I have been practising acupuncture for over 27 years and graduated from the College of Traditional Acupuncture, Leamington Spa, in 1997.

I am a member of the Association of Acupuncture Clinicians and a registrant of the British Acupuncture Federation.

During 1997 to 1999, I undertook a further two years postgraduate training in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) from the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading and so integrate both TCM and 5 Element Acupuncture into my work.

In my Oxfordshire clinics, I see clients for a wide range of conditions, ranging from back pain and arthritis, through to stress, anxiety and insomnia and also offer treatment to support people that are undergoing or recovering from chemotherapy treatment.

Over the years I have been drawn to specialise in women’s health, first becoming interested in providing acupuncture during pregnancy when I interned with Zita West at Warwick Hospital in 1997 and 1998. Thereafter, I locumed for Zita and ran her multi-bed antenatal clinic at the College of Traditional Acupuncture, Leamington Spa in 1999 for six months.

In 2000, I went onto intern at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, with Sarah Budd who was the first midwife and acupuncturist to set up an acupuncture service in the NHS for pregnant women in the UK.

Between 1999 to 2002 I went onto run a multi-bed, fertility and pregnancy clinic at The College of Traditional Acupuncture.

Whilst running my clinics, I have lectured at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, on acupuncture during pregnancy and ran workshops for trainee midwives at Oxford Brookes University, on the use of moxibustion for helping to turn breech babies and on acupuncture for antenatal and postnatal conditions.

I have been a contributor to Pregnancy and Birth magazine and to the National Childbirth Trust publications (NCT) and was a member of The Acupuncture for Childbirth Team (ACT) Oxfordshire.