Dr Reece Yeo
Integrative Chinese Medicine Practitioner
Functional Medicine | Former Medical Doctor
Herbal Medicine
Classical Chinese herbal formulas tailored to your constitution
Acupuncture
Multiple styles including Tung, Tan, Neoclassical and Dry Needling techniques
Photobiomodulation
Therapeutic laser therapy harnessing the power of light as medicine
Moxibustion
Warming herbal heat therapy for pain relief and immune support
Diet & Lifestyle
Evidence-based nutrition and functional medicine guidance
Iridology
Comprehensive constitutional assessment through iris analysis
Confused by what you are hearing from different people and Dr Google?
Let Dr Reece Yeo help you set the record straight with evidence-based health advice. Coming from a combination of western medical, naturopathic and Chinese medicine backgrounds, Dr Reece Yeo can help you address your health concerns holistically.
Dr Reece Yeo will educate you on lifestyle and diet, and give you many simple life tips on how to stay healthy. In addition, you may be prescribed herbs, supplements, acupuncture or other treatment modalities to help you expedite your journey towards wellness.
About Dr Reece Yeo
Dr Reece Yeo is passionate about holistic health! Utilising his wide compendium of natural therapy modalities and his medical background, Reece can help you optimise your health & well-being naturally.
Trained as a medical doctor at the University of Sydney and having worked for government hospitals and multinational pharmaceutical companies, Reece became disillusioned with the mainstream health system and decided to retrain in natural therapies. Reece bought over the iconic Doctor Earth Bondi Junction Health Foods in 2007 and was the trainer for his retail naturopaths and also the Clinical Director of Doctor Earth Bondi Junction Wellness Clinic for 13 years. Reece moved to the Gold Coast in Dec 2020 and is now practising out of historic Mudgeeraba.
Who I Work Best With
Reece enjoys working with motivated and health conscious clients who understand that there is no magic bullet approach when it comes to optimising health and wellness using natural therapies. Reece's most successful clients take ownership of their own health and wellness, and are prepared to work closely with Reece when embarking on their health journey. They understand the importance of finding the root cause(s) of their health concerns and (when necessary) are willing to invest in the necessary functional tests that will help them with this; they are willing to make changes to their diet and lifestyle, and take any herbal or nutritional supplements as required; they also understand that health and behavioural changes take time and effort, and they are willing to stick to their treatment protocols and see these through to the end.
Areas of Special Interest
Reece also loves utilizing iridology in clinical practice as, from his experience, your eyes are indeed the window into your health and constitution. Other services offered by Reece include genetic testing, food allergy testing and a whole range of functional medicine pathology testing.
Always one who believes in collaborative healthcare, Reece works closely with other health practitioners within the clinic and outside the clinic to help you attain and maintain optimal health. Outside of his clinical practice, Reece used to teach budding young Chinese Medicine students at the Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine where he had won an Excellence in Teaching award for his dynamic style of teaching. Reece no longer teaches academically but still does one on one clinical and business mentoring for a selected few junior practitioners.
If you are looking for a practitioner who can understand and explain your health condition from multiple health perspectives (modern medicine, naturopathic medicine and oriental medicine), and also offer you a combination of the best of different modalities of medicines, then Dr Reece Yeo is the practitioner for you!
Education & Qualifications
Medical Education
- Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery with Honours (University of Sydney) 2000
- Bachelor of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine) 2015
Chinese Herbal Style & Training
Practices Classical / Canonical (Pre-Han) Chinese herbalism (Shang Han Lun / Jin Gui Yao Lue)
- Trained with Dr Arnaud Versluys in the Tian Heming / Zeng Rongxiu lineage
- Trained with Dr Suzanne Robidoux in the Hu Xishu / Feng Shilun lineage
- Trained with Dr Huang Huang (Nanjing) and translated for him for his seminars
Acupuncture Style & Training
Practices Tung and Tan style acupuncture, Neoclassical acupuncture, Neuro-Meridian acupuncture, Motor Point acupuncture, Trigger Point acupuncture / Dry-Needling, Medical Auriculotherapy, Paediatric acupuncture, and Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture (YNSA).
