Pia Williams
BHSc (Acu & ChinMed), DipRemMass (Tui Na), AdvDipCCM.
Pia’s relationship with Chinese Medicine began with a chance visit to an acupuncturist on the recommendation of a friend. During her treatment, she experienced profound relief of her tendonitis and felt more mentally and emotionally at ease. She became curious about this entirely different medical worldview – grounded in the observation and understanding of nature, and its reflection in us. After years of travel and study, she could now see a way to not only help people and combine it with her passion for medicine, but to also bring her own humanity to it.
Pia is a qualified and registered Acupuncturist & Chinese Medicine Practitioner and Chinese Remedial Massage (Tui Na) Therapist. Her post-graduate studies in Canonical Chinese Medicine at ICEAM with Dr Arnaud Versluys has further developed her pulse diagnosis handed down from the Tian Family lineage, as well as its application using classical herbal formulas.
Pia has practiced in northern India with Moringa Project, and in Melbourne as a herbal dispenser for Dr Steven Clavey and Dr Graham Jellett. Pia has been practicing with the wonderful team at Kundalini House since 2012, and currently practices in Torquay and Ocean Grove as well.
Pia has a special interest in internal medicine as taught by the Classics and believes that Chinese Medicine is fundamentally about the relationships that nourish us – between our environment, others and within ourselves. This grounded approach considers that even when faced with chronic and complex health concerns, these can frequently be unraveled by addressing the accumulated issues, one layer at a time.
Her down to earth, compassionate and warm approach is balanced by her experience treating and preventing a wide range of conditions regarding all aspects of general practice including immune disorders, viral conditions, fatigue related illnesses, pain disorders, digestive, dermatological and mental-emotional imbalances, as well as women’s health.
PETE HAXELL
BHSc (Chinese Medicine)
Pete is an AHPRA registered Acupuncturist and Chinese herbal medicine practitioner with more than years of clinical experience. He worked under renowned classical herbal practitioner Graham Jellett over 2 years in his first years of practice to deepen his knowledge of classical chinese medicine.
Peter has a special interest in working with clients experiencing pain and chronic health conditions. Peter emphasises an approach centered on improving emotional awareness and gut health as well as evaluating and improving your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing to find an approach to healing that empowers you in your everyday life and management of stress to achieve better health.
Peter works holistically and intuitively, whilst also being guided by Classical Chinese Medicine principles of herbal medicine and acupuncture. Peter was born with a congenital dysfunction with his kidneys and after surgery at 7 months old has spent a life of managing chronic gut health and kidney issues that stemmed from his early childhood. This enables him to work empathetically and sensitively with those suffering from long standing health conditions or chronic poor health.
Peter also works with a wider range of health issues such as women’s health and fertility, musculoskeletal pain, and autoimmune disease.