About Us

Thank you for taking the time to visit our home on the web!  Yorba Hills Acupuncture & Herbs is the Orange County home of Dr. Joseph (Joey) DeStefano II, a California Licensed Acupuncturist, a Rhode Island Department of Health licensed Doctor of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine , and a National Board Certified Diplomate in both Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM)®. For over 30 years, he has been a practitioner of East-Asian Bodywork Therapy, specializing in the art of Chinese Tui Na Manual Therapy (中国推拿), and brings his knowledge and experience in body mechanics, and experienced touch, to his acupuncture practice. As a fully-qualified practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the focus of his practice is on the use of these profoundly effective techniques as taught by the ancient medical masters and authors of the classic Chinese medical texts, and their integration into western clinical settings.  To learn more about Dr. D. and his training, click here.

Officially founded in San Diego in 2006 as ReturningSpring® Asian Holistic Health, our roots in Yorba Linda stretch back in the early 1980’s, while Dr. DeStefano was still attending Esperanza High School, and studying Chinese herbal medicine and Asian bodywork therapy as part of his training in the martial arts. His first “patients” were friends and classmates who sought Dr. D. out for his early skills. As an undergraduate at Loyola Marymount University, Dr. D. was teaching judo and jujutsu at Jerry Warren’s Samurai Academy in Placentia and at LMU, he was able to provide classmates with external herbal therapies he had learned from his teachers. He continued studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine while attending weekend courses in Berkeley, CA, getting certified in Asian Bodywork Therapy, and the rest is history.  Since then, he has been providing holistic health and wellness services throughout Southern California.  With the return to the Yorba Linda and Anaheim Hills service area, Dr. D. felt a new name reflecting his service area was appropriate.

We look forward to being your partner on the journey to good health!