Angela Hicks
Joint principal and co-founder of CICM, Reading, UK
Angela is joint principal and co-founder of the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine. She has been practising acupuncture since 1976. She originally studied at the College of Traditional Acupuncture where she later received her MAc. She was a lecturer and clinical supervisor at that college from 1979 until 1987. She studied TCM and completed postgraduate clinical training in China at Nanjing College of TCM. She is also a herbalist and graduate of the College’s herb course. In 1988 she co-founded Acupuncture Training Courses, a postgraduate course teaching TCM theory to Five Element acupuncturists. The clinical component of the course enables practitioners to integrate their knowledge of TCM into their practice. Angela is a master practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming. She practises qi gong and is a qualified focusing practitioner. She is the author or co-author of six books: author of The Principles of Chinese Medicine, The Principles of Acupuncture, The Five Secrets of Health and Happiness, and The Acupuncture Handbook, and co-author of Healing your Emotions with John Hicks, and the textbook Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture (Churchill Livingstone, 2004) with John Hicks and Peter Mole. She is a member of the British Acupuncture Council’s education committee.