Five Element Acupuncture


We’ve all heard of acupuncture.
Most people picture a few needles in the back to ease pain or tension.

But what if I told you it can also help with mental health, anxiety, and purpose?

Five Element Acupuncture is an ancient system of medicine that looks at the whole person — body, mind, and spirit — to understand why symptoms arise.

Instead of chasing symptoms, it uses the diagnostics that seek out the root cause of imbalance.
Why the headaches, the fatigue, the anxiety, the stuckness?
These experiences are just the body’s way of communicating, of telling us something isn’t right.

In this approach, the body can be broken down into five elements - Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal. Each governs organs, emotions and body parts, and together they contribute to your overall health.

We all have one Element that is the weakest within us. This is known as the root cause of imbalance. It disrupts the whole network and can cause symptoms all over the body and mind, like feeling disconnected, low, anxious, or unwell. Like alarm bells alerting us that balance has been lost.

Acupuncture helps to restore the balance.
It unblocks paths of qi (energy), strengthens what’s weak, and helps clear the symptoms that are getting in the way of the calm, purposeful, resilient parts of you.

This isn’t a quick fix. It’s communication, guided by thousands of years of understanding the interconnectedness of the body and the mind.

Every treatment is tailored to the individual—no two people’s elemental makeups are the same, and neither are their pathways back to balance.

If you’ve done “all the right things” and still don’t feel quite like yourself,
Maybe it’s time for a different kind of conversation.

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Original artwork - AEP diagram

Yaya McIrvine