Heidi Mather

**Registered Acupuncturist, Traditional Chinese Medicine Herbalist (TCM) and Nutritionist**

Heidi has a triple licence as an Acupuncturist, TCM Herbalist and Nutritionist. She has been in practice since 2010 after graduating from the University of Portsmouth (UK) with a first class BSc Honours degree in **Acupuncture**. She spent the first 5 years of practice working at a GP Surgery in the UK specializing in treating pain. She found it so affective that she underwent extensive training in the use of **guasha, cupping, moxibustion** and **electro-acupuncture** to enhance her acupuncture treatments for pain relief.

As pain is often a component of chronic health conditions, she became interested in the role that diet could play as a means to address the underlying condition in conjunction with acupuncture. Heidi trained as a **Nutritional Therapist** at the College of Naturopathic Medicine in London (UK), and received the *award for Clinical Aptitude in Nutrition* upon graduation in 2014. She uses her knowledge of nutrition from an Eastern & Western perspective, and offers dietary counselling, advice regarding supplementation and specific nutritional testing such as **Food Sensitivity Testing** and **Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth** for her clients, if appropriate.

After moving to Bowen Island with her family in 2015, Heidi decided to study Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine, and was awarded her provincial license as a **Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner** (TCM.P) in 2021. The addition of herbal medicine to her treatments has enabled Heidi to make personalized medicine tailored to the unique and changing needs of her clients. She uses high quality concentrated herbal granules to be taken daily with hot water.

In the spring of 2025 Heidi concluded a **2 year Clinical Integration** training with world renowned teacher Lonny Jarrett (USA) on the use of Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine and Pulse Diagnosis to deepen her practice of psycho-emotional disorders. Heidi will complete her **Doctor of TCM** program in Vancouver in the summer of 2026, and as part of her final clinical rotation she will be undertaking 4 weeks of training in Taiwan in the spring of 2026.

*Heidi splits her time between clinics on Bowen Island and Horseshoe Bay.*

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**Qualifications:**

March 16-April 10 2026. *160 hours of Clinical Training at the Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital in Taiwan*.

2022 - July 2026. *Dr. of Traditional Chinese Medicine*, Tzu Chi International College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Vancouver.

2023 - 2025. *2 year Clinical Integration: Inner tradition in Chinese Medicine*, with Lonny Jarrett, USA.

2019 - 2021. *Diploma in TCM Practitioner*,

Tzu Chi International College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Vancouver.

2012 - 2014. *Diploma in Nutritional Therapy*,

College of Naturopathic Medicine, London, UK.

Received *Award for Clinical Aptitude in Nutrition*, upon graduation.

2007-2010. *BSc (Hons) Acupuncture*, first class,

University of Portsmouth, UK.

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**Continuous Professional Development:**

--- 2 day Physiogomy training (facial analysis), by Daoist master Jeffery Yuen.

--- 4 day Pulse Diagnosis training, by Tracy Soltesz ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

--- 2 day Spirit of the Herbs, by Lonny Jarret‎

--- Acupuncture for Fertility by Zita West‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

— Acupuncture for pregnancy & childbirth by Debra Betts‎‎ ‎ ‎

— Understanding IVF and Miscarriage by Jill Glover

--- Understanding and Treating Endometriosis, by Giovanni Maciocia

— Pediatric Acupuncture, by Julian Scott

— Chinese Pulse Diagnosis by Fran Turner

— Residential week on Chinese Food Energetics by Daverick Leggett

— 2 day needling workshop for Pain, by Andrew Nugent Head

— Electro-acupuncture for musculoskeletal problems by Stephen Lee

— Face Diagnosis by Lilian Pearl Bridges

— 2 day Everything you ever wanted to know about moxa, by the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine

— 4 day NADA Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist certification

— 2 day Functional Medicine Conference on Metabolic syndrome, Obesity and Chronic Disease by Dr Jeffery Bland and others

— Endocrine and toxicology Masterclass by Dr Sarah Myhill

— Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS) Conference by Dr Sarah Myhill

— Optimizing Health & Lifespan through nutrition & detoxification, by Dr Joe Pizzorno

— Brain Matters, by Lisa Smith and Colin Wallace

---The Secrets to Bone Health, by Lara Pizzorno

— Cannabis Workshop and the Endocannabinoid System, by Lorene Sauro

--- Alzheimer's is Preventable, by Patrick Holford.