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About Source Point Community Health CIC
Source Point Community Health CIC grew out of a set of needs:
A national need to address the health crisis that our country, like most industrialised countries, is now in.
A need to offer treatment to those in society who could benefit from Chinese medicine the most
And finally, a need to offer high quality healthcare in a professional environment at affordable prices
Source Point Community Health CIC is part of a movement towards a healthier society, a movement towards social equality and a movement towards medical integration.
We believe that Chinese Medicine can help not only your health, but also the community’s health, by enabling us to come together and address our collective approach to health in general. Most importantly, this community model allows high quality treatment at an affordable price.
We are proud to be a member of the Association of Community and Multibed Acupuncture Clinics (ACMAC).
The Source Point Story
Source Point Community Health CIC started out in 2013 as a multi-bed acupuncture clinic (Source Point Community Acupuncture) offering 6 treatments per hour with 2 clinicians working side by side in one big room. We still offer this treatment and it is in many ways our flagship service.
In 2016 we were awarded a Big Lottery Grant to offer Free Acupuncture for patients in chronic pain and on a low income, to run alongside our existing Free Ear/Auricular Acupuncture service and the main 'pay what you can afford' clinic. We have successfully received follow up grants to maintain the Free service (now for Chronic illness/low income) and hope this will continue and expand to include all of the treatments Source Point offers.
In 2017 we began to realise the need to incorporate the other Chinese Medicine modalities of herbs, Tui Na medical massage, qi gong exercise and dietary therapy to better treat the complex health conditions we were seeing in clinic. Following public consultation, we launched the full range of Chinese medicine treatments in 2018. As we were no longer just a acupuncture clinic we changed our name - Source Point Community Health CIC was borne with a new legal structure (Community Interest Company) to support us to help you back to health and wellbeing.
Our Practitioners
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Clare Mulligan
DIRECTOR AND REGULAR PRACTITIONER
ACUPUNCTURE & HERBAL MEDICINE
Clare joined Sourcepoint in 2015 inspired by the community model and its inclusiveness.
Clare qualified in 2008 as a practitioner of Chinese Medicine with a double degree level in both Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine from the Southern School of Natural Therapies in Melbourne, Australia, which has one of the highest standards for Chinese Medicine qualifications and practice in the West.
She was drawn to study Chinese medicine after seeing the emphasis it places on treating patients holistically, utilising the patient’s own energy to help return the body to a state of balance and was also intrigued by the strong scientific concepts it embraces.
Clare also has a strong understanding of modern and Chinese nutritional therapy and feels patient education is a big part of any healing process in terms of diet and lifestyle changes, and so uses this knowledge to empower and help patients make huge transformations in their lives and in the way they take care of themselves.
Clare loves spending time in Nature, walking and running on the moor and foraging on the land, as well as practicing yoga and meditation
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Giusi Pezzotta
REGULAR PRACTITIONER
ACUPUNCTURE & CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE
Having spent her late teens and early 20’s dotted with a few surgeries and medication, Giusi started looking into her health in search for different answers.
Chinese medicine gave her those answers and because Giusi has always wanted to live in a world where people have choices and options about their health, she committed herself to learning. Since 2004 Giusi has trained in various types of bodywork, a degree in acupuncture, a master in Chinese herbal medicine and has trained as a yoga teacher.
Giusi has a special interest in women's hormonal health & fertility support.
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Rebecca Anne Ellis
REGULAR PRACTITIONER
ACUPUNCTURE & REMEDIAL MASSAGE
Rebecca graduated with a degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2009 and has been working in various clinical settings with diverse demographics ever since.
She gained most of her experience in London working in specialist fertility clinics on Harley Street and IVF wards. She also co- ran a radical low cost multi-bed acupuncture project and volunteered in a busy hospice assisting end of life care with Chinese medicine in the big smoke.
She’s also worked alongside a highly skilled, integrative team in Durham, specialising in chronic pain.
Rebecca’s commitment to developing her skills as a practitioner include two scholarships in China (one in Heilongjiang university hospital), training in other modalities like Bowen and bodywork. She has also qualified as a yoga teacher, working in India as a yoga teacher trainer and teaches Chinese Medicine theory for yoga teachers. Whilst abroad, Rebecca volunteered on two occasions at a health post in rural Nepal treating between 50-70 patients in the morning clinic!
She continues to practice Taiji Quan with her teacher of 13 years, Michael Acton.
Rebecca has now returned to her homeland Devon and runs a clinic in Chagford treating and teaching.
She loves being outdoors; stomping, swimming, surfing and dabbling with growing & foraging.
Our Locum Practitioners
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Brij
LOCUM
FOUNDER. ACUPUNCTURE, HERBAL MEDICINE, REMEDIAL MASSAGE
Brij began his Chinese Medicine journey in 1998. He studied Acupuncture, Tui Na (Chinese remedial massage), Chinese Dietary Therapy, Medical Qi Gong (Chinese Physical Therapy) and the classical application of Oriental Medicine over 6 years in Hong Kong, London, New York and mainland China.
He started his career volunteering and then working as an acupuncturist in the NHS, where he gained experience through being in a busy clinic seeing up to 32 patients per day. He found this form of multibed treatment in a ward setting an inspiring and enjoyable way to work. After leaving the NHS in 2005 Brij focused on private practice, working in London and Devon. After some years he ended up at high profile clinics in Harley Street, Chelsea, Kensington and Knightsbridge, treating the global elite. On leaving London and returning to Devon in 2012 he felt the need to re-engage with his original experience of acupuncture, where treatment was accessible to all, regardless of social standing or economic restraint. It was this desire – and the friendship, support and skill of his colleague and co-founder Tom Hirons – that brought Source Point Community Acupuncture into being.
As well as his involvement with Source Point, Brij lectures on Chinese Medicine theory and Chinese Dietary Therapy as a guest lecture at Colleges and Universities in the UK and Europe. He also co-runs courses with Daverick Leggett in self-health, where he teaches Chinese Dietary Therapy, cooking for health and the Chinese system of nurturing life (yang sheng).
Brij lives on his farm in Dartmoor national park where he loves the wild environment of open moor and wooded river valleys. He enjoys many hours out walking or running with his dogs, swimming in the rivers and growing veg, stewarding animals and keeping bees.
Brij is the clinical director for Source Point Community Health and a full member of the British Acupuncture Council, the UK’s largest professional/self-regulatory body for the practice of traditional acupuncture.
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Ellie Columbine
LOCUM.
ACUPUNCTURE & CHINESE HERBS
Ellie is a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist.
She graduated from a 4 year TCM program at the Kootenay Columbia College of Integrated Health Sciences in Nelson, Canada and has since been working with clients in private practice.
Her original interest in holistic health was prompted by her own health challenges, and after experiencing the profound healing capabilities of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, she became passionate about learning more about it and sharing the benefits.
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Zoe Nash
LOCUM.
ACUPUNCTURE & REMEDIAL MASSAGE
A local practitioner from Dartmoor and certified in Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2006, Zoe has 18 years of experience with acupuncture and with her rich experience in different clinics and situations, she confidently provides treatment for both acute, chronic, simple and complex conditions.
Zoe’s healing approach is infused with care and depth as she blends both her integrated knowledge base and intuitive nature together, encompassing the mind, body and spirit during her diagnosis and treatment plan.
Zoe has a gentle approach, ensuring that you will find relaxation during the treatment, as well as reaching maximum benefit from these ancient traditions and methods of healing.