Sessions
A session is a place to arrive, be listened to properly and receive treatment that responds to the whole pattern.
How we work together
If you come with a health issue, we begin with an initial consultation and your first treatment. Together we shape a plan: a short series of follow-ups, with simple self-care at home in between, and a summary once things have settled.
If you simply need to rest and reset, a one-off De-Stress session needs no consultation.
Consultation, assessment, and first treatment.
Practices to support the plan at home.
Release and calm the body, reset the nervous system, ease pain.
Revise the plan and your self-care.
Where you’ve moved to, and what continues from here.
Every session begins with listening, reading the tongue and pulse, and palpation. See how every session begins →
For a long-term condition, pain, or several issues at once. Start with an Initial Consultation, then follow-ups or a package, including fertility and IVF programmes.
From £110
See sessions & prices →One-off De-Stress sessions of one or two hours, or four and six hours of Deep Work if you’re travelling from further away. No consultation needed.
From £75
See sessions & prices →A consultation on Zoom, a 7-week herbal programme, or a recorded analysis of your tongue and ears, wherever you live.
From £75
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Your first appointment
If you’re coming to resolve a health issue, your first visit is an Initial Consultation: 2 hours for several or long-standing issues, or 90 minutes for one clear, straightforward problem. If you’re unsure, choose the 2 hours.
You remain fully involved in decisions about touch, needling, herbs and suggestions for home.
Assessment
Initial appointments begin with a conversation, then a closer look: your pulse, your tongue, how the tissue responds under touch. From there, we move into treatment and shape a plan together. Follow-up sessions return to that same rhythm, picking up what has shifted and what still needs attention.
We start with your story and your history: your symptoms, what has changed, and what a hard day feels like in your body. I listen to your tone of voice and how you phrase things too, to what you don’t say as much as what you do.
I look at your tongue, its colour, coating and shape, at your face, and at your ears, which hold their own quiet map of the body. These signs point to disharmonies underneath, often before you’d name them yourself.
I check your pulse in several positions on both wrists, reading what is moving freely and what is not. It tells me about your circulation and your energy levels.
I touch the body directly. Palpation tells me how the tissue responds, where it holds, and where the pain actually lives, which is not always where it is felt.
During treatment
Acupuncture needles are very fine, far thinner than a needle for an injection. Most people feel little more than a light touch as they go in, followed by a dull ache, warmth, heaviness or a gentle spreading sensation around the point. That is a sign the point has been reached, and it usually settles within moments.
How many needles I use depends on what you come with. For stress, emotional strain, migraines and an unsettled nervous system, often only one to four are needed. For physical pain, I may use more, some in and out quickly to release muscle and fascia, others left in to calm the nervous system.
Needles usually stay in for somewhere between fifteen and forty-five minutes. Many people become deeply relaxed, and some drift off to sleep. If you would rather not have needles at all, acupressure and hands-on work can do much of the same work gently.
What may be included
Every session is built on acupuncture or acupressure. Around it, I add what fits the body in front of me that day, at no extra charge:
After your first visit
A 60-minute follow-up begins with a short check-in on what has changed since last time: sleep, pain, digestion, mood, energy. We adjust the treatment to where you are now, not where you were. For returning clients there is also a 30-minute session, a quick top-up when life is busy.
At the start, visits work best close together, ideally the first three within two to three weeks, so the early changes can build on each other. As things settle, sessions spread out, and many women then come once a month to keep tension and the nervous system in check. That is why I recommend a five-session package to begin with: it’s a realistic minimum to genuinely feel the difference.
Other ways to come
A one-off reset of one or two hours, open to everyone, with no initial consultation needed. Combined, or in the 1-hour session a single therapy such as cupping, gua sha or acupressure.
See De-Stress →Four or six unhurried hours to work through several issues in one visit, ideal if you’re travelling from further away.
See Deep Work →A 1- or 2-hour consultation on Zoom, a 7-week herbal programme, or a recorded tongue and ear analysis, wherever you live.
See online care →Acupressure, massage and visceral therapy instead of needles: gentle and ideal for sensitive people, children and teenagers. Anyone under 18 comes with a parent or guardian, who stays in the room.
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