Looking back, it seems I was called to this path from an early age. As a child I was often pulled towards connecting through touch and the need for a subtler presence and knowing. I see now how the practices I have chosen, really chose me.
I have worked in the field of complementary health for over 30 years and currently work in private practice as a complementary health practitioner, supervisor, mentor and teacher. I also have a small range of bespoke and intentional aromatherapy products to affect mood and well-being - Gallipot & Woo Woo.
After training in massage therapy in 1986, my first work in complementary medicine was with the pioneering aromatherapist and energy worker, Micheline Arcier, with whom I studied in 1989 and for whom I taught for 20 years. I soon went on to train in a variety of practices including reflexology, body-mind bodywork and integrative & humanistic counselling.
Particular influences in my post graduate journey are Franklyn Sills, Maura Sills, Georgia Milne and Matthew Appleton with a focus on stillness, shock & trauma, birth & babies and biodynamic approaches to cranio-sacral work. I have also had the privilege of learning from the teachings of many others in varying degrees such as John Upledger, Michael Shea and Ray Castellino. My best teachers of all are my twin sons of 11 with whom I study the art of patience and acceptance and our dog, Georgie, who just is.
A profound passion for understanding and honouring the deeper stories and meanings that lie in unhappiness and illness draws me through every moment of this incredible work. I love how it brings us to the dynamic stillness within, where all is possible and health is ever present.
In 2005 I received a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science from Kings College London. I’m interested in maintaining a healthy perspective that includes both mainstream and alternative views to health and healing. Whilst my approach is one where I believe true health is achieved by taking an integrated view of the whole person, it is the inner physician and the innate intelligence within -which science is only beginning to describe - that really guides my work.
I am a registered Supervisor with the CSTA (cranio-sacral therapy association), a United Kingdom accreditation body.