Writer & Lecturer, Acupuncturist, Doula, Antenatal Teacher
Integrative Medicine Campaigner

Jani is a highly experienced acupuncturist, she lectures internationally and nationally in her subjects, as well as having many years experience in all aspects of childbirth.

Jani's specialities are wide ranging, though the core of her work is in one pillar - the Endocrine System - your hormones. She treats all ages, both male and female, infant to geriatric and everyone in between.

Jani treats in a fully integrative capacity, blending the best of Western and Chinese medicine, always with the agenda to ensure that her patients will receive the right combination of investigations and treatments, in the right sequence, to bring the best possible solutions in the most efficient way.

Fertility & Gynaecology / Pregnancy & Childbirth / Post Natal 
Men's Sexual, Reproductive and Uro-genital Health / Prostate / Menopause
Infants / Children / Teenagers

  • LicAc MBAcC  Licentiate in Acupuncture, Member of the British Acupuncture Council
  • College of Traditional Acupuncture (CTA) Oxford Brookes University 1995-1998

Biography

In addition to her strong general practice, Jani has supported hundreds of couples through their pre-conception, assisted conception, pregnancies and childbirths and has attended many labours, at home, in community units, at midwife-led units and in hospital. Jani has extensive experience of high risk pregnancies. She also is specialist in Andrology – men’s sexual, reproductive and urogenital health.

  • Obs & Gynae acupuncturist, 25 years in practice, Oxford and London
  • Current practice - 92 Harley St , London (on sabbatical)
  • Consultant TCM practitioner at Contemporary Acupuncture (BMAS) Harley St

  • Undergraduate Faculty, College of Traditional Acupuncture, Oxford Brookes University, 2000- 2004
  • Module Leader, writer and course tutor for Oxford Brookes University MA Acupuncture degree, Obstetrics and Gynaecology modules 2008 - 2010
  • Chair 2007-2011, ACT London, (Acupuncture Childbirth Team)
  • Founder and Chair of AFN 2006 – 2014 (Acupuncture Fertility Network) 
  • Executive Committee, The Speedwell and WellBeing Trust, a charity for the promotion of integrated medicine 2001 -2004

  • Director of Naturechild Ltd, a company providing integrated education for Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2006 - 2013
  • Director: Acuhouse Limited
  • Director: Goodwood Clinic
  • Director: InMedEd - Integrated Medical Education
  • Director: Acu-Doulas

  • Honorary contract, John Radcliffe Hospitals Trust 
  • Permission to Practice at the Portland Hospital for Women and Children
  • London practice based in the offices of Mr. Donald Gibb FRCOG, consultant obstetrician 2006 - 2013
  • Doula UK, recognised doula 
  • FEDANT recognised antenatal teacher 2008 - present
  • Birth Crisis Helpline, trained volunteer 2004 - present

  • International lecturer for Integrated Chinese Medicine - Obs & Gynae & Andrology
  • National Speaker for Integrated medicine – INUK, Kings Fund
  • Organized and hosted three 3 day international conferences at the Royal College of Physicians 2006/07
  • Ongoing workshops and seminars for midwives and fertility nurses, as well as for Chinese medicine practitioners, and also for couples: in fertility awareness, and for pregnancy and childbirth, recovery and early years

  • Media: many interviews for radio, television and press, has done a 6 part television series for the BBC in 1996, regular feature columnist for UK magazine ‘Baby Buzz’
  • Currently writing a 5-book series called ‘The Fizz’

The platform of Jani’s work is integration, and her aim is to empower students and patients through 

Informed Choice,
Safe Practice
and Supportive Care

 Lecture schedule:

2000-2004:   Undergraduate Faculty College of Traditional Acupuncture (CTA)

2006-2007:   Organiser & Speaker, three 3 day International Integrated Health Conferences at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP)

2008-2010:    Module Leader, writer and lecturer of the Obstetrics and the Gynaecology & Fertility modules of the MA Acupuncture degree Oxford Brookes University (CTA)

2011 - 2012:  Guest lecturer London South Bank University (LSBU) Women’s Health

2002 - Present:  National and International lecturing
Subjects:

Obstetrics Foundation Programme / Gynaecology & Fertility Foundation Programme / Men’s Sexual, Reproductive and Urogenital Health / PCOS / Endometriosis / Eight Extraordinary Vessels / Sheng & Ke Cycles / Advanced Maternal Age / Practical Skills for a Fertility & Pregnancy Practice / High Risk Pregnancies / Fertility Diet / Endocrine of Conception / Stress and Reproduction / Menopause / Obstetric Red Flags / Post Natal Depression / Menopause Phase Crossover / Acupuncture for Labour Preparation / The Joy of Sex and Making Babies / Sheng & Ke Cycle Treatment Strategies / Treating the Shen / Being an Older Mother / The Tyranny of the Double Blind RCT / IVF Transfer Day - 'To Paulus or not to Paulus' / 

National Seminars (UK):

2008 - present 
An annual average of 10 two-day seminars throughout the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland),
too numerous to list.

Conferences:

2002 MIDIRS (Midwives Information and Resource Service)
2006 RCP First International Integrated Conferences for Obs & Gynae
2007 INUK (Infertility Network UK) 
2008 PCRS (Pacific Coast Reproductive Society) Palm Springs USA
2008 Rothenburg Kongress Germany
2009 Rothenburg Kongress
2010 Kings Fund / BAcC (British Acupuncture Council) / Rothenburg
2011 Rothenburg
2012 Scandinavian Conference / Rothenburg
2013 COMS (Canadian Oriental Medicine Symposium) / Rothenburg
2014 ICCM (Israeli Conference of Chinese Medicine) / BAcC
2015 IFS  (Integrative Fertility Symposium)
2016 ICCM Israel / IFS Vancouver / BAcC
2017 ICCM Israel / IFS Vancouver

International Seminars:

2009 Dublin x 2
2010 Oslo
2011 Dublin
2013 Vancouver
2014 Krakow / Dublin / Helsinki / Tel Aviv
2015 Berlin / Krakow / Oslo / Vancouver
2016 Krakow / Tel Aviv / Vancouver
​2017 Tel Aviv / Vancouver