Derek Climpson

Practitioner

Derek Climpson has 15 years’ experience as an acupuncturist and has studied in the UK and in China.

Derek trained at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading and holds a 4 year BSc Honours degree in Acupuncture .and, in 2018, studied at Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China as part of an exchange programme in which 10 UK acupuncturists were chosen to study at teaching hospitals in China.

He is a member of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) and the British Medical Acupuncture Society (BMAS), is fully vetted and insured and is a registered acupuncturist with most health insurance providers. He has clinics in Brentwood, Chelmsford and Leigh on Sea and practises Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and 5 Element styles of acupuncture as well as Auricular and Electro Acupuncture.

Derek has post graduate training in Acupuncture for Fertility and Gynaecology and is a recommended Acupuncturist with the Herts and Essex Fertility Centre, Cheshunt and has represented the British Acupuncture Council at the Fertility Show, Olympia.

He has also done additional post graduate acupuncture training in treating cancer patients undergoing or affected by the side effects of chemotherapy and worked for 4 years as a volunteer treating both in patients and outpatients at St Joseph’s Hospice, Bethnal Green, London.

Derek has also done voluntary work as an acupuncturist at Drug and Alcohol rehabilitation centres in Essex and Refugee centres in London.

China Exchange visit article in Leigh Times December 2018