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British Acupuncture Council (BAcC)
The main professional body for acupuncturists in the UK, with over 3,000 accredited members across the country. Their website has a practitioner finder so you can search by location and find someone with verified training. A solid starting point if you want to explore TCM but are not sure how to find someone you can trust.
Natural Point Acupuncture & Wellness (Houston)
Jenny Vargas-Ha
A US-based acupuncture and wellness practice in Houston that offers menopause relief through acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Included in the directory as a global reference for women based in the States who are looking for TCM menopause support and want to know it exists beyond the UK.
Menopause: A Comprehensive Guide for Practitioners
Written by TCM practitioners Katherine Berry and Natalie Chandra Saunders, this is a serious 450-page text that brings together biomedical research and Traditional Chinese Medicine for menopause care. More detailed than anything written for general readers, and worth knowing exists if you want to understand the depth of clinical knowledge sitting behind a TCM practitioner's treatment decisions.
Essential Woman: Female Health & Fertility in Classical Chinese Medicine
Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée draws on the classical Chinese medical texts, including the Su Wen, to explore women's health through the lens of Blood, Jing, and the feminine life stages. Menopause sits within a much wider picture here, which is part of what makes this perspective so different to the Western medical one. A deeper read for women who want to understand the roots rather than just the remedies.
Chinese Medical Gynecology: A Self-Help Guide
A practical guide to Chinese medicine for women's health written for everyday readers, not practitioners. Covers menopause alongside PMS, fertility, and postpartum within the TCM framework. If you have ever been curious about what a TCM practitioner is actually looking at when they assess you, this gives a clear and accessible introduction.
Justine Hankin Acupuncture
Justine Hankin
Justine Hankin has been working with women's health for over 30 years and is named by The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, and Harper's Bazaar as one of the UK's top ten acupuncturists. She is based in Fulham and specialises in everything from fertility to menopause, working alongside doctors as well as independently. One client's review says it all: she helped her stop HRT entirely after a course of treatment. Worth looking at if you are in London and want someone with deep experience.
Ginsen London
Ginsen-London
GinSen was founded in 2002 by Chinese medicine herbalist Lily Li Hua, whose family has worked in natural health for five generations. The clinic has two locations in Chelsea and Kensington and their approach to menopause combines acupuncture, herbal medicine, and moxibustion, working to restore hormonal balance without HRT. A 2023 clinical trial they cite found that acupuncture combined with herbal therapy matched the effectiveness of hormone therapy for some symptoms. One of the longer-established TCM menopause clinics in London.
CS Healthcare
A UK acupuncture service listed on Top Doctors, with practitioners who specialise in menopause support. The Top Doctors listing means practitioners have been reviewed and verified, which is useful when you are trying to find someone qualified in a field where credentials can be hard to assess.
Fertility Acupuncture London
Irina Szmelskyj
A London-based acupuncture practice covering menopause as part of a broader focus on women's hormonal health across the full reproductive arc, from fertility through to post-menopause. Worth knowing about if you want a practitioner who understands where menopause fits in the longer picture of your hormonal health rather than treating it in isolation.
Rowena Health
Dr Carys Sonnenberg
A UK acupuncture practice with a dedicated page on acupuncture for menopause, covering which symptoms TCM tends to be most useful for and what the treatment process looks like. A good starting point if you want to understand what you are signing up for before booking.
London Acupuncture Clinic
London Acupunture Clinic
One of the longer-running TCM clinics in central London, offering acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine including for menopause. Not flashy, just experienced. Worth checking out if you want somewhere with a track record rather than a newer practice.
Pink Lotus Acupuncture
Gabby Lamplugh
A UK acupuncture practice with a dedicated menopause treatment page that covers the TCM perspective on what is happening during this transition and what acupuncture aims to address. Clear, accessible, and honest about what the treatment involves.
TCM Healthcare
Prof. Shun Au OBE
A UK TCM clinic offering acupuncture and Chinese medicine for menopause alongside fertility and other women's health conditions. Their site explains the TCM framework for understanding menopause in plain language, which is helpful if you want context before deciding whether to book.
Qin's Clinic (Harley Street)
Dr Qin
Dr Qin runs a Traditional Chinese Medicine practice on Harley Street, London, with menopause specifically listed as a treatment area. The Harley Street address signals a certain level of established practice and the clinic has been operating for years. Worth considering if you want a central London option with a clinical setting.
Chelsea Natural Health Clinic
Slavomir Latko
A multi-practitioner natural health clinic in Chelsea that brings together TCM, osteopathy, and other complementary approaches under one roof. Useful if you want access to several different modalities and would like to combine TCM with something else, or just want to explore what is available before committing to one path.
Dr. Andrea Thorpe, DACM (Los Angeles)
Dr. Andrea Thorpe
Dr Andrea Thorpe holds a Doctorate in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and specialises in women's health including menopause from her practice in Los Angeles. Her approach covers both the physical and emotional dimensions of this transition through a TCM lens, which makes her a useful option for women in the US who want the depth of a doctoral-level practitioner.
