• Fairytale Healing

    Fairytale Healing

    Alice was referred to me for play therapy when she was five years old . She was referred by a team of health service professionals who were offering counselling support to Alice’s father and his new girlfriend.  Alice was grieving for her mother who had passed away with cancer two years earlier.  The little girl…

  • Richard’s Ash Wednesday Pilgrimage

    Richard’s Ash Wednesday Pilgrimage

    Music touches our hearts when words fail.  It allows healing to take place by altering the vibrational field within a room. It can reduce the debilitating effect of a potentially stressful environment and lessens the impact of colds and ear infections during the early months of language acquisition.  This research is documented in the Sensory…

  • Never Make Assumptions

    Never Make Assumptions

    A young Asian man was referred to me because of his limited communication and challenging behaviour. Arif had a history of violent outbursts and his parents and members of staff in his residential home were subjected to regular attacks of spitting, scratching, pinching and biting.  On my first vist, Arif was sitting cross-legged with head…

  • Toning and Energy Alignment to Heal Tinnitus

    This is an excerpt from Positive Health Online Issue 220 – February 2015.  Toning and Energy Alignment to Heal Tinnitus. Tinnitus is often described as a noise in the head, interestingly the word is taken from the Latin word ‘tinnire’ which means ringing or a tinkling bell. However, my clients who suffered from tinnitus have…

  • It’s Never Too Late

    It’s Never Too Late

    My mother Betty was born in 1921. She was the youngest daughter of Alice and Enos Sherborne. Her mother Alice had been a milliner and a window dresser for Harrods, the now famous department store in London. Alice married Enos, a cabinet maker and they had six children. Betty was the youngest daughter. After leaving…

  • Susie and Chopin

    Susie and Chopin

    Susie, a woman in her forties had learning disabilities and had difficulty expressing herself.  Her mother, with whom she had lived, had passed away two years earlier and since that time Susie had lived in a residential home with four other women  she hadn’t previously known.  Susie was referred to me because the care staff…

  • Vocal Toning:  Rainbow Chakra Tones

    Vocal Toning: Rainbow Chakra Tones

    Toning is an ancient and powerful method of using the voice. The toning process energises the brain and stimulates and regenerates the central nervous system to activate the body’s own self-healing mechanism.  Ancient cultures in both the northern and southern hemisphere understood the law of vibration and recognised sound as energy in motion, acknowledging that…

  • A Musical Memory

    A Musical Memory

    Music has had a marked impact on the life of many of my clients with learning disabilities.  I particularly remember one lady, who was referred to me because, although she was forty- four, she had never spoken.  However, staff in her residential home believed that Jean understood most of what was said to her.  One…

  • Restoring Peace to the Home

    My experience as a foster mother of young children and also as a speech and language therapist in community and hospital clinics, has shown me that behaviour problems inhibit other aspects of development.  I eventually left my profession in search of another, simpler way of working with adults and children with complex needs.  Having studied…

  • Angela Finds Her Voice

    Angela Finds Her Voice

    Angela was a tall, frail looking woman in her forties with dark hair and hunched shoulders.  She spoke in a whisper and rarely made eye contact. Whenever Angela left the residential home in which she lived, she clung to her support worker, linking arms wherever they walked. She had been diagnosed with a genetic condition…