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Most of the questions we get come from people who have never seen a complementary practitioner and are not sure what they are walking into. These are the ones that come up first.
No. It sits alongside. Keep your GP, keep your specialists, keep your medication, and tell us about all of it — especially the medication, because that is what determines whether some approaches are appropriate at all.
If what you describe needs investigating, our answer is a referral back to your doctor, not a course of appointments.
In Australia, acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine are regulated professions: practitioners hold registration with the Chinese Medicine Board under AHPRA, and the register is public. Several other therapies are not registered in that way and are governed by professional associations instead.
That distinction is not a judgement about whether something is useful. It is about who you can complain to, and what level of training you can count on. You are entitled to ask which category applies to the person you are booked with.
Mostly talking. Where the problem started, what makes it better or worse, what else is going on, what you take, how you sleep and eat. An examination relevant to the complaint. Then a plain conversation about whether this is likely to help and what it would involve.
About an hour, and you should leave knowing what the plan is and what it costs.
You will not get a promise here, and you should be wary of one anywhere. Some things respond, some do not, and some of what people hope for is outside what any of this can reach. We would rather tell you that at the start.
Not on a web page and not over the phone. Nothing is supplied without a consultation, because interactions with prescribed medicines are real and cannot be assessed in the abstract.
