"Feeling better now is great.
Long term? Even better."
- Megan Howell
With Megan, feeling better happens in 3 ways:
1. Listening to you & talking it through.
2. Giving a treatment using techniques
designed to suit you and your body.
3. A treatment plan created especially for you.
Imprint Therapies is a family-friendly clinic.
Megan Howell Natural Medicine
Specialising in the treatment of:
• Children’s health & wellness
• Fertility, pregnancy, post-natal support
• Women’s health, PMS, menopause
endometriosis, PCOS
• Stress, anxiety, depression
• Fatigue, immune disorders
• Back, shoulder, neck pain
• Digestive issues, IBS, coeliac, bloating
• Arthritis, joint pain and dysfunction
• Weight loss
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How Megan works
• Remedial/deep tissue massage
• Traditional Chinese acupuncture
• Diet and nutrition advice
• Herbal medicine
• Moxibustion and cupping
• Exercise therapy - yoga and pilates
• Mindfulness and meditation practices
• Myotherapy & Cranio-Sacral Release Therapy
All appointments are one-on-one - no juggling clients
and rushing from room to room. I treat you and only
you during your appointment time.
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What happens in a consultation?
1. We chat about the problem
Firstly, I sit down with you so that we can talk through what is bothering you.
2. A diagnosis is developed
To help with diagnosis, I may look at your tongue and feel your pulse on both wrists. I will also ask some questions about your diet, sleep, digestion, temperature, pain, etc.
3. We discuss the approach
I then explain what treatment is likely to be best, checking that the approach is fine with you.
4. Your treatment begins
The treatment usually involves lying on a treatment table and may involve:
Acupuncture: Using small, fine, sterile needles into certain acupuncture points of your body where you may feel a sense of “warmth, tingling, numbness, dullness, or heaviness” in the area.
Massage: Using remedial and/or deep tissue massage to relieve any pain of discomfort by releasing any tightness or stiffness in your muscles. Massage is also useful for assisting other issues such as: stress, depression, anxiety, headaches, digestion, and PMT.
Cupping: Small glass cups are applied to the skin (usually your back) to draw blood to the surface and warm the muscles. This relieves tightness and pain in the muscles. The cups can be left 5-15mins while you relax.
Moxibustion: To warm the body, promote blood circulation and amplify the effects of acupuncture, I hold a lit cigar-like stick made of dry herbs (otherwise known as ‘moxa’) near points on your body for a few seconds per point.
Myotherapy: This is a soft tissue therapy used to help enhance movement and release pain by relaxing muscles and increasing circulation and lymphatic drainage.
Cranio-Sacral Release: Particularly effective for treating stress, back and neck pain, this therapy involves a gentle holding the base of the skull and spine, working with your ‘cranial rhythm’ (an involuntary movement subtly felt in all body tissues).
Your treatment experience is likely to be deeply relaxing – you may even drift off into peaceful sleep…
5. We discuss your treatment plan
After the treatment, a recommended Treatment Plan is offered, outlining treatment approaches and session number/frequency to maximise results.
The plan may involve exercise and diet advice, and could include herb and/or supplement options.
At Imprint Therapies, everything is explained in simple terms
so that you can decide what is right for you.
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Gift vouchers
What’s the perfect gift? Feeling calm, relaxed and pampered.
Order a massage gift voucher: 0407 180 570
Or by email:megan@imprinttherapies.com.au
And have your gift voucher delivered free of charge!
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Make a booking
Initial: 90mins ($110), Follow on: 45mins ($55) or 60mins ($80)
Health rebates may be applicable.
Days/times: Mon & Tues: 12-8pm, Wed: 7am-3pm
Call Megan to find out more: 0407 180 570
megan@imprinttherapies.com.au
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How to get here
Clinic: 68B Banks Street, Alderley, Qld 4051
• On street parking
• Closest train station:
Newmarket on the Ferny Grove-Beenleigh line
• Closest bus stops are:
345 Aspley BUZ, stop number 19 (tbc)
372 Ashgrove Oakleigh stop number 24 “Banks View”
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Qualifications & Experience
Megan Howell, Director of Imprint Therapies.
“I have been working with and studying natural medicine and complementary therapies since 1991. During that time I have continued to study and work with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), massage, nutritional and herbal medicine, yoga and exercise therapy both in Australia and overseas.”
Qualifications:
• AdvDip HlthSc - Acupuncture, ACNM (Brisbane, Aug 2000)
• Dip Remedial Massage, ACNM (Brisbane, 1996)
• 2nd Degree Reiki (1995)
• Certificate Yoga Teaching (BYTC 1994)
• Trained Doula (ADC 2010)
Memberships:
• Australian Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Association
• Australian Association of Massage Therapists
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Acupressure,
Acupuncture,
Connective Tissue Massage,
Deep Tissue Massage,
Infant Massage,
Lymphatic Drainage,
Myofascial Release Therapy,
Myotherapy,
Pregnancy Massage,
Remedial Massage,
Remedial Therapies,
Sports Massage,
Swedish Relaxation Massage,
Traditional Chinese Medicine,
Trigger Point Therapy