Claire Boxer
How I Help You With Your Health
I help you by providing a natural and holistic approach to:
- Women’s health: periods, hormones, mental health, fertility & pregnancy;
- Debilitating chronic conditions: such as chronic fatigue, POTS, fibromyalgia etc;
- Natural skin and beauty;
- General health and wellbeing.
I am committed to:
- listening to you – especially if you have not felt listened to before by other health professionals;
- understanding you – not just your health condition but who you are as a person;
- investing in you – helping you to understand what has got you to this point and how you can be empowered to take more control of your health and life.
My Path to Chinese Medicine
I discovered Chinese medicine when I was 26 having had viral meningitis and following that debilitating post viral chronic fatigue. I felt like an outcast from the western medical system because at that point they were unable to offer me any answers. So, I threw myself into research and study and took some big steps to completely change my life. This involved leaving a corporate job in the city of London and studying Chinese Medicine.
As a result of this difficult phase of my life I feel a deep connection to those who feel lost and unseen in their health issues and it’s likely that this is why I attract many clients who suffer with complex chronic health issues.
I have been practicing Chinese medicine since 2013. I Love this medicine and feel so privileged to work as a Chinese Medicine Doctor.
Claire Boxer
My Experience
As a woman, I have struggled with hormonal issues and felt frustrated at the solutions offered, which many of my clients also experience. Many of my patients come to see me having experienced some of the following frustrating issues:
- Diagnoses like “unexplained infertility” that fail to provide real solutions
- Lack of education around periods, contraception and hormonal health
- Medical gaslighting of women’s health concerns
- Minimal research on women’s health issues
- Cultural pressures and expectations faced by women
- Toxic beauty standards and social media messaging
- Pressures from the beauty industry that affect body image’
The struggles these issues can cause emotionally and physically are no surprise. Chinese medicine offers an alternative approach to understand these issues and medical wisdom that encourages positive and fundamental changes to physical and emotional health.
I get a lot of satisfaction helping those with infertility. It can be very frustrating to be given the label ‘unexplained fertility’ and to be left feeling hopeless and like there is nothing you can do. Chinese medicine always seeks to explain exactly why the body is behaving as it is. I believe that there is always an explanation and if you look hard enough you will be able to pinpoint where the issues lie.
I use many different tools in the clinic such as BBT charting, Chinese medicine diagnostic tools (such as pulse taking, palpation, tongue reading etc) and reading sperm and blood test results to help you get to the bottom of things.
I am here for you if you are struggling with any of these issues.
Claire’s qualifications
I have a Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons) in Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, from the College of Integrated Medicine in the UK where I studied Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Five Element Acupuncture.
I have studied other aspects of natural health care including: advanced bodywork – such as deep tissue, clinical and remedial massage therapy, Tui Na (Chinese medical massage), cupping, gua sha, moxibustion, (Chinese) dietary therapy, and classical herbal medicine. I integrate these practices into each treatment according to each patient’s needs and interests.
I am a registered AHPRA practitioner and a member of AACMA.
“In the past, people practiced the Dao, The way of life. They understood the principles of balance…They maintained wellbeing of body and mind; thus it is not surprising that they lived over one hundred years”
– The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine
Claire Boxer Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
Acupuncturist, Chinese Medicine Practitioner
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