Bodhi Health Acupuncture
Overhaul your Physical, Mental and Emotional
Health, one simple step at a time.
Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture
Ancient Medicine for Modern Health
Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture have supported health and prevented disease for thousands of years. Today, they remain powerful tools for natural healing.
Acupuncture reduces pain, eases stress, and supports your physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
It works by improving circulation, boosting organ function, and calming the nervous system—helping your body return to balance.
Chinese Medicine recognises the deep connection between your body, mind, and emotions.
Treatments may include acupuncture alone or be combined with massage, cupping, and herbal medicine—tailored to your unique needs.
Massage, Cupping & Acupuncture
An Integrated Approach to Deep Healing
Some clients benefit most from a combination of acupuncture, massage, and cupping—all in one session.
These integrated treatments are available in 1-hour or longer appointments.
I blend Chinese and Hawaiian massage techniques to release pain, restore movement, and deeply relax the body.
When needed, I add cupping—traditional or modern—to help clear stubborn layers of physical tension and stress.
This prepares your body to receive acupuncture in a calm, open state—making the treatment more effective and longer lasting.
You’ll likely leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more relaxed than you’ve felt in a long time—often with the best sleep that night in weeks.
Chinese Herbal Medicine
Herbal Medicine: Powerful Support from the Inside Out
Chinese herbal formulas are a potent addition to your treatment plan—customised to match your unique Chinese medicine diagnosis.
At Bodhi Health Acupuncture, I primarily prescribe Sun Herbal and KPC formulas—trusted brands offering high-quality powdered herbs and vegetable capsules that are easy to take and simple to integrate into daily life.
In some cases, internal herbal medicine is the key to deeper, longer-lasting results. Herbs and acupuncture work together, amplifying each other’s effects to restore balance and improve overall wellbeing.
Having the right herbal formula regularly feels like having a dedicated support team—quietly working with your body to overcome health challenges and keep you feeling your best.
Top reasons people seek acupuncture in my clinic.
Musculoskeletal Pain
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There is more to pain than pain itself.
Many clients report improvement within a few sessions; however, individual experiences may differ.
Pain can upset your energy levels, sleep and mood. So while the primary goal of your acupuncture treatment will be pain relief, other symptoms such as sleeplessness, fatigue and ‘the grumps’ may also be addressed during your care.
Lower Back Pain
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Lower back pain often walks into the clinic with sciatica, leg pain or hip pain.
The spine, the back and the pelvis are an intergrated whole.
A lack in one area forces another to adapt and compensate.
As such, for back pain patients we treat the back as a whole.
Here a combination massage, cupping and acupuncture is likely to be useful.
Most patients expect results within 3-5 treatments. Some also choose ongoing maintenance care for prevention.
Sciatica
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Ouch!!!
Sciatica can really hurt.
Often sciatica patients present with concurrent back pain.
Sciatica patients are often frustrated and stressed at their physical situation.
These people usually seek a 3-5 treatment protocol.
Here, a massage and cupping combination is useful.
Hold on to your seat though, sciatica can be a bucking bull. Things can temporarily get worse before better, as nerve pain and muscular tension settle down.
Try to keep treatment 1 and 2 close together.
Headaches & Migraines
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There are three causative aspect of headaches and migraines.
1. Structural
2. Blood Flow
3. Stress
(d) all of the above.
Chinese Medicine understands there are multiple ways headaches and migraines can occur on the body.
We tailor your treatments to your individual diagnosis. There will be a reason you have headaches and migraines. Regular headaches and migraines are not normal and there are ways to stop them.
Here acupuncture and herbs are often a strong combination.
Mental & Emotional Health
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Chinese Medical Acupuncture points relate back to internal Organs, such as the liver, stomach, heart and kidneys. Hence, why we can place needles in the hands and feet to improve digestive, lung or liver function.
These Organs have a physical, mental and emotional role to play in our body.
The emotional role of an organ often reflects its physical role.
For instance lung function reflects a person’s ability to take in oxygen, to feel inspired and to let go of used, now unusable gases such as CO2.
In Chinese Medicine the lungs relate to sadness (a lack of inspiration), inspiration (Oxygen efficiency) and grief (an inability to let go that which is no longer life).
Understanding your Chinese Medical Organ health picture can help you understand your mind and emotions.
Regardless of what type of mental and emotional challenges you face, physical health is primary.
Undoing complex mental and emotional knots often starts with creating physical stability.
This is best done with lifestyle changes.
We use a combination of acupuncture, herbs and holistic health management strategies, to help support patients overcome mental and emotional health challenges.
Anxiety
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The second most common symptom behind stress.
If you’re anxious, you are not alone.
Perhaps it’s a symptom of our society, our way of life.
In Chinese Medicine there are different ways to find yourself with an anxious heart.
Such as, shock, blood deficiency, fear in the heart, excessive exitement, insomnia, over stimulation and adrenal fatigue.
How you support yourself to walk out of anxiety is personal and will always be unique to you. Nobody else can do it for you.
