Therapists & Teachers

Below is a list of practitioners who work at the Hamblin Centre but are independent of The Hamblin Trust. If you wish to book an appointment, please contact them directly. If you wish to advertise your practice here, please e-mail:

Brand-new for lockdown! Online Yoga from the safety and comfort of your own home.

RELAX, RENEW & RE-ENERGISE WITH RESTORATIVE YOGA SHARON GREENTREE

This one-hour session of Restorative Yoga gives you the opportunity to let go of the stresses of the week & Re-energise your Mind & Body. Restorative Yoga aims at releasing muscle tension whilst holding the body in postures that are very comfortable. with aid of props (Yoga bolster or pillows, belts or scarves all count as props). This helps us to feel safe, and in turn, to relax.

£35 for 4 sessions / One session £10
Please contact Sharon with any queries or to book your space.

THERAPEUTIC HELP DURING COVID-19: PAUL GRIXTI

A thought about Covid-19: Many people seem to be largely unaffected by the virus and even by the restrictions in place. Long may their resilience continue. However,  there are others who were not immune to the virus or who were not immune to the difficulties associated with self-isolating, and you are in our thoughts. Our client work continues, although currently only through telephone or video link (we use Zoom as its encryption level meets our standards for ethical practice hygiene). What we have found over the past few months is that clients' emotional reactions to the Coronavirus do not tend to exist separate to their historical experiences. That is, the experience of living with the pandemic often seems to trigger earlier traumatic memory to produce a double-whammy effect. When people ask why they are so much more emotional than they expected to be, we usually find their experience sort of teams up with a long-ago memory through negative cognition (negative irrational thought or belief about themselves) and/or through body memory (an associated feeling or sensation). The good news is these then become our targets, and together, we desensitise them and reprocess using their rational brain (that was previously unavailable to them due to the normal fight-flight-freeze response). We find, time after time ,that people will self-actualise - we just need to get past our own trauma responses sometimes in order to free our beautiful minds.

Please get in touch.

Acupuncture & Remedial Massage: Caroline King

Caroline King is a well- qualified acupuncturist with over 25 years' experience working in a hospital, local surgery, and have taught students to degree level and have been an examiner for the International College of Oriental Medicine. I now practice in my own premises and will do home visits.

Traditional acupuncture has a successful 2000-year history and is based on the unique nature and balance of each individual. It is used to treat a wide spectrum of disorders ranging from joint pain to stress related conditions. 

Caroline also offers Remedial Massage for the Hamblin Low-Cost Clinic initiative, at the Hamblin Centre near Chichester, every Monday 10am - 12 noon. Enquiries to

Alexander Technique & Counselling: Marcus James

The Alexander Technique

The Alexander Technique is an effective and empowering approach to healing chronic pain and discomfort, reducing stress and improving performance. In the lessons you discover how your body and mind are designed to work together and learn practical skills to enable you to let go of unnecessary physical and mental tension, feel more in tune with yourself, find greater vitality and confidence, and to feel more comfortable in your own skin.

Counselling

Emotional Therapeutic Counselling is a creative, talk-based therapy which helps you to make sense of and resolve emotions and patterns behind current painful feelings and personal difficulties in order to enable real and lasting changes in yourself, your life and your relationships.

Clients can be seen at my home practice or at the Hamblin Centre near Chichester.

Alexander Technique & Shibashi (Qigong): Sally Rughani

The Alexander Technique is a skill for self-development teaching you to change long-standing habits that cause unnecessary tension in everything you do.

Whatever your age or ability, the Technique can help boost your performance in any activity and relieve the pain and stress caused by postural habits, like slouching or rounded shoulders.

Working with your teacher, you will learn to recognise your usual reactions to the stresses of life. You will find out how you have been contributing to your problems, how to prevent them and regain control.

Sally Rughani is an experienced Alexander Technique Teacher, having taught the Technique for over 26 years. Sally has recently moved to the area after teaching in Nottingham and London. She also has experience in leading meditation and retreats in the Buddhist tradition.

In the last few years Sally has been exploring Tai Chi (Shibashi 18 movements), and combining this with her background in Alexander Technique and meditation. She completed the Level 1 Shibashi Instructor Training course in 2019.

