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 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…
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Acupuncture for angina
Angina affects an estimated 260,000 Australian adults. It can involve not just pain, but also other distressing symptoms, from shortness of breath to low energy, sweating, dizziness and nausea. Angina is classified as unstable, with unpredictable symptoms, and stable or chronic angina, with a more predictable pattern. It’s based on a reduced blood flow to…
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Acupuncture for Meniere’s disease
Before I first treated someone with Meniere’s disease, I think even I had that idea in the back of my mind that vertigo is just about feeling uneasy with heights! One discussion with one Meniere’s patient promptly set me straight on that. Vertigo symptoms can be horrible, and tinnitus too is something that I now…