The goal at East Gate Health is to help our clients by supporting their body's natural ability to regulate and heal. When this is accomplished, clients move forward into their lives, calmer, more centred, energized, and inspired.

About East Gate Health

In my practice, I look beyond diagnosis and symptoms to find the cause of an individual’s disease state. My priority is to identify the underlying imbalances that produced the symptoms. By identifying blocks in the body's ability to heal, and then by supporting the body to resolve its challenges, the individual can move back to health and the ability to self-regulate.

My practice is based on energy medicine. I integrate acupuncture with advances in auricular and bioenergetic medicine. Auricular medicine bridges acupuncture and classical Chinese medicine with principles of biotherapeutic drainage and detoxification.


About Dore Vanden Heuvel (RAc, RTCMP)

Dore holds a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine designation from the International College of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Vancouver (ICTCM), BC. As a member of the first graduating class of TCM practitioners from an accredited school in Canada, Dore continues to be a pioneer in her studies. She is a registered acupuncturist and practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine and is a member of both the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of Ontario (CTCMPAO) and the Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Association of Canada (CMAAC).

A dedicated practitioner since 1991, Dore continues to work and study with the same passion that drew her to health care in 1987. She constantly updates her knowledge and has worked with many gifted teachers over the years. Dore studied biotherapeutic drainage with the late Dr. Gerard Guéniot and completed the Master’s Class with him in 2009. She continues to study with Dr. Kiiko Matsumoto. She completed an intensive course of study in Auricular and Bioenergetic Medicine with Dr. Mikhael Adams and Dr. Alison Adams, respected practitioners and innovators in this discipline. More recently, she has been studying the work of Dr. Jeffrey Yuen, Dean of Classical Studies at Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts.

Healthy Living

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