Shibashi is a simple form of Tai Chi Qigong. This set of 18 movements is a gentle, beautiful and flowing Qigong exercise routine that is both a joy to do and deeply relaxing.

Sally’s next 6-week course of Shibashi in the Garden will commence Spring 2021.

Ascension Guide & Mentor: Stephanie Lofgren

I am a facilitator and mentor of consciousness expansion and spiritual awakening. With almost 20 years of study and research into the fields of consciousness and multi-dimensionality, and direct consciousness experiences. I have a unique insight into the current planetary conditions occurring energetically and how they affect humans on the earth.

At this present time, our planet is experiencing an incredible influx of plasma light that is having the effect of exposing many of the systems and institutions that are taken for granted as being the way of life for human beings. These infusions also affect individuals resulting in shifts in consciousness and many times the deconstructing of what our lives have been up to this point.

I offer individual mentoring sessions to support people going through life changes and unusual experiences by providing context for those experiences. Having experienced complete dismantling myself and supporting my two daughters through their own experiences, including mental health, eating disorder and OCD, I am equipped to guide and reassure that things do get better.

I offer talks and workshops addressing our spiritual/multi-dimensional anatomy that relates to our light-body and how to strengthen it and thus increase our connection to our higher selves. And what we can do to be more in alignment with universal laws in order to make our lives more naturally flowing, and more peaceful.

Aura-Soma Colour System: Jeanine Hanneman 

The Equilibrium bottles are the heart of the Aura-Soma system. Their vibrant colours support us towards spiritual wellbeing and self- awareness.

The bottles contain the living energies of herbs, essential oils, gems and crystals that are specially colour coded to bring harmony and balance to our aura and energy centres.

Through this exciting colour system, we can use the dynamic, living energies of nature to help us in so many ways…

• Awaken an enthusiasm for life

• Appreciate ourselves and our talents

• Find more ease in our relationships

• Rebalance, revitalise and harmonise our energies

• Reconnect with our inner selves and intuition

Jeanine offers Indian Head Massage every first, second and third Tuesday of the month at the Hamblin Centre near Chichester, 2-4pm, as part of the Hamblin Low-Cost Clinic initiative. hamblincentre.org.uk/hamblin-lowcost-clinic-indian-head-massage

Jeanine also offers EFT, Swedish Body Massage, Indian Head Massage and Reiki at her home practice.

For Buddhists and Non-Buddhists
Friendly meetings every Thursday evening in the hall of the Hamblin Centre near Chichester. Start 7.30 pm - Finish 9.00pm
We aim to provide a safe space conducive to meditation, where we can also discuss, learn, reflect, experience, question and debate Buddhist teachings. We aim to inform and support, not recruit or convert. There is no membership, no sign up. This is an inward journey and you decide how far you go.

Clinical Reflexology: Ruth Craig

Ruth is available at the Hamblin Centre near Chichester by appointment. 
Home visits within a 10-mile radius.

Clinical Reflexology is a profound therapy individually tailored for the client. Using deep touch on specific areas of the feet or hands to stimulate the body’s inherent healing capability. Ruth is passionate about reflexology and its many benefits, and is deeply committed to helping her clients achieve optimum health.

Ruth has 30 years’ experience in the NHS as a cardiac physiologist. She obtained a Level 5 diploma in Clinical Reflexology from The Reflexology Academy, London, the highest qualification currently available in reflexology, specifically designed for health professionals. She is fully DBS-checked.

Counselling & Psychotherapy: Lizzie McCann

I am a generic counsellor with a private practice from Midhurst in West Sussex. I also see clients at the Hamblin Centre in Bosham near Chichester.

I see a client group spanning young children to older adults. I am qualified as a Parenting Trainer and Play Hours Trainer for parents and children. 

I work with transitions from childhood to adolescence, youth to young adulthood, adulthood to old age, and dealing with long-term sickness and dying.

I have spent many years working in schools (and my clinic) with distressed children; especially with learning difficulties, anxiety and ADHD. I help those suffering bereavement, divorce, family addictions, abuse, violence, poverty, and destitution. I work with families suffering from redundancy. I also deal with discrimination: sexual, religious, and cultural, as well as those experiencing loneliness from enforced isolation.

