Getting to the root of the problem, helping you to restore your body’s natural state of balance. Combining Eastern Medicine with Western understanding of health.
How acupuncture works at Life + Lemons
Acupuncture Sheffield
Acupuncture is a gentle way of helping your body do what it’s designed to do: settle, regulate and heal.
At Life + Lemons, we use acupuncture in Sheffield to support women’s health, fertility and pelvic pain by working with the body’s core systems; your nervous system, hormones, circulation and inflammation. These systems are often at the real root of ongoing symptoms.
A helpful way to think about acupuncture is as a reset for an overwhelmed system. When your body has been under stress for a long time, from pain, hormones, illness or life itself, it can get stuck in a “high alert” state. Acupuncture helps dial that down, allowing your body to shift out of fight-or-flight and into a state where healing is possible.
For pain, acupuncture encourages your body to release its own natural pain-relieving chemicals. Many people describe this as their pain feeling “quieter” or less sharp over time, rather than simply being masked.
For fertility and hormonal health, acupuncture supports healthy blood flow to the pelvis and helps smooth communication between the brain and the ovaries. This is why it’s often used to support cycle regulation, ovulation, PMS, perimenopause and IVF, it helps create the right environment for hormones to do their job.
People often notice changes beyond their original reason for treatment. Better sleep, steadier energy, improved digestion and feeling calmer are common signs that the nervous system is settling and the body is finding its balance again.
Rather than forcing change, acupuncture works by giving your body the right conditions to rebalance itself. At Life + Lemons, treatments are always personalised and guided by how your body responds over time.
In simple terms, acupuncture helps turn the volume down on what’s not working and gives your body the space it needs to recover.
The Life + Lemons Way
Clarity + Confidence
At Life + Lemons, acupuncture isn’t about being “treated” and sent on your way.
It’s about understanding your body and working with it.
When you come to our Sheffield clinic, you’re invited into the process. We take time to listen, explain what we’re seeing, and help you make sense of your symptoms, whether they relate to fertility, hormonal health or pelvic pain. Our aim is clarity, confidence and progress, not quick fixes.
Whole-system support
We don’t believe symptoms exist in isolation.
Whether you’re preparing for pregnancy, navigating hormonal change, or living with persistent pelvic pain, we look at how your nervous system, hormones, circulation and stress load interact. This whole-system view allows us to address root patterns rather than repeatedly chasing the same issues.
Our treatments are personalised, integrative and responsive, evolving as your body does.
Beyond the needles
Acupuncture is the foundation, but it’s rarely the whole story.
Your first appointment includes a thorough review of your health history, current symptoms and goals. From there, Kimberley creates a treatment plan that fits you — not a generic protocol.
Depending on what your body needs, treatment may include:
- Electro-acupuncture – gentle electrical stimulation to support pain regulation, circulation and nervous system balance
- Moxibustion – soothing warmth to support circulation, digestion and hormonal health
- Cupping – to ease muscle tension and improve blood flow
- Functional medicine testing – to help us read between the lines and explain the unexplained when your tests fall outside of normal clinical parameters.
- Lifestyle support + dietetics, based on the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Electrotherapy including Red Light, Vagus Nerve Stimulation and PEMF – for complete nervous system and mitochondrial health reset.
A calmer and more confident way forward
People often come to Life + Lemons feeling unheard, stuck or unsure what to try next. Our role is to slow things down, join the dots, and help your body move in the right direction.
If you’re looking for acupuncture in Sheffield that feels personal, thoughtful and grounded, we’d love to help you explore whether this approach is right for you.
Get in touch to find out more or book a consultation.
What can acupuncture be helpful for?
At Life + Lemons, we use acupuncture where it makes physiological sense supporting the nervous system, circulation, inflammation, the immune system and hormonal balance. Rather than chasing symptoms, we focus on patterns, especially where pain, hormones and stress overlap.
Acupuncture may be helpful for:
Pelvic pain & cyclical pain patterns
- Chronic pelvic pain
- Endometriosis or suspected endometriosis
- Adenomyosis-related pain
- Painful periods and ovulation pain
- Bladder pain and pelvic tension
- Acupuncture has been widely studied for pain modulation and nervous system regulation, which are key in persistent and cyclical pain conditions. Find out more.
