Acupuncture Healthcare

22/10/2025

Just like the seasons, our bodies move through their own cycles of change. Five Element Acupuncture helps you reconnect with those rhythms, balancing the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of health.

In each session, I take time to listen — to your story, your pulse, and your energy. Using the wisdom of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water, we explore the unique ways your body communicates through colour, sound, odour, and emotion.

🌈 Colour: Subtle tones on your face, often around the eyes or mouth.

🔊 Sound: The quality of your voice—melodic, sharp, soft, or quiet.

🌿 Odour: Sometimes present during treatment, regardless of when you last showered or brushed your teeth!

💫 Emotion: My favourite. You need to feel safe to share how emotions move through you—how they motivate, protect, or sometimes hold you still. Emotions aren’t good or bad; they’re messages from your body about how you’re experiencing life.

Healing isn’t about fixing something broken; it’s about returning to balance and reconnecting with the natural flow that’s already within you.

✨ This style of acupuncture is especially supportive if you’re feeling overwhelmed, managing chronic illness, or seeking a more holistic way to feel like yourself again. If you are ready to move from surviving to thriving, contact me or follow the links to book in for your first session  ✨

10/10/2025

✨️ The gift of time ✨️

This week I treated a lovely client for the 100th time. 

This was the 4th person to reach this milestone and I never charge for this session!

I’m honestly so grateful for the trust people place in me 🥰

My job is not to “fix” anyone — I’m here to guide, support and be a catalyst for change as the tiny needles encourage the body and mind towards more healthy outcomes. Sometimes this needs ongoing long term support for chronic or complex health conditions.

💛  Feeling very lucky to do what I do. 💛

✨️ I help people to regain balance and take control of their health and emotional well-being. Book through the link in bio if you are ready to fell calm, transformed and revitalised ✨️

26/09/2025

✨ Who is supporting you right now? ✨

Following on from my last post, I would like you all to do this simple 3 minute exercise.

Everyone can prioritise themselves for 3 minutes.

What do you notice in your answers? Are you surviving or thriving?

✨ If this reflection showed you it’s time for more support, let’s talk. Book your appointment through the link in bio. ✨

23/09/2025

🌟The Juggle is Real🌟

We’ve all heard “it takes a village to raise a child.” But what about the support parents need — especially perimenopausal women (like me)?

With two teenagers, this year has been full-on: school admin (new uniform rules 😡), taxi runs, learner driver shenanigans, music lessons, trips, holidays… all on top of my own needs like training, fresh air, reading a book, and trying to remember actual words beyond “thingy”!

I know the theory, but I’ve learned I can’t do this alone. Just like my clients lean on me, I need my own support network too.

No, acupuncture won’t unload the dishwasher, but it can help you hold the boundary so you hold the kids accountable and don’t just do it for them! And when you’re sleeping better, digesting well, calmer and in less pain, life feels lighter. Investing in your health always pays back — your future self will thank you.

If this resonates, book a full initial consultation, or a free short “Ask & Explore” session with me. Follow the link.

08/09/2025

Highly recommend this lovely market...only 15 mins from Oxted!

Only 1 week to go !!! bring the family and someone who hasn't come yet !!

28/04/2025

🌼 What a day yesterday 🌼

The perfect mix of wellbeing and fun; Forest bathing and wine tasting

Glorious weather 😎

Fabulous location 🌳

Amazing company 

Calm, nurturing forest bathing guidance

Wonderful scent of bluebells and wild garlic to really engage all the senses 🪻

Luxurious wines 🍷

Engaging hosts, with stories of the blood, sweat, and tears that go into the wine

All this only a 30 min train ride from Oxted. I even bumped into Thomas the Tank Engine at the station 🚂 😂

Favourite fact from the day: 
The same wine can taste different on different occasions, depending on the weather, the location, the food, etc. So that's why you don't always agree with the wine buffs 😉

The white was my favourite - so much flavour from such a pale wine. 

I'm looking forward to trying the Rose with a Thai curry (who knew they would go well together?!?)

Everything in acupuncture is about balance. I think this day nailed it!

Now, back to the day job 💻

If you'd like to ask me about acupuncture, wine or forest bathing, drop me a message.

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16/11/2024

🏵️ World Acupuncture Day 🏵️

I could not let World Acupuncture Day go by without a quick post about the amazing medicine I am lucky enough to practice every day.

I’m so grateful that I have been doing the job that I love so much for 20 years this month! Clients share their lives with me, and I walk alongside, working in partnership, to help tweak the balance so that they can get the best out of their lives. Seeing my clients flourish instead of struggling through each day is a delight.