I have supported many young adults through traumatic changes in their 20s and 30s,  helping them acquire life skills, thinking skills, social skills, and manage spiritual dilemmas. 

COVID-19 has highlighted all these difficult aspects in our lives. The illness, fear, and anxiety that the virus brings exacerbate the troubles that are bubbling below the surface of our smiles. 

I see clients face-to-face at my clinic in Midhurst, at the Hamblin Centre near Chichester, remotely via Zoom, or by telephone by arrangement. 

Counselling: Sandie Parker

There are times in life when we might feel continuously low, anxious, trapped, confused or overwhelmed. I can offer you a safe, non-judgemental and nurturing environment, which will assist you in exploring your pain or difficulties and by working alongside you, help you work towards acceptance or change. I have 40 years of experience in the caring professions and have worked alongside people with a wide variety of issues. My work as a nurse and counsellor, alongside my own personal experiences, have helped me to have a better understanding of some of the issues that clients bring to counselling.

I work predominantly as a psychodynamic counsellor, believing that relationships in our early lives have a great influence on our adult lives. Therapy enables clients to examine past relationships that may be causing us to feel stuck, and assist us in finding new patterns of behaviour and ways of thinking. Since qualifying, I have developed an integrative style of working with clients which brings together different elements of other therapy styles. More importantly, though, I believe that each client needs to be considered a unique individual and that counselling techniques need be tailored to suit specific needs.

After an initial assessment, depending upon your needs, I can offer a one-off session, through to a few sessions, or long-term therapy. Please see my website for more information including fees.

Counselling and Beyond: Kathy Adams

Counselling and Health Coaching integrated with EFT and mindful embodied awareness and self-compassion. Kathy has a passion for bringing together different approaches that make effective, long lasting, gentle changes in mind-body experience. The roots of most of our physical and emotional suffering are stored in the cells of our body creating thoughts, feelings and stress in our nervous system. Thoughts and feelings are by-products of cellular memories and conditioning. Much of this is caused by our life experiences and the beliefs that arise from them. These stop our core energy from flowing and result in difficulties physically and emotionally. Talk therapies alone cannot release these destructive cellular memories as they are encoded in the body as well as the mind. My integrated approach can lead to emotional balance, resilience and more physical wellbeing.

Craniosacral Therapy : Louise Toone RCST BCST

Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle, safe and relaxing treatment which can help you regain your physical and mental balance. This mindful therapy can help with both physical and emotional difficulties, such as recovery after injury and surgery and also with stress symptoms such as headaches, emotional overwhelm and insomnia. Louise is additionally qualified for working with Pregnant Women, Mothers and Babies and with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Appointments available at convenient times at the Hamblin Centre in Bosham near Chichester and at her home-based clinic in Rowlands Castle.

Hamsa Yoga: Emma Owen–Smith

Hamsa (means 'swan' and symbolises the soul) Yoga and Meditation classes are suitable for all ages and levels of experience.  These classes include postures, breathing techniques, meditation and relaxation, all of which are methods to help relax and rejuvenate the individual in and amongst today's fast and furious pace of living.  Regular classes on Thursday and Saturday mornings in Chichester and the Hamblin Centre in Bosham, near Chichester. Workshops, retreats and events throughout the year (please check website).

Hatha Yoga and Vinyasa Flow Yoga: one-to-one sessions: Ellie Sullivan

I am extremely passionate about the benefits that yoga can offer mind, body and spirit. I have been practising yoga for a number of years and completed a yoga teacher training course in India, which is Yoga Alliance certified,  to enable me to share the benefits. It is my mission to make yoga accessible to everybody regardless of their individual ability. 

Yoga is not about being flexible, it is about showing up for yourself with no expectations of how your practice should go. It is about going inward, to observe the body and mind. It allows us to become better connected to our true selves; a way of finding the best version of yourself. It is about discovering that the negative voices in our head telling us what we “can’t” or “shouldn’t” do are not true. It is about slowing down from the busy world and connecting to something greater than yourself. Yoga is the ultimate practice of love. 

