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Acupuncture &  Complementary Therapies

Acupuncture & Complementary Therapies

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Acupuncture the Art of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Acupuncture for Back Pain

Acupuncture for Digestive Health: A Natural Approach to IBS Relief

Acupuncture for Digestive Health: A Natural Approach to IBS Relief

Back pain is one of the most common reasons people seek acupuncture—and for good reason. Whether caused by muscle tension, poor posture, injury, or chronic conditions, acupuncture offers a natural, drug-free way to reduce pain and promote healing. 

By targeting specific points along the body’s fascia or channels, acupuncture can help release muscle tightness, improve circulation, and trigger the body’s own pain-relief mechanisms. Many people experience reduced inflammation, greater mobility, and long-lasting relief after just a few sessions. 

Acupuncture not only addresses symptoms but also supports the body’s overall balance, helping to prevent future flare-ups and improve quality of life. 

Acupuncture for Digestive Health: A Natural Approach to IBS Relief

Acupuncture for Digestive Health: A Natural Approach to IBS Relief

Acupuncture for Digestive Health: A Natural Approach to IBS Relief

Struggling with digestive issues like Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) can be frustrating and disruptive to daily life. Acupuncture offers a gentle, effective way to support digestive health by addressing the root causes of imbalance. 

Through the stimulation of specific points on the body, acupuncture can help regulate the nervous system, reduce inflammation, and improve gut motility. Many people experience relief from bloating, cramping, constipation, and diarrhoea with regular treatments. 

Whether you're managing stress-related flare-ups or chronic symptoms, acupuncture provides a personalised, holistic approach to help restore balance and support your digestive wellness.

Acupuncture for Stress Relief

Acupuncture for Digestive Health: A Natural Approach to IBS Relief

Acupuncture for Mental Health, Anxiety, and PTSD

In today’s fast-paced world, stress can take a serious toll on both body and mind. Acupuncture offers a deeply relaxing, natural way to reduce stress and restore balance. 

By calming the nervous system and regulating the body’s stress response, acupuncture helps lower cortisol levels, ease muscle tension, and promote a sense of emotional clarity and calm. Many people report feeling more grounded, centered, and resilient after treatment. 

Whether you’re experiencing anxiety, burnout, or tension-related symptoms like headaches or insomnia, acupuncture provides gentle support to help you unwind, recharge, and feel more like yourself again.

Acupuncture for Mental Health, Anxiety, and PTSD

Acupuncture for Mental Health, Anxiety, and PTSD

Acupuncture for Mental Health, Anxiety, and PTSD

 Acupuncture offers a gentle, holistic approach to supporting mental health and emotional well-being. By calming the nervous system and regulating the body’s stress response, acupuncture can help reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and trauma-related conditions like PTSD. 

Treatments work by encouraging the flow of Qi (our vital life force energy), helping to restore a sense of balance and safety in both the body and mind. Many individuals experience improved sleep, reduced emotional reactivity, and a greater sense of inner calm with regular sessions. 

Whether you're navigating chronic anxiety or healing from trauma, acupuncture can be a powerful, non-invasive support in your journey toward mental and emotional resilience.

Acupuncture for Allergy Relief

Acupuncture for Mental Health, Anxiety, and PTSD

Acupuncture for Allergy Relief

Allergies—whether seasonal or year-round—can greatly impact your quality of life. Symptoms like sneezing, congestion, itchy eyes, fatigue, and digestive discomfort are common responses to triggers such as hay fever, dust, or certain foods. 

Acupuncture offers a natural, drug-free approach to managing these reactions by calming the immune system, reducing inflammation, and restoring the body’s internal balance. By targeting specific acupuncture points, treatments can help regulate the histamine response, support healthy digestion, and strengthen the body’s resilience to allergens. 

Many people experience lasting relief from both acute symptoms and chronic sensitivities, making acupuncture an effective and holistic option for allergy support.

Acupuncture for Addiction

Acupuncture for Mental Health, Anxiety, and PTSD

Acupuncture for Allergy Relief

Acupuncture offers a gentle, holistic approach to supporting individuals on their journey to recovery from addiction—whether to alcohol, nicotine, or compulsive behaviours. 

Both auricular acupuncture (focused on points in the ear) and traditional body acupuncture work to calm the nervous system, reduce cravings, ease withdrawal symptoms, and support emotional regulation. These treatments help the body release natural endorphins, promote better sleep, and reduce anxiety, all of which are vital during the healing process. 

By restoring balance and strengthening the body’s internal systems, acupuncture supports lasting change and provides a sense of grounding and calm throughout recovery.

Acupuncture for back pain, stress relief and irritable bowel syndrome.

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What is Acupuncture?

Ancient Art, Modern Practice

Acupuncture is thousands of years old but is still a relevant healing practice experienced by millions of people across the globe.

With each session individually crafted to meet your specific needs, acupuncture and TCM practice is not a one size fits all approach. You and your needs are at the heart of each treatment.

Using fine, sterile needles, the acupuncturist inserts them at specific places along the body which encourages the body to remember it's normal way of functioning, not the work around it has adopted. When the body restores itself, balance occurs, symptoms reduce or clear up and you can go back to being the amazing individual that you are.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

Is a holistic medicine, a whole system approach, meaning it looks at all of you, your mind, body and spirit. It is not an either/or approach, looking at just one part of you, instead it looks at your entirety and the complexities and relationships between all parts of you, how they function and cooperate together and how they are affected by the world around them.

Ultimately it's goal is to bring you back into balance, to restore equilibrium.

Restoring Balance

When you are out of balance, whether that is emotionally, mentally, physically or even spiritually, it can make you feel out of sorts. If this imbalance is prolonged due to injury, stress, illness or chronic pain the imbalance in the mind, body and spirit can lead to more emotional or physical symptoms. TCM aims to restore balance to the body by restoring the natural rhythm and flow of the systems within, helping to reduce symptoms.

Your Acupuncture Treatment

What to expect

In your initial appointment you can expect an in-depth consultation on your reason for seeking acupuncture but also other areas of your life, including medical history, diet, sleep, medication and some more. It may seem a little weird and you may be wondering why any of that is relevant but TCM looks at you as a whole, not individual parts and all these parts make up who you are. They are often relevant to the issue you are seeking acupuncture for.


The initial appointment is usually 90 minutes long with subsequent treatments being 60 minutes.


The consultation will also include: 

  • Examinations of your tongue, did you know it's a great snapshot of what is going on inside your whole system at that moment?
  • The taking of your pulse, again this lets the acupuncturist glean more information about what is going on in your body/system at that point in time and whether it is long standing or not.
  • A physical assessment of the body relevant to the reason for seeking acupuncture. This could involve looking at areas of tension and pain, observing mobility and looking for any other signs of imbalance.

Tailored to your needs

Every acupuncture session is unique to you and your needs and may involve other supplementary treatments such as cupping, gua sha, moxibustion, electroacupuncture, massage or heat lamp, to complement and enhance your acupuncture treatment.

This is included within the cost of your acupuncture treatment.


The actual acupuncture involves the insertion of fine, sterile needles at specific points along the body to elicit a healing response, encouraging balance within and between the systems of the body.

You can expect to feel perhaps a slight tingling feeling, warmth or sometimes a dull ache at the acupuncture site but this is completely normal and often quite a good feeling.

The treatment usually lasts between 20-30 minutes, giving your body plenty of time to work its magic and you plenty of time to relax.


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