🌿 What to Expect: Your First Acupuncture Consultation If you’re new to acupuncture or just new to working with me — welcome. Here’s what your first session will look like: 🌀 We begin with you. Your full health story, current symptoms, emotional wellbeing, lifestyle, and what you’re hoping to shift or support. 🧭 Diagnosis through classical principles. I work within the Neijing Classical tradition — using observation, touch, pulse, and questions to understand your unique pattern of imbalance. 🌿 Your personalised treatment. Treatment may include acupuncture, moxibustion, tui na (therapeutic massage), and/or gentle non-needle techniques including sound therapy depending on your needs. 💫 Gentle, grounded care. My aim is always to meet you exactly where you are and work at a pace that feels right — whether you’re coming for physical, emotional, or preventative care. ✨ You’ll leave with a clearer sense of what’s going on in your body and how we’ll work together to support healing, naturally.

Sound Therapy One – to – one Sound therapy works on our bodies and minds to clear our default programming, enhancing directional movement, clear stagnant energy and repetitive patterns that manifest as stressors that maybe blocking us. It is also a deeply relaxing experience and can leave us feeling refreshed and restored. In a session I enquire with you to unearth what’s needing focus and where in your body you might be experiencing pain or lack of flow. I facilitate relaxation, bringing you on a journey, playing gongs, Himalayan bowls, crystal bowls, chimes, shakers and voice toning. We aim to go into a state of altered consciousness which brings about awareness. A space to identify limiting beliefs and how to work with these insights and importantly how you can maintain this state of renewed flow and contentment in your life. In each session I combine tui na massage over cloth, bowl pressure massage with the sound therapy treatment.

The subsequent recommended 4 weekly sessions will last about an hour. It’s a recommendation of a commitment to 4 – 5 weekly sessions, the known optimal time to experience shift in symptoms and lasting change. After this treatments may happen bi -weekly and or in monthly sessions.

Natural Paediatric Care in Leyton, London Gentle support for every stage of childhood Children’s needs shift as they grow — from the delicate early months of infancy through to the emotional and physical transitions of adolescence. Chinese medicine has a long and well-established history of specialised paediatric care that supports healthy development, helps prevent illness, and offers gentle, effective treatment for a wide range of childhood conditions. In my Leyton-based practice, I work with children from birth through their teenage years. Treatments are tailored to the child’s age and constitution, using a combination of gentle therapies to support healing and restore balance. Common conditions I work with include: Coughs, colds & ear infections Colic, reflux & digestive discomfort Constipation & diarrhoea Allergies & asthma Growing pains Sleep difficulties Anxiety & emotional regulation Support for young people’s health Girls’ transitions: first periods & cycle awareness Depending on the child’s needs, I may use a combination of: Acupressure & gentle massage (paediatric tuina) Non-invasive Japanese Shonishin (acupoint stimulation without needles) Acupuncture (when appropriate and with full consent) Moxibustion (warming therapy to support energy and immunity) Sound therapy for emotional balance and relaxation Dietary guidance based on Chinese medicine principles Lifestyle support for the whole family Homeobotanicals Homeopathic-style herbal formulas to complement treatment All treatments are child-led, non-invasive, and designed to create a sense of safety and ease. Whether your child is experiencing a specific health challenge or simply needs support navigating the changes of growing up, these therapies work gently with the body’s natural intelligence to encourage deep, lasting wellness.