Stop Smoking Intensive

Practitioner Biographies

Counsellor

Marj Williams Smoking Cessation expert Marj Williams has been involved in stop smoking programmes for eleven years, having worked as a counsellor and trainer for the charity QUIT and clinical therapist for the Maudsley Smokers Clinic which is one of the leaders in this field. Marj has extensive experience in running workshops to ensure that quitters are fully prepared to support their quit attempt.

Her client organisations are in both the public and private sector and have included NHS Primary Care Trusts, Life Works, QUIT, Shell, Glaxo and Pfizer. Marj trained as a Humanistic and CBT Counsellor and obtained an MSc in Medical Anthropology at Brunel University."

Acupuncturists

Steve Kippax Steve has been practising Acupuncture since 1993. He worked for the NHS treating general medicine whilst specialising in treating Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS. He has also been practising as a western and Chinese herbalist since 1985. Steve has an MSc in herbal medicine with his dissertation being on IBS. He is responsible for the complementary medicine provision at The Third Space Medicine and is Joint Head of Medical services. He is particularly interested in treating back pain, infertility and smoking cessation.

Steve is the President of The National Institute of Medical Herbalists, the oldest body of herbalists in the western world being formed in 1862.
 
Bernard Nolan Bernard trained in Shiatsu in Tokyo and Oriental Medicine in South Korea. He has been working as an acupuncturist in the UK since 1981. Bernard formed the British Shiatsu Association, taught acupuncture in UK hospitals, and at many professional Football clubs in the UK including Manchester United, Chelsea, Everton and Newcastle.

In the 80s he did a study of 300 patients who had come for Acupuncture to stop smoking. He has had great results with patients giving up smoking. Bernard specialises in Acupuncture for Sports Injuries and infertility as well as general acupuncture.

Hypnotherapists

Georgia Foster Georgia Foster is from Melbourne, Australia. She has lived in London since 1994 where she qualified with distinction as a clinical hypnotherapist with the London College of Clinical Hypnosis. She then went on to lecture on the subject of hypnotherapy - training students all over the United Kingdom for a further 2 years.

Georgia previously trained in California in the Jungian psychology called Voice Dialogue with the internationally acclaimed founders Hal and Sidra Stone.

Georgia herself having struggled with food and self esteem issues for over 16 years, searched to find a way to break out of these emotional states. Using her own form of Voice Dialogue and hypnotherapy changed her life. She walks her talk.

Georgia has two very busy private practices in the City of London and West London, where she treats anything from smoking, anxiety disorders, phobias, insomnia and pain control. Georgia works with a number of Investment Banks and Insurance Companies as their in-house hypnotherapist.

Georgia also talks to groups on stress, weight issues, self esteem and the power of the mind.
 
Gloria Thomas Gloria Thomas is a practitioner in contemporary psychotherapy. She practices hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming and thoughtfield therapy. Gloria also has had an extensive background in health and fitness through personal training and exercise classes.

She has written six books in total and she specializes in smoking cessation, weight management, anxiety/depression, performance enhancement and motivational fitness. Gloria also gives workshops in stress and anxiety.

Nutritionist

Becky Stevenson Becky trained at UCH, london and is a registered and sports accredited dietitian. Becky runs her own private sports dietetic practice Pro-Activate and works in private practice with weight management. Her experience includes elite and recreational sports people from different sports; road cycling, soccer, rugby, triathlon and long distance running. Currently works with UK Athletics and England Institute of Sport as a consultant.

Becky provides practical expert nutritional advice to help her clients reach their goals.

 
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