Welcome to
the Wessex Clinic

Osteopathy Services - Wessex Osteopathy

Wessex Osteopathy, established 25 years ago, offers a comprehensive range of osteopathic approaches.

Holistic Life & Cancer Coach - Dr. Jo Lee

Jo Lee trained as a life coach after working as a GP partner for 12 years. Life Coaching is a talking therapy focused on helping people to make changes to benefit their wellbeing. The approach is holistic and any area of life can be the focus of the work. Some people will feel very clear about what they want to change and others may just have a sense that something is not right and may need help to explore what their priorities are. The process may involve exercises to facilitate new perspectives on individual problems.

In 2008, Jo co-founded LYLAC: Live Your Life After Cancer for people who are struggling to find a way forward after cancer. LYLAC provides individual coaching and group workshops for men and women with any cancer diagnosis. Jo loves to work with people to help them to feel empowered and ready to find their own ‘right’ way forward.

Cancer Coaching provides support and an effective way to assist people in dealing with the impact of cancer on their lives. As well as affecting people physically, cancer may also cause depression, anxiety and loss of confidence, challenge relationships and affect peoples’ working lives. After treatment, people often feel vulnerable, unsupported and overwhelmed. The Coaching relationship supports people in processing their experience, increasing awareness, and reassessing priorities, with the focus on finding a good way forward, which will be different for each person.

Counsellor - Denise Caruth

With over 20 years working in industry, a combination of events coupled with Denise’s interest in people and helping others, led her to start training as a therapist over six years ago. Having experienced her own therapy over the years, she has personal experience of what an invaluable process it can be, bringing understanding, resolution and much greater fulfillment to people’s lives.

Denise worked as a counsellor at Oakhaven Hospice in Lymington helping individuals with grief and loss, cancer, childhood problems, depression, confidence and relationship issues. Alongside her own practice, shes currently works for a local counselling agency helping individuals with depression, addiction, anxiety and trauma.

She is registered with the BACP, the organization which oversees Counsellors and Psychotherapists in the UK and she regularly attends courses as part of her membership of the BACP

Chiropody Services - Kath Chappell

Kath Chappell is a Qualified Surgical Chiropodist and a registered member of the British Chiropody Association. Kath is a graduate of the SMAE Institute having qualified in 1992 and is also registered with the Health Professionals Council (HPC).

Kath has now been a member of the Wessex team for 24 years. Over many years, a significant amount of experience has been acquired dealing with a wide range of foot conditions.

Counsellor - Lisa McGinnis

Counselling offers an opportunity to explore concerns, challenges, or anxieties, in order to find a way forward and facilitate change. Lisa trained as a counsellor after working as a teacher and writer for 25 years. She sees counselling as a natural progression of the skills and experience she has cultivated working with people in education and the arts. Lisa believes the common thread running through teaching, writing and counselling is understanding how people of any age perceive themselves, the world, others and how they relate to all of this.

Qualifications:
BA (Hons English and American Literature), Echols Scholar, The University of Virginia, VA USA.
PGCE, The University of Southampton
Counselling Dip.
Registered MBACP
CRUSE Bereavement Service
DBS checked

Audiologist - Catherine Mills

Catherine Mills is a qualified Audiologist with nearly 20 years clinical experience.
She studied a BA(Hons) in Human Communication and Communication Disorders followed by a MSc in Audiological Science at the University of Manchester. Following this she embarked on a fulfilling career with the NHS with 16 years working at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. A move to the New Forest in 2017 led to the inception of ‘Ear Sense’, which offers a full range of ear care services.

Throughout her career to date, her interests and specialist roles have included assessment and rehabilitation of adults referred for Hearing Implants including: Cochlear Implants; Middle Ear Implants and Bone Conducting Implants. She is also experienced in adult and paediatric hearing assessments and adult hearing rehabilitation. She has fitted a wide range of digital hearing aids and also CROS and BI-CROS hearing systems for single-sided deafness. Vestibular Assessments, Tinnitus Retraining Therapy and Obscure Auditory Dysfunction Assessments have also been a large part of her clinical role.

Catherine has been very lucky to work with some exceptional professionals and has been actively involved in many exciting pieces of research which have led to published papers and an opportunity to present at International Conferences.

Clinical Hypnotherapist - Mark Williams

Mark Williams Hypnotherapy offers modern Clinical Hypnotherapy in Andover and Lymington as well as in neighbouring towns & counties, such as Dorset and Wiltshire.

Nutritional Therapist - Susan Davis

Susan Davis studied Nutritional Therapy at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition. She has been practising since 2009 is fully insured, member of BANT and is registered with CNHC.

