My name is Katie and I am an integrative acupuncturist, with a degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Five Element acupuncture.

Chinese medicine has its own diagnostic framework. I ask questions about your health, alongside traditional diagnostic techniques including pulse and tongue diagnosis, to understand your individual pattern and create a treatment specifically for you.

I first experienced acupuncture when I was nine years old. I had started my periods unusually early and was bleeding almost continuously. When the next suggested step was the contraceptive pill, my mum took me to see an acupuncturist.

It was the beginning of a relationship with acupuncture that has continued throughout my life.

I returned to it at different stages and for different reasons, but particularly through my pregnancies and in the months after having my children. It changed my life. Over the years, acupuncture became something I came back to when my health felt out of balance, and ultimately something I wanted to understand deeply enough to practise myself.