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Acupuncture in London SW1

Welcome to Acupuncture Access

Life in London demands a lot from you. If you’re feeling drained, in pain, or stuck in a cycle of treatments that haven’t helped, you’re not alone. Acupuncture offers a different path: a time-tested, natural approach that works with your body’s own healing intelligence.

At Acupuncture Access, we create a personalised treatment plan to help you rediscover a life of balance and vitality. Our clients leave feeling not just relief from their initial symptoms, but with a renewed sense of calm, sharpened focus, and a deeper, more joyful engagement with their lives.

Acupuncture stimulates the body’s own healing power

Do you seek help with the following?

These are the issues most commonly seen in clinic.
You can navigate to a separate page featuring the fertility programme.

Digestive health
Emotional and/or mental well-being
Sub-fertility (male and female)
Acute or chronic pain
Disrupted sleep
Women’s health
Other conditions
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Image of most common conditions: IBS, insomnia, infertility, back pain, stress.

About your practitioner

Sarah Joseph, Lic. Ac, MBAcC

Sarah has been practicing acupuncture for 15 years, and conducts supervision for 3rd year students in their clinical year. She strongly believes in treating the individual, rather than chasing symptoms. Her approach offers holistic healing, achieved through a treatment plan that is as unique to you as a fingerprint.

If you want to find out more about solutions that are completely natural, effective and long-lasting, she is happy to answer your questions. The only side-effect of treatment is feeling great!

Always check the qualifications and credentials of your practitioner, as acupuncture is not regulated in the UK. Someone who has done a 20 hr online course can call themselves an acupuncturist! In the UK, the British Acupuncture Council is the only membership body that requires practitioners to have obtained the level of training benchmarked by the World Health Organisation.

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Patient recommendations

“I highly recommend Sarah as she is a kind-hearted, knowledgeable, professional and patient acupuncturist. We are ever so grateful to her as she has been an amazing support and wealth of knowledge and advice to us in the last year. I was initially looking for an acupuncturist because of fertility problems. My husband and I tried for 4 years and had several unsuccessful IVF treatments. After moving to London, I started treatments with Sarah which continued after I soon fell pregnant naturally (which was already a miracle!). I am also certain that the treatment helped my body through the early stages of the pregnancy. Besides that, Sarah was able to give me an energy and health boost, helping me to sleep better and recover from colds during later stages of the pregnancy. She gave helpful advice about my diet and preparing for labour. Even after our baby was born, Sarah was so wonderful to visit me at home.  Again, I would highly recommend Sarah for whatever issue one might have. Thank you so much!”
Renate U –
“Sarah helped with my insomnia, raised my energy levels and generally brought me back to my old self. I was stressed due to work, travel and not looking after myself properly. Sarah listened first, treated second and cured me instantly. With such a calm and intuitive approach the treatment is always effortless and a pleasure; she has made an incredible difference.”
Helene M –
“I contacted Sarah at a point in my life when I was feeling extremely stressed, largely through pressure of work. I was sleeping badly, I felt I was becoming increasingly short-tempered and generally felt at a low ebb.
When I met Sarah I found her calm approach reassuring. After an initial consultation Sarah, suggested a weekly one hour session of acupuncture for 5 or 6 weeks. As the weeks went by I found my optimism returning, I began to sleep better and my energy levels started to increase. In short, I felt better able to handle the stress in my life and that a weight had been lifted from me.
I still have to deal with the issues that have impacted on my work/life balance, but Sarah’s skilful use of Five Element acupuncture has undoubtedly helped me to navigate a way through a difficult period of my life, and I now feel far better able to address those issues.”
Jonathan F –
“I was very cynical about acupuncture when I came to see Sarah about fertility.I had been trying for 4 years with one dismal failed attempt at IVF and was told by medical experts I had less than a 1 % chance with IVF again.
Within 2 months of Sarah treating me I got pregnant naturally…
Sarah is one of life’s true nurturing healers and what she has done for my body, mind and spirit I will always be grateful for.”
Molly D-H–
“In my first session with Sarah I felt a huge weight lift from my chest, my heart felt lighter and fuller, with less restrictions. The positive effects of this on my personal and professional life have been immeasurable. As a performer I am carrying less anxiety and have been able to, more clearly and calmly, approach my profession.” 
Rachel E–
“The clarity of thought I have experienced as a direct consequence of acupuncture has been fantastic and I was able to implement a whole raft of changes in my life that I would not have been able to without attending sessions with Sarah.
The long-lasting nature of the changes have been extremely rewarding and it was always a real treat to go to any session during my course of sessions.
I’m not sure I could ever do justice to the gratitude I feel to Sarah for the changes I was able to implement due to acupuncture and the ability to shed/leave behind a large number of negative aspects of my life that I had long since stopped enjoying. The new opportunities that have come around are only visible due to the immense benefits of acupuncture with Sarah.” 
Clive R–
“I came to Sarah with a year-old ankle injury that didn’t heal properly. Sarah was kind, attentive, thorough, and managed to not only heal my ankle but also balance my overall health to the point where I left her feeling lighter, calmer and much happier. I cannot recommend her highly enough!”
Skyla V–
I saw Sarah to seek treatment for a respiratory disease that had to be controlled with medication and which had recently worsened significantly. The treatments definitely helped bring my body back to a more normal and balanced state, I felt a lot better right after the first and every following treatment and my health improved drastically over the course of the whole 2-3 months during which I saw her. She has a vast knowledge in her field which goes beyond acupuncture and her advice on breathing technique continues to help me every day. I can very much recommend seeing her!
Gero SCompany8
“Seeing Sarah on a regular basis was a real life line for me whilst trying to get pregnant. My husband and I had been trying for over a year without any success and I had heard about the benefits of acupuncture as part of the body’s healing process. I met with Sarah for treatment and experienced dramatic shifts in my body temperature, overall strength, mood and diet. Most of all, I somehow learnt to breathe again and trust that my body was capable of making and growing a baby — something I had never thought would be possible. I can’t recommend her soothing touch and gentle strength enough, and hope to continue to see her with my newborn in the weeks and months to come.”
Rachel W–

Sarah’s approach

Massage, nutrition, meditation

The World Health Organisation recommends acupuncture for many conditions and benchmarks its training and safe practice. Five Element Acupuncture has a diagnostic framework that connects the mind and body – it is the original somatic therapy! This means that whilst I have the skills to treat physical ailments, I am also trained to address underlying causes, whether they stem from your environment, or arise from mental and emotional stressors. I utilise a combination of acupuncture, mindfulness, nutrition and lifestyle coaching in my approach.

Sometimes it may be appropriate to use moxibustion, cupping, gua sha or massage to get the best results for you. I can also create herb formulas if needed.

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Your first visit

Everything you need to know about your first visit, if you are new to acupuncture, or new to me.

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Serves London, Victoria, Pimlico, Westminster, Belgravia, Chelsea, SW1,

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