Douglas graduated from the College of Classical Acupuncture, Leamington Spa, in 1986.
He has taken post-graduate courses with the Journal of Chinese Medicine and the London College of Herbal Medicine.
Continuous professional development is a requirement of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC), to which Douglas belongs. He has taken numerous other courses in Traditional Chinese Medicine and in the practice of Qi Gong and the Internal Martial Arts.