I attended about ten sessions of acupuncture from December 2011 to present and I found it to be very beneficial for my anxiety and stress levels. I work in a stressful environment and found myself having panic attacks during the day and night.My heart raced most days and I often woke during the night with hot sweats and my heart thumping. I had bad dreams most other nights. I suffer with an under active thyroid and when I started these sessions...

I was always very sceptical of alternatives to Western medicine…that was until stress played a serious part in my life two years ago, I was struck down with Bell’s Palsy, a paralysising condition where the left side of my face became totally numb and paralysed. The doctors couldn’t do anything for me as the inflamed facial nerve does not respond to anti-viral medication. It was a waiting game to see if the condition would improve or result...

My first experience of acupuncture was in the summer of 2009 in Dublin. I met Suzanne in September of that year and from there, our consultations and friendship began. After two years of attending a pain management clinic for pain I was experiencing in my neck, back, hands and feet, consuming the maximum daily allowance of difene, tramadol and paracetamol on most days and enduring painful pain relieving injections, I followed my mother’s...

After using acupuncture and herbs in my three pregnancies I would have nothing but praise for it’s use for pregnancy,birth and afterwards. I became interested when I read how it could correct the position of a low lying placenta which I had with two of my pregnancies. Having received acupuncture for the last trimester on all of my pregnancies I found it incredible for correcting all of the ‘downs’ associated with...