I currently teach vinyasa and hatha style yoga and like to incorporate both styles into my teaching. Each session includes breathing techniques, meditation and posture work to help increase mobility and flexibility in the body. I can also teach chair yoga to help make it more accessible to those who are less mobile (on request). One-to-one sessions tailor the sequence to the person to suit their own needs and abilities.

Please contact Ellie for further information.

Humanistic Counsellor: Jackie O’Neill

I am an experienced humanistic counsellor with 5 years’ experience of working within the NHS and in a University, helping people who are finding life challenging due to feelings of stress, anxiety, health concerns including cancer, overwhelm, bereavement and loss. I comply with the BACP and NCS ethical frameworks and undertake regular CPD to keep up to date. Humanistic counsellors aim to help clients explore in depth their own thoughts and feelings. This empowering process allows time and space to work out your own solutions in a confidential environment. I am a warm and caring person and while mainly person centred, I am flexible and integrative incorporating techniques such as NLP and Mindfulness as appropriate. Consultations available in the beautiful surroundings of the Hamblin Centre, Bosham, near Chichester, or in central Chichester.

Jackie also offers counselling sessions (remotely or by telephone at present) as part of the Hamblin Low-Cost Clinic initiative. www. hamblincentre.org.uk/counselling-clinic

Hypnotherapy: Thea Smith

HYPNOTHERAPY – is a powerful, effective therapeutic technique that uses hypnosis to positively help bring about change.

SOLUTION FOCUSED PSYCHOTHERAPY – Concentrates on finding realistic, workable solutions for issues or problems as quickly as possible in order to promote lasting relief.

EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE (EFT OR ‘TAPPING’) – Utilizes the body’s energy meridian points by stimulating them with your fingertips – literally ‘tapping’ into your body’s own energy and healing power. EFT has amazing results and can help people overcome many issues.

The benefits of these therapies are truly life changing. They can have a profoundly positive effect on health and happiness. They can be used to help make positive lasting changes and greatly improve wellbeing.

Every client comes to me their own unique set of life experiences. Working together, we can identify the cause of any issues and look at finding a way forward. I offer a safe, confidential and caring atmosphere in which to communicate and progress.

I am non-judgmental, sympathetic and understanding of life’s issues and the effects they can have on the body, both mentally and physically.

Every session is tailored and focused on helping and supporting my clients to achieve their goals.

I offer a free and confidential 15 minute consultation. Consultations are available in person at The Hamblin Centre or online via Skype, Facetime or Zoom.

Hypnotherapy & Humanistic Counselling: Chris Wood

I am a retired secondary school teacher with a varied career in both commercial and public sectors. I have a wealth of pastoral experience facilitating positive change in the lives of both adults and children.

My skills and qualifications enable me to tailor a program to match your own needs. Your journey starts with a free, relaxed online consultation, or visit.

Hypnotherapy is a curative healing method that is used to create subconscious change in a client and helps them form new responses, thoughts, attitudes, behaviours or feelings. It is undertaken with the client in hypnosis.

Neuro Linguistic Programming uses language to change the way you react to particular things. I find it works well for clients who want to reshape their relationships with others and create positive outcomes for themselves.

A humanistic approach provides a distinct method of counselling and focuses predominately on a client’s unique, personal potential to explore creativity, growth, love and psychological understanding.

Please don’t hesitate to call.

Chris provides therapy at the Hamblin Centre near Chichester, his home clinic, and visits clients over the southern counties.

Laughter Yoga: Lesley Raphael

Lesley Raphael has taken over the running of the Laughter Club at the Hamblin Centre near Chichester (currently on Zoom. )

Lesley Raphael is a Laughter Leader, Teacher and Ambassador.  She discovered laughter yoga in 2014, where its positive benefits to mind, body and spirit led her out of 7 years' physical and mental ill-health.  Inspired and impassioned, Lesley now delivers laughter sessions to groups of all kinds throughout London and the South East from health, social and support groups through to corporate events, staff training and well-being days, festivals and retreats.  She has run Worthing Laughter Club since 2015 and has now taken over running the long-standing Chichester Laughter Club from February 2020 which meets monthly at Hamblin Hall on a Saturday morning.  Lesley also runs laughter leader 2-day certificated training weekends at Hamblin Hall, for those would like to spread laughter and happiness in their own community, work with a specialist group, or simply add more laughter to their own lives.

