Dr. Evren "Ev" Juniper
Doctor of East Asian Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist
DAcCHM, MAcCHM, LAc
About Dr. Ev —
Founder of ECHO Acupuncture
My work is rooted in East Asian Medicine — a system that understands health as a living, interconnected process. It doesn’t suppress symptoms or force the body to comply. It listens for what’s driving them.
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Before I became a practitioner, I lived in a cycle of managing symptoms — doing all the “right” things, adjusting, adapting, trying again. Some approaches helped for a while, but the relief was always temporary. Underneath it all, the same imbalances kept resurfacing.
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Experiencing East Asian Medicine changed that. Instead of trying to silence symptoms, it worked with the patterns that created them. As those patterns shifted, the issues I’d been managing for years stopped returning. The impact wasn’t just relief — it was resolution.
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That experience shapes how I practice today.
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My approach is steady, relational, and whole-person. I don’t chase quick fixes or treat isolated symptoms. Instead, I look at the full landscape of your health — sleep, digestion, hormones, stress patterns, pain, and the quieter ways imbalance shows up beneath the surface. In this sense, my work functions much like a general practice within East Asian Medicine: a grounded, ongoing place to bring the different threads of your health story — physical, mental, and emotional — and have them understood as one coherent picture.
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Together, we work at the level where imbalances begin, so improvements can become lasting. This medicine helped me heal at the root, and that’s the kind of care I offer here.
Quiet. Steady. Root-focused.
What Brings People In
Many of the people who come to ECHO arrive at a similar threshold, though their reasons vary:
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chronic pain or nerve dysfunction
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complex or functional health conditions
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hormonal shifts or reproductive journeys
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anxiety, insomnia, burnout, or trauma-imprinted stress
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addiction recovery and nervous system repair
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life transitions, grief, or periods of deep personal shifts
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wellness care that’s more than “maintenance”
Different stories, same inflection point.
The body is asking for a different kind of support — one that works with the deeper pattern, not against it.
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Healing takes time because it’s not just fixing — it’s unwinding what’s been layered over years.
Chronic conditions, emotional imprints, physical patterns, and survival strategies don’t appear all at once. They’re shaped over years of adapting, guarding, and reorganizing. Healing those layers requires care that meets the body where it is — consistently, and long enough for something foundational to change.
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This medicine is built for that.
Quiet. Steady. Root-focused.
Not flashy, not forceful. And profoundly effective over time.
Training & Credentials
Dr. Evren “Ev” Juniper is a board-certified acupuncturist (NCCAOM) licensed by the Oregon Medical Board. She holds both a Doctorate and Master’s in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine (DAcCHM and MAcCHM, formerly DSOM and MSOM) from the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) in Portland, Oregon, where her studies spanned multiple acupuncture lineages, herbal traditions, and the classical foundations of East Asian Medicine, including the study and translation of historical medical and philosophical texts.
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Before fully dedicating herself to this path, she spent three years in NUNM’s naturopathic medical program—a curriculum that closely parallels conventional medical school. This training deepened her understanding of anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, western herbs, supplements, and nutrition, and strengthened her ability to bridge biomedical insight and western natural medicine with the philosophy of East Asian Medicine. While in the naturopathic program, she began seeing an acupuncturist and had a personally transformative experience—one that ultimately led her to change course completely.
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Dr. Ev earned her Bachelor of Biological Science from California State University, Fullerton, concentrating in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She completed her pre-medical studies there and graduated with honors.
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In practice, she integrates eastern and western perspectives to create individualized, holistic treatment strategies—and collaborates fluidly with practitioners across disciplines to support comprehensive, patient-centered care.