection Therapy

Whether you’re seeking relief from chronic pain, wanting to reduce reliance on pharmaceuticals, or looking for support with women’s health or fertility, Harmony Wellness aims to treat the whole person. As Christina explains, her goal is to “activate the natural, self-healing abilities of your body to bring balance and prevent future illness and disease.”

Proven Results: Real People, Real Transformations
Patient testimonials reflect a broad range of successes. Below are some highlights:

• Couples came to Harmony hoping to conceive, and were successful after only a month of treatment. Harmony Wellness Center
• One woman shared that after three months of care she avoided an invasive hysterectomy, migraine headaches and chronic allergies cleared, she lost weight, and regained her self-confidence. Harmony Wellness Center
• Others described dramatic relief from severe back pain or chronic migraines, sometimes after years of suffering with no success from conventional medicine and praised the Center for delivering “completely drug-free” healing.
• Many also note Christina’s compassion, deep listening, and ability to craft individualized treatment plans tailored to each patient’s history, lifestyle, and well-being goals.

Why Choose Harmony Wellness Center?

• A highly qualified, deeply experienced practitioner with over a decade of formal education + internship training in China.
• A broad scope of integrative, holistic services, not just needles, but herbs, nutrition, cupping, moxibustion, and lifestyle guidance.
• A patient-centered approach that addresses root causes of imbalance, not just symptoms.
• A proven track record of helping clients with fertility, pain, stress, chronic conditions, and more often when other treatments have failed.
• A warm, welcoming, and calm healing environment where patients feel heard, respected, and cared for on a physical and emotional level.

Balance Art Acupuncture is an acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine center in Vienna, VA, offering multiple traditional Chinese medicine treatments, including acupuncture, herbal therapy, moxibustion, cupping.

Harmony Acupuncture has been serving Centennial area patients for over 16 years. Specialties include Integrated Sports Medicine, Infertility, Women's health, All pain issues including acute and chronic back pain, neck and shoulder pain, headaches, Before Surgery preparation and post-surgery pain, phantom pain that is difficult to be treated by conventional medicine, TMJ, Bells Palsy, eye strain, Tinnitus, and much more. Chinese herbal diagnoses and dietary conditions treated. '

Vivianne Hipol Gantous DACM, RN, is an Integrative Eastern Medicine Practitioner who believes an individualized approach for each patient is the root to healing the whole person. Her practice is a mosaic of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Bio-Energetics, Functional Medicine, and Western allopathic training. Choosing from the best of each of these modalities, a unique plan of care is created for every patient.
Her motivation to practice has always been a love of humans and healing herself from debilitating post-partum depletion after the birth of two out of her three children. She enjoys treating all members of the family unit especially women’s health as a mother’s vitality is the first mirror for her children. She also enjoys finding alternatives for “hard to treat” internal medicine cases.
Coming from a family of physicians, Vivianne sees firsthand the immense contributions of Western medicine and the treasures Eastern and Western Medicine together can best benefit not only a patient’s current condition but a lifetime of health.
For over 18 years, Vivianne is a licensed Acupuncturist, Herbalist and Nutritionist in California and Virginia, a Registered Nurse, a wife, and mother of three. This year she is launching a post-partum program and specific services for new parents as they navigate an understanding of their new body and evolution of their expanded identity.
Today she sees patients in person and via telemedicine at her office, Boundless Well-Being, located in Virginia Beach. When she’s not with her family or seeing patients, she’s on a trek with notebook and pen or abroad with her husband.