Refine Your Acupuncture Diagnostic Skills: Palpation, Pulse and Needling Techniques
This course will refine your skills so that you can administer a multi-point diagnostic check system for more accurate diagnoses and guaranteed results.
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Meet your course instructor
Gillian Marsollier | RAc, CCII
Gillian Marsollier has been a Registered Acupuncturist in British Columbia since 2001, and an instructor of acupuncture for more than 15 years. After completing a 4-year Masters Program in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, she began her teaching career in Newfoundland. There she wrote the bulk of the curriculum for a 3-year acupuncture program and served as the Acupuncture Program Director. Gillian was then transferred to Halifax, where she successfully gained approval by the Board of Education in Nova Scotia for an acupuncture program. In addition to teaching, she practiced at a very successful multi-faceted alternative treatment centre while residing on the East Coast. In 2008 Gillian went to Nepal to teach acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine modalities at a medical facility. They are still using the modalities to this day to treat the locals from the Himalayan hills. For the last 5 years, Gillian has been pursuing the media side of acupuncture and natural healing through the creation of LIFT Education Academy. Through this online education platform, she has created many popular courses including bootcamps that have become the national gold standard for preparation for TCM registration exams.
Course description
Have you ever wanted to increase your speed and accuracy of diagnosis?
Not only that but guarantee results with your patient before they even leave the treatment room?
Or, learn how to use pulse to show you your results, in real-time?
Almost everything that you need to know is written right on your patient’s body, in their voice, word choices, odour, movements, pulse and even the general energy that they hold. You skim over parts of this in college to pass those exams, but now Gillian Marsollier would like to take you on a deep dive on how to really use these skills and more… fast.
The point of this course is not to help you be a practitioner that just moves through patients quickly without taking the proper time. It is more so that you can have a multi-point diagnostic check system so that your diagnoses are much more accurate and your results are guaranteed. This process becomes so fast after awhile of using these techniques, that you will find yourself diagnosing your patient (accurately) within minutes or less!
In this course, you will explore:
- Sensing – preparing yourself to sense and accurately feel the energy in the room
- Listening – for voice inflections and word choices
- Smelling – with fun challenges to help you hone this skill
- Palpation – using diagnostic points, meridian palpation and pulse to get your results
- Observation – learning what to look for on the body in order to make a rapid diagnosis
- Pulse Without A Master – yes, you can learn pulse on your own, and here is how!
- Refining Your Needling Techniques – there are so many small techniques to learn for a more powerful treatment, that gets better results. We will learn them here!
- How To Know When A Treatment Is Finished And That Results Are Happening – right in front of your eyes!
- Full Patient Demo: Putting It All Together For A Successful Treatment – full patient demo to show you how quick this method of diagnosis can be (and how deep it can go)
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Students are saying…
“I have been in practice for almost a year and was feeling like I needed to work on my skills and grow as a practitioner. I really liked the course, it introduced me to some new skills such as the mu and source point palpation [and] reminded me of things I need to be doing to get more consistent results… Love this course and find Gillian very easy to listen to and understand. You are going to take something away from this course that you can use in practice.”
“A very simple and high-quality course with a lot of immediately applicable uses in clinic. Gillian is a fantastic teacher; it is a pleasure to learn from her. The demonstrations on real patients were very helpful. I thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend this course.”
“I wanted to understand different techniques and find a deeper connection between the needles and the patient and this course provided that. I really enjoyed the pulse portion.”
“I’m feeling inspired to refine my skills in practice. Adding all of these techniques will help fine-tune my diagnosis, treatments, and results. The content is explained clearly, it’s easy to follow and the course leaves you feeling confident that you’ll be able to apply all of this at work – tomorrow!”
“This course far exceeded my expectations. Gillian has such a wealth of knowledge and makes the complicated art of TCM accessible. After 8 years in practice, I come away with new skills to employ & a fresh perspective on diagnosis & treatment. This course isn’t just for new practitioners!”
“Another excellent course by Gillian. I really appreciate the quality of film production that eliminates the typical distractions of a filmed workshop. The workbooks are very well organized and valuable references that I use time and again.”
“It was well thought out and planned. I really liked the detail that went into each section and how it flowed together. I loved the guide book that came with the course. I really enjoyed all of the content. It felt like being back in the classroom with Gillian.”
“This has given me so much reassurance. I learned techniques and skills to help me diagnose more effectively, know when qi has arrived, amend my treatment with the pulse change and have an idea of the patient’s prognosis by the pulse reaction – all skills I did not learn on my degree. An amazing teacher :)”
“I really appreciated the production value of the videos, along with the expertise of the instructor. It was a great review, and also offered a lot of practical clinical tools to immediately integrate into treatments.”
“The materials are great. I liked the videos, the breakdown, the explanations.”
“Lots of helpful skills, techniques, and information. I like the practicality of it. So grateful that I have lifetime access to this so that I can more fully absorb it. I love your courses. Thank you for your work!”
“Wonderful and engaging teacher! It was great! I registered because I needed some refresher training. I learned so much and feel much more confident.”
“I am a TCM year 1 student. Particularly useful was how to develop senses in diagnostic, needling, palpation techniques. Teacher has excellent presentation skills and makes it very entertaining.”
“I found this course very informative. It answered questions that I didn’t know I had! Great job, Gillian. “
“Eye-opening! I did not learn most of what is in this course in college. I love learning from Gillian; I find that she explains everything so well and in a way that makes it easy to understand and excites me to improve as a practitioner.”
“Fun, engaging and full of valuable content! I love this instructor..she also helped me pass my board exams!!”
“I loved it and recommended it to a few of my fellow acupuncturists… I liked how it was a complete overview of how to get to a diagnosis and went over a lot of things that I never heard of during my years at school.”
“This course exceeded my expectations. I learned quite a bit. I feel empowered, going into practice, that I have more tips to increase my treatments’ efficacy. The course was insightful, helpful, and encouraging. The video quality was high, as well.”
“It was informative & offered methods for intaking patients while utilizing and integrating our TCM knowledge. It is already adding to the quality of my practice!”
“Gillian Marsollier has provided more clinical knowledge and practical expertise than I would have ever expected… This is masterfully presented. It’s like having a mentor in my clinic… You have helped me raise the bar of my own expectations and quench the fear of starting out on my own.”
“Really great. A lot of practical and useful information that I will be putting into practice.”
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