Five Element Acupuncture

Initial Consultation/treatment and follow on appointments

An initial five element acupuncture appointment ranges from 60 - 90 minutes, clinic dependent. Your first visit will allow time for a comprehensive consultation in which Sarah will understand your main reason for visiting, any accompanying symptoms, an insight into energetic and elemental imbalances and an overview of the body’s physical systems.

With every appointment Sarah will listen into your pulses to discern its balance, strength, and note any blockages. A plan for treatment is prescribed and actioned. A mix of differing modalities, such as fine needles and moxibustion, cupping, guasha or manual bodywork therapy can be used and will be clearly explained before proceeding.

Within appointments tackling issues that arise is commonplace. Here Sarah will invite open dialogue, with specific questioning to gain clarity into why or how things have come to be, in turn Sarah will mirror this back to you. At times to gain a deeper insight and to experience the emotional landscape, Sarah can invite you to seek out physical sensations and connect to the feeling body, making muddled mental emotional situation, clearer and connection into triggers that arise. This is a unique and individual experience and homework is often given, whilst providing tools to cope and experience another way of being.

It is usually suggested to have 4 to 6 follow on appointments weekly or twice monthly in succession, to help rebalance. Depending on the patient and need, we spread appointments out to monthly, once every six weeks to a few times a year for topping up. Sessions are 45 minutes in clinic and can be combined to alternate over the phone coaching.