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Tina has been actively involved with integrating complementary therapies into NHS cancer care for the past 10 years. She has a nursing background and has specialised in cancer and palliative medicine. Last year Tina gradated with a MSc in Complementary Therapies from the University of Westminster. Tina also holds qualifications in massage and aromatherapy. She oversees the therapeutic programme offered to all Visitors.
Sue is an advanced EFT practitioner and trainer. She is also an experienced hypnotherapist, Master NLP practitioner, trainer and examiner for The European College of Holistic Medicine's highly acclaimed Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy, NLP and Life Coaching. She is also a student of A Course in Miracles.
Nadia has been involved in Complementary Medicine since the early 1980s and has qualifications in Western Herbal Medicine, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Acupuncture, Reflexology, Aromatherapy, Bowen Therapy, Iridology, Vodder Lymph Drainage Massage, Ayurvedic Massage Therapy, and is a Hippocrates Health Educator and Associate Raw and Living Food Chef and Instructor, a Homeopath and Naturopath and will be undertaking a MSc at the University of Westminster, Department of Complementary Health Studies. Nadia also teaches Herbal Medicine at the College of Naturopathic Medicine in London and Dublin and specializes in Naturopathic and raw and living food diets, herbal detoxification and rejuvenation and chronic disease, particularly cancer of any type using herbs and diet.
Sarah graduated from the British School of Shiatsu-Do in 2000 and is a registered member of the Shiatsu Society. She first became interested in Shiatsu through living and working in Japan for many years. Shiatsu-Do means 'Way of Shiatsu' and means that her approach takes into account the whole person and their way of life.
Sara is the founder of Breast Cancer Haven and is a Kinesiologist specialising in physical and emotional health issues. She has been working with energetic medicine for the past 18 years, originally training with the National Federation of Spiritual Healers and later studying Feng Shui, dowsing and geopathic stress.
She is also a Reiki practitioner and works with the NES system which analyses energetic imbalances in the body
Jo trained at the British School of Complementary Therapy, Harley Street in 1998. She is a member of the Association of Reflexologists and has worked at Breast Cancer Haven since it opened in 2000.
Gosia has worked for many years assisting people with life threatening illnesses. Her work is based on the idea that our emotions and thoughts have a powerful effect on our physical body and general well-being, and it is important to take them into consideration in a process of change and healing. Gosia has qualified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Time-Line Therapy, Thought Field Therapy, Sedona Method, Hypnotherapy and Life Coaching. Her work has often been featured in the media.
Charles came from a medical family, qualified in medicine, got seriously ill, benefited from complementary medicine and now practices homeopathy at BCH and herbalism and healing privately. He has worked at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, been the UK’s lead practitioner for the Gerson Therapy, co-founded one of London’s first large complementary medicine centres, pioneered new treatments and been featured in the national media.
He is a member of the General Medical Council, Faculty of Homeopathy, Society of Homeopaths, National Institute of Medical Herbalists and Confederation of Healing Organisations.Charles uses both conventional homeopathic remedies and a radionics machine. This computerised device enables him to give treatments during the actual session and means he can do some things that traditional remedies cannot.
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Alex qualified as a Medical Herbalist in 1999 and set up and still runs the first herbal medicine clinic in a UK hospital at Whipps Cross University Hospital. Her four-year Diploma in Herbal Medicine (Phytotherapy) covered the medical sciences, pharmacology and nutrition, as well as traditional herbal therapeutics and apprenticeship in the training clinic. Alex is a member of both the National Institute of Medical Herbalists and the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy.
Sarah background is in business, marketing, and PR where she specialised in agricultural, pharmaceutical and food type clients. Sarah then joined the Milk Marketing Board and where she was responsible for all their health and consumer PR and began to do food and recipe writing. After six years in this position, she set up her own PR company specialising in food PR and food styling and recipe development. Sarah then became more interested in nutrition and completed the Institute for Optimum Nutrition course which led her to focus her career entirely on nutrition. She then became the Marketing Director of ION for two years before joining the Haven in 2002.
