About ...

Personal Harmony Wellness (pHw) was founded by me, Helen Anderson, to help you achieve the best level of health & wellness possible for you.

My journey to becoming a doctor of acupuncture has been a bit circuitous ...

I was born, raised & (primarily) educated in the UK. I read physics at the University of Portsmouth (UK) back in the early 1990s. I graduated that program with a BSc (Honours). It was my intention to teach physics at high school level.

However, life had other plans for me…

After university, I moved to the Netherlands. My husband & I lived there for several years before we visited Canada & fell in love with the country & the people. We decided to immigrate. Upon arrival in Canada, I worked in the Oil patch ... one of the few areas with jobs for a physics grad!

In 2000 I felt it was time for a change of career direction. I chose to pursue a career in Holistic Medicine. Several of the modalities I practiced were CranialSacral therapy, hypnotherapy, herbology, reflexology & massage therapy. While I truly enjoyed working in this field, I felt that there was something missing.

After being treated for a chronic & debilitating injury with acupuncture myself & obtaining real relief for the first time in decades, it became clear that this was an area I wanted to explore further.

I enrolled in the Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine program at the Alberta College of Acupuncture & TCM. After several years of pretty intense learning, an internship in the Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Kunming, China & passing my licensing exams ... I started practicing this amazing medicine.

Traditional Chinese Medicine continues to fascinate & amaze me as I continue to work with patients & delve ever more deeply into the subject.

I hope you'll come to visit me & explore this medicine for yourself ...