The Bradden Method is totally bespoke. She believes everyone’s stories and symptoms are different and therefore the treatment should be too, so our session starts with a verbal consultation and tongue reading to establish my physical and emotional symptoms. Me? I’m frazzled. Fried. ‘Running on dust fumes,’ as Bradden herself puts it, with an anxious nervous system that’s in a permanently hypervigilant state. Oh dear. Will 90 minutes be enough?

The first thing that happens is I’m fitted with a nasal cannula to deliver activated oxygen throughout the treatment (it improves oxygen levels within the body and stabilises the nervous system) before Bradden positions acupuncture needles across my face: ears (alongside ear seeds), nose, forehead, above the mouth. More are put in my feet. Then out comes the LED light. Suddenly I’ve got goggles on like I’m on an old school sunbed but I feel warm and nourished, as though I’m being beamed up to heaven.

While I’m basking under the light, needles doing their thing, Bradden performs reiki, telling me later I have blocked energy, which is all gathered in my head and shoulders. I don’t fully sense her presence as she works, so happy am I with my cannula and LED light, but at one point I do feel my body release in its entirety and sink deeper into the bed. Reflexology follows. Not the flinching toe-popping kind I’ve had before in a Soho side street, but a gentle barely-there foot massage that’s a wonderful complement to what else is going on.

Restore your body and mind this January with hydrotherapy, acupuncture and more at Soho Farmhouse’s spa