I've been where you are
This isn't just a career specialism for me. I have PCOS and endometriosis. I know what it's like to be dismissed, to chase answers, to sit in a waiting room feeling like your concerns aren't quite taken seriously enough. I narrowly avoided IVF myself.
That experience changed everything about how I approach this work. When a woman sits across from me describing her cycle, her fatigue, her frustration with the process, I'm not just listening as a clinician. I genuinely understand what that feels like from the inside.
I trained in acupuncture because I believed in its capacity to work with the body rather than override it. I went on to complete a Postgraduate Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology because I wanted the clinical depth to back that belief up properly. Very few acupuncturists hold that qualification.
I've since worked with women at every stage of the reproductive journey: trying to conceive naturally, going through IVF and assisted conception, navigating losses that don't get talked about enough, and stepping into perimenopause wondering why their bodies suddenly feel unfamiliar. I don't come to this work from the outside. I come to it as someone who has lived it.