Our goal is to be your detective and help put together the pieces of your health puzzle. We are experienced and highly qualified practitioners and use evidence based complementary medicine to help you feel your best. Katy Dyson and Belinda Matkovich are qualified acupuncturists and naturopaths, holding university degrees in both the science and natural medicine fields.
They are both passionate and dynamic practitioners and have a broad knowledge of medical health issues and a balanced treatment perspective. They also attend regular professional development seminars and conferences to ensure they incorporate current 'best practice'. I first experienced the benefits of complementary medicine as a result of my own health challenges at a young age.
They are both passionate and dynamic practitioners and have a broad knowledge of medical health issues and a balanced treatment perspective. They also attend regular professional development seminars and conferences to ensure they incorporate current 'best practice'. I first experienced the benefits of complementary medicine as a result of my own health challenges at a young age.
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Acupuncture is a 2000 year old healing modality that has modern clinical applications. It works by influencing blood flow and nerve pathways, reducing pain and inflammation, and restoring healthy function in body systems. Curious about the idea of using needles to reduce your pain, and wonder what acupuncture feels like?
The primary aim of naturopathic medicine is to address your underlying reason for illness and to help relieve symptoms through supporting the body's natural healing processes. Using diet and lifestyle advice, we aim to resolve your symptoms, optimise your energy and help you feel the best version of yourself.
We will teach you how to nourish yourself with real food and achieve your body composition goals with sensible and sustainable dietary principles. Our goal is to use nutrition to help cultivate energy and vitality. We can teach you about dietary paradigms including low carb, LCHF, paleo, intermittent fasting, FODMAP, professional detoxification, gluten/dairy free and other allergy-specific diets.
At 'pin and tonic' we offer professional weight loss advice to help achieve your body composition goals and improve your energy. We help guide you to create and select the best 'real food' choices. We also understand that sometimes having the option of high quality shake or bar replacements may be convenient and beneficial as a 'metabolic circuit breaker' to facilitate fat loss.
It can be frustrating trying to understand which foods may be triggering symptoms and disrupting your health. We use a functional medicine laboratory in Melbourne to conduct pathology tests to detect specific immune markers in your blood. This may help uncover potential foods that are causing an immune reaction that could be making you feel unwell.
Reviews (2)
Sofian Saoudi
Nov 04, 2020
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Very good first acupuncture experience with Belinda and it was awesome 👏
At first, I was feeling a little anxious about someone putting needles on my body but from the moment I entered the clinic I started to feel relaxed.
I was warmly greeted by the other practitioner and then had the consultation with Belinda.
She is very genuine and I felt very comfortable to open up and share with her the issues that led me to book the appointment.
She is very knowledgeable and we touched on many more subjects that I thought we would, so if you’re looking for someone with a holistic approach, you won’t
At first, I was feeling a little anxious about someone putting needles on my body but from the moment I entered the clinic I started to feel relaxed.
I was warmly greeted by the other practitioner and then had the consultation with Belinda.
She is very genuine and I felt very comfortable to open up and share with her the issues that led me to book the appointment.
She is very knowledgeable and we touched on many more subjects that I thought we would, so if you’re looking for someone with a holistic approach, you won’t
Gabrielle Boucher De Niverville
Oct 01, 2018
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I had a couple of appointments with Belinda. Sadly, I was just feeling even more tired after each treatment. Which can happen sometimes with acupuncture and a new therapist. So she wanted to prescribe me some medicinal herbs but she never did the follow up (for the next appointment or the medicinal herbs).
One afternoon I was in town, so I stoped there to see if I could finally have some herbs to help me with my health problems. She wrote in her calendar (in front of me) to give me a call, but she never did. She was always kind and respectful but it’s simply disappointing and disrespectful that
One afternoon I was in town, so I stoped there to see if I could finally have some herbs to help me with my health problems. She wrote in her calendar (in front of me) to give me a call, but she never did. She was always kind and respectful but it’s simply disappointing and disrespectful that