From Corporate Banking to Holistic Healing: My Journey
After spending many years in the corporate world, particularly at an investment bank, I made a bold decision to leave my secure, pensionable job. Despite the concerns and skepticism of my colleagues, I founded Papillon Skincare & Laser Clinic.
For 11 exhilarating years, I addressed various skin issues and earned significant recognition, including the Best Skincare Salon award at the Beauty Industry Awards. My involvement expanded to the Irish Beauty Professionals Association, where I helped organize the Annual Trade Show, the Standard of Excellence Awards, and the esteemed Beauty Industry Awards.
During this period, I realized that many skin problems are rooted in deeper bodily imbalances. This understanding led me to explore alternative treatments for holistic well-being. My journey took a personal turn when I began experiencing peri-menopausal symptoms in my early forties. Choosing natural remedies over hormonal treatments, I explored yoga, massage, nutritional therapy, and meditation. Among these, acupuncture had a profound impact on me.
My first acupuncture session was transformative. The acupuncturist’s thorough approach, including pulse diagnosis, tongue examination, and personalized lifestyle advice, deeply impressed me. The treatment left me feeling rejuvenated and eager for more. This experience ignited my passion for acupuncture.
Inspired by the benefits I experienced, I pursued four years of intensive training to become a licensed acupuncturist. After graduating, I was fortunate to complete my clinical training at a prestigious WHO hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam. This invaluable experience reinforced my appreciation for acupuncture in a medical setting.
Upon returning home, I opened my own clinic, where I have been practicing for over seven years. Every day, I am committed to helping my clients achieve optimal health through acupuncture. My practice focuses extensively on women’s health issues, from puberty to menopause, and includes support for fertility treatments such as IVF, ICSI, and IUI.
Continuing education is vital to my professional development. I regularly engage in postgraduate courses to stay updated on advancements in Chinese Medicine, ensuring I provide the best possible care for my clients.
About Acupuncture
What is Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine?
Like flowing water that travels through streams and rivers, so it is that qi (energy) flows smoothly through meridian channels of the body. It is the vital life force and energy that nourishes and promotes the body’s natural healing process.
Originating over five thousand years ago in Asia, Oriental medicine encompasses Acupuncture, massage, cupping, moxabustion, nutrition, lifestyle and other related modalities that balance the body in order to restore and maintain health. This works by balancing the yin-yang energies of qi in the body.
According to traditional Chinese medical theory, pain and illness arise when the cyclical flow of qi in the meridians become blocked or unbalanced. Oriental medicine restores the proper balance of qi and blood, thus supporting the body to help correct itself. It has the ability to alter various biochemical and physiological conditions in order to treat a wide variety of illnesses and disorders.
When qi and blood flows freely and unobstructed through the meridian channels, the body is balanced. A balanced body is a healthy body.
What does an Acupuncture Treatment feel like?
Acupuncture is performed by inserting very thin, disposable, sterilized, stainless-steel filaments (as fine as a human hair) into specific points located near or on the surface of the skin. Most patients report a feeling of calm and often fall asleep during treatment.
After the first session, most people feel less pain, increased mobility, and very peaceful. Common side effects of ongoing treatments include increased energy, improved clarity to the skin, improved digestion and improved quality of sleep.
