My early life was certainly lived as a tick box exercise. Tick I have this, tick I’ve done that, externally measuring myself against others, yearning for much needed validation from my family and peers for acceptance, enoughness and love. I didn’t know how empty I was until one day I just felt okay. I didn’t need anything or anyone to complete me. I was content, at peace and brimming with fullness.

Each element adopts each facial feature. Here are just some examples of where on the face the strength of these elements are seen, eyebrows (wood element), chin (water element), nose (metal element), eyes (fire element) and mouth (earth element).

Generally, we are all too aware of the nature and the side effects of stress from either our own experience or someone close to us.

For some however, the sensation of stress becomes a daily norm and if left untreated for long enough can cause lasting ill health to mind and body.

How is your life? Are you living joyfully? Do you feel at peace? Is their a harmonious sense of balance in all that you do? Maybe you are full of confidence in your abilities to live a purposeful life, full of meaning.

If so, you are living the dream. Great! However if not,

During an in depth consultation a patient often speaks of their discomfort in great detail and the measures that have been taken to remove it. When asked, what else was happening around the time their condition started, it always astounds me to hear it's arrival coincided with a significant life event…

With my background of bodywork therapy and five element acupuncture, I have over the last twenty years attuned myself to the energetics of the patient. This energy can be seen, heard, smelt and most of all felt. My style of clinical practice is to understand the root cause of why a symptom….