Practitioners

Emmanuel Moortgat LAc is from Picardy, France where in his early life he was a professional horse trainer, artist, restaurateur and dedicated personal student of health science. He holds a degree from France in Art and Design and a Master’s diploma of Acupuncture from Jung Tao School of CCM. In 1998 he moved to the United States and settled in St. Augustine, Florida where his late wife Debra Rene opened a successful clinic of acupuncture. In 2015, Emmanuel became the translator of the “MTC” (Médicine Traditionnelle Chinoise), an acupuncture text by Dr. Nguyen Van Nghi on classical methods. Emmanuel enjoys the outdoors, gardening, fixer-upper projects and cooking. He has a special interest in East Asian food therapy (Tao diet) and combines it with traditional French cooking.