Alice Brooke

Acupuncturist

Qualifications and registration

Professional Diploma in Acupuncture, Northern College of Acupuncture (2025). Registered with the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC). Additional CPD in fertility and in Applied Channel Theory.

Alice has always worked at the intersection of care and curiosity. For years she balanced a career as a practising artist with roles supporting disabled people, people with learning disabilities, elderly individuals, and young people in community and higher education settings, all while quietly wondering how to develop a more specific clinical skill set. Then she had acupuncture herself, for a persistent health condition her GP had been unable to resolve. It worked. More than that, it opened something: a fascination with understanding health from a holistic perspective, with how the body, the person, and their environment all speak to each other. She went on to train at the Northern College of Acupuncture, qualifying in 2025.

Her background in community acupuncture, where practitioners see a high volume and variety of patients in shared clinic settings, has shaped how she thinks about her work. She considers herself a general practitioner of East Asian medicine, equally at home with musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, stress, and more complex or long-standing conditions. She has done specialist CPD in fertility alongside leading experts in the field, and has extended her study into Applied Channel Theory, developed by the Chinese physician Dr Wang, which gives her a deeper framework for channel and meridian diagnosis. In the treatment room, she draws on acupuncture alongside cupping, moxa, and electroacupuncture as appropriate.

Outside the clinic, Alice prints photographs in her darkroom and forages plants to make herbal remedies. There is something quietly fitting about that: a person who slows down, looks closely, and trusts in gradual, natural processes. She also speaks Italian.