About Acupuncture
Acupuncture for Every Stage of Life
Acupuncture at A D Acupuncture is designed to support you through every stage of life, considering your health in the context of your life experience. Each treatment is tailored to your individual needs, addressing specific concerns while nurturing your overall wellbeing. Whether you’re experiencing digestive discomfort, navigating chronic health challenges, or seeking support with fertility, pregnancy, or menstrual health, the aim is to bring relief, restore balance, and promote lasting change.
A Medicine with 2,500 Years of Wisdom
Acupuncture is a key component of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), practised for over two millennia to maintain health and restore harmony in the body. It involves the gentle insertion of ultra-fine, single-use sterile needles into specific acupuncture points. Based on Chinese Medicine’s understanding of the body, this process creates micro-stimulations that trigger the body’s natural healing responses—enhancing circulation, reducing inflammation, and releasing the body’s own pain-relieving chemicals.
Through these subtle but powerful effects, acupuncture helps restore systemic balance and supports the body’s capacity to heal itself.
At A D Acupuncture, Alice Douglas practises TCM from her clinic in Brockley, South East London, drawing on both classical wisdom and modern clinical research to guide her approach.
A Holistic Approach to Health
Acupuncture is a holistic healthcare system that considers the entire person—not just symptoms. It can support a wide range of conditions, from muscular tension and chronic pain to hormonal imbalance, organ function, and emotional wellbeing.
Alice is a registered member of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC), the UK’s largest professional body for traditional acupuncturists, which provides extensive research and clinical resources across a wide spectrum of health concerns. She is also a member of the Acupuncture Fertility Network, a professional group dedicated to advancing fertility-focused acupuncture through postgraduate training and clinical excellence.
If you’d like tailored guidance on how acupuncture might support your specific health needs, you’re always welcome to get in touch for advice.
Your First Consultation
Safe, effective acupuncture begins with understanding you as a whole. Before treatment, Alice will take time to discuss all aspects of your health—your current symptoms, lifestyle, medical and family history, and overall wellbeing. This comprehensive approach allows her to design a treatment plan that is entirely bespoke, helping to bring about meaningful, lasting transformation in your health.
You can explore some of the most common reasons people visit A D Acupuncture here.
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Recognition
Acupuncture continues to gain recognition in the UK as an evidence-based and robust approach to healthcare. The NICE guidelines now recommend acupuncture as a first-line treatment for chronic pain—an acknowledgement of its effectiveness and safety. The NHS recognises and promotes acupuncture delivered by members of the British Acupuncture Council.
Despite its growing mainstream acceptance, acupuncture remains grounded in the principles refined over thousands of years: treating the root cause of imbalance, not just the surface symptoms.
“Acupuncture is a holistic cumulative medicine that looks at both the manifesting symptoms and the underlying causes. We are putting out fires while looking at why fires keep starting, we are doing it all!”
Ethical and Sustainable Practice
A D Acupuncture is committed to providing care that is both ethical and environmentally responsible. We know this matters deeply to our patients, and it’s at the heart of how we practise. You can read more about our Ethics and Sustainability Pledge here.