Fertility & reproductive health
- Supporting cycle regularity and ovulation
- Preparing the body for conception
- Supporting IVF and ICSI
- Reducing stress during fertility treatment
- Find out more.
Hormonal health & menstrual wellbeing:
- PMS and cycle-related symptoms
- Irregular or disrupted cycles
- Perimenopause support
- Hormonal symptoms such as fatigue, poor sleep and mood changes
- Find out more
Stress, sleep & nervous system balance:
- Anxiety and overwhelm
- Poor sleep or difficulty switching off
- Fatigue and burnout
- Many people notice improvements here even when they come to us for pain or hormonal concerns, a sign the nervous system is settling. Find out more.
A thoughtful, evidence-informed approach
Acupuncture at Life + Lemons is always used as part of an integrative, evidence-based approach. It’s not a replacement for medical care, and it’s never applied as a one-size-fits-all solution.
It is no longer possible to say that the effectiveness of acupuncture can be attributed to the placebo effect or that it is useful only for musculoskeletal pain.
Stephen Janz
ACUPUNCTURIST + AUTHOR
Fertility Success Statistics
Acupuncture Sheffield Research + Evidence
Acupuncture is one of the most researched therapies in integrative healthcare.
Over the past two decades, thousands of studies have explored its effects on pain, inflammation, stress, sleep and hormonal regulation. This growing body of research helps explain why acupuncture is commonly used to support women’s health, fertility and chronic pain conditions.
At Life + Lemons, we use acupuncture in an evidence-informed and physiologically grounded way, focusing on how it influences the nervous system, immune, neurological and inflammatory pathways the systems most often involved in ongoing symptoms.
Research guides our approach, but care is always personalised and used alongside conventional medical treatment where appropriate.
For those who wish to explore the science further, independent organisations such as Evidence Based Acupunctureprovide accessible summaries of the current research.
What we can help with
PCOS , Endometriosis, Irregular Cycles & Hormones.
Gyneacological and menstrual disorders, anovulation and “unexplained” sub-fertility are all conditions often addressed with Acupuncture.
Natural Support for IVF, IUI & Hormone Medication
If you are undergoing or considering IVF or IUI then acupuncture has been proven to act as a useful adjunct therapy to your cycle of treatment.
Acupuncture has been found to be as effective as conventional medicine for sleep, psycho-emotional disorders and symptoms related to stress.
Helping support your pain management
What to Expect
Your first appointment is all about understanding you.
We’ll take time to explore your health history, symptoms and goals, and look at how your body is functioning as a whole. This allows us to map what’s going on beneath the surface and recommend the most appropriate pathway of care for you, whether that’s fertility, hormonal health or pelvic pain support.
From there, treatment is highly personalised. Most people find acupuncture deeply relaxing and leave feeling more settled and supported.
Safety + Quality Assured
Member of the British Acupuncture Council (MBAcC)
BAcC Members uphold to the highest standards in safe practice. It is very important to check that your acupuncturist is safe and competent. Acupuncture in the UK is not currently regulated by government, although this is expected to change in the near future.
All members of the BAcC can offer you the following assurances:
- BSc or BA degree level training or its equivalent in traditional acupuncture, Chinese medicine, and western biomedical sciences including anatomy, physiology and pathology (3,600 hours of study)
- compliance with current UK health and safety legislation
- full medical malpractice and public/products liability insurance cover
- expert practice skills maintained by following a mandatory individual programme of continuing professional development (CPD)
- regular updates from the BAcC regarding practitioners’ professional obligations to the public compliance with BAcC and patient access to the BAcC complaints and disciplinary procedures
Acupuncturists registered with the BAcC carry the letters MBAcC after their name.
Your Acupuncture Treatment is Covered by Private Health Insurance
Did you know that your acupuncture treatment is covered by your private health insurance? As a member of the British Acupuncture Council (MBaC), you are able to claim back up to 75% of your treatment costs back when you receive treatment from Kimberley. We will email you a receipt after each treatment and you simply need to send this off to your insurance company to be reimbursed. This makes your acupuncture treatment accessible and affordable for persistent problems that require a series of treatments in succession.
Find out if your insurance company covers you by following the link below.
