My drive comes from a passion to:
- Improve and maintain people’s general wellbeing.
- Relieve and prevent recurrences of stress related pain.
- Work with clients to recover from acute or chronic injury or surgery.
- To ease and prevent a recurrence of a wide range of posture related health problems.
- Support people with long term conditions such as Fibromyalgia or Parkinsons Disease, alleviating pain and enabling movement.
- Help clients recognise that the mind and body are one and that making the connections between emotional and physical pain is vital to their long-term health and wellbeing.
Offering the right treatment to my clients depends on listening carefully and being adaptable in supporting them.
Having practised bodywork for more than a decade, Sue had developed an inHaving practised bodywork for more than a decade, I work intuitively to understand what my clients need to improve their wellbeing and/or relieve their pain.
Studying extensively with some of the best tutors in the UK, I attained a Professional Diploma BTEC Level 6 in Advanced Clinical, Sports and Remedial Massage. With my ongoing training I strive constantly to deepen my knowledge and understanding of the body and increases the range of treatments I can offer my clients enabling them to feel more invigorated, relaxed and to enjoy life to the full.
Never stop learning seems to have become a way of life for me and I am constantly developing my skills and knowledge. I have undertaken training with some of the leading practitioners in their specialist areas. These include, James Earls (Anatomy Trains), Ruth Duncan (MFR UK), Art Riggs (Remedial and Deep Tissue Massage), many international teachers with the Upledger Institute and Upledger UK and Sharon Wheeler (ScarWork™).
I work instinctively with each client using a combination of advanced clinical and myofascial techniques. Each treatment really is as individual as each of my clients and I use all my skills to treat your body and your situation appropriately. This means that I do not do a routine treatment but incorporate different techniques to help you feel better. Combining these techniques facilitates the release of stuck or restricted fascia in your body resulting in decreased pain and improved range of movement. The aim is to move you out of discomfort mostly in 1 – 6 sessions.
Qualifications from the Jing Institute of Advanced Massage and Training:
- BTEC Level 6 – Professional Diploma in Advanced Clinical and Sports Remedial Massage
- Advanced Sports Stretching
- Certificate in Advanced Myofascial Release & Structural Fascial Techniques
- Advanced Myofascial Certificate
- Advanced Hot Stone Fusion
- Advanced Pregnancy and Post Natal Massage
- Thai Table Massage
- Massage in Supportive and Palliative Care
- TMJ, Face, Headache and Jaw Pain
- Sports and Myofascial Taping
Other Training & Qualifications
- Scar Tissue Therapy 1&2 (Sharon Wheeler, USA)
- Pelvic Work (Sharon Wheeler, USA)
- Bone Work (Sharon Wheeler, USA)
- ScarWork for (Emma Holly. Restore Therapy)
- Anatomy Trains (James Earls)
- Visceral Manipulation 1&2 (Barral Institute)
- Emmett Technique Practitioner Training (Modules 1-5)
- Medical Acupuncture (Osteon Manual Therapy)
- CranioSacral Therapy 1&2 (Upledger)
- Somato Emotional Release 1&2 (Upledger)
- Clinical Applications for CST for CranioSacral Therapy (Upledger)
- Dissection Days at Guys Hospital (Caroline Barrow – College of Body Science)
- Remedial & Deep Tissue Massage (Art Riggs)
- Swedish Massage, Physiology and Anatomy (V.T.C.T)
- Postgraduate Diploma in How to Teach Baby Massage
- Swedish Massage (V.T.C.T)
- Diploma in Indian Head Massage (V.T.C.T)
- Certificate in Thermal Auricular Therapy (The Holistic Training Centre)
- Diploma in Health, Safety, Security and Employment Standards (V.T.C.T)
These skills allow me to help people with common pain conditions such as headaches or migraine, low back problems, sciatica, plantar fasciitis, carpal tunnel, golfers or tennis elbow, post op knee or hip replacement, TMJ or jaw pain, frozen shoulder, whiplash, fibromyalgia, ME, osteoarthritis, sporting injuries and general aches and pains or misalignment. I am deeply committed to keeping my skills updated and regularly attend advanced level training for this purpose, always finding new and better ways to help my clients.
I am very passionate about my work and my ability to help people out of pain wherever I can both physically and often emotionally, keeping them active and mobile.