Welcome to Water’s Journey Acupuncture

Home to thoughtful, collaborative care and acupuncture treatments in east London and Brighton. A place you can find plenty of room for growth, aliveness, softness, calm and connection. I’m committed to holding a space where you can bring all of who are while your body heals and repairs. With several branches to my work & background there are lots of entry points and ways into working together. Here are some of them:

// birthing support and recovery

// burnout recovery

// chronic illness

// complex conditions

// fertility, TTC, IVF, ICSI support

// hormonal health

// inflammation

// pain

// pregnancy

// scar work

// sexual wellbeing

// sleep issues

// times of change, pivots and transition

// wrap around care for surgery & medical procedures

// birthing support and recovery // burnout recovery // chronic illness // complex conditions // fertility, TTC, IVF, ICSI support // hormonal health // inflammation // pain // pregnancy // scar work // sexual wellbeing // sleep issues // times of change, pivots and transition // wrap around care for surgery & medical procedures

acupuncture during times of

  • burnout recovery & chronic illness

    UNDERSTANDING ROOT CAUSES, WORKING WITH CURRENT SYMPTOMS, MOVING INTO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

    In-depth exploration of what’s lead into & maintaining burnout and/or chronic illness in your life. Acupuncture treatments aim to clear excesses and intense symptoms in the body, support nervous system regulation, restoring deep resources & reserves and stimulating fresh, vital energy as you move forwards into more sustainable ways of being.

  • hormonal health & sexual wellbeing

    INTEGRATED, HOLISTIC APPROACH OFFERING AFFIRMING, NON PATHOLOGISING & INCLUSIVE CARE

    Supporting regulation, balance & health within all areas of life impacted by hormones & hormonal changes, including fertility, mental/ emotional wellbeing, sleep, energy, urinary & sexual health, and during menopause, andropause, gender transition, menstrual cycles & assisted conception.

    With a trans, intersex & queer inclusive approach, our route into working together will be non pathologising & affirming, regardless of anatomy, hormones levels or identity.

  • holistic surgery & medical support

    SCAR WORK, WRAP AROUND CARE, SUPPORTING AGENCY AND AUTONOMY WITH SURGERY & WITHIN HEALTHCARE

    3 stage approach offering surgery preparation, immediate post operative care & long term recovery. Improving scar health and appearance, supporting nervous system regulation & digestion, treating pain.

    Acupuncture treatments also for people in therapy for needle phobia, with medical anxiety and/or a medical trauma history, as well as people who are looking to have new and positive experiences in health care after previous harmful ones. 

  • clusters of symptoms

    COMPLEX CONDITIONS & MULTIPLE SYMPTOMS, FINDING CONNECTIONS, TREATING UNDERLYING CAUSES

    By treating the underlying causes of illness in the body, acupuncture treatment has a systemic effect causing multiple signs and symptoms to improve, often finding reason and cause for conditions not easily treated within biomedicine.

    Issues people regularly come in to acupuncture treatment with includes mixes of the following: anxiety, panic, overwhelm, sleep problems, migraines, headaches, visual disturbance, tension, pain, digestive complaints, inflammation, issues around hormonal, urinary, sexual or reproductive health, not feeling right in body or self, low energy, foggy thoughts.

  • sea horse families, open to everyone

    SENSITIVE, INCLUSIVE CARE FOR CONCEPTION, BIRTHING, RECOVERY & PARENTHOOD

    Acupuncture support through the whole or part of your journey through parenthood, including optimising fertility, conception and IVF/ICSI support, pregnancy and birthing support, support during surrogacy, fostering & adoption, post natal care and scar work.

    Treatment emphasis on sperm, follicle, menstrual or hormonal health, birthing preparation and support, scar work and/or birthing recovery, being well & resourced as a parent, support with loss, stress or change. Trauma informed, sensitive and responsive approach.

  • change, pivots & transitions

    SUPPORT THROUGH NEW LIFE CHAPTERS, PLANNED & UNPLANNED CHANGE, TIMES OF GRIEF, GROWTH & STRESS

    With the intensity, compression and overwhelm that can come with times of change, I offer acupuncture treatments for you and your body to ground, calm, release, bringing in clarity & energy, treating specific symptoms, along with 5 element work to help you find connection and meaning.

    Times people seek support include bereavement, relationship changes, job loss, menopause, trying to conceive or building a family, gender transition, recovering from burnout and chronic health conditions

Over the past 13+ years as an acupuncturist, I’ve developed a practice that centres creating a safe and transparent therapeutic relationship alongside collaboration, pacing and consent.

I don’t see myself as the expert, the specialist, the one who knows better nor the one with all the knowledge. Instead I bring with me extensive experiences in clinical practice as well as life, a commitment to career long development, along with honouring your own life long experience of your body and self.

I’ll be attentive and listen deeply, working creatively and always in response to you, your life and all that you bring. The acupuncture treatments and support you’ll receive will be deeply personalised while also honouring an ancient medicine and healing system rooted in the elements, seasons and living a life that honours not only what your bodies needs, but also your heart and spirit too.

supporting all of you with acupuncture, trauma informed care, and elemental seasonal connection

 
 

The start of a journey together

centre, settle, soothe

Bringing your body, self and nervous system into a centred, settled and soothed place at the beginning of our work together, and supporting your bodies innate ability to regulate, heal and repair during times of stress and overwhelm.

emotion is a movement, sometimes a moment, other times a season

My offering to you is deeply engaged around working with all of who you are as a person in your unique life, not just body, mind and spirit, but also within your being and identity, your relationships, work, society, heritage, ancestry, history, and whatever parts are meaningful for you right now. Together we’ll be gently holding and asking what it is that you and your body need, for your emotions and spirit to feel alive, and move you in your life.

responsive and adaptive acupuncture

Rooted in classical Chinese medicine texts and taoism, the acupuncture I offer also draws on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and its research, along with the spirit/heart/soul offerings from JR Wordsley style and classical 5 element acupuncture., the teachings and work of living acupuncturist Kiiko Matsumoto, as well as auricular acupuncture protocols such as NADA as practised by the black panthers. My practice is alive and ever evolving with the rich and expansive offerings of Chinese medicine, whole systems East Asian medicine and seasonal, land based wisdom.

 
 

〰️ treatment studios in Hackney, east London and Brighton 〰️

curated with intention and care

〰️ space for you to bring all of who you are

〰️ treatment studios in Hackney, east London and Brighton 〰️ curated with intention and care 〰️ space for you to bring all of who you are

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A warm hello your way.

I’m Orley, an acupuncturist with a deep appreciation of people and nature, and a lover of all things healing and liberatory.

Please take a good look around my website.

There’s lots of information you can find about working together, my experience and training background, what having acupuncture treatment is like, along with accessibility, locations and cost.

I’ll always be happy to answer questions you have while working together, so please let me know if there’s anything I can answer for you now while making your decisions.

I look forwards to hearing from you,

Orley