Details

•  Pink Ribbon Program: Rehabilitative Breast Cancer Exercise Specialist (MBodies Training Academy, 2016)
•  NVQ Level 4 Exercise-Based Cancer Rehabilitation (CanRehab, 2012)
•  Graduate Diploma in Theology and Religious Studies (Pastoral Care) [University of Edinburgh, 2011]
•  NVQ Level 3 Exercise Referral, Personal Trainer Award (see below for more detail), Chronic Fatigue, Ante-and-Postnatal Fitness [CYQ and Exact Training, 1998-2008]
•   MPhil Psychology (Health Behaviours and Back Pain) [Heriot-Watt University, 2003]
•   CPD workshops 2016 - Monitoring and Evaluation; Coaching Techniques
•    Accredited Living Life to the Full Practitioner and Acorn Christian Listener
•    Master Practitioner in Eating Disorders Counselling Skills, National Centre for Eating Disorders (NCfED)
•    Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor with 18 years’ experience
•    Fully insured (including professional indemnity and medical liability) with Balens Health and Fitness Professionals Scheme
•    Registered BackCare Professional

Profile
Now based in Ingleby Arnclife, near Northallerton in North Yorkshire after many years living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland I offer personal training in the home or workplace.  I have a specialist interest in long-term health conditions including cancer, chronic fatigue and pain. I am skilled and experienced in back care, posture and function having trained with Stuart McGill and undertaken a MPhil in Psychology exploring back pain and health behaviours.
I offer a range of exercise classes from Fitness Pilates and Freestyle Fitness Yoga to general Keep Fit, as well as specialist group exercise classes for men, for those living with cancer, for those recovering from injury or illness, and for anyone managing long-term conditions. 
I am passionate about empowering others to be all they can be, enhancing quality of life regardless of illness or disability and I view my vocation as being that of one who journeys with, travels alongside, others as a wounded healer.