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About Cumbria Therapies
Cumbria Therapies was established by Marion and George Dunlop to provide integrated training for organisations; one-to-one therapies, coaching, relaxation and stress management services for individuals; and a place where like-minded therapists can meet for mutual support, the sharing of best practice and continuing professional development.
More recently with the expansion of the Centre in Carlisle, we have a growing, select team of experienced associate therapists using the facilities. All are fully qualified in their chosen therapies, are fully insured, attend regular supervision and training updates and adhere to strict codes of conduct and ethics as laid down by their therapy professional bodies and also by the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Royal College of Nursing for those in the profession.
As part of the expansion a separate company, Esk Consulting Ltd was formed to provide extended services to local business and public sector organisations. Click Here for more information or go directly to the Esk Consulting web site.
By combining a health, education and training background along with expertise in personal development techniques, stress awareness, coaching, counselling, hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and various energy medicine therapies, the Centre therapists are able to offer an individually designed service for employers, employees and/or individuals both within the workplace or by private consultation at the Centre.
Our team now includes:
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Marion Dunlop - Director
Clinical Hypnotherapist, UKCP registered Hypno-Psychotherapist, Life & Performance Coach, Reiki Master Teacher
Marion came from a nursing and education background prior to training as a hypnotherapist, psychotherapist and coach. She trains and supervises other therapists and works with individuals and couples. She has a particular interest in working with people who experience stress/ anxiety, low confidence, phobias and mind/body interactions. As a psychotherapist she supports people to cope with life's challenges and relationships using an outcome focused approach. more> |
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George Dunlop - Business Manager.
George provides reception, business and background support to Cumbria Therapies. If you have any general questions about therapies or about rooms, web sites and systems then you can also contact him. |
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Dr Alison Wren - Clinical Psychologist
After completing a three year undergraduate program in psychology in 1990, Alison worked as an assistant psychologist for several years in the NHS before gaining a position on the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Degree Course at Manchester University. She graduated from there in 2000 with a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (D. Clin. Psych.), and worked in various specialties in the NHS in the Manchester area. She moved to Cumbria in 2006 and now works full time in adult mental health services in NHS Dumfries and Galloway. She also has a postgraduate diploma (PGd) in Advanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Practice at Cumbria University.
Accreditation
She has Chartered Psychologist status (CPsychol) with the British Psychological Society (BPS), and is registered with the Health Professions Council (HPC) as a Clinical Psychologist. She is also a member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP), and the BPS Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP).
Code of Ethics
Alison adheres to the BPS Professional Practice Guidelines, and Code of Ethics & Conduct. |
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Allison McCall - Massage, Reflexology.
Allison is a trained Reflexologist & Complementary Therapist and has been practicing complementary therapies since 2003.
She looks at her clients in a holistic way - examining the whole person, rather than just dealing with the specific problem and thereby trying to help the underlying cause.
She is a practitioner in Reiki and qualified as a Reflexologist.
She is a Member of the International Council of Holistic Therapists (MICHT) with qualifications awarded through the International Institute of Health & Holistic Therapies (IIHHT).
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Coral Harrison - Counselor and TA Psychotherapist
Coral is a Certified Transactional Analyst and a UKCP registered psychotherapist. She has a wide range of experience in working with individuals, couples and groups. She offers a professional, honest and compassionate approach.
Coral offers support to people experiencing a range of difficulties in their lives. These include relationships issues; anxiety; grief and loss; parenting; anger management; crisis; stress and life changes. She has specialist training in working with trauma.
Coral is based at Cumbria Therapies. She offers daytime appointments and also has some evening sessions available.
For more information <click here> to go to Coral's own web site.
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Erica Donnison MSTAT-Teacher of Alexander Technique
Erica Donnison MSTAT is a teaching member of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT), a professional body which regulates Alexander Technique teachers, and is a member of the Society's Council. She graduated from the Fellside Alexander School in Kendal in 2004, having successfully completed a three-year full-time teacher training course.
She is also a fully qualified Pose Running Coach, having trained with Dr Romanov the originator of this style of forefoot running. She is unique in combining the teaching of the Alexander Technique and the Pose Running Method to improve peoples' posture when they are running.