 Lesley is also a qualified Reflexologist and Bach Flower Remedy practitioner, a full-time career for over 25 years.  Now part-time, she offers private sessions, talks, workshops and training through her work at Hamblin Hall, private home visits, and at her home in Worthing. She particularly enjoys working with clients who are on a path of personal development; suffering stress or burnout; or who are working through present or historic trauma. 

 Her work objective is to deliver sessions and therapies with warmth, friendliness, caring and professionalism.  To work to the best of her skill, knowledge and experience.  To help people become their most relaxed, healthy, happy selves and to support them in identifying and releasing any blocks to that state of being.  To not take herself too seriously and to find love, light, laughter and connection in every moment. 

Osteopathy: Jonathan James

Osteopathy is a way of detecting, treating and preventing pain and health problems by moving, stretching and massaging painful muscles and joints. Practitioners use specialist therapeutic techniques to help improve the mobility of joints and promote full functioning of the various systems of health including blood flow, lymphatic motility, correct posture, relaxation of the musculature and the often overlooked connective tissues. 

As with many alternative medical disciplines, treatment style is unique to each practitioner, who often have different backgrounds and specialist interests in their field of research, treatment and experience. Jonathan aims to provide a mix of hands-on evidence based treatment technique with experience based practice, and has a background of martial art, qi-qong and meditation. Clients are seen at the Hamblin Centre near Chichester.

For more information, see: www.southcoastosteopathic.co.uk
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/osteopathy/ 
https://www.osteopathy.org.uk/faqs/?p=1

Psychodynamic Counselling: Kate Goss

I am a qualified and experienced counsellor with a Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling and with certificates in a wide range of other therapeutic practices. I participate in regular continuing professional development courses, am part of a local ongoing CPD psychodynamic discussion group. I am a member of the BACP and adheres strictly to the counselling ethical framework.

I have experience in using art and imagery and in working with and listening to the body to help us find out what is going on within us and how our past experiences have shaped us. Counselling can help us to better understand and to deal with a wide range of difficulties including anger, anxiety, bereavement, eating disorders, depression, family issues, guilt, loneliness, injury, loss and grief, low self esteem, relationship issues, stress and work related issues.

Our counselling sessions will begin with an initial appointment. The counselling relationship is crucial to the success of the therapy and the initial appointment should help us to find out whether or not we feel that we could work together. From there we will go on to build a therapeutic, non-judgemental, confidential counselling relationship, through close listening, empathy, reflection and body awareness.

Reiki Healer and Spiritual Life Coach: Anthony Oyo

Reiki Healing provides a Gateway to Reducing Stress and Rebalancing your Life

Reiki means "universal life energy" in Japanese. Dr Mikao Usui developed the Reiki Methodology in the early 20th Century, based on Ancient and largely forgotten knowledge. It is a healing technique based on the principle of free and uninterrupted energy flow and helps activate the natural healing processes in our body as well as to restore physical and emotional well-being. The whole person is treated rather than specific areas.

Each body holds the key to its own healing. As a Reiki Healer, I provide the treatments, resources, and tools necessary to unlock the innate potential each of us holds inside. I work to create a safe and compassionate environment for you to discover what will help you lead a healthier and more relaxed life. You can live the life you want, and as your Reiki Healer, I’m here to support you along the way.

I have been using Reiki for over 10 years and as a qualified Reiki Master and Teacher and Spiritual Life Coach, and member of the UK Reiki Federation, I am passionate about sharing the healing possibilities of this complementary therapy, to enhance general well-being in a non-invasive way, as well as support spiritual well-being,  growth and exploration.

Healing sessions are available at the Hamblin Centre, or in Brighton or in the comfort of your own home (Remotely). Please get in touch to find out more or book a session (minimum 1 hour).

