Melissa
Garland.

The first time Melissa experienced Chinese Medicine, she was a child accompanying her father to a clinic in the Cotswolds. She was struck by the landscape of wildflowers and the woody smell of herbs and moxa. She saw the noticeable change in the people entering and leaving the treatment room. She knew instinctively that something important was happening, and that this mattered.

Thirty years later, she trained and opened her own clinic. She never lost sight of what she saw that day, medicine that visibly changes people, and she still practises it with the same skill, honesty and care. That's what she brings to every person she treats.

Melissa teaches each month at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, part of Health Sciences University, where she earned her first-class degree. She is a member of the British Acupuncture Council, the professional body that regulates acupuncturists in the UK, and has gone on to specialise in the areas that matter most to her patients: Gua Sha, facial acupuncture and postural alignment through the Putkisto Method.

Her focus is women's health: the hormonal shifts, the accumulated stress, the exhaustion that has settled for far too long.

That care doesn't end when you leave the treatment room. It's in what she asks you to carry home. It's in her honesty, always, about what will help and what won't. She will never encourage you to continue treatment if she genuinely doesn't think she can help you. That's the same quiet attention she noticed as a child, watching people walk out changed. It's what she offers you now.