She is also qualified to use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) personality questionnaire which she uses to explore the links between personality and posture. Erica enjoys working with people who want to find out how to help themselves overcome pain or stiffness and improve their posture, so if you want to learn how to change the way you sit, stand and move, and the way you react to stressful situations, The Posture Clinic is for you. Erica has experience of working with individuals and groups in all her areas of expertise, and has a special interest in the way good posture helps people feel more confident and move with more ease and poise. She is also interested in how this can help people perform to the best of their ability in sports and the performing arts.
She is fascinated by how the human body works, and how the mind and body are intrinsically linked. She is passionate about helping people learn to use their bodies and minds in an integrated way to enable them to feel, look and perform the very best they possibly can.
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Fiona Fawkes - Energy Healer.
Through out her career Fiona has been fascinated by the human form and how we inter-relate with each other. This led her to study and work as a beauty therapist which opened up further exploration into the world of figurative art. From 1987 Fiona explored Jungian Analysis, Astrology, Group Leading and Depth Psychology. She qualified as a Teacher for Adults in 2001, and learnt to provide a safe space for experienced students, beginners and absolute beginners, helping them to explore, expand and develop their self expression through art.
In 2002 Fiona was inspired to undertake a three year training at The School of Energy Healing. Here she developed her ESP skills and worked with the human energy field at its deepest level. After several years practicing in London, Fiona is now practicing from Carlisle and Newcastle. In her work as a healer she creates a safe place for her clients to explore their life issues and personal challenges. She also runs workshops on Natural Fertility and supports women with fertility issues. She is dedicated to helping people find freedom of self expression and peace within themselves. Confidence, passion, inner peace and creativity are Fiona\'s goal for all who work with her.
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Freda Hodgson - Bowen Therapist, Hopi Ear and Reiki Master Practitioner.
Freda has experience of working with people of all ages and abilities having trained as a registered nurse specialising in learning disabilities and gaining experience in working in community, hospital, education and social care settings. Freda offers Bowen Technique and Reiki therapies, she trained with the European College of Bowen Studies and is a Reiki Master Practitioner.
As a member of the Bowen Therapists European Register (B.T.E.R) and the UK Reiki Federation, Freda is bound by a strict Code of Practice, Ethics and constitution in order to ensure the safety and well-being of her clients |
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Helen Davies - Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist. Helen has a social care background and works for an agency supporting young people with drug and alcohol problems. She is a psychotherapist who has trained in transactional analysis psychotherapy and offers counselling and psychotherapy at the centre. She is mainly available for evening appointments.
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Jackie Cooper BSc(Hons), MNIMH -
Herbal Medicine Practitioner
Jackie is a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists which guarantees that she has undergone extensive training in Herbal Medicine over 4 years.
As a Medical Herbalist she practices a holistic approach to illness. This is because she is trained to ascertain and help the underlying cause of illness, rather than just the symptoms. |
Jeanette Carson - BACP accredited Counselor, Supervisor and Mediator.
Jeanette is an Accredited Member of BACP with a diploma in counselling and a certificate in Advanced Person-Centred Theory from Strathclyde University.
Her counselling approach is person-centred from the work of Carl Rogers, and his core belief on the uniqueness of persons to access their own thoughts and feelings if they were provided with a relationship offering a non-directive attitude and core conditions of empathy, congruence and unconditional regard. |
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Kate Lanka - Counselor.
Kate is a Humanistic Counselor, based in Carlisle and taking a Solution-Focused approach to her work. The Humanistic approach assumes the importance of each person’s ability to make well informed choices about his/her life and holds that it is possible to make sense and meaning of one’s own life.
Kate holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Supervision from Glasgow Caledonian University and a Master is Counselling research from the University of Abertay Dundee. Her research interests include how the role of choice-making in the creation and maintenance of our narrative identity.
Her work also includes Staff Supervision and she lectured part-time at Ayr College.
Kate is a member of BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy). She abides by the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy. For further information visit: www.bacp.co.uk
She is also a member of BRIEF the organisation which provides Solution-Focused Brief Therapy training and counselling. For further information visit: www.brief.org.uk
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Liz McWatt - Nutritional Therapist.
