Acupuncture Sanctuary

Acupuncture · Herbal Medicine · Tuina · Titirangi, West Auckland

Classical acupuncture for injury, pain, and chronic or complex conditions.

ACC treatment provider · CMCNZ registered

I’m Ada. I’ve been practising acupuncture for over seventeen years, working with people in pain, people in recovery, and people who’ve been diagnosed with conditions that haven’t necessarily responded to other treatment.

My training spans three continents — a BSc in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Middlesex University, London; clinical training at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine; and a six-month internship at the Beijing Massage Hospital, which is the foundation of all my work before I ever picked up an acupuncture needle. I’ve also sought out experts in adjacent fields in New York and Melbourne. I now teach classical acupuncture to other practitioners across New Zealand, and I’ve been a keynote speaker at the Acupuncture New Zealand conference four years running. I am the first acupuncturist in New Zealand to have completed training in the full classical channel system.

When you come in and we’re talking, I tend the spark of what your body is already doing. I take a full history — when things started, where, how, and what was happening in your life at the time. Because nothing is separate. Everything is a piece of the puzzle.

Each session is individual. We’ll talk. I’ll listen carefully — not just to what you say, but to what your body is also showing me. We’ll look at things like your diet, how well you’re sleeping, how you move through the world. Then we’ll get to work on the treatment table.

The bodywork and massage skills here are exceptional — therapeutic massage, tuina, cupping, moxibustion, gua sha, infrared heat lamp, aromatherapy — all used together to serve you best, plus the therapeutic acupuncture needles. If herbal medicine or nutritional support is needed, that’s available too. I’m also trained in NLP — neurolinguistic programming — and Ericksonian conversational hypnosis, and I’ll use those too when I feel they’ll help, as an invitation for change.

I read lab results. I understand pathology. I can speak the language of Western medicine when that’s useful — and I can also offer another lens: a way of seeing the body and how it responds to the environment, diet and emotions that is pattern-based, whole, and perfect.

People often come to see me when:

• an injury or symptom hasn’t resolved
• pain or restriction keeps returning
• stress or emotional load has started to show itself in the body
• a chronic condition that needs skilled support
• they sense there is something more going on beneath the surface

Sometimes change is gradual. Sometimes there is a clear shift very early on. My role is to support your body’s capacity to reorganise, recover, and bring all of its parts into harmony — at a pace that is right for you.

Classical acupuncture · Therapeutic massage (tuina) · Herbal medicine · Cupping & gua sha · Moxibustion · Aromatherapy · NLP & conversational hypnosis · Diet & lifestyle advice · Nutritional supplements · Remote healing

You don’t have to keep managing. You don’t have to stay stuck. Book online and choose a time that works — or call (09) 816 8000. We’d love to hear from you.