When You've Tried Everything and Are Still Looking for Answers
If you're reading this, you're probably not here for yourself.
You're here because someone you love is changing. And the appointments, the assessments, the referrals, and the carefully managed language from specialists who are doing their best haven't given you enough to hold onto.
Maybe you've been told that what's happening is expected. That the options are limited. That the goal now is management, not recovery.
Maybe you've gone through the search results enough times to know that conventional medicine has real boundaries in this space, and you're asking, quietly, whether there is something else worth exploring alongside the care your loved one is already receiving.
At Faith Acupuncture, a brain health acupuncture clinic in Richmond Hill, that question is exactly what we're here for. We don't dismiss what's come before. We ask what else might be possible, through a framework that begins from different premises and asks different questions.
Acupuncture for Brain Health:
A Practice With One Dedicated Focus
Faith Acupuncture is a Richmond Hill clinic with a single dedicated focus: supporting brain health, memory, and cognitive wellness through acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is one of the few practices in York Region built entirely around the intersection of TCM and neurological health.
This is not a general acupuncture practice that treats everything. The clinic's work centres entirely on the needs of patients and families navigating cognitive or neurological health, memory concerns, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, Alzheimer’s support, and age-related cognitive decline.
Acupuncture and TCM at Faith Acupuncture are designed to work alongside conventional medical care, not to replace it. If your loved one is already working with a neurologist, a memory clinic, or another medical team, those relationships stay in place. Simon Lau works at the intersection of Eastern and Western clinical approaches, supporting existing care, not competing with it.
Before Acupuncture —
He Was Already Working in a Memory Clinic
Simon Lau, the founder and practitioner at Faith Acupuncture, began his clinical career inside a dedicated Memory Clinic, not as an acupuncturist, but as a registered Occupational Therapist administering cognitive assessments and delivering structured memory training programmes to patients with dementia.
Before becoming a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner, Simon worked for five years in Hong Kong's hospital system. From 2009 to 2011, he was part of the Memory Clinic team within the neurology and geriatrics department, working directly alongside patients navigating dementia and the families supporting them. That experience was followed by clinical rotations through psychiatry and then orthopedics, including patients with traumatic brain injury.
He has watched how cognitive conditions present, how they evolve, and what they demand of the people involved, not from study alone, but from years of direct clinical contact.
In 2018, Simon graduated with a Master of Chinese Medicine from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and began practising TCM full-time. Since 2018, Simon has practised TCM across a broad range of conditions. He is now deliberately narrowing that focus - bringing his OT clinical background in cognitive health and his TCM training together into a single dedicated lane: brain health and memory support.
His credentials include:
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Registered Acupuncturist (RAc), Ontario
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Registered Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner (RTCMP), Ontario and Hong Kong
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Registered Massage Therapist (RMT), Ontario
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Member, Canadian Academy of Medical Acupuncture (CCAMA)
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Medical Acupuncture Program, McMaster University
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Master of Chinese Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Bachelor of Occupational Therapy, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
How TCM Supports Brain and Cognitive Health
Brain Health Conditions Supported at This Clinic
TCM approaches a range of cognitive and neurological concerns, including age-related memory changes, mild cognitive impairment, dementia and Alzheimer's support, and vascular dementia. At Faith Acupuncture, care is available for each of these conditions.
Each patient's situation is assessed individually. The aim is to understand what is happening through the TCM framework and to develop an approach suited to this particular person, not a standard protocol applied across a diagnostic label.
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine
In TCM, cognitive function is understood through the relationship between kidney essence, the heart-mind connection, and the quality of Qi and blood flowing to the brain. When any of these are depleted or disrupted — through age, chronic stress, or underlying illness — the mind and memory can be affected.
A course of care at Faith Acupuncture begins with a thorough intake conversation before any treatment takes place. Simon wants to understand not just the diagnosis, but the full picture, what the patient was like before, what the family has noticed, and what matters most to them. Treatment is built from that conversation, not from a protocol.
Scalp Acupuncture for Neurological Support
Scalp acupuncture targets specific zones of the scalp that correspond to functional areas of the brain and nervous system. It is a specialized technique used in TCM practice for neurological support, and one of the approaches Simon draws on for patients with cognitive and movement-related concerns.
Serving Richmond Hill and the Greater York Region
Faith Acupuncture is located at 330 Highway 7, Unit 312, Richmond Hill, Ontario. The clinic serves families from across York Region, including Richmond Hill, Markham, Vaughan, Aurora, and surrounding communities.
For families supporting a loved one with memory concerns or a neurological condition, the clinic is accessible and its approach is designed with older adults and their caregivers firmly in mind. Many patients come accompanied by a family member. Simon welcomes that.
Start With a Conversation — Not a Commitment
Simon offers a free one-hour consultation for new patients and their families. This is a structured, unhurried conversation — not a sales call and not a commitment to treatment.
During the consultation, Simon will:
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Review your loved one's history and the concerns that brought you here
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Explain how Traditional Chinese Medicine understands and approaches what you are dealing with
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Walk you through what a course of care looks like and what you can realistically expect
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Answer your questions honestly, including where acupuncture may or may not be appropriate
Acupuncture is supportive care. Results vary from person to person and cannot be guaranteed. The consultation gives both of you the opportunity to assess fit before any decision is made.