About us

North Wales College of Oriental Medicine is a small, classical school of Oriental medicine based at The Plassey, Eyton, near Wrexham. The college was set up to offer accredited, part-time professional training in acupuncture, dry needling, complementary therapies and musculoskeletal injury management to people who already work — most students study one weekend a month around full- or part-time jobs.

Our tutors

Teaching is led by chartered physiotherapists and traditional acupuncturists with decades of clinical practice behind them. Between them the teaching team hold master's degrees in acupuncture and musculoskeletal studies, BSc (Hons) degrees in Traditional Chinese Medicine, diplomas in tui-na, sports therapy and massage, and post-graduate qualifications in counselling and clinical hypnotherapy.

Members of the team have served as senior lecturers on physiotherapy, TCM and complementary-therapy degree programmes at Glyndŵr University in Wrexham, as programme leaders and external assessors for acupuncture and sports-rehabilitation degrees, as accredited tutors, regional representatives and board members of the Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (AACP), and as clinical advisors to sports teams, charities and the NHS. Their work has been published in journals including the Journal of Chinese Medicine, Co-Kinetic, International Therapist and the Journal of the AACP.

How we teach

Our educational philosophy is that learning is best accomplished by doing. The curriculum is centred on a hands-on clinical approach: students locate points, practise techniques, develop diagnoses and treatment plans, and observe and treat patients in a supervised setting. Class sizes are deliberately limited to keep the student–teacher ratio low.

The college's specialist interests include five-element theory, mental health and fertility in acupuncture practice, lower-limb injuries and tendinopathies, trigger-point and electro-acupuncture, and supervision and mentoring of newly qualified practitioners.

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