When:

Since Oct. 1st, 2025 at our new downtown Evergreen location at Evergreen Lake!

Dr. Andrea Renee is passionately dedicated to delivering this Wellness Hour Program by donation to our Evergreen, CO community every week on Saturday 1p-5p.

FREE NADA Ear Auricular acupuncture and ear seeds acupressure are available along with customized sliding scale $30-$50 community group acupuncture, LED and PEMF treatments on Saturdays 1p-5p at her Chillax Om Evergreen, CO clinic new location at 4600 Plettner Ln., 1st FL #1C.

She also provides pop-up clinics on location at local community group organizations and businesses upon request. Currently she is providing her FREE weekly wellness hour pop-up clinics every Tues. 4:30p-5:30p at the Evergreen Resiliency Center in the Yellow house on HWY 73 to anyone affected by the Sept. 2025 Evergreen High School shooting. 

You can nominate your own company coworkers and any community group to become recipients of our wellness hour pop up clinics. We are here to serve you, your co-workers, friends, family and our frontline emergency services providers including fire fighters, police officers, healthcare workers, seniors, veterans and teachers.

Acupuncture and self-care training can help our community recover from the non-stop daily life stressors and big life changing events to become healthier and more resilient despite any challenges.

Where

At Chillax Om Natural Health & Longevity Center, 4600 Plettner Ln., 1st FL #1C, Evergreen, CO 80439

Enjoy our Saturdays 1p-5p walk-in group treatments with FREE NADA Ear Auricular acupuncture and ear seeds along with customized sliding scale $30-$50 community acupuncture, LED & PEMF treatments at her Evergreen, CO clinic. 

If you are an employer, community or public service organization in Evergreen, CO who thinks the Wellness Hour group acupuncture and self-care training program can help your local community, colleagues and employees, contact Dr. Renee at AndreaReneeLAc@gmail.com or 310-461-7494 to schedule a single pop up clinic day or a six-week weekly popup clinic program and for additional information.

Who

Dr. Andrea Renee Rivera (“Dr. Renee”), Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM), Licensed Acupuncturist (LAc.), and founder of the Chillax Om Foundation 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has been a front-line integrative healthcare provider through two generation-defining crises. The first was the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, which she lived through and worked beside in downtown Manhattan — enduring bomb threats, toxic smoke from the Twin Towers, and military checkpoints on her daily commute. The second was the COVID-19 pandemic, during which she practiced acupuncture in Los Angeles, California, surrounded by civil unrest, homeless encampments, and public health emergency orders.

California Service (2016–2023)

From 2016 through 2023, Dr. Renee delivered over 10,000 acupuncture and auricular NADA protocol treatments across multiple Los Angeles County facilities, including the LA County/USC Wellness Center, Venice Family Clinic, and Pacific Coast Community Acupuncture Clinic, in addition to her private practices in Hollywood and Pacific Palisades, CA. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2023), she delivered nearly 3,000 acupuncture treatments to frontline workers, healthcare staff, and community members navigating the mental and physical toll of the crisis.

“Through these experiences, I witnessed participants feel stress relief, less pain, more energy, healthy weight loss, and an overall increase in quality of life — including better relationships at work and at home — after using acupuncture, acupressure, and mind-body practices.”

Colorado Service (2023–Present)

In October 2023, Dr. Renee relocated her practice to Evergreen, Colorado, opening Chillax Om Natural Health & Longevity Center. In 2024, she completed the foreign corporation filing with the Colorado Secretary of State, formally extending her practice and the Chillax Om Foundation’s mission into the state. Since establishing her Colorado practice, she has delivered over 250 free group acupuncture treatments per year in Evergreen alone, with cumulative totals across both states now exceeding 1,000 free treatments delivered through the Foundation since its 2021 founding.

Colorado’s need for accessible, low-cost mental health and addiction support is well documented and growing. The data below, drawn from independent state and national sources, frames why Dr. Renee’s work in Evergreen is addressing an urgent and measurable public health gap.

These rankings reflect a state in sustained crisis: Colorado has ranked among the worst two states in the nation for prevalence of mental illness for two consecutive years, and ranks 50th worst for adult substance abuse of alcohol and drugs.

