Welcome to Acupuncture Hassocks

Katie practises from her private clinic in Hassocks, West Sussex, where each acupuncture session is personalised to your specific requirements and is performed in a warm and nurturing environment.

Patients report feeling very relaxed and calm during and after an acupuncture treatment, and can even fall asleep while on the treatment couch.

*Katie offers private one-to-one appointments and lower-cost multi-bed appointments with privacy curtains.

What does a typical acupuncture session involve?

Your first session will involve finding out about your physical health as well as your sleep, stress levels and other lifestyle factors to enable Katie to perform a thorough diagnosis. Other diagnostic methods involve observations, feeling your pulses and looking at your tongue! Katie will then formulate a plan of acupuncture and/or herbs as required for you.

Typically, for acute conditions such as acute pain, Katie will then treat you once a week until the condition resolves (acute pain often resolves after just one session!) and for more chronic conditions (for example chronic pain, hormonal issues or anxiety) Katie will aim to see you weekly to begin with, to gain momentum in the healing process and get the condition under control, and then reduce the frequency of visits as appropriate until the condition is resolved.

Most people report feeling very relaxed and calm during and after an acupuncture treatment, and can even fall asleep while on the treatment couch. Katie tries to create a very calming, warm and nurturing environment within her clinic, to enable the best possible outcomes from her treatments and to allow patients some rare time to just relax!

How does Acupuncture work?

Traditional Chinese Medicine explains that health is the result of a harmonious balance of the complementary opposites of “yin” and “yang”. Illness is said to be the consequence of an imbalance of those forces leading to energy blockages. Qi flows through meridians, or energy pathways, in the human body. These meridians correspond to different organs in the body, and are accessible through more than 400 acupuncture points on the body. Inserting needles into the appropriate points brings the energy flow back into proper alignment, thus restoring balance, and therefore health.

From a western medical perspective, Neuroscience has been suggested as a framework to explain acupuncture. Within this framework, acupuncture points are seen as places where nerves, muscles, and connective tissue can be stimulated. This stimulation increases blood flow, while at the same time triggering the activity of the body’s natural endorphins, or painkillers. This does not explain the numerous benefits of acupuncture on other health conditions such as hormonal issues, chemotherapy side effects, skin diseases, however. Many studies have shown proven benefits in using acupuncture and herbs, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) recognises acupuncture as being beneficial for a large range of conditions.

What if I am scared of needles?

Most people report feeling very relaxed and calm during and after an acupuncture treatment, and can even fall asleep while on the treatment couch. However if you are fearful of needles, Katie will ensure you are calm before she starts the treatment, and she will likely use less needles in your first session . Katie tries to create a very calming, warm and nurturing environment within her clinic, to enable the best possible outcomes from her treatments and to allow patients some rare time to just relax!

About Katie, Acupuncturist & Owner of Acupuncture Hassocks

Acupuncture Treatments & Pricing

• Every treatment option (with the exception of pain & injury) will require you to undergo an initial consultation along with your first acupuncture treatment. This is charged at £75 and lasts up to 80 minutes.

• Follow up appointments are priced at £56 for Fertility and £53 for all other conditions and last 45 minutes.

Low Cost Acupuncture

• I also offer low cost ‘multibed’ clinics, which allows for 2 patients to be treated at staggered starting times (with privacy curtains around each bay). The cost for these clinics is £38 and are most suited to the treatment of pain or as a follow up for other conditions.

Claim for your acupuncture treatments on your Health Insurance

I am a member of the Acupuncture Association, which is a member of the British Acupuncture Federation. Patients who hold private health insurance with any of the following organisations, can usually claim for the cost of a course of acupuncture treatment:

Beneden Health
BHSF
CS Healthcare
Equips ME
The Exeter
Freedom Health Care
General & Medical Healthcare
Healix Health Services
HSF
Medicash
Orchard Health Cash Plan
Simply Health
Sovereign Health
UK HealthCare
Westfield Health

*Appointments cancelled within 24 hours of the appointment time are chargeable.

 To find out more Call or text Katie on 07854 987806 or email acupuncturehassocks@gmail.com.

All treatments are carried out at Acupuncture Hassocks Clinic based in Hassocks, West Sussex. The clinic is near to Hassocks train station, so is easily reachable from Brighton, Burgess Hill or Haywards Heath. If you are travelling by car from Hurstpierpoint, Ditchling or surrounding areas, there is free on road parking.