HOW CAN I HELP YOU?

MY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

I have more than two decades of experience as an exercise professional and I can't imagine doing anything else. Twenty six years after starting my career as a personal trainer in a corporate gym in London, I still love what I do and bring endless energy and empathy to my work.

I'm deeply passionate about having a healthy relationship with physical activity and learning to exercise intuitively and appropriately.

I now work more clinically and specialise in training and coaching people who have a diagnosis of cancer or those who, like me, have undergone stoma surgery.

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I keep up-to-date with my training and thinking, and weave together a unique range of movement based modalities  including cancer rehabilitation, biomechanics, movement coaching and clinical Pilates.

With decades of knowledge and experience I offer a truly caring, holistic and individualised service to my clients.

My training approach is based on clinical Pilates and I have trained with APPI (Australian Physiotherapy and Pilates Institute) to become a certified instructor.

​My passion is in working with people who are at their most vulnerable and unwell.. and using exercise to rebuild confidence and health.

I have been working in an increasingly clinical role with nurses and people with bowel conditions over the last few years. I have developed the industry-leading training course (me+™recovery) for ConvaTec (www.convatec.co.uk) to educate nurses about exercise, movement and recovery for their patients. I have trained thousands of nurses around the world and over 300 NHS and private nurses in the UK.​

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I am currently recognised as one of the UK’s leading practitioners in abdominal rehabilitation and recovery after stoma surgery.

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This work led me to write and publish my first book  The Bowel Cancer Recovery Toolkit.

I have also conducted research and published clinical research papers in peer reviewed medical journals – British Journal of Nursing and Gastrointestinal Nursing in 2016 and 2017.

​I love presenting and teaching, and regularly speak at conferences and workshops around the world about stoma rehabilitation, bowel cancer, hernia and exercise in this specialist population.

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In addition to this, I volunteer at the Hospice in the Weald in Tunbridge Wells where I work with the outpatient exercise group and run cancer exercise groups for Nuffield Health.