Your Teachers

Passionate about helping students to achieve their best, we are fortunate to have a large group of highly qualified and professional individuals to deliver a comprehensive, rigorous and personalised training in acupuncture.

Our teachers are also specialists or practitioners in their own fields, mostly in acupuncture but also in osteopathy, clinical psychology and other areas of Chinese Medicine or conventional medicine. Some are practitioners at ICOM Clinic.

Our teachers are also individual student tutors and clinic supervisors in the student clinics and this, along with our relatively small class sizes, provides you with a high level of personal student support and attention.

Principal

Tom Ings
Tom Ings
BSc Hons, MBAcC, Lic.Ac., FHEA
Tom is the Principal of ICOM. After graduating from the college in 2007 with a first class honours degree he joined the faculty in 2008 and has been teaching at ICOM ever since. He served as Director of Studies from 2019-2023. Tom runs a busy multi-bed community acupuncture clinic in Brighton...

Academic Advisory Board

Elio Basagni
Elio Basagni
BSc Hons, MBAcC, Lic.Ac., FHEA
Elio Basagni is an acupuncturist trained in the tradition of the classical Chinese writings of the Yellow Emperor Inner Canon 黃帝內經 and a...
Robert Elliott
Robert Elliott
MSc, MRSB, Cert Ed, DipEd (Psychoanalytic Psychology)
Before teaching, Robert worked for 19 years in NHS medical laboratories in and around London specialising in laboratory haematology and gained a...
Tony Todd
Tony Todd
Lic.Ac., MBAcC, MSc, BSc (Hons), PG Cert, MRCHM
Tony has been practising acupuncture and moxibustion since 2000. He also practises Chinese herbal medicine, shiatsu, and lectures internationally...
Deborah Woolf
Deborah Woolf
Lic.Ac, MBAcC, MA
Deborah Woolf has been in clinical practice and teaching since 2000, gaining her PGCert a year after starting teaching. She has expanded her...

Programme Committee

Josh Barrow
Josh Barrow
BSc Hons, MBAcC, LicAc
Josh is a First-Class graduate from ICOM. He started his career by building online training courses for a wide range of multinational companies...
Suzi Broad
Suzi Broad
BSc Hons, MBAcC, LicAc, FHEA
Suzi Broad originally trained in London as a Beauty and Massage therapist in 1999. She worked in Notting Hill Gate for Aveda as a beauty therapist...
Ben Carrigan
Ben Carrigan
BSc Hons MBAcC LicAc
Ben Carrigan graduated from ICOM with a First Class BSc (Hons) degree in Acupuncture awarded by Greenwich University. He is a fully certified...
Iga Czarnawska-Iliev
Iga Czarnawska-Iliev
MSc CM, BA, Lic. Ac., MBAcC
Iga Czarnawska-Iliev has a Masters Degree in Chinese Medicine with high honours from LSBU, but before that, she studied at an Ivy League College...
Justine Dennett
Justine Dennett
BA (Hons), Lic.Ac.
Justine graduated from ICOM in 2002. Since then, she has practised acupuncture, in various clinics in Brighton, in the Community and at The Sussex...
Bea Erler
Bea Erler
Lic.Ac., PG Cert HE
Bea Erler graduated from ICOM in 1994 with a Licentiate of Acupuncture and a Swedish Massage Diploma. She has continued her professional...
Kirsten Germann
Kirsten Germann
Lic.Ac. MBAcC
Kirsten Germann qualified as an acupuncturist in 1994 after attending the acupuncture course at ICOM. She is a member of the British Acupuncture...
Roy Haitzin
Roy Haitzin
BSc Hons, MBAcC
Prior to studying Acupuncture at ICOM, Roy Haitzin travelled extensively for 10 years in South America and the Indian subcontinent. Living with...
Ping Ho
Ping Ho
Lic.Ac., MBAcC, BSc (Hons) Oriental Medicine Acupuncture
Ping Ho was born in a small rural village in the south east of mainland China. She grew up in Hong Kong where Chinese Medicine has been an...
Galit Hughes
Galit Hughes
Lic.Ac., MBAcC
Galit Hughes was born in Jerusalem, Israel and trained as a Swedish massage therapist there in 1988. From 1990 to 1994 Galit trained to become an...
Rick Mudie
Rick Mudie
BSc Hons, BSc, MBAcC
Rick Mudie has worked in natural health since 1997. He has a BSc in Psychology and Anthropology from Edinburgh University and a BSc (Hons) in...
Daniel Scott
Daniel Scott
LicAc MBAcC, BSc (Hons) MSc (Hons) BA (Hons)
Daniel has been practising Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, and Qigong Tui Na (East Asian therapeutic bodywork) since graduating from...
Jinal Shah
Jinal Shah
Lic.Ac. MBAcC
Jinal Shah is a Clinic Supervisor and teaches ACM at ICOM as well as running a private acupuncture and bodywork practice in London. He has over 15...
Tom Watson
Tom Watson
BSc Hons, MBAcC, Holistic Massage Dip (ITEC)
Tom Watson was born and raised in London and has cultivated a lifelong interest in oriental movement and healing arts. As well as teaching at...
Juliette Willett
Juliette Willett
Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (4 years) Dip (TA Practice)
Juliette Willett is a member of the ICOM faculty and also offers Counselling and Psychotherapy at the International College of Oriental Medicine...
Lynne Williams
Lynne Williams
MSc, Lic.Ac. MBAcC
Lynne Williams has an MSc (with distinction) in Acupuncture from The Confucius Institute at London South Bank University.  She is registered with...

Course Overview

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Career in Acupuncture

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Open Days

Join us online at our next Open Day Applications are open to join our Acupuncture Course at the start of the Autumn term. We hold regular online Open Days via Zoom which we encourage you to join if you'd like to find out more about what it's like to study with us. The next sessions [...]