A high quality training open to complementary therapists with the right experience

I have recently trained with the Penny Brohn Cancer Care centre and I am about to complete a certificate in working with people with cancer. You have to have at least two years of practise in your field before you can do the training and there is an interview process. The completion of the training involves writing an assessment but also presenting case studies.

The training involved a six day intensive training covering the following:

• an introduction to the Bristol approach to cancer
• what is cancer?
• effective listening
• self help
• introducing complementary therapies into health care organisations
• palliative care

The Penny Brohn Cancer Care is one of the golden standards in terms of training for complementary therapists and is a centre that promotes the use of complementary therapies in the treatment of cancer, alongside conventional medicine. This is an approach that I firmly support. I believe in doctors and complementary therapists working alongside but also together.

Complementary approach to cancer

In addition to this, I have also completed a workshop introducing the nutritional approach to cancer.

If you realise that with cancer over 80% of the causes are environmental, this leaves a lot of power for people to turn their lives around and to make the illness a stepping stone. By environmental, is meant: nutrition, pollution (and again 80% of the pollution we are exposed to is in the home), stress, unresolved emotional issues, industrial hazards, etc. The genetic impact is only less than 15%. Think about how much we can do to help ourselves.

The Bristol approach actually encourages clients with cancer to take control of their lives and use self help tools like nutrition, meditation and imagery to deal with stress and the demands of treatments and to improve health and wellbeing. Spiritual healing is usually something that is central to the clients who go to the Penny Brohn Cancer Care - and which I can also offer in my private practice.

You can read more about the Bristol Cancer Care approach either in my library or at the centre itself. Upload my brochure on cancer, here. Make sure when you print it that you use both sides of the paper and print each page separately. Why not make an appointment with me to see how this approach can help you? Please call 07914 606729. Don't let money come in the way of self care for you. We'll find ways.