- Trained with (the late) Dr Yang Weijie / Dr Michael Chung
- Trained with (the late) Dr Tan / Dr Eileen Han / Dr Sonia Tan
- Trained with Dr Jonathan Shubs, Dr Slate Burris, Dr Poney Chiang, Dr David Alimi, Dr Richard Hazel, and Rebecca Avern
Also utilises non-needle techniques such as moxibustion, acupressure, laser acupuncture (photobiomodulation), focused ultrasound therapy, micro-current stimulation, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, and gua-sha (skin scraping)
Professional Registration
- Chinese Medicine Board of Australia (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) Registration CMR0001952522
Professional Memberships
- Australian Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Association (AACMA)
- Australian Medical Photobiomodulation Association (AMPA)
- Previous Member of the Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (ACNEM)
Other Health Qualifications
- Diplomate in Canonical Chinese Medicine™ (Institute of Classics in East Asian Medicine™)
- Certificate in Health Coaching (Institute of Integrative Nutrition)
- Practitioner Certificate in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (Institute of Applied Psychology)
- Certificate in Integrative Iridology (College of Iris)
- Laser Safety Certificate (Australian Medical Photobiomodulation Association)
- Tomatis Method Level 1 Certificate
- Bach Flower Essences Level 1 Certificate
- Australian Bush Flower Essences Level 1 Certificate
- Celloids Prescribing Certificate (Blackmores)
- Certificate in Bio-Impedance Analysis (Metagenics)
- Certificate in Live Blood Analysis (Metagenics)
- Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy Certificate
- Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy & Strategic Psychotherapy (audited the course)
What to Expect in Your First Consultation
If you are suffering from some niggling issues that you just can't seem to shake, and you are motivated, health conscious and believe in natural therapies, I would love to work with you!
Before You Arrive: Comprehensive Questionnaires
Before I can help you, I will need to know ALL ABOUT YOU! That is why prior to your first consultation with me, I will email you a barrage of very detailed questionnaires to complete. Please allow yourself up to 2 hours to complete these questionnaires. These questionnaires need to be completed at least 48 hours prior to our appointment to give me time to look through your responses and come up with great recommendations for you during our first consult.
These questionnaires will ask you about every aspect of your health, your symptoms, your emotions, your lifestyle and your diet so that I can start thinking about how I can help you before I even see you! When you email me back the completed questionnaires, please also email me scanned copies of any relevant pathology or radiology reports.
Part 1: Health History Discussion (60-75 minutes)
When you do come and see me, I will first start off by clarifying the health concerns you have and obtain even more details about these from you. If you have emailed me your pathology or radiology reports prior to the consult, this is also the time when I will go through these with you and explain to you what your results mean. This will take 60-75 minutes out of the 180 minutes we have.
Part 2: Comprehensive Physical Examination
Face & Eye Examination
I will start by examining your face. Of interest to me are your complexion, your nose, your ears, and your eyes. When examining your eyes, I will use iridology to help identify more health predispositions you may have to add to my overall assessment of your health and well-being. I will often use the timeline analysis method when examining your irides and ask you about significant times in your life when you may have experienced emotional or physical stress.
Tongue Diagnosis
Next, I will ask to look at your tongue. If you have a habit of scraping your tongue in the morning, I would ask that you not to do this before you come and see me. Your tongue will give me a lot of information to further confirm what is happening in your body. I will look at the colour, the shape and the coating of your tongue.
Hand & Pulse Examination
Moving on to the rest of your body, I will examine your hands next. I will feel the temperature of your fingers, hands, wrist and arms, and check the colour of your nail beds. Then I will check the wrist pulses of your left and right hands. Your pulses will give me even more information about the physiology of your body from a Chinese medicine perspective. After that, I will feel for lumps and bumps along the acupuncture channels of your hands and forearms.