When I started giving introductory talks on Reiki Healing at the Hamblin Centre in 2019, attendees presented a strong desire to discuss spirituality and the practicalities of embedding spiritual practice and individuals’ spiritual  journeys into the practicalities of real life (such as family, work, money, responsibilities), along with achieving their life goals and aspirations. This also very much reflected my own challenges and opportunities over the last 30 years, so I developed my Spiritual Life Coaching practice to incorporate this important aspect. Please check out the website: https://www.spirituallifecoachinguk.com/ and get in touch to find out more and explore how this might help you achieve your life goals and aspirations.

Reiki: Derek Hedicker

Reiki is a very relaxing yet profound energy healing system, which is helpful in recovery from illness and injury, pain relief, stress-related conditions, and restoring a sense of wholeness and wellbeing. Clients can be seen at the Hamblin Centre near Chichester.

Derek also offers Reiki sessions as part of the Hamblin Low-Cost Clinic initiative.

https://hamblincentre.org.uk/reiki-clinic

Relationship and Communication Coaching,
Training & Mediation: Jo McHale

It’s my mission to help everyone of us to enjoy relationships that are full of mutual understanding … respect … compassion … connection.

We all want to be treated as though we matter. And we want to be there for others, too. But things don’t always work out like that.

We find ourselves getting irritable with our partner. Our teenager is proving to be a handful. Friends are sometimes a challenge and our work colleagues don’t behave the way we’d like them to. Sometimes it’s hard to stand our ground and to speak up for ourselves. Or else we find ourselves going in the opposite direction and sounding dominating or aggressive.

Do you recognise yourself?

For the past twenty years, I have been working with the powerful and transformational process of Nonviolent Communication, helping individuals, couples and teams to:

• explore how their upbringing and subsequent experiences have shaped their beliefs about themselves and others

• be aware of their habitual behaviours and reactions and of how these impact others

• learn the relationship and communication skills that bring people together rather than putting up barriers to connection

• transform conflict

• build relationships that enable them to be true to themselves, authentic, respectful and creative.

So if you would like to show up in the world in your true colours, build better relationships, handle conflict confidently and/or repair fractured relationships, please ring or email me.

I offer:      

• communication and relationship coaching for individuals, couples and work teams

• mediation and conflict transformation

• facilitation to promote dialogue between different factions, ideas and strategies

• training in communication and relationship skills and in responding creatively to conflict.

If you’d like to learn the process of Nonviolent Communication, then look out for my workshops here at the Hamblin Centre near Chichester, or else in my home village of Churt, three miles from the A3/Hindhead Tunnel.

Remedial Massage: Georgina Crossman

Georgie Crossman is a highly qualified ITEC Holistic Massage Therapist with over 15 years of experience and recognised as a leading expert within her field, specialising in Sports and Remedial Massage. Georgie also practices Holistic Swedish massage, Indian head massage, hot stones and Thermal Aricular Therapy (also known as 'Hopi Candles').  

 Clients range from celebrity sports personalities, athletes, full-time mums and individuals recovering from operations, rehabilitation, chronic back/neck ache and aiding general health and well-being.  Remedial massage is one of the most effective ways to prevent and treat muscular aches and pains and to recreate a balance within the body.  It is also beneficial for those suffering from occupational or posture related pain. 

Georgie is well respected within her field and incredibly passionate and knowledgeable about what she does and gets great satisfaction in helping her clients get back to a healthy state of mind and fitness.  She is a member of the Federation of Holistic Therapists.

Contact Georgie, the leading expert in massage and now based in West Sussex, at the Hamblin Centre near Chichester, to book an appointment.

Yoga for All : Venetia Davidson

Help yourself to keep a healthy mind and a healthy body at a yoga class at the Hamblin Centre near Chichester.
Monday 10:30 am Thursday 9:00am and Friday 11:00 am.
Beginners and all levels of ability welcome.

All classes will include relaxation, breathing practices, stretching and mobilisation through posture work. Please note, you do not have to be flexible or able to perform miracles with your body. The aim of my class is to increase body, postural awareness and flexibility as well as helping to reduce stress in this increasingly busy world we live in. Classes also in Chichester and the surrounding area. One-to-one sessions are also available, which include a personally structured practice to help specific needs.

Friendly disclaimer:  
The Hamblin Trust is unable to endorse any particular teacher, practitioner or therapist.
This is a matter for each individual to assess and take further if they wish.