Areas of Specialty
Fertility and Preconception Planning
Grainne has been using Acupuncture and Herbal medicine to help couples achieve their goal of conception for 18 years. She begins with a plan that is tailored to you, looking at your current menstrual cycle, diet, sleep, hormone levels, and emotions and bring these all into balance so that your body and mind are ready to conceive. BBT charting will often be done to examine the menstrual cycle in detail. If you have a short luteal phase, low AMH, fibroids, premature ovarian failure or anovulation, herbs and Acupuncture will be used to improve these conditions.
Grainne also works regularly with patients who are currently undergoing IVF or IUI to support their retrieval and transfers to make sure they have the most effective cycle possible. Read here about the benefits of combining Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine with IVF.
Perimenopause and Menopausal Symptoms
While hormonal changes are part of life, we do not have to suffer through them without support. Grainne uses Acupuncture and Herbal medicine to mitigate the effects of these hormonal changes and well as to balance the hormones themselves. Diet and lifetsyle advice is also given to balance the hormones naturally. Yes, our hormones effect our lives, but our lives also effect our hormones. Sleep, stress, how we exercise, alcohol and sugar all have effects on our hormones. Learn how to balance your life to move through these life changes with grace and ease.
Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and depression occur when the body is unable to accomplish all it must do with the resources available to it. We reduce anxiety by both reducing demands AND strengthening the resources of the body. In East Asian medicine, we tonify the qi, blood and fluids of the body as well as help them to move with better functionality to give the body more resources to accomplish all that you want to accomplish as well improve the motivation to do so.
“I cannot say enough wonderful things about Grainne. She helped me through the most difficult time in my life when there were a lot of physical and emotional things going on. She listened and cared. She also provided much-needed reframing of things in the kindest of ways that was very helpful. And that's all before talking about the treatments themselves. Her acupuncture, cupping, and other treatments have helped with a variety of physical issues, including back, neck, pyriformis, migraines, wrist, menstrual variances, fatigue, and other. She has also helps with emotional issues. I appreciate her expertise, care, and spirit. I highly recommend her.
— Kay Oh