Maria PerezMaria Perez, LAc.

Maria founded Brooklyn Community Acupuncture in 2006. She received her Doctorate in Oriental Medicine in 1999 from Southwest Acupuncture College in Santa Fe, NM. She had previously received her B.S. in Biology from the University of Oregon in 1996. After some years of making a living as a traveling musician and circus performer, Ms. Perez moved to Portland in 2001 to pursue her acupuncture career. In 2003 she opened Tiger Lily Wellness, an integrative health care practice with Krystee Sidwell, LMT. She later opened Brooklyn Community Acupuncture with the goal to expand the accessibility of acupuncture care to the general population.

Lily HaboushLily Haboush, LAc.

After living around the world, Lily arrived in Portland, OR to attend the National College of Naturopathic Medicine. She studied naturopathic medicine for 2 years before realizing that Chinese medicine was more aligned with her beliefs on healing. Those beliefs are centered around the idea that all that is material is built from an energetic blueprint, and often realigning the energetic blueprint is all that is needed to cause the material to come into balance. Since graduating in 2007, Lily has worked in community health clinics around Multnomah County, and worked with nearly 1500 patients. This has brought her full-circle in her healing philosophy, because she has realized that sometimes a little extra intervention may be what the patient requests, or what the practitioner recommends. She started studying Nursing at Linfield-Good Samaritan College, with the ultimate goal of completing her Doctorate of Nursing Practice, and practicing integrative medicine in a community setting.

Lily joined Maria at BCA in 2009. When she is not at the clinic, she can be found studying, playing the cello, romping with her dog Jack, or camping in the woods. Her greatest hope is that the current paradigm will shift, and all people will gain access to quality, integrative healthcare regardless of their financial situation.

Sunny JaynesSunny Jaynes, LAc.

Sunny Jaynes is an acupuncturist, herbalist, and shiatsu practitioner certified by the Oregon Medical Board and National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. From her lifelong love of nature, Sunny was drawn to become a healer. Chinese medicine has affirmed Sunny's intuition that the earth's body is our body and that healing happens naturally.

Sunny feels grateful that this work draws on her creative side. Meeting with each patient is like starting a new song with two composers. It is Sunny's firm belief that practitioner and patient walk the healing path side by side.

As a free school teacher and a nanny and a midwifery school dropout and now acupuncturist and herbalist, Sunny has always felt connected to her work with families. She is especially interested in women's health as it pertains to fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum and ongoing mother care.

Sunny finds balance in her own life through being a musician, connecting spirit with nature, being in active community, and growing her own organic, vital food.