Acupuncture for Stress and Anxiety
When your body is stuck in a stress response, everything else (sleep, digestion, muscle tension) struggles to recover. Founder Hung Chung’s clinical focus includes how acupuncture works with nerve, circulatory and endocrine systems to help ease the body out of a stress response.
Our Approach
1. Targeted Nervous System Care
Your practitioner will combine several modalities to ease your nervous system into a calmer state:
Acupuncture: Combines Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with neuroscience-based point selection. This dual approach draws on traditional meridian theory aimed at supporting emotional wellbeing, while also targeting specific points aimed at helping calm the body’s “fight-or-flight” stress response and ease the physical symptoms of anxiety.
Electroacupuncture: Introduces gentle electrical currents directly to these selected points, designed to enhance relaxation by helping calm an overactive stress response, support a better-balanced nervous system, and lower stress hormone levels.
Remedial Massage: Works on tight muscles linked to stress, easing physical tension and supporting circulation.
General Breathing Guidance: Simple techniques to help calm the nervous system between sessions.
2. A Full Assessment of Your Stress Pattern
We assess how stress is showing up for you, not just as a general feeling, but in your body:
Symptom mapping: Discussing how stress is affecting your sleep, digestion, muscle tension, or mood.
Trigger discussion: Understanding what tends to escalate your stress response.
3. Long-Term Nervous System Care
Working towards a calmer baseline over time:
Lifestyle guidance: General guidance to help regulate your nervous system day to day.
Ongoing session guidance: A pace of sessions suited to your individual stress levels.
Not sure what your first visit involves? See our full [What to Expect] guide.
Common questions
Can acupuncture help with anxiety? There’s a growing body of research examining how acupuncture interacts with the nervous system’s stress response, and it’s a genuinely popular option for easing general stress and supporting relaxation. Many people find it a valuable addition alongside any care you’re already receiving for anxiety, though it isn’t a substitute for mental health treatment.
Is this a substitute for therapy or medication? No. We see this as complementary support, please continue any care prescribed by your GP, psychologist or psychiatrist.
