extraordinary medicine for everyday people

Acupuncture, shiatsu, cupping, nutrition, consultation & integration.

Come in when…

  • no one can figure out what’s going on with pain, emotions, sleep, grief, digestion, PMS, fertility or stress.

  • a health practitioner refers you.

  • you love acupuncture and are looking for a new practitioner.

  • you have seen the results in your friend, partner, colleague and they say: “go see Lamia, they will probably help”.

Welcome all

Treatments

Treatments are in person at Aurum

Life advocacy (consults & integrations) are online for people all over the world.

Workshops & Courses

Keeping Company With Grief: A self-paced course.

Revolutionary workshops & courses are available for grief integration, labour/delivery & resilient breath


Check out the PORTAL YouTube channel for videos to free your Qi.

Image is of Lamia Gibson when ze offered Community Acupuncture at Six Degrees Community Acupuncture, the first clinic of it's kind in Canada.

I work with everyday people to heal suffering.

High quality health care is my calling. Initially, I learned from my mum as we cared for my grandparents. A salt of the earth person, nurse and writer, my mum was the best teacher when it came to providing care.

Professionally, I started with Zen Shiatsu, offering sliding scale treatments and also working as a PSW. Then I went back to school for Acupuncture!

After graduation I became an owner of Six Degrees Community Acupuncture: a financially accessible, and revolutionary, clinic with a wide array of aligned health practitioners. The first of its kind in Canada, Six Degrees raised the bar, innovating health care for clients, health practitioners and communities across the globe.

Lamia doing Shiatsu

MEET LAMIA

12 years at Six Degrees gave me loads of experience as a health practitioner, leader and intuitive.

In 2019 I moved to Aurum Medicine & Wellness to centre on practice. Focusing solely on medicine has elevated treatments and freed the Qi flow for clients, community, and myself.

My own experiences of loss, grief, back pain, burnout recovery, and internal struggle are treated with Traditional & Natural medicine, along with allopathic science, to ensure a complete holistic approach.

I make a world where medicines talk to each other and offer you your best health.

What to expect?

I listen, detect & treat

Health Detective

Patterns will emerge as you share what brings you in.

I apply principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine to observe and assess branches of disharmony, detecting root origins and treating your concerns.

My services come with as much information as you desire, a commitment to investigating complexity and a collaborative treatment plan.

I am skilled, intuitive and offer treatments that are effective for the past 2800 years.

Customized Care

For your first appointment you can expect a thorough intake, a consultation for your concerns and a tailored-to-you treatment.

Follow-up sessions, along with life habit suggestions for food, movement and/or meditation are often recommended.

Once disharmony is resolved, maintenance & prevention is once a month, or as often as you like.

Extraordinary medicine occurs as we work together for your freedom from suffering.

You are the expert of you, and I am the health detective, at your service.

Treatments & consultation

  • Acupuncture

  • Cupping

  • Chinese nutrition

  • Shiatsu

  • Intuitive conversation

  • Life advocacy

  • Grief Integration

SERVICES

Workshops & courses

  • Grief Integration

  • Harmonizing with seasons

  • Labour & delivery

  • Movement healing

  • Food as Medicine

  • Acupressure

  • Self care

FAQs

  • Extraordinary: “that which is outside the normal course of events”.

    Going beyond Acupuncturist to Health Detective, I elevate your experience of being alive.

    The way I practice is unique and nuanced. I often work with the Extraordinary Vessels that reside on the 8th layer of the energetic body. These channels are reservoirs of Qi, Blood, Yin and Yang.

    Along with the 4 skills of radical relating, regard for sovereignty, 20 years in community medicine and the uniqueness that is me, I ensure high quality health care.

    Integration & healing is probable and given the conditions to thrive, one will.

  • Acupuncture is beneficial for a variety of concerns, including acute or chronic pain, mental health conditions, digestive issues, respiratory problems, menstrual health, insomnia and the impacts of stress.

  • Shiatsu is a Japanese therapy using pressure to relax, reduce stress, and alleviate pain, promoting overall well-being.

  • Cupping is a traditional therapy where glass cups are heated with fire and placed on the skin to create suction. This suction stimulates blood flow, relieves muscle tension, and promotes healing.

  • Chinese nutrition focuses on the energetic properties of food, such as temperature, taste, and the affect on the body's organs and systems. We select foods based on individual constitution, health condition, and season to achieve optimal well-being.

