Patient Testimonials
I went to Roberta after 2 years of unsuccessful fertility treatment. I was at an extremely low point in my life and Roberta was my life-saver. After just a few treatments I began to feel positive and generally more energised. A few months later, Roberta supported me through IVF and I went on to have a beautiful little girl. My husband has always been rather sceptical about my acupuncture but when I fell pregnant a second time he is convinced it gets results!~KM, St Andrews
I went to see Roberta 15 months after the birth of my first child because I was feeling tired all the time. It was my first contact with an acupuncturist and I was not 100% convinced it will give a result. After only 2 or 3 appointments I was able to climb to the top of big hills carrying my son on my back really, really easily - well ahead of my partner!!!! My energy was back!!! I recommend it to all women after giving birth.
Since then I’m seeing her regularly to help me to cope with a stressful PHD and she is doing fantastic work!!!
~MC, Markinch
I first came to see Roberta to help recover after emergency appendectomy surgery. Within 5 treatments I started to feel stronger, but what I couldn't believe is that my arthritis and back pain were much better as well. I've gone from taking painkillers daily to taking them only very occasionally. The biggest thing for me was being able to join my family on the half marathon moon walk (13.1 miles!) this year. I would have never been able to do that before having acupuncture! I control my arthritis now - it doesn't control me!
~MP, Newport-on-Tay
I came to see Roberta because I had been having persistent and worsening back pain for over four years. I knew from having had an MRI scan that I had three herniated discs and some stenosis, and I was taking hefty pain-killers and anti-inflammatory drugs. The trouble was, I am a writer, and I was aware that the medication was blunting my creative faculties but not the pain. I had tried yoga and pilates, but these only seemed to make things worse. Then a Chinese friend suggested I try some acupuncture. What I soon realised was that this form of acupuncture aims to treat the whole person, not just the physical symptoms, and the factor that soon revealed itself was my difficult relationship with my elderly parents. They had come back to this country to live after the death of my sister, my only sibling, in 2004, and I began to realise, in my sessions with Roberta, that I was still allowing old, unresolved areas of conflict to dominate my feelings and thought—almost as though I were allowing the past to poison me, and Roberta confirmed that, although she could unblock one channel, the blockage would immediately shift around somewhere else. Once I could admit this, I began at once to feel a load of pain slide away. I have begun to put the relationship with my parents on a new footing, forgiving them and also, importantly, forgiving myself for things done or left undone. I am more tolerant of my father’s alcoholism—at ninety he’s unlikely to change—and have devised some better strategies for deflecting my mother’s impulse to control my life. I no longer need to take the pain-killers, though I still find the anti-inflammatory medication helpful. I am in touch with my creative side once more, and although I still have some back pain, I have more energy to cope with it. It feels as though I have been given back my life.
~A.C., St Andrews
Roberta Weber BA(Genetics), LicAc, MBAcC - Traditional Acupuncturist
I trained for three years at the School of Five Element Acupuncture in London under the tutelage of Nora Franglen, who passed on the tradition as she learned it from JR Worsley. Through this training I obtained a Licentiate in Acupuncture. This qualification is recognised by the British Acupuncture Council and allows me membership in the council (MBAcC is the acronym for membership).Qualifications:
from the University of California, Berkeley
I was born in California and have lived in various places in the US, Australia, and England until 2006 when I moved to the Tayside area of Fife. From a young age I was fascinated with the intricacies of growth and development, both of people and of the life I saw around me. This led me to study Genetics at U.C. Berkeley. From there I pursued a very satisfying and rewarding career as a research scientist. Eventually, I decided to pursue another fascination, not unrelated to the workings of the world, but this time through the eyes of the Ancient Chinese.
Today I seek to use my knowledge to help people reach the state of inner balance that we all deserve and from where we function at our best. Achieving balance helps us to interact seamlessly with the world around us physically, mentally and ‘spiritually’. The most powerful tool I have found to achieve this aim is Five Element Acupuncture. The emphasis of my practice is to help people work through their symptoms of dis-ease and to support people so they are better equipped to endure the stresses and strains of everyday life and thereby thrive instead of just survive.
We believe that everybody wants their life to have meaning.
We believe that there is a pattern to our lives that weaves us into the web of the universe.
We believe that it is our lifetime’s purpose to discover what that unique pattern is so that our life may gain meaning within the context of all that is.
We believe that, if we fail to find our unique purpose, our life becomes meaningless and empty, and we die unfulfilled.
We believe there are many roads to self-discovery. Five Element acupuncture is one of them.
-Nora Franglen; Principal of
the School of Five Element Acupuncture