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Hi, I’m Liz Lanphier Evans.

After 17 years in practice, I still find this work genuinely fascinating- and the people I work with are the reason why.

I specialise in supporting women through perimenopause and menopause using acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. It's an area I'm deeply committed to, because I've seen how transformative the right support can be at this stage of life — and how many women are still struggling without it.

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My Approach

I work in a way that treats you as a whole person, not a list of symptoms. Whatever brings you through my door — whether it's hot flushes keeping you awake, anxiety that feels out of character, brain fog affecting your work, or simply a sense that your body no longer feels like your own — I want to understand the full picture.

That means taking time to really listen, to observe, and to tailor your treatment specifically to you. Chinese medicine has been doing this for thousands of years, and it remains one of the most sophisticated systems for understanding the patterns and imbalances that menopause can create.

I also practice Advanced Acupuncture, working with all 68 channels of the body rather than the 12 primary channels used in many modern approaches. This allows for greater depth and precision — particularly valuable for complex or long-standing symptoms.

My background

My path to Chinese medicine was anything but conventional — which perhaps explains why I've always been drawn to a practice that values the individual over the formulaic.

Before training in Chinese medicine I lived and worked in the United States, with a career that spanned political campaigns, investment banking tech sector in New York, and teaching across several states. It was a rich and varied life, but something was missing.

I moved to London and began studying Chinese medicine in 2006 — and it immediately felt like coming home.

One of the most enduring influences on my understanding of health and healing has been horses, which I've worked with since childhood. Through that relationship I developed an instinct for non-verbal communication, natural rhythms, and the kind of intuitive observation that underpins good clinical practice. It's not something you learn in a lecture theatre — and I think it makes me a better practitioner.

I've worked across a range of clinical environments over my 17 years, including setting up and running a dedicated pain clinic and working within a GP surgery. That breadth of experience shapes how I approach every patient, particularly those with complex or long-standing conditions.

I work with women from all walks of life and I'm committed to creating a space that feels safe, non-judgmental, and genuinely supportive. Menopause affects every woman differently, and your experience deserves to be treated as exactly that — yours.