Therapists

Andrew is a group analyst and psychotherapist. He has been running therapy groups within the NHS for the last eight years and also works in a university and in private practice. Prior to training as a psychotherapist he worked in theatre for ten years before setting up his own business providing training and coaching in business and community settings.

Anna’s background as an artist informs her yoga teaching and you can expect creative and attuned sequences. Anna’s practice is all about encouraging students to bring and work with all parts of themselves, the parts that feel easier and more spacious as well as those that perhaps feel more uncomfortable and stuck. Anna uses the platform of yoga to help people, herself included, reconnect back to their bodies, to the ability to play, express and so heal. Andrew is working in collaboration with some of our yoga teachers.

Casey Stewart-Smith is a Jing trained Advanced Clinical Massage Therapist specialising in pain and relaxation techniques. The Jing Method™ of Advanced Clinical Massage is a unique outcome based system for addressing chronic musculoskeletal pain through a tried and tested fusion of advanced soft tissue and massage techniques.

CASEY STEWART-SMITH

CLINICAL MASSAGE THERAPIST

Casey Stewart-Smith is a Jing trained Advanced Clinical Massage Therapist specialising in pain and relaxation techniques. The Jing Method™ of Advanced Clinical Massage is a unique outcome based system for addressing chronic musculoskeletal pain through a tried and tested fusion of advanced soft tissue and massage techniques.

EMMA PATERSON

PSYCHOTHERAPIST

Emmas is a BACP registered integrative psychotherapist and mother of two with some personal experience of the frustrations of living with long Covid. She's been working as a psychotherapist in Higher Education and the NHS for the past 15 years and loves helping people find creative ways to improve their lives. She's led numerous Mindfulness and psycho-educational workshops, and her approach in facilitating group work is positive and solution focused. She spent her youth working as a broadcast journalist in London and took a mid-life career swerve when she relocated to the North. These days she enjoys the calm of the countryside, dog walks along the Northumberland coast and a new found passion for painting. She looks forward to meeting you all! Emma is working in collaboration with some of our yoga teachers.

EMMA SHANE

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST

Emmas is a BACP registered integrative psychotherapist and mother of two with some personal experience of the frustrations of living with long Covid. She's been working as a psychotherapist in Higher Education and the NHS for the past 15 years and loves helping people find creative ways to improve their lives. She's led numerous Mindfulness and psycho-educational workshops, and her approach in facilitating group work is positive and solution focused. She spent her youth working as a broadcast journalist in London and took a mid-life career swerve when she relocated to the North. These days she enjoys the calm of the countryside, dog walks along the Northumberland coast and a new found passion for painting. She looks forward to meeting you all! Emma is working in collaboration with some of our yoga teachers.

FARAH DIBA

WELLBEING COUNCILLOR & THERAPIST

Farah has been a member of the Federation of Holistic Therapists for over 20 years and as a professional Therapist and Life Coach her expertise in Wellbeing and Stress Management has been widely appreciated in supporting communities, schools, various charities as well as partnering with a range of organisations to encourage, develop and inspire positivity and resilience through Mental, Physical and Emotional health.

Farah’s passion for facilitating and motivating positive change has led her to combine the use of her qualifications and knowledge of various therapies with her extensive experience in teaching to guide and inspire others to achieve deeper self-awareness and self-empathy, through educating minds and expanding hearts.

Her extensive experience in teaching Counselling Skills, Mentoring and developing new courses for several London Borough’s Adult Education Authorities to encourage wellbeing as a forefront of the family and working environment has gained recognition and respect. Farah has worked with wide variety of adults and young people and is a highly trained facilitator for a world-renowned positive parenting programme, delivering Triple P in several languages for over 10 years.

“We are here to love and lift others”

JANA S.

AYURVEDIC PRACTITIONER

Yoga and Ayurveda are sister sciences that share their roots in 5,000-year-old scriptures called the Vedas. A key difference between Western medicine and Ayurveda is that treatment is specific to the individual rather than to the named illness. Treatment therefore starts by identifying the unique constitution (Vata/Pitta/Kapha) of the individual and their imbalance.

While Yoga is now widely practiced, Ayurveda has only a relatively small presence in the UK.

MARIA-JOSE BLANCO

PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPIST & GROUP ANALYST

Maria-José is a bi-lingual (English and Spanish) psychodynamic psychotherapist, group-analyst (Institute of Group Analysis, London) and academic who works with individuals and groups in private practice. She has worked as a psychotherapist and group conductor in the NHS and in the third sector for more than 10 years. She works with people from all kinds of backgrounds who suffer different manifestations of psychological distress. Her core trainings are psychodynamic and group analytic. She trained at the Institute of Group-Analysis, London and has also done basic training on Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) at the Anna Freud Centre in London and Writing as Creative Therapy at the Gestalt Institute in London.