I was a doctor until 1997 when I decided to retire in order to live the life I really wanted, be more creative, see the sea every day and travel the world!
I am married to an orthopaedic surgeon, have three grown up children, and two little grandchildren.
Medical:
M.B. BCh. Welsh National School of Medicine, 1967 D.Obst R.C.O.G. 1971
Medical practitioner in the UK for over thirty years, working with all aspects of women’s health including family planning, sub-fertility, abortion, women’s health screening, sexually transmitted disease, sexuality, counselling, medical gynaecology, hysterectomy and menopause.
Publication:
- Life after Medicine -for doctors who want a trouble free transition
- Prescription for change- for doctors who want a life
- ABC of Change for Doctors
- Get ready for Retirement – how to have a life after work
- British Medical Journal: BMJ Career Focus articles about life style 2000-2005
- British Journal of Family Planning 1993; 19: 236-238: ‘Contraceptive Provision to Prostitutes in Two Birmingham Saunas’
Counselling:
- Certificate in Counselling skills 1991
- Diploma in Counselling skills 1993
- Master’s degree in Psychodynamic Counselling. M.Ed, 1996
- Dissertation: ‘The counselling needs of women on the waiting list for hysterectomy’
- Counsellor in the Student Counselling services of Birmingham University and Aston University and also in the Brook Advisory Service in Birmingham.
- Open University degree: B.A. in mainly in Psychological subjects
Life Coaching and NLP (neuro-linguitstic programming)
- CoachU graduate
- Accredited by the Life Coaching Academy
- Master Practitioner NLP
- Certificate and Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy
I think that your help in locating my inner hopes and taking charge, is one of the main things I will take forward with me. You work from inside out and I was trying to do it from the head to the heart. And your energy and optimism is infectious! GP client
