Rest...
Repair...
Recover...
now also available from the comfort of your own home...
Welcome! I hope my website will give you an insight into this powerful yet gentle and beautiful therapy.
I am here to help you and your body deal with the issues holding you back, enabling you to continue on your life’s journey, freer, lighter and hopefully more empowered!
BIODYNAMIC CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY
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Craniosaral Therapy has its origins in Cranial Osteopathy with the late work of Dr William Sutherland (1873-1954).
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Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle body therapy.
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As a practitioner, using light touch, I listen to your body with a compassionate presence, being still and totally accepting.
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There are no manipulations, instead it is a very gentle and non-invasive yet powerful therapy.
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By resonance, I facilitate your own body processes, enabling it to access its inherent health and go into its own healing mode.
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The everyday stress and stimuli, place our bodies in protection mode, resulting in the densification of the fluids designed to prevent the propagation of stress throughout our body.
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One of my roles is therefore to provide a safe, calm and secure place where rest & relaxation are essential to the reparative processes.
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Our body have an incredible intrinsic ability to repair itself, which we witness daily in its potential to rectify minor wounds and illnesses. I will encourage you to fully trust this process, believing that your body can take this process further and enabling it to choose the priorities to be dealt with first.
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Craniosacral Therapy can thereby bring underlying physical and emotional issues to the surface, before enabling your body to deal with them in a powerful yet gentle manner.
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Our body is so clever that it will store stress and trauma (acquired and/or inherited) until we give it a chance to be dealt with but we typically bury these pains deep down inside, with the routine of life determining our daily focus.
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By locking these issues away, in the hope that they will go away, we rarely give our body a chance to heal itself. Often though, our body can deal with these issues when given the chance and this is where Craniosacral Therapy comes to the fore.
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Craniosacral Therapy is unique in its ability to work with the source of symptoms on every level, whether mental, physical, emotional or spiritual. It is a natural way of helping our bodies to rest, repair and recover.
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Craniosacral Therapy is not intended as primary healthcare but to work alongside the relationship you have with your GP.
WHO IS IT FOR?
Everyone! From babies in the womb & newborns, teenagers and active adults, to elderly people and even during the dying process. It is such a gentle and powerful technique!
Living in a busy city like London can be exhilarating but it can also bring lots of physical and emotional stress. As a result, most of the time our body stays in protection mode.
In re-balancing the nervous system, craniosacral therapy’s holistic approach and the compassionate presence of your practitioner enable deep rest and relaxation which gives a chance to your body for self repair.
This can help with a wide range of conditions and situations by starting to regulate sleep, digestion, and muscular tension. Then it can go deeper by releasing trauma and everyday stress as well as restoring your psychological, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
A TYPICAL SESSION
Sessions generally last an hour with a short chat at the beginning and the end. You remain fully clothed and will usually lie on your back or on your side on the treatment table.
I make light contact with your body, generally starting with your feet, then moving to your head or other part of your body and usually finishing at the base of your spine.
During the whole session you will be able to let me know at any time how you feel and how comfortable, or not, the distance and touch is for you.
Through resonance your body (and often your mind too) will relax and begin to make the changes it needs. Because the body functions as a whole, I may focus on areas other than where your symptoms occur. I will let your body guide me as to where it requires most attention for each session.
Craniosacral Therapy is not intended as primary healthcare but to work alongside the relationship you have with your doctor.
CLOTILDE
From a very young age I had the desire to help others, especially those suffering or less fortunate.
This led me to train in Occupational Therapy. After I graduated in France, I moved to the UK and worked for 13 years in different settings within the NHS and in the private sector, specialising in Neuro-rehabilitation and care of the elderly. I am therefore used to working with a wide range of clients, including very vulnerable patients and their families.
After taking time off to raise my children to school age, I was keen to return to helping others but was determined to be in a role, outside of the NHS, where i could spend all my efforts 1-2-1 on treatments, focusing my time on my clients.
I have been very lucky to train under Franklyn Sills, renowned world leader in developing the approach to Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
So after many years of a very interesting professional and personal journey, I am very happy to be able to offer you my services as a biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist. I love this therapy which focuses on our inherent health and believe it has the potential to assist many conditions and ailments.
Qualifications:
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Diploma in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy RCST BCST
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Diploma in Occupational Therapy BSc Hons
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Emotional Freedom Technique - Level 3 Advanced
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Quantum Touch - Advanced Level
Recent Post-graduate studies:
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The Biodynamics Of Death And Dying with CTET
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Treating Trauma Master Series with NICABM-ongoing
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Distant Craniosacral Therapy with CCST
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The collective trauma summit 2020
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The Embodiment conference
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The voice and the Hyoid with Katherine Ukleja
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Integration of Mind, Brain & Body in the Treatment of Trauma, with Bessel van der Kolk
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Focusing with Katherine Ukleja
Other interests:
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my beautiful family!
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practicing yoga
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being in contact with Nature as often as possible
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chairman of trustees with https://www.pipaltree.org.uk/
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volunteering as a craniosacral therapist in St Christopher's Hospice
CONSULTATIONS
Initial Consultation
1hr 20min / £55
This initial session is longer than normal to enable me to listen with care to the reasons for your visit and take a written case history. In doing so, I can better understand your situation and I can explain the process of the therapy.
Typical Session
1hr / £50
In these sessions, we start with a short chat to understand how your body has responded to the last treatment and any other changes that may have arisen since. Then generally you spend 45-50mins on the table, in a relaxing environment, whilst I listen to your body and practice the therapy.
Block booking of 3
3x 1hr / £135
Block booking of 6
6x 1hr / £260
All face-to-face sessions are available from my therapy room in East Dulwich, in South London.
Distant session - using Craniosacral therapy skills - from the comfort of your own home & COVID proof!
1hr / £45
Vouchers available on demand