Berkeley Acupuncture
Berkeley Acupuncture's article on menopause from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective explains how TCM understands what is happening during this transition, including the concept of Kidney essence declining and Yin-Yang balance shifting. A readable introduction to the TCM framework before you go looking for a practitioner.
Acurodos (TCM Week Europe)
Jose Rodriguez LAc BSc
An Irish-based organisation that runs TCM education events and publishes a women's health guide covering TCM across Europe and beyond. Useful for women in Europe who want to understand how Chinese medicine is practised across different countries and find their way to local resources.
La Clinique Naturelle (Switzerland)
A Swiss clinic offering Traditional Chinese Medicine for perimenopause and menopause. A European option for women based in Switzerland or the surrounding region who want TCM support closer to home rather than needing to travel to the UK.
Source Point (UK)
A UK organisation involved in the practice and teaching of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Part of the broader TCM professional landscape in Britain, and worth knowing about as a reference point for understanding how the field is organised in the UK.
EUROTCM (European Register of TCM Organisations)
The main European umbrella body for Traditional Chinese Medicine professional organisations, bringing together national associations from across the continent. If you are based anywhere in Europe and want to find a credentialled TCM practitioner in your country, this is a good place to start rather than just searching online.
Journal of Chinese Medicine (JCM)
A UK-based peer-reviewed journal publishing clinical articles and research on Traditional Chinese Medicine, including dedicated content on acupuncture for menopause. More practitioner-facing than consumer-facing, but worth knowing exists if you want to understand the evidence base that serious TCM practitioners are drawing on.
Treating Women
The website of Katherine Berry and Natalie Chandra Saunders, the practitioners behind the comprehensive TCM menopause guide. Their site covers fertility, menopause, and women's health through a TCM lens with resources for both practitioners and women seeking treatment. If you read their book and want to go deeper, this is the starting point.
Qiological
A podcast and education platform for Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners, with a particular focus on classical approaches. Their resources include curated practitioner texts on menopause. More practitioner-facing than general-audience, but if you want to understand what a well-trained TCM practitioner is actually reading and thinking about, this gives a window into that.
Oriental Remedies Group
A TCM clinic and content site with an article on how Chinese medicine approaches the menopause transition. They explain the TCM concepts, including Kidney Yin deficiency and the idea of menopause as a natural shift in energy rather than a malfunction, in language that does not require any background knowledge to follow.
White Hart Clinic
A UK TCM clinic with a blog post explaining what Chinese medicine treatment for menopause actually involves, from the initial assessment to the treatment plan. A useful read if you have been curious about TCM but have not quite understood what happens when you walk through the door.
Thomson Medical (Singapore/Australia)
A Southeast Asian medical group with content on TCM and menopause, showing how this approach is understood and practised outside of the UK and Europe. Useful as a reminder that TCM menopause support has a global practice base, not just a Western alternative medicine corner.
Unplug Hour Canada
A Canadian wellness resource with content on TCM and menopause from a North American perspective. Worth including as a reminder that the conversation about Eastern medicine approaches to menopause is happening across the world, not just in Europe.
Doctify UK (Menopause Acupuncture Finder)
A UK healthcare platform that lets you search for menopause acupuncture practitioners with verified patient reviews. Useful when you want some independent feedback on a practitioner rather than just taking their word for it.
The Dr. Louise Newson Podcast (TCM episode)
Dr Louise Newson's podcast includes an episode specifically on TCM and menopause, featuring TCM practitioner Laurie Ayres. It is one of the few places where you can hear a conversation between a conventional menopause specialist and a TCM practitioner about what Chinese medicine can and cannot offer. Worth listening to if you want to understand how the two approaches relate to each other.
Mind Your Midlife Podcast (Ep 71: Chinese Medicine)
Episode 71 of the Mind Your Midlife podcast covers how acupuncture and Chinese medicine ease perimenopause and midlife stress. A good entry point if you want to hear a conversational overview of TCM for menopause before exploring further.
Menopause Natural Solutions
A podcast dedicated to natural approaches to menopause including Traditional Chinese Medicine. Worth adding to your rotation if you want to hear TCM and other natural approaches covered regularly rather than just in one-off episodes.
Menopause Matters (UK)
A UK menopause community and podcast that covers a wide range of approaches including natural and complementary options. Not exclusively TCM but includes those conversations alongside others, which makes it a useful ongoing resource rather than a single-focus one.
Menopause Friendly (UK)
Henpicked
A UK platform offering free resources for women navigating menopause, including information on complementary approaches. A gentle starting point for women who are early in their exploration and want to see what is out there before going deeper into any particular approach.
Rethink Menopause
Dr Sam Morgan MBChB
A resource hub covering the full range of menopause approaches including complementary and alternative therapies. A useful bookmark for when you want to cross-reference something or explore an area you have not looked at yet.
Menopause: A Paradigm Shift through Ayurveda
Vd. Khyati S Sud and Vd. Sushant Sud
A book that approaches menopause entirely through the Ayurvedic framework, treating this transition as a constitutional shift rather than a hormonal deficit. Ayurveda sees this life stage as a move into the Vata phase of life, which carries its own wisdom and power. Very different reading from the clinical books in other categories, and worth picking up if you want a genuinely different lens.
