I am a Chinese medicine practitioner and shiatsu therapist with a special interest in the treatment of children. I began practicing in 1988 and continue to develop my practice from South Melbourne, at Wind Water Health, and at my property in Hesket, in the Macedon Ranges in country Victoria. I utilise Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture as well as the tactile methods of paediatric tuina and shiatsu. As well as primarily treating children, I see some other adult family members, grown former child patients as well as a localised general practice which helps me maintain my vision of childhood as part of a larger human existence, where what is sown and cultivated finds it's continuous expression and evolution for its full measure.

I'm intensely interested in the stage of life we call childhood, it's changing meaning and the implications for clinical practice this has. I'm also interested in how and why some children enjoy robust health, why others seem to confront big and small challenges routinely, why some treatments work sometimes and why at other times not. And I'm especially interested in how I can apply that understanding to improve outcomes and promote better health for the children who come to see me.

I am committed to promoting Chinese Medicine for children and to developing the knowledge, skills and other attributes of practitioners wishing to enhance this area of practice and to conversation about children, health and Chinese medicine. This site is my attempt to share with you some of my thoughts about these and related ideas.

I’ll be publishing some essays have some theoretical and conceptual language of Chinese medicine of particular interest to other Chinese medicine practitioners, it is essentially an account of my own personal learning experience and perspectives of practice, including some patient narratives which I hope are of interest to parents and other readers.I hope you enjoy reading these musings and invite you to comment or share your experiences.