About

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  (forthcoming book)
• 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