About me
A few years ago I began to immerse myself into the world of Craniosacral Therapy, initially because I wanted to answer for myself the question, “What is Craniosacral Therapy?”. After a very difficult birth, my daughter came into this world a bundle of nerves who never slept and wanted to be held constantly. Her mother was not dissimilar. Desperately hoping for a few hours sleep, I began taking my daughter to a craniosacral therapist. I had absolutely no understanding or experience with cranial work but after each treatment I would pick my baby up off the treatment table and wonder at the soft, relaxed and floppy child I now held in my arms. Surely this wasn’t the same baby?
She would sleep very well after each session and craniosacral treatment soon became an indispensable part of our routine. But I needed to know how it worked. The therapist gave clear but vague explanations. So I signed up for an Introductory Weekend at CTET and fell, with a bang, straight through the rabbit hole. I discovered in that one weekend a fascinating new way of relating to the world and to other people and, more importantly, I discovered something I still strongly believe: The type of listening touch a Craniosacral Therapist uses is not a special ability, it is a skill we all have the potential to develop.
I committed myself to the two year practitioner training immediately after the Introductory Weekend and have never looked back. I discovered (as I’m sure other therapists already know) that the more you learn about cranial work, the more fascinating it becomes. And the more you begin to see that it is relevant to, and has an impact on, just about every facet of your world and life. I can’t think of any other field of work that would not only bring me into contact with so many beautiful people and their amazing stories but also have such an impact on how I live my life on a day to day basis.
Since qualifying as a Craniosacral Therapist I have happily given up over ten years working in publishing and have built a practice with clinics in Camden, Islington and Nottinghill. As well as being fully insured, I am a member of the Craniosacral Therapy Association and a founding member of The Cranial Space, a collective of Craniosacral Therapists working in London to promote the work. Because I feel strongly that Craniosacral Therapy should not be a resource only for the wealthy, I co-founded The Cranial Space Low-Cost Clinic at The West London Buddhist Centre in Nottinghill where we aim to make Craniosacral Therapy available to the wider public. And I also volunteer one day per week at Positively Women, a charity set up to support women living with HIV.
In my clinics I take great joy in working with men, women and children of all ages and from all walks of life. Conditions I commonly see include: anxiety, M.E and other fatigue conditions, depression, post-traumatic disorders, frozen shoulder, back and neck pain, insomnia, panic attacks, chronic pain, migraines, asthma, long-term illness and immune disorders. However, I always work from the principle that I work with health, not illness, and help my clients, regardless of their condition, come back into a connection with their own health. In my opinion, craniosacral work is the safest and most effective way to feel healthy again.
Qualifications
- Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust (CTET) Practitioners Diploma.
- CTET Living Anatomy and Physiology Certificate.
- APNT Anatomy and Physiology Diploma (with distinction)
- Introduction to Counselling
Post-graduate study
- Dentistry and cranial work with Wojciech Tarnowski and Chris Castledine
- Visceral Intelligence with Michael Kern
- How Bones Breath: Biodynamic approaches to pregnancy and beyond with Michael Shea
- Introduction to Visionary Craniosacral Work with Hugh Milne.
