Dr Christine Shen, Acupuncturist, Chinese Herbalist, and herbal Dispenser, is registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency/Chinese Medicine Board of Australia and an accredited member of the Australian Traditional Medicine Society.
Christine is a well-established, holistic practitioner in Chinese Medicine, emotional healing and vibrational medicine and owns Rainbow Medicine -Alternative Health Clinic in Lane Cove.
Christine grew up in China and followed in her mother’s footsteps, becoming a traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner. She was also extensively trained in classical Chinese medicine by renowned Chinese herbalists Tian He Ming and Zeng Rong Xin Lineage from 2000 years ago.
Christine is a student of Arnauld from ICEAM and Dr Huang Huang in China on Jing Fang—Classical Chinese Medicine. She worked as a trainee student at Nanjing Chinese Medicine Hospital and Dalian Medical University, affiliated with the hospital in China, on Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine.
Christine has a postgraduate Diploma in Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy from Metavision. This process-oriented therapy is tuned to the 21st-century mental health landscape, often required to cope, flourish, slow down, and listen to within.
Christine has a certificate in sound healing, which accelerates the healing process. This practice is complementary to acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.
Christine practices Tai Ji Quan following the Yang Shi style master in Changchun, China.
Christine is particularly interested in women's health through the lenses of Chinese Medicine, emotional healing, and energy healing. Accustomed to the Treatment of Infertility with Chinese Medicine using the methods of Jane Lyttleton
Her specialties in the clinic are chronic fatigue, digestive health, sleeping disorders-insomnia, sinuses, vertigo, UTI, peripheral neuropathy, edema, prostate enlargement and women's Gynaecology, including irregular menstrual cycle, endometriosis, miscarriages, fertility, menopause and hormone balance. Other Christine's remarkable skills include treating tennis elbow, hypertension, high eye pressure, incontinence, sciatica, and chronic fatigue, together with respiratory symptoms, frozen shoulder, and emotional management, such as anxiety, depression, shame and guilt.
Christine learned and extensively practiced physical assessment, abdomen palpation, cupping, moxibustion, and nutritional therapies, complemented by providing lifestyle advice on diet and various exercise therapies. Developing a treatment plan tailored to the individual conditions.
Bachelor's degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine at Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Diplomat at the Institute of Classics in Eastern Medicine
Metavision Postgraduate in Holistic Counselling
Global Sound Healing Institute Certificate of Sound Healing
Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Self-Connection
The Lane Cove rooms are at 2 Austin Street, directly opposite the Lane Cove Library and a few metres from Longueville Road. If you are coming from the village it is a walk of two or three minutes, and the parking behind the library is the easiest option in the middle of the day.
Lane Cove sends a particular mix of problems through the door. There are the desk-and-commute necks and low backs from St Leonards and the city, the shoulders and elbows of a suburb that plays a lot of tennis, and the knees and Achilles tendons that come with living on a hillside — the stairs down to Tambourine Bay and the streets off Burns Bay Road are their own kind of training load. Lane Cove also has a lot of people in their thirties and forties carrying small children, which is its own demand on a back.
A first appointment is mostly questions and movement testing: where the pain is, what makes it worse, what it stops you doing, and how it has behaved over weeks rather than days. From there you should leave knowing what is proposed, roughly how long it is expected to take, and what would mean changing the plan.
Worth bringing: any imaging or specialist letters you already have, a list of medications, and the shoes you actually walk or train in. If the pain is new and severe, follows a significant fall, or comes with numbness, weakness, fever or any change in bladder or bowel control, see a doctor first — that is a medical assessment, not a treatment question.
The nearest alternative if Lane Cove does not suit you is the Freshwater side, about 14 kilometres away across the Spit.
