about me

My professional background lies in teaching, mentoring, and running a small retail business. I am also a personal development coach, an acupoint tapping practitioner, and a bereavement support volunteer.

(More about my qualifications further down on this page.)

I am forever thankful for the kindness and inspiration of those who have walked with me as I felt my way through my own losses and bereavements. In time, I realised that my life could keep growing. With, and around, my grief - my ever-changing lifelong companion.

Now that I am on the vintage side of 65, the threads in life's tapestry seem to have brought me here, to be alongside others as they adjust to life-changing loss.

I love finding out more about Energy Psychology (tapping is a major component here), the mind-body connection, acupoints, breathwork, and other energy balancing techniques. I use them myself for my own maintenance and self-care, and I'm happy to weave them into our time together so that you can see if they work for you too.

I find joy and peace in Greece, words, music, capturing moments in photographs, the cycle of the seasons, trees, plants, the sea, swimming and walking, mountains, the sun and the sky, owls and goats, birds and cats, colours and textures, reading, learning new things, silence, stillness and candlelight, and dabbling in a bit of writing and sketching.

Most of all, I cherish my relationships.

qualifications

Grief & Bereavement Support

(March 1st 2025) I have just completed a diploma in Grief and Bereavement Counselling, as part of my own Continuing Professional Development.

I am a Bereavement Volunteer on the national helpline of Cruse, the UKs leading bereavement charity. cruse.org.uk

In addition to the Cruse volunteer training in 2024, other related courses I took with Cruse include:

The Neurodivergent Experience of Grief & Loss
Living with Drug or Alcohol Bereavement
The Psychology of Grief
Loss and Bereavement Awareness
Talking About Death and Dying
Mind, Body, Breath, Death

Life Coaching

I trained with The Coaching Academy in London during 2020-2021 and qualified with a diploma in Personal Performance Coaching in March 2021.

Since then, CPD has included:

Coaching Specialism: Holistic Coaching
Transactional Analysis and Coaching
Neuroscience and Coaching

Energy Medicine

In 2022 I completed the Fundamentals year of training in The Eden Method, which, together with EFT, is a whole wonderful world of energy psychology: how we can work with our body's energies to sustain health, maintain balance, and promote wellbeing.

edenmethod.com

Emotional Freedom Techniques (Acupoint Tapping)

I trained from 2018 with Ashley Meyer at The Energy Therapy Centre in London, and in late 2019 qualified as an EFT - Emotional Freedom Techniques Practitioner. theenergytherapycentre.co.uk

other bits and bobs

2000 and still going: running my own small business itsallgreek.co.uk (based in a Bloomsbury shop for 15 years, online only since 2018)
1984-1998: 14 years as a teacher of Classics to ages 11-18 at a school in London, then 1998-2001 I set up my own solo Latin/Greek tuition business, Locus Classicus, when I also taught Latin to junior school children with learning difficulties.
Diploma (2 years part time 1987-89) in Counselling Skills and Attitudes at the Westminster Pastoral Foundation
Researcher in the Education Department at BBC Cymru, Cardiff 1983-84
PGCE 1982-1983 (teaching qualification)
RSA Certificate for TEFL (1982)
BA (Hons) in Classics from St Hugh's College, Oxford, in 1981; MA in 1984
LTCL Performer's Diploma (cello playing) 1976

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'Grieving is a lifelong process that has different implications for us at different times of our life.'

Julia Samuel ('Grief Works : Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving.' 2017)