Abdominal Examination
After checking your pulses, I will get you to lie down so that I can perform a visual and manual examination of your abdomen. When examining your abdomen, I will first look at your abdomen from the side and then from the top before checking the temperature of the different parts of your abdomen. Then I will start feeling your abdomen using light touch followed by firm pressure to see if there are any areas of tenderness.
Leg Examination
To round off the physical examination, I will look at your legs for their colour, and check for any visible varicose or spider veins, and swelling. I will also feel the temperature of various parts of your legs and press on certain parts of your legs to check for swelling or your pulses. I will then conclude by feeling for lumps and bumps along the acupuncture channels of your feet and lower legs.
Part 3: Assessment & Recommendations
After examining you, I am ready to give your my assessment of your health concerns and my recommendations. If required, this is when I will advise you of any pathology or functional tests that will further clarify any of your health symptoms. When giving you my assessment of your health concerns, I will explain to you what is happening to your body from both a western and a Chinese medicine point of view. This is followed by dietary and lifestyle recommendations from me and then any herbal or nutritional supplementation if required. When necessary, I will also be referring you to other health practitioners who I work with who can help you with other aspects of your health.
Part 4: Treatment & Follow-up
To round up our first consultation, I will make up your herbal formula for you (if required) (this takes about 20 minutes); or pick out and explain to you the nutritional supplements I need you to be on (this takes about 20 minutes); or give you your acupuncture treatment (this takes about 30 minutes).
Then I will schedule you for your follow up with me for acupuncture or for a review of how you are going with the lifestyle/dietary recommendations and supplements/herbs I have given you. Your first follow up will usually be between 7-14 days from your first consult. Prior to your first follow up, I will check in with you via SMS 3 days after your initial consultation.
As you can see, our first consultation is jam-packed and you will go away with a whole new understanding of what is happening in your body and what you need to do to resolve your health concerns. After the consultation, I will also set you up on my online Patient Portal so that you can update me on the progress of your symptoms and also your implementation of the various lifestyle and dietary changes I have recommended.
If this is the level of care you want from your practitioner, then please complete my Booking Request form to schedule your first consultation with me! I look forward to working with you in your health journey!
Request Your Initial ConsultationWhen Will I Get Better?
This is the question every patient will ask (and should ask) when they see a health practitioner.
The answer to the question however is not so straight forward. There are many factors and variables that will determine how soon one's condition will improve after receiving any form of health treatment. Below are some to consider:
How quickly you got ill
As a general rule of thumb, the more acute the disease, the faster the recovery. This means that the faster you got sick, the faster you should recover from that illness. For example, most people will get over a cold which comes on quickly after a few days of feeling unwell.
How long you have been ill for
The longer you have been suffering from an illness, the longer it will take your body to recover from it. Long-term/chronic illnesses cause physiological and structural changes to the body. When this happens, it will take the body a long time to reverse these changes. When there are structural changes, it may not be possible to reverse these without some sort of surgical or physical intervention.
Common naturopathic rule of thumb:
It will take at least 1 month to recover for every 1 year that you have had an illness.
Example: If you have had an illness for 5 years, expect at least 5 months of treatment before that illness can be resolved.
The type of illness
Some illnesses, like the common cold, are relatively easy to treat compared to say an autoimmune disease. Different diseases cause different changes to the body. Complex diseases cause complex changes to the body and therefore will take longer to treat.
Treating the symptoms or the root cause
It is often faster to get some relief from the symptoms of an illness than it is to completely correct the underlying cause of the illness. Many western pharmaceutical drugs are great for relieving symptoms. For example, the underlying cause of hypertension for some people may be that they have a poor diet and are overweight. Treating the high blood pressure with blood pressure medications can result in a rapid drop in blood pressure but that is just treating the symptom. To treat the underlying cause of the hypertension, we need to address the poor diet and excess body weight. This will take time.