Carol has been working as a counsellor for 20 years. She trained with Relate, gaining a certificate in Marital & Couple Counselling, an MA in Couple Therapy with the University of East London, Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy and trained and worked as a Supervisor. Carol has also undertaken an Introductory and Second Year Advanced Course in Group Work with the Institute of Group Analysis. She is currently undertaking further training in Embodied Relational Therapy. Carol is an Accredited Member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists
Emma Roberts is an EFT Master and Trainer, and a fellow of the AAMET. She is also a clinical hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner. Emma is co-founder of The EFT Centre in London, and is also a trainer and examiner at the European College of Holistic Medicine.
Emma believes that EFT is a practical tool to be shared with everyone. This belief of sharing EFT is at the core of all her work. She offers group workshops and individual sessions at BCH, working with releasing both the emotional and physical responses to cancer diagnosis and offering visitors a way of managing their own emotional wellbeing during their journey with cancer. EFT is a very gentle and safe way of working which allows visitors to take some charge back over their healing.
Barbara has been working in the field of Complementary medicine since the early 1970s. Her way is to encourage the creative healing of the whole person. She is a Transpersonal Psychotherapist, a teacher of yoga of the British Wheel, a leader member of the National Federation of Spiritual Healers and has spent many years researching into the benefits of meditation and relaxation and the imagination with the scientist Maxwell Code. For over twenty years she has been regularly leading programmes at the Penny Brohn Cancer Centre as their senior therapist.
A recording of Barbara's "Journey Through Meditation and Relaxation" can be purchased here.
Patrick trained as a hairdresser in 1974 and has practiced in salons and on photo shoots, and has appeared as an expert on many UK television programmes. He is a member of BABTAC and The Federation of Image Consultants. Patrick provides a Shopping Experience for Red Letter Days, image consultancy for Concierge.com and Seventy Thirty.com and speaks regularly about fashion and beauty in the media and through public appearances.
Tricia initially studied and practised Ki Aikido, and has been practising Shiatsu and Craniosacral Therapy since the 1990s. She is a graduate of the British School of Shiatsu-Do London and a graduate of The Karuna Institute in Devon (Craniosacral). She specialises in Shiatsu for pregnancy, labour and the post-natal period. She also works with babies using both Craniosacral and Shiatsu. She has practised Qi Gong for many years – her teachers being Ged Sumner, Thalbert Allen and recently with Zhi Xing Wang.
A qualified teacher, and with an M.Ed in Human Relations, Eve Warren has been a training consultant and life-work coach for over 20 years. For the Haven she offers one to one life-work coaching and runs workshops in Practical Assertiveness, Stress Fitness and Life-work Coaching.
She was a visitor at the London Haven in 2000, has balanced motherhood and full-time work, changed career twice and co-authored two successful books - on stress management and professional development for women. Areas of specialism in her own coaching and training practice include career development, change and stress management, women’s leadership, communication including public speaking and interpersonal skills.
She is co-founder of WiSH - supporting and encouraging more women into school headship.
Julia is a Lebed Method teacher and a natural health therapist qualified in aromatherapy, reflexology, massage and iridology. Julia has also been teaching yoga for the past 10 years and teaching complementary therapies in higher education for 4 years. Julia has been working in the clinical field since qualifying as a practitioner in 1993. The Lebed Method combines her therapeutic work with her love for movement, dance and music providing an exciting way to assist clients with lymphodema, or those at risk. The Lebed Method is also suitable for clients with a need for gentle, focused exercise in a safe and fun environment.
Christopher is a Acupuncturist and Ear Acupuncturist, and is a member of the British Acupuncture Council. He has a degree in Psychology, Philosophy and Drama and has done some acupuncture training in Taiwan. Chris practises both Traditional Chinese Medicine and Five Element Styles acupuncture. He is also a Craniosacral Therapist and Reiki Master as well as an Internal Martial Artist practising: Taiqi, Qi Gong, BaGua, I Ching, Xingue mediations. Christopher has experience of working in a variety of areas including drug addiction, infertility, pre-natal and post-natal treatment and newborn infants.