Chinese Medicine does understand the heart and emotions well and can provide great support while you find your way through anxiety.
Here massage, acupuncture, herbs and individualy tailored lifestyle changes are useful.
Chinese Medicine can easily work in with other modalities as needed.
Depression
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Down… way down.
Being stuck in a hole is difficult.
Understanding your position and finding ways you want to move out of depression is important. This cannot be forced, rushed or done by somebody else for you.
Acupuncture is deeply calming and can move stagnation in the body, blood and emotions. Actually, acupuncture is all about change.
It’s ability to stimulate the para sympathetic nervous system can help you rest.
Deep rest can enable a fresh perspective and naturally encourage you get back in touch with how your body feels, how you feel, all without thinking too much.
In Chinese Medicine, mental and emotional stability is linked with physcial stability.
Hence, sleep, nutrition, diet and exercise are great ways to support yourself mentally and emotionally.
Chinese Medicine and acupuncture can help to reduce stress and lift Organ function, which can help ‘set your sail’ more towards physiological function and homeostasis.
Herbs can support your body on a daily basis and lifestyle changes can be chunked down into doable steps that matter to you.
Walking out of depression is not straight up easy, but it’s worth it. You are worth it.
Your potential is calling you, are you willing to walk towards it?
Insomnia
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Insomnia… No thank you.
One of the three pillars to managing your health, sleep is paramount to a good quality of life.
Every part of the body needs sleep to function well.
In sleep we go to our para sympathetic nervous system to rest, recover and rejuvinate.
In Chinese Medicine a good night’s sleep is said to be good for the soul.
There are different ways to become an insomniac.
Blood deficiency, stress, over thinking, kidney and adrenal fatugue, anxiety, a bad bed, spiritual issues are all reasons for a poor nights sleep.
Acupuncture aims to stimulate the para sympathetic nervous system and help the body rest and recouperate.
Many patients fall asleep on the table.
If you suffer from insomnia then having a bed time routine such as taking magnesium, stretching, meditating, and drinking a calming tea can be useful.
Acupunctrue and herbs are also a great support yourself.
Stress
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Stress, the silent killer.
Modern life comes with its stressors for better or worse.
I often sit across from patients who present with stress related health issues but claim not to be stressed, and I beleive them.
These people have often learned how to adapt and to mentally manage their stress.
Their body however, has not and they still present with physiological stress symptoms.
When trying to improve stress related health, it’s important to split stress into three parts:
Physical Stress – Doing heaps, often more than you and your body feel like.
Mental Stress – Being neurologically over stimulated, such as excessive computer or office style work.
Emotional Stress – Taking on board other peoples drama and dysfunctional emotions.
Acupuncture is calming and when combined with lifestyle changes, can help reduce stress in your body, mind and spirit.
Fertility & Maternity Care
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Chinese Medicine has a long history of supporting women’s health.
Menstrual problems, fertility support and maternity care are all within the scope of an acupuncturist.
My interest in working with fertility is working with the person or couple as a whole.
IVF is a difficult and expensive process. Doing everything we can before going down that road is wise.
Male and female health affect fertility and sometimes it is the man needing to improve their health.
When trying to improve fertility it is important to reduce stress, increase Organ function and process your emotions.
There is obviously a part of fertility which is not up to us and is out of human control.
The best we can do is get you and your partner into an ideal position to fall pregnant.
This often involves improving your overall health.
Maternity
Acupuncture is said to nourish the para sympathetic nervous system. Sleep, digestion and the reproductive organs function on this system.
Birthing requires ‘finding a cave,’ a dimly lit safe place, instinctively away from predators.
Relaxation in the last trimester of pregnancy is important.
Acupuncture can help you relax, reducing musculoskeletal pains, stress and readying your mental and emotional self.
Pregnancy and birth is a precious, intense and very important time to look after yourself.
Supporting women through this phase of life is a great use of acupuncture.
Teenage & Paediatric Care
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These formative years of life are often where we lay the foundations for years of health to come.
Enabling and helping a developing physiology grow easefully through to its potential, uninhibited by disease, is a profound way to support our youth.
Chinese Medicine and Holistic Health can empower young people to be more comfortable in their bodies and more mentally and emotionally stable.
This encourages more functional growth and hopefully an increase in health now and in years to come.
We treats children using fine baby sized, colourful needles we call taps.
Obviously acupuncture is a bit for todlers and young children to come around to. But, when they are ready it can be a useful tool to empower their health.
Sometimes, the Chinese Medical diagnosis with lifestyle advice and or herbs is enough for children.
But yes, Acupuncture can help kids as it is a sensitive persons medicine, and children are sensitive.
Increased Well Being
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You can use acupuncture and Chinese medicine to simply improve the quality of your health and therefore the quality of your life.
Feeling good and functioning at a higher level is desirable for most people.
If you are a busy athlete, parent or corporate person, then acupuncture and Chinese medicine can be used to help support you to perform at those higher levels.
Kerwin Rae said it well, that when you are performing at high level and looking after your health, if you still crash, then you won’t fall as far or as hard, and getting up will be a lot quicker.
