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Treatment style
My relaxing style
My relaxing style
My relaxing style
I provide a welcoming and health-restoring space for everyone who needs my professional care in the treatment room. My patients often tell me that I offer effective treatment because I gently and energetically connect with each person.
I provide a welcoming and health-restoring space for everyone who needs my professional care in the treatment room. My patients often tell me that I offer effective treatment because I gently and energetically connect with each person.
In every treatment session I take your pulses on both wrists, which is a key Chinese diagnostic method.
I am trained to diagnose the source of a problem. I then choose points specifically for each patient in order to address the causes of the symptoms.
Moxibustion
My relaxing style
My relaxing style
I use moxibustion in addition to my relaxed needling technique –this is the burning of the versatile moxa herb (also known as Mugwort or artemisia vulgaris) directly on or near the skin to provide nourishment and warmth to the points on the acupuncture channels. Evidence over hundreds of years shows moxibustion has the ability to streng
I use moxibustion in addition to my relaxed needling technique –this is the burning of the versatile moxa herb (also known as Mugwort or artemisia vulgaris) directly on or near the skin to provide nourishment and warmth to the points on the acupuncture channels. Evidence over hundreds of years shows moxibustion has the ability to strengthen the blood. Several survivors who were 2miles from the nuclear impact at Hiroshima were recorded to have recovered from radiation sickness and increased white blood cell counts through moxibustion on the wrists.
What to expect?
My relaxing style
What to expect?
A typical consultation will begin with a detailed case history of the patient’s complaint. Your past medical history can often be relevant to current problems that you are experiencing. I ask you to complete a consent form before your first visit and fill out some important details about yourself.
During the first consultation you will no
A typical consultation will begin with a detailed case history of the patient’s complaint. Your past medical history can often be relevant to current problems that you are experiencing. I ask you to complete a consent form before your first visit and fill out some important details about yourself.
During the first consultation you will normally be asked to remove some clothing and bring your own covering (towel or blanket) so that you feel comfortable. This is so that I can carry out a number of short physical diagnostic tests, such as palpating (touching) your torso or taking blood pressure.
The sessions may not always include acupuncture needles being placed in the area of the body most obviously affected by symptoms; this is because the acupuncture channels run throughout the body. Treating points, for example, in the foot can have an effect towards the torso and head.
My Story
Caring for you and your health
My journey to becoming a Five Element practitioner of moxibustion and acupuncture has been long one. My first training was as a journalist, writing about health services and policy, then I learned personally how to assist others through illness, anxiety, autistic challenges, dementia, or psychosis.
I subsequently restored my health from more than 8 years of incapacitating illness, and returned to work as a trained pharmacy advisor then a care worker in nursing homes.
I realised the importance of Five Element Chinese diagnosis and acupuncture treatment when I found a practitioner to help me and my family after my illness. I had been left lying at home in a dark room by doctors, with no options given to me except anti-depressants and painkillers. Rather than seeing me as a unique individual, my condition and symptoms were assessed against standard medical expectations for patients of my age, sex and outward presentation of health, and the underlying problem was missed entirely.
Yet I was aware that I was seriously ill and my body’s systems were not working correctly together. So I had no hope and received no reassurance from Western medical systems, which only worsened my condition. There was no advice available on how to live a healthy and full life again after such a serious downturn in my physical abilities.
I am thankful for discovering a complex off-label pharmacological answer which enabled me to gradually recover through persistence. But I only turned a corner in restoring my health back into balance when I received Five Element treatments. Then my long term healing began.
Once I began caring for others in frontline jobs I realised that many people were seeking holistic care that did not divide their physical and emotional symptoms. I enrolled at The Acupuncture Academy and now hold the accredited hons-level professional qualification Licentiate in Acupuncture. You can also have the assurance that I am a British Acupuncture Council member. I have completed post-graduate training as a Paediatric Practitioner and in Korean auricular (ear) and hand therapies
