After briefly working for the NHS, I made the choice to be my own boss. Still in the health and fitness field, I worked with GPs and health centres, setting up different schemes for a range of clientele. Holding 20+ classes a week and running multiple health programmes, I discovered a love of teaching and enjoyed the rewards of helping clients to reach a goal.

I retrained in 1996 and gained a Sport Massage and a Remedial Soft Tissue Therapy qualification that helped me to bring all my skills together. As life would have it my focus evolved into becoming a specialist in oncology massage, long before it was trendy and not considered a contraindication.  

I now teach a program nationally that offers certification for therapists to offer a much needed and appreciated therapy.  

Although I am the director (and senior lecturer) of NLSSM, I have never given up the practical side of the profession and I still run my own clinic in both North London & Wales. Keeping up with the real world helps to keep me inspired and that helps to make me a better teacher.

I’m passionate about providing the very best quality of training and that goes beyond my teaching. I sit on the board of the General Council for Massage Therapies, I was a Profession Specific Board member with CNHC for a short time and I am currently a trustee for a cancer charity.  

I’m not a natural born writer.  My position as a teacher and lecturer have given me opportunities to share my knowledge with a wider audience through writing. I admire those who are at ease with this skill, I find it a challenge but over the years and with much support and encouragement from my editor (my husband) I regularly write for a number of periodicals. I am the feature writer for Massage World since 2006. I have also written for Co-Kinetics, The Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, Embody, and Today’s Therapist over the years.

I have written a book called ‘Sports Massage a hands-on guide for therapists’, it is the result of years of experience as a teacher and clinical work as a sport & remedial massage therapist and while it says sports in the title this book is based on the belief that with the correct approach all therapists can work with ease yet have strength and sensitivity within the same touch. It allows the hands to see more than the eyes thus accessing more information about the state of health within the tissue. The body centred approach will allow for both deep and energetic work while the therapist maintains an injury free career.

Video and film work does come naturally.  I have found myself on BBC on a number of occasions and subsequent to that was asked to do a series of expert interviews with Sports Injury Clinic about the benefits of massage for a variety of soft tissue conditions. Being comfortable in front of the camera allows me to demonstrate what I am most passionate about, massage, fixing people, sharing skills with others that will bring greater success in their careers.

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