Knowing your unique balance and finding ways to empower your health, can help you perform at a higher level more sustainably.
Dr Luke Paten
(Registered Acupuncturist)
I’m an AHPRA-registered Acupuncturist and Chinese Medicine Practitioner, and a proud member of AACMA—Australia’s peak body for acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
With a Bachelor of Health Science (Acupuncture) and qualifications in massage therapy, I offer a grounded and integrated approach to holistic care.
My background also includes long-term study in martial arts, yoga, meditation, and Qi Gong—disciplines that continue to shape my clinical perspective.
At Bodhi Health Acupuncture, my goal is simple:
To deliver high-quality, personalised Chinese Medicine that helps you feel better—physically, mentally, and emotionally.
I take time to understand your full health picture—your goals, personality, strengths, and vulnerabilities—from a Chinese Medicine lens. From there, I offer tailored acupuncture treatments, herbal formulas, and lifestyle guidance to help you restore balance and achieve lasting results.
Expect a calm, clear, and pain-free experience—one that meets you where you’re at and supports you every step of the way.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Acupuncture Hurt?
No, I aim to provide a pain free Acupuncture service. I do this by using smaller, finer needles where appropriate, working with your breath and coaching you through appropriate needle sensation.
Can Kids get Acupuncture?
Yes, children of any age can receive Acupuncture. Here the Chinese Medical theory and lifestyle advice can be as valuable as the treatment. We use smaller colourful needles called taps, massage and non needle techniques such as massage and acupuncture point stimulators. I love working with young people especially teenagers.
Can I get Health Fund rebates?
Yes, Acupuncture is now part of allied health and is a registered profession. I am registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulatory Agency, AHPRA. I am also a member of the Australia Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Association, AACMA. Most private health funds will rebate your Acupuncture treatment. We are as of yet not part of the medicare or the DVA system unfortunately.
How many times do I have to come?
For most new clients, I offer a straightforward 3–5 treatment trial. Sessions are typically scheduled once or twice a week, which is usually enough to assess whether acupuncture is helping—especially for acute or short-term issues.
Chronic or long-standing conditions may require more treatments, but even then, you should start to feel whether you’re gaining traction within the first few sessions.
Once results are achieved, ongoing maintenance treatments—ranging from fortnightly to monthly—can help keep your progress steady and prevent relapse.
Are there any side effects of Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is generally very safe and has few side effects. In fact, most people leave their session feeling more relaxed, calm, and clear.
Mild side effects can occasionally occur, such as slight bruising, light-headedness, or a tiny drop of blood at the needle site. Some patients may feel a temporary increase in discomfort as their body begins to adjust—this is often part of the healing process.
Serious side effects are extremely rare. Any concerns or individual considerations can be discussed thoroughly during your initial consultation.
Do I have to have Massage and Cupping? Can I just have Acupuncture?
Your treatment is tailored in consultation with you. Massage, cupping, moxa, Acupuncture and herbs are all available. Which combination of modalities suit your case will be dependent on your individual needs and diagnosis.
Is Acupuncture the same as Dry Needling?
Yes and No… Dry Needling is a musculoskeletal only treatment based on a muscular response to robust cross fibre needling and trigger points. It is similar to Chinese Ah Shi Acupuncture for pain.
Some practitioners are good with dry needling but many clients have reported that it is a painful experience.
Chinese Acupuncture has a depth of Oriental Systemic theory and is often more gentle and inherently more holistic.
Dry needling is often a two day course that qualified and unqualified health practitioners can do. A Chinese Medical degree, however, takes 4-5 years, costs more than $65, 000 and involves thousands of hours of education, and clinical instruction.
Fees
Initial Consult – 60 -75 mins – $120
Subsequent treatment – 60 mins – $110
Subsequent treatment – 45 mins – $90
Subsequent treatment – 75 mins $130
Holistic Health Management Coaching & Acupuncture – 90 Mins $150
Chinese Herbal Formula – $44 – $110
Kids Acupuncture Initial – $85
Kids Acupuncture Subsequent treatment – $65
Contact
Bodhi Health Acupuncture on the Sunshine Coast
Servicing the Sunshine Coast – Buderim (4556) – Mountain Creek (4557) – Forest Glen (4556) – Kawana (4701) – Buddina (4575) – Maroochydore (4558) – Mooloolaba (4557) – Eumundi (4562) – Coolum (4573) – Yandina (4561) – Sippy Downs (4556) – GlenView (4553) – Wurtulla (4575) – Alexandra Headlands (4572)- Eudlo (4554) – Palmwoods (4555) – Marcoola (4564) – Mudjimba (4564) – Tanawha (4556) – Minyama (4575) – Birtinya (4575) – Kunda Park (4556) Bli Bli – (4560)
0401 977 188
info@bodhihealth.net.au
Bodhi Health Acupuncture
Mountain Creek
8 / 126 – 130 Golf Links Rd
Mounatina Creek Qld
07 54 44 0711
