What We Treat
Hormonal & Women's Health
Hormonal shifts affect far more than your cycle. Sleep, energy, mood, digestion, headaches, and temperature all move with them, across the month and across the decades.
How hormonal changes show up
Your symptoms shift with your cycle and with your stage of life.
Hormonal concerns rarely arrive as one isolated symptom. Changes in your cycle overlap with sleep, energy, mood, digestion, headaches, pain, and temperature regulation, which is why treating any one of them in isolation tends to disappoint.
Women's health is not one moment in time.
Cycles, fertility, postpartum recovery, perimenopause, and menopause each bring different changes and each need different care. A plan that cannot change with you is not much of a plan.
Through different stages
Care that meets you where you are.
What brings someone in at 25 looks very different from what brings them in at 45 or three months after giving birth. We treat the stage you are actually in rather than an abstract idea of hormone balance.
Stage 01
Cycles & PMS
Painful periods, irregular cycles, headaches, mood changes, and the sleep disruption that tends to arrive with them.
Stage 02
Fertility support
Individualized care while trying to conceive, including alongside IUI, IVF, and other conventional fertility treatment.
Stage 03
Pregnancy & postpartum
A period where sleep, energy, stress, physical recovery, and hormonal change all land at once, usually while you are least able to absorb it.
Stage 04
Perimenopause & menopause
Changing cycles, hot flashes, disrupted sleep, headaches, mood shifts, and fatigue through a transition that can run for years.
Our approach
Understand the pattern, not just the symptom.
We look at your cycle history, symptoms, sleep, energy, digestion, stress, and pain together, because how they move relative to each other is usually more informative than any one of them alone.
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Understand your history
Your cycle, symptoms, health history, life stage, medications, stress, and sleep. Bring any labs or imaging you already have.
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Identify recurring patterns
How symptoms move across the month, through a hormonal transition, or in response to stress and poor sleep. The timing is often the diagnosis.
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Support your current phase
Treatment is built around what matters now, whether that is cycle comfort, conceiving, postpartum recovery, or getting through perimenopause intact.
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Adjust as things change
Hormonal patterns move. Care that worked six months ago may not be what you need now, and we would rather change it than keep running it.
Your care
An individualized approach to women's health.
Acupuncture usually sits at the centre here, with herbal medicine as the most common companion. Everything else is added when it fits your symptoms and stage rather than by default.
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Acupuncture
Treatment shaped around your cycle pattern, current symptoms, and stage of life. For cycle-related concerns, sessions are often timed to specific points in the month.
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Herbal Medicine
The most frequent companion to acupuncture for hormonal concerns. A formula can be adjusted to where you are in your cycle rather than staying fixed all month.
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Massage Therapy
Useful when tension, stress, or physical discomfort are part of the picture, and particularly in postpartum recovery when the body is carrying new loads.
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New Life Care
Integrative support from pre-conception through pregnancy, birth, and parenthood, including doula care, midwifery, and prenatal yoga.
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Red Light Therapy
A low-commitment adjunct for recovery and inflammation between visits, and easy to add onto an appointment you are already coming in for.
Treatment arcs
Different concerns call for different rhythms.
PMS, fertility support, postpartum recovery, and perimenopause do not respond to the same schedule. Your arc is built around the goal and adjusted by how you respond.
Cycle-related concerns
Often 3 cycles minimum
Care is usually timed to points in your cycle, and change is assessed across cycles rather than week to week.
Fertility support
Ongoing, cycle-aligned
Structured around your cycle, your goals, and the timing of any conventional treatment you are receiving.
Perimenopause & menopause
Weekly, then tapering
Care shifts as symptoms and the transition itself evolve, which can mean revisiting the plan more than once.
Ongoing wellness
1 to 2 times monthly
Periodic care for sleep, energy, stress, and cycle comfort once the acute picture has settled.
Your first visit
Start with your full history.
Your first appointment gives us time to understand what has been changing, how your symptoms relate to your cycle or life stage, and what you would most like to be different.
We want you to understand the pattern we are seeing, how your care is being shaped around it, and what we will be watching over the coming months.
What we will ask about
- Your current symptoms and main concern
- Cycle length, regularity, and how it has changed
- PMS, pain, headaches, and other recurring symptoms
- Fertility history or goals, where relevant
- Pregnancy and postpartum history, where relevant
- Perimenopause or menopause symptoms
- Sleep, energy, stress, and digestion
- Medications, supplements, and other care you receive
Common questions
Can this replace my gynecologist or fertility specialist?
No. Acupuncture and Chinese medicine are complementary and are not substitutes for gynecologic, obstetric, or reproductive endocrinology care. We work alongside your providers and will refer you back to them when something warrants medical evaluation.
Do you work with patients who are trying to conceive?
Yes, including patients undergoing IUI or IVF. Care is timed around your cycle and around the schedule of any conventional treatment, so tell us what is already underway.
Do I need hormone testing before I come in?
No. Bring any labs or evaluations you already have and we will read them. Depending on what you describe, we may recommend that certain things be evaluated by your primary care clinician or gynecologist first, and we will say so directly.
Can I have acupuncture during perimenopause or menopause?
Yes, and it is one of the more common reasons patients come in. Sleep disruption, temperature changes, headaches, fatigue, and mood shifts are all treatable, and the transition is long enough that having support through it matters.
Is it safe during pregnancy?
Acupuncture is used throughout pregnancy, but point selection changes and some points are avoided entirely. Tell us at intake that you are pregnant, trying to conceive, or nursing, and the same applies to any herbal formula.
How many treatments will I need?
For cycle-related concerns, expect to give it at least three cycles before judging, since that is the timeframe over which change actually becomes visible. Other concerns move faster. You will get a specific estimate at your first visit.
Your care should change as your body does.
Recurring cycle symptoms, fertility concerns, postpartum changes, or the long transition through perimenopause. All of it starts the same way, with a full history and an honest read of what is going on.