Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine in Braybrook | MACHI Health
Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in Braybrook, supporting women’s health, fertility, stress, burnout, pain, and menopause.
Welcome to MACHI Health, our clinic is here to assist you navigate monthly cycles, fertility challenges, pregnancy, or menopausal symptoms, and provide you the support you need to find comfort through every transition.
Our team of AHPRA-registered practitioners have a strong focus on women’s health, with a deep understanding of natural and medicated hormonal transitions, the impact of stress and trauma on the body, and the demands of modern work and family life.
Our approach is results focused, gentle, and informed by modern and traditional east asian medicine, with an emphasis on trauma-informed care in our clinical practice.
Want to know more about Acupuncture in Braybrook? Get in contact if you want to discuss how we might be able to assist your individual needs.
Services we provide at MACHI Health:
Acupuncture
Our AHPRA-registered practitioners will take you through an initial consultation to understand your condition and any important pathophysiological changes that can be linked throughout your body.
We may apply between 4 and 12 acupuncture ultra-fine single use needles to the body, with a retention time of 20-40 minutes. We ensure that you have full control and maximum comfort during the session allowing you to relax as the acupuncture does its work.
After your appointment we will provide the option of individualised herbal medicine, diet and lifestyle changes to help ensure we are making the most impactful changes to help your condition.
If you want to explore complementary health solutions for your condition with a team of heart-centred practitioners in Braybrook, get in contact with us today.
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Acupuncture for Fertility in Braybrook
Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine can be a wonderful addition to your fertility journey and our aim at MACHI is to provide you holistic healthcare that works alongside modern medicine and your IVF specialists.
As Chinese Medicine practitioners your reproductive health is extremely important, and we know our way around the monthly cycle, body basal temperature tracking and hormonal treatments. Helping you understand where there might be areas of improvement and how you can track your changes.
We work with the body as a whole, and need to see healthy and strong digestion, regulated and relaxed nervous system, strong kidney and bowel function, a regulated immune response and a reduction in any symptoms of cold.
Our team will help you feel informed and empowered about the monthly changes in your body, understand how external factors like stress and diet influence your health, and help you recognise your individual patterns, aiming to support not only fertility outcomes, but your overall wellbeing.
Looking to explore acupuncture for fertility in Braybrook, get in contact with us today.
PTSD & Embodied Trauma Support in Braybrook
Are you interested in exploring acupuncture for PTSD or embodied trauma? Work with Jess at MACHI Health to explore ways to regulate your nervous system and support symptoms associated with chronic and traumatic stress.
Jess works with victims of crime through government funded programs and supports clients from CASA (Centre against sexual assault).
She provides a wide range of services to meet you where is most appropriate while navigating your unique embodied experience of stress. Explore trauma informed shiatsu massage that is taken at your pace, acupuncture to help calm the central nervous system response and herbal medicine to support symptoms that accompany long term traumatic stress.
Jess is here to help you soothe physical/physiological symptoms, alter your relationship to touch, increase body awareness and self-acceptance, If you’re seeking professional trauma-informed care for PTSD and embodied trauma support, contact us today.
Shiatsu - Pregnancy Massage & Postpartum support in Braybrook
Shiatsu massage is a wonderful balanced Japanese bodywork style that can be both strong to release tension and soft to provide parasympathetic rest. Acupressure and massage is applied to meridian lines on the body and sessions include stretching, muscle release and joint mobilisation techniques throughout the session.
Our clinic has a lush large heated floor futon which allows you to find maximum comfort and space for your changing body during pregnancy.
Need postpartum support? Bring your baby along and they can rest with you on the futon whilst you get a massage and acupuncture to support your body during your most vulnerable phase of life.
Shiatsu sessions aren’t just massage, we might include the use of cupping therapy for stubborn tension, heat therapy (moxibustion) to warm and support a depleted body, or scraping therapy (guasha) for cold and flu, jaw, neck and back tension, where appropriate.
Our team of AHPRA registered practitioners have worked with pregnant and post-partum parents for over a decade and have experienced our own parenting journey. These sessions have been refined to give you exactly what you need through all trimesters of your pregnancy.
Want to learn more about pregnancy Massage & Postpartum support in Braybrook? We’d love to chat with you.
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Community Acupuncture in Braybrook
At MACHI Health we understand the impacts chronic and traumatic stress can have on the body and the toll it takes on your health, work, relationships, finances, and how you feel in your own skin.
To ensure we can make acupuncture more accessible for the wider community, we run a monthly community acupuncture clinic for the folks in the west.
This clinic was designed to support community members living with disability, living with chronic illness, survivors of sexual assault or family violence but also for people serving, caring or advocating for our community and families feeling the strain of today’s cost-of-living pressures.
We’d love to have you at our monthly community clinic. If you want to know more about our community acupuncture clinic, contact us today to chat.
Is acupuncture safe during IVF?
Your safety is our main concern in the clinic, our focus for your acupuncture session will always match the aims of your fertility specialist, aiming to regulate reproductive hormones, increase endometrial lining, induce and regulate ovulation, support sperm health and many more. We will teach you how to use the fertility friends app which can help to highlight changes occurring in your body which is mapped on a graph with the help of your body basal temperature.
Can my male partner benefit from acupuncture?
Our partner's health is extremely important for pre-conception care. Our aim at MACHI is to help reduce oxidative stress and support healthy sleep habits, support any indication of cold tension or pain in the body, analyse and help alter sperm parameters from a Chinese Medicine and lifestyle perspective and build your partners overall energy.
Should my male partner get acupuncture for fertility support?
According to Chinese medicine principles, when we work with men’s fertility, we are always aiming to improve the below symptoms to assist with fertility and sperm health.
● Genitourinary issues, premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, low libido, frequent urination.
● Sperm analysis results, low volume (Hypospermia), poor motility (Asthenozoospermia), abnormal morphology (Teratozoospermia)
● Cold, hands, feet, body, lower back.
● Frequent cold and flu symptoms
● Poor sleep which includes frequent waking, vivid dreaming and restlessness
Stress, highly stressful work environments, trauma or lifestyle challenges
Accessibility
MACHI Health is located in the quiet suburban street in West Footscray with all day on street parking. There is a small set of stairs to get into the private clinic whereas the community clinic is wheelchair accessible.
MACHI Health
Rear 638 Barkly Street West Footscray Vic 3012