Mental Health Colorado’s CEO Vincent Atchity has attributed the ongoing strain to compounding factors including unresolved anxiety from gun violence, the lingering effects of pandemic-era isolation, rising cost-of-living pressure that delays care-seeking until crisis points, and confusing insurance coverage that leaves many residents — even those with insurance — uncertain how to access affordable treatment.

How the Chillax Om Wellness Hour Program Addresses This Gap

The Chillax Om Foundation’s Wellness Hour program was purpose-built to remove the two most common barriers Colorado residents cite when avoiding mental health care: cost and accessibility. The program offers:

• Free weekly walk-in group auricular (ear) acupuncture using the NADA protocol — no appointment, insurance, or upfront cost required
• A judgment-free, group-based setting that reduces the stigma many residents associate with seeking behavioral health support
• Integration with breathwork, guided meditation, and Qigong self-care training so participants leave with tools they can use independently between sessions
• Direct outreach to the populations most underserved by Colorado’s existing system: Veterans, First Responders, uninsured and underinsured residents, and those who cannot afford the $0–$150 per session cost of traditional therapy cited as a barrier in recent Colorado reporting

What Local Community Members Are Seeking Relief From Most

Engagement data from Dr. Renee’s social media outreach — specifically educational video content addressing anxiety, depression, ADHD, PTSD, and chronic stress — has consistently outperformed other content by approximately 300% in views. This direct, real-world signal from the local Evergreen and greater Colorado community confirms what the state-level data shows: residents are actively searching for accessible relief from these specific conditions, and are responding to content that offers a non-pharmaceutical, low-barrier option.

This pattern aligns precisely with the clinical conditions the NADA protocol and broader acupuncture research base are most studied for treating.

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Dr. Andrea says, “It took me 20 years to completely recover my health, financial stability and establish a new career as an acupuncturist by 2020 just in time to face a second global crisis from Covid-19. Post Sept. 11th after my downtown NY jewelry store business closed, I had moved from NY to CA in 2003 to start a new life with limited resources.

The next 4 years of post-911 life reinvention demands took a toll on my health and family relationships, causing my own personal experience of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with depression, anxiety, insomnia and chronic pain that lasted for three years. After trying allopathic methods and medications to alleviate my PTSD symptoms, I sought acupuncture and the mind-body practices of daily yoga, Chigong, Transcendental Meditation and herbal medicine for relief. Because of my prior 911 personal experience, I can recognize when many people in my local  community facing the same struggles each fire season, during and after Covid-19, and since the Evergreen High School (EHS) shooting Sept. 2025 in Evergreen, CO. Especially since my former home and practice locations were lost in the Pacific Palisades, CA Jan. 2025 fires followed by the Sept. 2025 EHS shooting I am currently engaged in facilitating the same battle of recovery post life changing events within myself and fellow community members.

Acupuncture, herbal medicine, diet therapy and mind-body self-care practices enabled me to not only recover from 911 but also kept me working on the front lines during Covid-19 as a licensed acupuncturist delivering over 3000 acupuncture treatments over the 2 years of the pandemic helping others take their health back, go back to work and school and rebuild their lives despite the challenges. These natural solutions also enabled me to navigate my mother’s tragic death from her car accident in March 2023 as well as my own near death car accident in 1994. 

In Jan. 2021 after 5 years of seeing how acupuncture and using mind-body practices changed the lives of my patients while delivering over 7000 treatments and self-care trainings, I began the process of founding the 501c3 non-profit, Chillax Om Foundation. 2021 being the Twenty-year anniversary of Sept.11 happening during the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic was a powerful motivation to ask myself, “what more can I do to honor who and what we all have lost and help life go on for the survivors of these forever life changing tragedies?” This prayer was answered with “do the Wellness Hour Program now.” Now, with God’s grace and the very kind and generous support of my board of directors, volunteer staff and local community in fundraising efforts, I can help more people in becoming their own medicine, ending their suffering and returning to peace, health and wholeness….hopefully much sooner than I could post 9/11.”