Natural therapies such as Chinese medicine, seek to address both the symptoms and the underlying cause of an illness. So you may get a fast resolution of your symptoms using natural therapies, but to address the root cause of your illness, it will still take time.
Other things to consider
There are strengths and weaknesses of each health modality. Some are better at treating musculoskeletal issues and others are better at treating complex medical issues. Choosing the correct health modality and the correct practitioner to work with within the correct health modality will expedite your recovery from your illness.
Often how fast you can get better comes down to how compliant you are with the recommendations and advice made by your health practitioner. If you do not take your prescribed herbs or nutritional supplements regularly then you may not get any results. If you do not change your diet and lifestyle as advised, then you may not get long term resolution of your illness. If you do not see your health practitioner for regular follow ups, then again you may not get satisfactory results either.
As you can see, how quickly you can better after seeing a health practitioner depends on a myriad of factors. Some are within your control and others are not. Having the correct expectation of the time frame required to get yourself better will prepare you mentally, emotionally and financially when you embark on your health journey with your practitioner.
Consultation & Treatment Prices
Private health funds rebates may apply. Please check with your private health fund provider.
No onsite HICAPS. Self post-payment claim with health fund provider required.
Card payments only. No cash kept on premises.
Initial Consultation
Face to Face Only
Up to 180 minutes
- Pre-consult Questionnaires
- Pathology tests interpretation
- Nutrition, lifestyle modification, supplement advice
- Post-consult SMS follow up x1
- Includes acupuncture treatment*
- Prescribed herbal formula at additional charge
Extended Follow-Up
Face to Face or Telehealth
Up to 120 minutes
- Pathology tests interpretation
- Nutrition, lifestyle modification, supplement advice
- Includes acupuncture treatment*
- Post-consult SMS follow up x1
- Prescribed herbal formula at additional charge
Standard Follow-Up
Face to Face or Telehealth
Up to 90 minutes
- Pathology tests interpretation
- Nutrition, lifestyle modification, supplement advice
- Includes acupuncture treatment*
- Post-consult SMS follow up x1
- Prescribed herbal formula at additional charge
Short Follow-Up
Face to Face or Telehealth
Up to 30 minutes
- Pathology tests interpretation
- Nutrition, lifestyle modification, supplement advice
- Includes acupuncture treatment*
- Prescribed herbal formula at additional charge
Consultation Hours
Online / Phone Telehealth & Face to Face Consultation Hours:
Other times by special arrangement only
Request Your Initial Consultation
Please note: Dr Reece Yeo does not see patients with severe psycho-emotional issues, eating disorders, IVF support needs, patients on warfarin/coumadin, under 21 years old, dementia, or stroke rehabilitation.
For initial consultation appointments, please complete the comprehensive screening questionnaire. This helps ensure we're a good fit and allows me to prepare for your first visit.
The Clinic
The Clinic
Located in the historical town centre of Mudgeeraba, the clinic has been stylishly refurbished by Dr Reece Yeo into a modern boho coastal style cottage featuring the colours white and beige with accents of natural green.
The Consultation Room
Sink into your spacious and comfortable Malawi cane chair sipping your cup of herbal tea while you chat to Dr Reece Yeo about your health concerns. This room is where you will spend a lot of time interacting with Dr Reece Yeo and is intentionally styled with a modern boho coastal vibe featuring natural materials (such as cane, jute, linen, wood, stone and plants), so that it feels organic, warm and relaxed, and not like your standard doctor's consultation room.
The Treatment Room
Relax on the treatment bed lined with soft cotton and bamboo towels and linen while you are having your treatment from Dr Reece Yeo. With the lights turned down low, soft meditative music playing in the background, and the mild scent of soothing essential oils from the oil diffuser, you will feel pampered as you luxuriate in this modern coastal style treatment room.