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Explore Shelley’s 33 years’ clinical practice experience. For 16 years she consulted privately and taught Chinese Medicine at Victoria University. She also served on the Chinese Medicine Registration Board of Victoria 2000-2009 and the Chinese Medicine Board of Australia 2012-2014. She continued to serve, establishing community, low-cost, open group acupuncture, mentoring students and continuing full time practice till May 2018. She then formally retired and moved to the Clarence Valley, before taking a sabbatical from 2019-2023, sailing in Europe & Turkey. She has now returned to Yamba and offers her professional services.

Her orthodox training includes a Bachelor Degree in Botany and a Graduate Diploma in Women’s Health. In 2005 she completed a PhD from the University of Melbourne in menopause and Chinese medicine.

Upon graduating from four years training in Chinese medicine, she undertook an internship in China at Dongzhimen Hospital of the Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, in 1989. She worked in the Acupuncture and Gynaecology Departments. She completed a further 4 hospital internships over 10 years – Lanzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Beijing.

Shelley has worked extensively in multi-disciplinary clinics. On return from China, she consulted at Bayside Natural Therapies and Clifton Hill Natural Health Centre before setting up her own practice as founding practitioner of The Greville Street Clinic in Prahran. She was a founding director and practitioner of Daylesford Health Professionals from 2003 till 2014 then established Central Highlands Pain & Well-being Centre, Daylesford. At the end of 2014 she incorporated a community, open-group acupuncture model into her Daylesford clinic, making quality acupuncture treatment more affordable and accessing the enhanced healing power of the inter-personal / group environment.

She starts each day with yoga, has an eye for beauty as seen in the natural environment and derives the great stillness there.