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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Course Overview The Acupuncture training course at ICOM has much to offer prospective students. The College covers Classical acupuncture theory in great depth and has become renowned for its exploration of the theory of Stems and Branches. This offers a unique way of understanding the cycles of energetic change through time and their possible effect [...]

Career in Acupuncture

A Career in Acupuncture Acupuncture is one of the oldest and safest medical treatments in the world. It is used to restore a patient’s health or to promote and maintain health. Being an Acupuncturist is fascinating and rewarding and the career attracts people from all walks of life. So what's it like? About Acupuncture Traditional [...]

Open Days

Join us at our next Open Day Applications are open to join our Acupuncture Course at the start of the Autumn term. We hold regular Open Days, both online and in person at the college. These Open Days give you a real feel for the college and the course. We encourage you to come along [...]