You should be vibrant & resilient
Your body is designed to feel fantastic.
Your wellbeing may have been knocked off balance by stress or overwork, injuries or illness, trauma or life experiences, or inbuilt constitutional challenges.
Acupuncture aims to bring you back to balance.
And Chinese medicine is concerned with your ben as well as your biao, the roots as well as the symptoms of your current state of health.
Five Elements & TCM
Jessica will diagnose and treat you using the frameworks of both Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which looks at how you are, and Five Element Acupuncture, which looks more at who you are, from a constitutional perspective.
Jessica’s latest articles
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Acupuncture for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Around one in forty Australians are estimated to be living with COPD, and it’s not a nice condition at all. The causes range from genetic factors, to childhood illnesses, to environmental exposures, to smoking. Common symptoms include coughing, mucous and difficult or laboured breathing. Unsurprisingly, “COPD can interrupt daily activities, sleep patterns and the ability…
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Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
Irritable bowel syndrom is unfortunately a really common problem, and it can be a really unpleasant one. “Around one in five Australians experiences the unpleasant symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) at some time. These include abdominal pain, bloating, mucus in the stools, and either diarrhoea, constipation or a mixture of both.” Unfortunately this can have a…
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Acupuncture for somatosensory problems after strokes
I have found working with stroke patients very rewarding. Unfortunately a stroke can leave some who was previously hale and hearty struggling with even the essentials of a daily dignity. And in need of support in ways that they might not have every imagined. Although the onset of a stroke may come out of the…