Liz is a registered general nurse working most recently in occupational health medicine. She became interested in complementary therapies, and particularly nutritional therapy as a result of a strong interest in preventing ill health and a belief that to recover from illness it is vital that the underlying cause is identified and helped. She is enthusiastic about using Nutritional Therapy not only to help ill health, but to improve fitness, vitality and sports performance levels as well. Liz has studied aromatherapy, therapeutic massage, nutritional therapy, flower remedies, homeopathy and the use of complex homeopathic remedies and counselling. She has been practicing in Kendal since 1996 and has recently started to see clients here at Cumbria Therapies.
Liz is happy to give talks to groups on any of the therapies or conditions in which she is experienced.
Registered with The British Association of Nutritional Therapy (BANT), Member International Federation of Aromatherapists (MIFA), both of whom demand a strict code of ethics, ongoing education and full indemnity insurance. She is a
Member of The National Candida Society www.candida-society.org.uk and a Member of the Holistic Community www.holistic-community.co.uk |
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Pam Sumner - Acupuncture.
Pam trained at the College of Traditional Acupuncture in Warwick and has a BA (Hons) degree in Traditional Acupuncture.
She is a fully insured Member of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) and adheres to the Council’s Codes of Safe Practice and Professional Conduct.
She continues to update her practice skills and knowledge by attending workshops and seminars and also through the BAcC Continuing Professional Development scheme.
Many of her patients have acupuncture to help them manage chronic painful conditions.
If you would like to find out more about traditional acupuncture and whether it could help you, then you are welcome to book a free 10 minute no obligation consultation to discuss your particular needs and expectations. Pam can be contacted via Cumbria Therapies on 01228 409093.
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Pamela Jo Proudfoot - Indian Head Massage, Massage, Reflexology, Reiki, Daoyin Tao, Advanced Massage, Hopi Ear Candles.
Pamela Jo has trained in a wide range of therapies and offers a comprehensive range of relaxation and healing therapies at the centre.
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Peter Thompson - Acupuncturist.
Lic .Ac., M.B. Ac.C., M.ZB.A. UK
[Member of the British Acupuncture Council]
[Member of the Zero Balancing Association. Uk]
Qualified Masseur
[International Institute of Health and Holistic Therapies]
Peter has been working as an acupuncturist and healer for over 17 years. In that time he has continually trained and developed his practice in the healing arts. He first experienced acupuncture when he had treatment for low energy levels and stress. Through treatment he learned a great deal about himself. His energy levels improved in a way that his friends noticed and he became more relaxed. He was hooked! He started training and the rest - as they say - is history.
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Roger Sealy, Counselor.
Roger has been in counselling practice since 2003.
He has a Diploma in Counselling and a Certificate of Achievement in CBT and the Emotional Disorders at degree level from the University of Cumbria.
He also provides his services to occupational health service companies as well as directly to private companies.
His counselling approach is an eclectic one utilising CBT, Gestalt and Person-Centred Modalities.
As a practitioner he is an individual member of The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy ( BACP ) and abides by their Codes of Ethics and Practice. |
Sonia McCubbin - Hypnotherapist.
Sonia worked as a registered mental health nurse in the NHS for many years. She has experience of supporting people with substance misuse habits including alcohol and and drugs.
She also uses hypnotherapy to help clients with weight issues and eating problems as well as habits, phobias and stress / anxiety.
Sonia trained with the same Hypnotherapy college as Marion and continues to attend advanced training in hypnotherapy techniques. |
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Tricia Philippou - Massage, Reflexology, Indian Head Massage, Hopi Ear Candle and Reiki Master Practitioner. Tricia is also a registered nurse working part-time in community mental health and offers the above therapies at the centre. Tricia is mainly available on Tuesday and Friday and some evenings.
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Vanessa McViety - Clinical Hypnotherapist.
Vanessa comes from a business background and is a clinical hypnotherapist at the centre. She particularly enjoys working with people who have decided to change their living habits, for example, stopping smoking and weight reduction. Vanessa trained with the same college as Marion and Sonia.
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