“Nutritional Therapy is the application of nutrition science in the promotion of health, peak performance and individual care. Nutritional therapy practitioners use a wide range of tools to assess and identify potential nutritional imbalances and understand how these may contribute to an individual’s symptoms and health concerns. This approach allows them to work with individuals to address nutritional balance and help support the body towards maintaining health. Nutritional therapy is recognised as a complementary medicine and is relevant for individuals with chronic conditions, as well as those looking for support to enhance their health and wellbeing. Practitioners consider each individual to be unique and recommend personalized nutrition and lifestyle programmes rather than a ‘one size fits all’ approach.”

Susan provides consultations to clients with various health conditions. She has a special interest in working with clients with autism related conditions, digestive problems allergy related health conditions and mental health. She believes it is important to research the root cause of health problems to be able to support each client individually.

She regularly attends training events such as nutrition conferences and seminars to keep up to date with nutritional research. She is currently taking on extra training to utilise DNA genetic testing in clinic to help get to root cause of health problems with clients.

Registered with top of the range private laboratories to run various nutritional profiles, gut microbiome tests, hormone tests Comprehensive food intolerance testing and allergy testing to get to the root cause of the health concerns.

An experienced and qualified chef, Susan has a keen interest in healthy eating and teaches cookery, and fermentation classes for gut health in the local community. She runs clinics in Fordingbridge and Lymington.

Massage Therapist - Jules Emm

Jules is a qualified holistic and massage therapist, with 16 years of experience working in private practice, clinics and hospitals.   As a holistic therapist, Jules treats the whole person with their interdependent parts – for if one part is not functioning properly, all will be affected.   Jules treats these imbalances, whether physical, emotional or spiritual, attending to clients’ overall health.

Her initial consultation with you will ensure every massage is individual to your needs, and tailored to what you are seeking: whether relaxing muscles, easing aches and pains, re-energising, improving mobility, flexibility and posture, or helping with anxiety and promoting better sleep.

Jules has extensive experience of rehabilitation.  She especially works with the neck and back.  She also works with wider injuries, and with patients dealing with cancer.   She has the skills and ability to support, encourage and motivate.  She has wide experience in dealing with the physical and emotional needs of patients, especially with insight into the emotional and psychological issues related to disfiguring injuries and complex trauma.   Through her extensive experience with spinal cord injury, brain injury and elderly care patients, she is able to recognise and realise the benefits of complementary therapies alongside medical treatments, employing a holistic approach to intervention programs.

Executive Coach - Sarah Myatt

As an Executive Coach Sarah partners with professional individuals to develop and achieve their goals within their work and wider life.  Sarah helps clients harness their inner resources to overcome the challenges they are facing within their work and wider lives.

She offers an integrated and relational approach with a coaching style adapted according to the client’s needs and the particular issues brought to each session.   Sarah offers clients a free 30 minute telephone consultation to explore their coaching needs and to experience what coaching is like. Individual coaching sessions are for 90 minutes each and Sarah offers an initial package of six sessions.

Sarah brings 15 years business experience to the practice, gained primarily from working at global data science company Dunnhumby where she built and led Global, UK and US loyalty communications and media teams. In 2013, changing career, Sarah set up an Executive Coaching practice in London, recently opening up further in Hampshire and Dorset.

Sarah holds a Certificate in Coaching for Organisational Consultants from Ashridge Business School and a degree in Geography from Oxford University. She adheres to the AshrIdge Code of Conduct for Coaches and the EMCC Code of Ethics.  She attends regular supervision with Ashridge Accredited Supervisors and is currently completing a Masters in Executive Coaching at Ashridge Business School.

Psychosexual Counsellor - Dr Jo Lee

Psychosexual Medicine is a medical service for women and men of any age from 18 years upwards. Sexual problems may have a physical or psychological origin, and often a combination of both. Psychosexual Medicine is a brief therapy based on psychoanalytic skills and a variety of therapeutic approaches are used to assist you in overcoming your problem. Typical problems include erectile difficulties, loss of interest, premature or delayed ejaculation, impaired arousal, painful intercourse and difficulty with or inability to have penetration.

Most people find the sessions useful and much easier than imagined. Number of sessions required varies with some people feeling much better very quickly. The usual number of sessions would be 3 -6 at intervals of around a month or 6 weeks.

Dr Joanne Lee is a member of the institute of psychosexual medicine, and works within NHS psychosexual clinics in Dorset.

Child Psychiatrist

Starting Summer 2019.