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Introduction: Curative hypnotherapy remains a mysterious and underexplored therapeutic realm, often shadowed by stigma and lack of research. The stigma surrounding hypnosis and hypnotherapy prevails despite the evidence of its effectiveness in alleviating pain and Irritable Bowel Disease complaints. Despite gaining popularity among people who can afford private therapy, currently in the UK, hypnosis or … Read more

We are delighted to introduce Karen Charlesworth, our latest trustee. Karen qualified as an acupuncturist in 2013, since when she has run a busy private practice and multibed community clinic. Her research interests include complementary therapies in humanitarian aid, complex intervention research, and research methodologies for complementary therapies. She is the research director of the … Read more

Endometriosis: Reviewing the evidence behind guidelines, research on acupuncture, and the Accredited Register of Acupuncturists in the healthcare sector By RCCM Trustee Lianne Aquilina Lianne reviews the evidence behind current clinical guidelines for endometriosis and finds that some key limitations appear to have been missed. She then summarises the current evidence for acupuncture for endometriosis, … Read more

I am an acupuncturist working for Dimbleby Cancer Care, an integrative oncology department in Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. As part of my MSc from the Northern College of Acupuncture, I recently conducted a service evaluation, where I navigated the dual role of being a researcher-practitioner.   For more insight into my project see … Read more

Summary of the RCCM 2023 Conference, by Ava Lorenc Karen Pilkington’s keynote on her adventures with evidence was fascinating and inspiring, and at some points laugh out loud. It was great to reflect on just how far the CAM evidence base has come since the early days of evidence-based-medicine, when innovations included a PC on … Read more

We are sadly saying farewell to our trustee Simon Brasch this month, who is moving on to another charity. We are very grateful to Simon for all his support of RCCM over the years and wish him all the best. RCCM is therefore now looking for a new trustee with IT/website expertise to assist with … Read more

We are delighted to announce that Zetta Thomelin has joined RCCM as a trustee. Zetta is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner, who is involved in the governance of Hypnotherapy as Chair of the British Association of Therapeutic Hypnotists (BAThH) and as a Director of the UK Confederation of Hypnotherapist Organisations (UKCHO) She runs her own … Read more

I am in the interesting position of looking at RCCM from two perspectives, both as a trustee and also as a corporate member, I am the Chair of BAThH and as such, I could see the benefits available to us, so we joined in the vision that RCCM has for the future of complementary medicine … Read more