The Ayurvedic Woman
Dipika Delmenico
A guide to Ayurveda for women covering the full arc from menstruation through to menopause and beyond. Menopause is not treated as the destination but as one part of a longer hormonal story that Ayurveda understands differently to Western medicine. Useful if you want context for where menopause fits in the Ayurvedic view of women's health.
Susan Pulley - Atma Ayurveda (Amsterdam)
Susan Pulley
Susan Pulley is an American-trained Ayurvedic practitioner who moved to the Netherlands in 2008 and founded Atma Ayurveda, a full-spectrum clinic in Amsterdam. She specialises specifically in women's hormonal health and peri-menopause, alongside stress and burnout. Before Ayurveda she studied women's use of medicinal plants in rural India, which gives her practice a depth that goes beyond just learning the theory. One of the more serious Ayurveda menopause specialists in Europe.
OJAS Hormonal Health for Women (Berlin)
Maria
A Berlin-based practice combining Ayurveda, yoga, and sound healing specifically for women's hormonal health including perimenopause. They are certified by the German health insurance system (Krankenkasse), which in Germany signals a recognised level of professional credentialling. A genuinely interesting European option if you are in or near Berlin.
VEAT - Association of European Ayurveda Practitioners
The main professional association for Ayurveda practitioners across Europe, based in Germany. Their directory covers qualified practitioners across the continent. If you are in Europe and want to find an Ayurvedic practitioner with recognised training rather than just anyone calling themselves an Ayurveda coach, this is where to look.
Ayurveda Deutschland
Ebba-Karina Sander – MBA
The German Ayurveda association, covering practitioners, professional standards, and resources across Germany and the German-speaking world. Useful for women in Germany who want to explore Ayurvedic support for menopause and want to find properly trained practitioners.
Dr. Ashok's Ayurveda (UK)
Dr. Ashok Kumar Rawal & Dr. Poonam Gulia-Rawal
A UK-based Ayurveda clinic with a dedicated menopause support page. Dr Ashok brings traditional Ayurvedic training into a UK clinical context, which makes this a practical option for women in Britain who want Ayurvedic support without needing to travel to Europe or India to find it.
Ayurveda Holistic (Netherlands)
Vd. Sayali Kendarkar
A Dutch Ayurveda practice covering women's health including hormonal transitions and menopause. Another European option for women in or near the Netherlands who are exploring Ayurvedic support.
Osh Wellness
Shruti
Shruti, the founder of Osh Wellness, is a certified nutritionist and plant-based chef who created science-backed Ayurvedic supplements when she could not find ones she trusted. Their menopause support product combines Shatavari, Ashwagandha, and Black Cohosh in clinically-informed dosages, and they cite their sources. Over 200,000 women use their products. Worth exploring if you want Ayurvedic supplementation with a bit more evidence behind it than most wellness brands offer.
One World Ayurveda
Claude Chouinard & Iyan Yaspriyana
One World Ayurveda's guide to menopause through the Ayurvedic lens covers how this system understands the transition from the Pitta phase of life into the Vata phase, what that means for the body, and what diet and lifestyle practices Ayurveda recommends. A clear, accessible overview if you are new to Ayurveda and want to understand the framework before looking for a practitioner.
ASHAexperience
Hubert Patry & Bijoya Mohanty
A women's health platform that covers the full arc from menstruation to menopause through an Ayurvedic and empowerment lens. Their content treats this transition as a life stage to move through with agency and knowledge, not a medical problem to be managed. Worth exploring if the Ayurvedic framing of menopause as a natural shift rather than a deficiency resonates with you.
The Ayurvedic Clinic
Dr Deepika Rodrigo & Geoff Sewell
An Ayurvedic clinic with a dedicated menopause guide covering the full picture of Ayurvedic menopause management, from understanding your dosha type to herbs, diet, and specific treatments like Shirodhara and Panchakarma. Useful for understanding what an actual Ayurvedic treatment plan for menopause might look like in practice.
Balance & Bloom (UK)
Emma Thomas
A UK-based Ayurveda resource covering menopause symptom management through Ayurvedic principles. Practical and focused on what you can actually do day to day, rather than just explaining the theory.
Geeta Vara
Geeta Vara
Geeta Vara is a London-based Ayurvedic practitioner whose writing on Ayurvedic healing for menopause explains what Ayurveda sees happening constitutionally during this transition and what that means for how you might want to eat, move, and live. A grounded, experience-based voice in the UK Ayurveda space.
Herbal Reality (Ayurvedic Perspective)
Sebastian Pole
Herbal Reality is a resource on medicinal plants and herbal medicine, and their article on menopause from an Ayurvedic perspective covers the specific herbs used in this tradition for menopause support, including Shatavari, Ashwagandha, and others. A useful companion to the more clinical herbal medicine resources elsewhere in the directory if you want to compare how Eastern and Western herbal traditions approach the same symptoms.