  • Integration is a holistic approach that acknowledges the interconnectedness of emotional, physical, and energetic aspects of well-being, addressing trauma and grief by recognizing their impact on the body's energetic system. Acupuncture can free up stored trauma and grief from the energetic body, promoting healing and integration.

    Often times clients will be working with a trained mental health professional and use Acupuncture, Shiatsu, Cupping, food and Integration sessions to enhance the work being done in therapy or to integrate what comes up during therapy.

    Lamia is not a counsellor and refers clients to therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists where needed and desired. Ze is connected to many practitioners and can often connect clients with good fits for support to integrate stress, trauma and grief.

    please note: there are times when a Mental Health Professional is required to do the work you want to do. On occasion we will stop PORTAL treatments until you have the support needed to unpack and integrate.

  • Generally not. The needles are as thin as hair and while some points might be more noticeable at first, this quickly fade to nothing or a sensation of warmth, tingling or even itchiness.

    Cupping feels like a small vacuum and can be adjusted to suit your body. Sliding cups leaves you feeling like you’ve just had a massage.

    Shiatsu is known for being firm pressure. Lamia practices a long holding technique that offers deep impact with less intensity.

    Lamia loves a good “no”, and will encourage you to tell zem if anything feels uncomfortable.

  • Yes, acupuncture is considered safe when performed by a qualified and trained practitioner. The needles used are sterile, and the procedure is non-invasive.

  • No, you do not need to start with Acupuncture. Another way to start with Lamia is through a Chinese Nutrition consult or a Shiatsu treatment.

    In any of these you will need to fill out an health history form. All initial appointments include intake, assessment and treatment or consultation.

    For food consults you will be sent specific instructions for a food diary when you book. Please book a few days in advance to allow time for Lamia to prepare your consult.

  • The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes the use of acupuncture in the treatment of a wide range of common illnesses including:

    Upper Respiratory System

    Acute sinusitis

    Acute rhinitis

    Common Cold and Flu

    Acute tonsillitis

    Respiratory System

    Acute bronchitis

    Bronchial asthma (Most effective in children and uncomplicated conditions.)

    Eye Disorders

    Acute conjunctivitis

    Central Retinitis Myopia (in children)

    Cataracts (without complications)

    Mouth Disorders

    Toothache

    Post Extraction Pain

    Gingivitis

    Acute and Chronic Pharyngitis

    Gastrointestinal Disorders

    Spasms of esophagus

    Hiccough

    Gastroptosis

    Acute and Chronic Gastritis

    Gastric Hyperacidity

    Chronic Duodenal Ulcer (pain relief)

    Acute Duodenal Ulcer (without complications)

    Acute and Chronic Colitis

    Acute Bacillary Dysentery

    Constipation

    Diarrhea

    Paralytic Ileus

    Neurologic and Musculoskeletal Disorders

    Headache and Migraine

    Trigeminal Neuralgias

    Facial Palsy (early stage, i.e., within 3-6 months)

    Paresis Following a Stroke

    Peripheral Neuropathies

    Sequelae of Poliomyelitis (early stage, i.e., within 6 months)

    Meniere’s Disease

    Neurogenic Bladder Dysfunction

    Nocturnal Enuresis (bedwetting)

    Intercostal Neuralgia

    Cervicobrachial Syndrome

    Frozen Shoulder

    Sciatica

    Low Back Pain

    Osteoarthritis

    Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

    Back and Knee Pain

    Fibromyalgia

    Chronic Fatigue

    Sports Injuries and Pains

    Reproductive & Gynecological Conditions

    Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)

    Dysmenorrhea (menstrual cramps)

    Spotting and Excessive Bleeding

    Amenorrhea (Loss of Menstrual Period)

    Impotence

    Infertility

    Incontinence

    Prostatitis

    Mental Emotional Problems

    Stress

    Anxiety

    Depression

    Insomnia

    ADHD

    PTSD

Lineage and Acknowledgements

Medicines and services are provided on the Traditional Territory of the Haudonoshoneee Confederacy, the Anishnaabe, the Wendat and the Mississaugas of the New Credit.

This practice of Traditional East Asian Medicines, intuitive connection and growing body of knowledge engages directly with the life of these lands, peoples and ancestors.

The medicines and services offered are rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zen Shiatsu, Radical Relating, the lived experiences of Mx. Lamia Gibson and zir British, Turkish, Queer and Trans ancestors and communities.