Since qualifying in 2006 and dedicating my life to helping clients "get on with theirs,‘ whenever conventional or complementary treatments alone didn't provide lasting relief, I seek answers by exploring new paths. I've been fortunate to expand my expertise beyond traditional osteopathy and am also fully certified in a mind-body medicine approach, modeled on the original works of Dr John Sarno.

This renowned physician was also a professor of rehabilitation medicine at New York University and the author of, The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Mind, Healing the Pain. He identified the brain as the source of physical pain, making all pain absolutely real and valid, delivered by neural pathways, but often centred/triggered/regulated by the emotional centres in our brains.

After studying with Dr Sarno, British physiotherapist Georgie Oldfield, author of, Chronic Pain: Your Key to Recovery, established the Stress Illness Recovery Practitioner’s Association (SIRPA). It’s mission is: “To help people in pain understand how the body and mind work, and to provide them with the tools to live a full, active and healthy life.”

I am a fully certified SIRPA practitioner, and thanks to the inspiration of this training, I am constantly expanding my therapeutic training expertise so I can drive my clients ever more effectively. (Download my full training CV.)

Your physical body stores your unconscious, unexpressed (or repressed) emotions, such as anger, anxiety (fear), sadness and grief. Something happening in our present day lives can trigger or stir up these stored emotions which creates such psychological distress that our bodies produce physical pain to distract us for our emotional distress. Science has documented this symbiotic relationship extensively, Its essence is captured in a few headlines from the Sarno Clinic Newsletter; “Why healing often accelerates after facing suppressed anger, How repressed grief appears as physical pain,” and, Why perfectionism fuels chronic health conditions.”

My mind-body medicine approach can be a huge help in resolving pain dismissed by conventional medicine or complementary practitioners as ‘chronic’, ‘unresolveable’, ‘undiagnosable’ or ‘not real’.