Six Seasons Acupuncture creates the time and space to identify the root cause of your symptoms and establish a treatment plan that’s as unique as you.
Acupuncture can address a wide variety of health conditions for people of any age, maintaining physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. Treatment can also help navigate potentially difficult life stages, such as adolescence and menopause.
Pippa Loynes, acupuncturist in Ealing
BA Hons; MA HRM; BSc Hons; Lic Ac.; MBAcC.
Welcome to Six Seasons Acupuncture, my name is Pippa Loynes. I am a member of the British Acupuncture Council and I practice fully insured and licenced acupuncture in Ealing and West London.
The aim of my acupuncture practice is to support patients’ health through the practical modern-day application of thousands of years of Traditional Chinese Medicine. I take the time to carefully listen to and understand your health concerns, enabling me to treat both your symptoms and the root cause. Specialising in the integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture, so that treatment focuses on the body and mind as a connected whole.
I became passionate about acupuncture after my own positive experience of this intricate and holistic approach to health and wellbeing. My enthusiasm for Chinese Medicine eventually led me to change career after 25 years working in Human Resources, achieving a first class honours degree in acupuncture at the internationally renowned College of Integrated Chinese Medicine.
Continuous learning is important to me, ensuring my knowledge and skills remain at the forefront of the acupuncture profession for the benefit of my patients.
How acupuncture helps
Acupuncture has been used for over 2,000 years as an effective form of treatment and is supported by an increasingly strong body of research in the Western World testifying to its benefits. In the modern day, acupuncture can be used to treat, prevent and support a wide range of ailments and is recommended by the World Health Organisation for over 100 conditions.
Acupuncture works to invigorate and replenish the body’s own internal healing ability, by tapping into the nervous system to improve the circulation of energy and stimulate natural pain relief. Pippa’s patients include men and women at all stages in life, including adolescents and children, to help address the unique and sometimes challenging transitionary phases such as puberty and menopause. Acupuncture can also help with specific conditions such as:
Headaches and migraines
Fatigue
Mental health (stress, anxiety, depression)
Digestive problems
Infertility (male and female) and IVF support
Gynaecological concerns
Sleep issues
Pain management
The British Acupuncture Council provides extensive research reports and information about the efficacy of acupuncture, explaining how treatment might be effective for you.
Acupuncture treatment
Acupuncture uses the painless insertion of fine sterile needles to stimulate the body's own healing properties. The sensation experienced is one of your own energy moving, clearing blocks and creating free flow throughout your body. Patients often describe a tingling feeling, using words such as a 'lightness', 'energised' and 'calm' after treatment.
Treatment focuses on the root of your symptoms. The practice of acupuncture works to boost your body’s own natural ability to recalibrate, replenish and repair. Acupuncture treatment aims to support you to maintain your unique health and wellbeing goals.
Pippa will apply a combination of the most appropriate treatments to work alongside acupuncture to benefit you, including techniques steeped in extensively used tradition, such as Cupping, Gua Sha and Moxa.
Cupping Therapy
Suction cups are applied to areas of the body to manipulate movement of energy and promote healing. Cups are applied to acupuncture points or areas of tension often on the back, neck and shoulders and can be moved across tight muscles to relieve any tension and pain.
Gua Sha
This treatment is a form of traditional Chinese massage with the ability to reach deep inside the body, again to promote healing and provide relief. Nourishing oil is applied to the skin and a specialist tool is moved across an area, usually the back and shoulders.
Moxibustion
Moxa is a medicinal herb that is burnt to provide warmth and healing to either acupoints or along channels in the body’s system to promote healing. On occasion, specialist heat lamps can be used to provide the same treatment.
What to expect
Using an integrated approach to her treatments, Pippa works on the basis that the connection between our minds and bodies is the most fundamental axis on which our health turns. Imbalances or disharmony in the body or mind can give rise to changes in our emotional state, sense of self, energy and our wellbeing.
It’s important to Pippa that her patients feel understood and at ease. She is incredibly thorough with her diagnosis and treatment, applying a blend of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Five Elements practices to get to the root of your concerns and harmonise your core.
Your first session will last between 1.5 – 2 hours, incorporating an acupuncture treatment. A full personal and medical history is taken to support an effective diagnosis and bespoke treatment plan tailored to your needs.
Pippa works with you to maintain your health goals and decide what duration and frequency of treatment may be appropriate. A treatment plan normally runs from between 4-6 treatments but this will vary depending on the issues you wish to address.
You may find it helpful to contact Pippa by phone or email in advance of booking, to discuss how acupuncture might help you. Please click here to book an appointment.
- Phone: 07811 159719
- Email: pippa@sixseasonsacupuncture.co.uk
- Initial consultation: £95
- Treatments: £60
- Home visits: £70
- Out of hours appointments: £70
Payable by BACS or debit card
If you need to reschedule or cancel your appointment, please provide at least 48 hours’ notice. Late cancellations will need to be charged at the full cost of the appointment.
Acupuncture in Ealing W5
Pippa is based in the heart of Ealing at the welcoming and relaxing Soma Room, 7 Spring Bridge Mews, London, W5 2AB.
Six Seasons Acupuncture is easily accessible from all of London. Ealing Broadway tube, train, Elizabeth line and Crossrail is a 2-minute walk away and it’s a short walk, bus or cycle from South Ealing and Northfields. There is a public car park directly next to the practice.
Appointments should be made direct with Pippa using the contact form.
Pippa is available at Six Seasons Acupuncture on:
- Monday: 9am - 4pm
- Tuesday: 3pm – 9pm
- Wednesday: 8.30am – 5pm
- Thursday: 7.30am – 3pm
Some weekend and out of hours appointments are available when treatment requires.
Mobile visit treatments: Pippa can arrange home treatment visits outside of clinic hours by special request. All initial consultations will be carried out in her clinic.
Discuss acupuncture treatment
Feel free to contact Pippa if you have any questions about how acupuncture works, or to arrange an initial assessment appointment. This enables you to discuss the reasons you are thinking of starting acupuncture treatment and whether Pippa can help. You can also call Pippa on 07811 159719 if you would prefer to leave a message or speak to her first.
All enquires are usually answered within 24 hours, and all contact is strictly confidential and uses secure phone and email services.