Where science meets soul.
Whole-person support rooted in traditional Chinese medicine.
Skin
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Stress
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Women's Health
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Skin * Stress * Women's Health *
Something’s been off for a while, hasn’t it…
Maybe your cycle has changed and nobody seems concerned. Maybe you’re tired in a way that sleep doesn’t touch. Maybe your skin has turned on you, or your digestion shifts with every stressful week, or the headaches have become normal enough that you’ve stopped mentioning them. Maybe you’ve been thinking about trying for a baby — this year, or in a few years’ time — and you’d rather go in prepared than hopeful. Maybe you’ve had a loss, and you want to do things differently this time.
You’ve most likely been told your results are normal. That’s often true, and it’s often not the whole story. Bodies show strain long before it registers on a blood panel, and traditional Chinese medicine is unusually good at reading that earlier stage — the pattern underneath the symptoms, rather than each symptom on its own.
I’m Charlie, an acupuncturist and the founder of Alchemē: BSc (Hons) in TCM Acupuncture, LicAc, with a postgraduate diploma in Fertility & Obstetrics. I work with hormonal and menstrual health, fertility, pregnancy and postpartum recovery, stress, anxiety and sleep, digestion, skin, headaches and long-term fatigue. Usually several of them at once, because that’s how symptoms actually turn up.
Most of the women I see are new to acupuncture. Some are nervous about needles, some have tried a great deal already and some arrive fairly unconvinced.
All of that is welcome in the room, and none of it needs sorting out before you book.
My Services
Personalised care, built around what’s actually going on for you.
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For nervous system support, hormonal balance and whole-body care, built around what’s actually going on for you — not a one-size-fits-all protocol.
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Cupping uses glass cups and heat to create suction against the skin, drawing up the muscle and fascia underneath rather than pressing down on them. Most people describe it as a deep, dragging pull rather than pressure. It increases local circulation and eases tension that has settled into the tissue and stayed there.
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Facial acupuncture finished with organic botanical skincare to support your skin’s health from the inside — without the fear-mongering or the promises no treatment can keep.
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Microneedling finished with organic botanical skincare to support your skin’s health from the inside — without the fear-mongering or the promises no treatment can keep.
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Coming Soon: Holistic food and lifestyle guidance for fertility, pregnancy, postpartum and baby. Join the waitlist to be first to hear about it.
My Ethos
So many women end up choosing between two kinds of care — a doctor who’s thorough but rushed, or a therapist who listens but stops at the neck. It’s as if you only get to bring half of yourself into a room at a time, and whichever half you leave outside the door is the one that ends up running the show anyway. I don’t think you should have to choose. When you tell me your shoulders have been locked for months, I want to know what’s going on in your body and what’s been sitting on them — those two things are rarely unrelated, and treating them as if they were usually means treating neither one properly.
Whatever’s going on for you, physically or emotionally, comes into the same conversation, at the same time, and the plan we build reflects all of it, not just the part that happened to fit the appointment type.
My approach draws on traditional Chinese medicine alongside an evidence-informed understanding of the body. No pseudoscience, no pressure — just a clear plan built around you.