What have I learnt in 20 years?

🏵️ Needle sensation has a life of it’s own. Every time I think I have control of it, or an explanation of it, the next needle will prove otherwise. Needle sensation and insertion pain are two different things.

🏵️ It’s hard to find the right words to explain a good pulse change, but it’s easy to feel. I can still be shocked by a text book needle change after a few “in / out needles”. I find it amazing that 4 tiny needles, and a minute of time, can do so much.

🏵️ Everyone wants to know “how” acupuncture works. We know lots of things about what acupuncture does in the body, such as regulate hormones, improve blood flow, reduce inflammation and modulate the way pain is experienced in the brain. That doesn’t mean I can tell you exactly what’s happening when I put a needle in any specific point. I do know that if I treat according to the Traditional Chinese Medicine theories, it works.

🏵️ Wood CFs HAVE to move outdoors regularly and be able to see green spaces outside their windows, otherwise their world is off.

🏵️ Listening to how people are saying things, or what emotion is driving the words, is much more important that the content of what they say. (Sorry, I am listening carefully, I promise)

It’s a cliché, but I still have so much to learn!

I'm taking bookings for new patients in January. If you would like to dip into my 20 years of knowledge, please comment below to get your name on the waiting list.

12/09/2024

Happy mindfulness awareness day! Thanks Susie 😍

23/07/2024

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If you are new to acupuncture, it can feel a bit scary or daunting to book in for your first appointment. I take plenty of time to help you understand what to expect from treatment. I want you to feel at ease and enjoy your sessions. 

Honestly, you'll arrive worrying about the needles and leave feeling so relaxed you'll hardly remember any needles were involved! Check out my latest reviews from clients who were both new to acupuncture but were brave enough to give it a try.

What's stopping you from booking in to try it for yourself?

🔥 If you are going through any of life’s transitional phases: Puberty, menstruation, parenthood, peri-menopause, mid-life, retirement.

🌍 And you are struggling with menstrual health problems, peri-menopausal or menopausal symptoms, headaches, migraines, physical pain, stress and anxiety, or any emotional issues.

🪙 You’ve come to the right place. I can help you live your life with joy and ease!

💧I’ve been helping people to regain balance and take back control of their health and emotional well-being through the art of Traditional Acupuncture for nearly 20 years.

🌳Comment THAT’S ME to book

                                                       

18/05/2024

I have two questions for you:

☀️Do you suffer from anxiety?

☀️What is anxiety?

That might sound like a stupid question, but bear with me. This conversation came up in clinic this week, and I go through it with clients time and time again. If you suffer from anxiety, you will think everyone knows what it is because they will feel like you. We all think anxiety means the same thing, but it doesn't. It shows up differently in each unique individual.

Here are a few questions I might ask you as part of your consultation, if you tell me you struggle with anxiety:

Where in your body do you have the anxious feelings?

What are the thoughts in your head that accompany your anxiety?

What effects/symptoms do you experience in your body systems?

I’ve shown on the slides how people might respond to these questions depending on which of the five elements is most out of balance for them. You might have a mix of aspects from all elements, but one will probably stand out the most.

If you want to know more, check out my blog!

🔥 If you are going through any of life’s transitional phases: Puberty, menstruation, parenthood, peri-menopause, mid-life, retirement.

🌍 And you are struggling with stress, anxiety, any other mental health, or emotional issues.

🪙 You’ve come to the right place. I can help you live your life with joy and ease!

💧 I’ve been helping people to regain balance and take back control of their health and emotional well-being through the art of Traditional Acupuncture for nearly 20 years.

🌳 Comment below with your favourite alternative word for anxiety, and I’ll have a stab (see what I did there) at telling you which element I think resonates most clearly with that emotion / feeling.

P.S. Practitioners, do you ask your patients these types of questions? If not, give it a go and let me know how you get on.

11/05/2024

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This has made my heart sing today, so I had to share!

There is nothing better than the lift in a client who has come in with the weight of the world on their shoulders, cries a bucket of tears in our chat, then leaves with a smile on their face.

🔥If you are going through any of life’s transitional phases: Puberty, menstruation, parenthood, peri-menopause, mid-life, retirement.

🌍And you are struggling with menstrual health problems, peri-menopausal or menopausal symptoms, headaches, migraines, physical pain, stress and anxiety, or any emotional issues.

🪙You’ve come to the right place. I can help you live your life with joy and ease!

💧I’ve been helping people to regain balance and take back control of their health and emotional well-being through the art of Traditional Acupuncture for nearly 20 years.

🌳Comment THAT’S ME to book