Jean
M.OSt, BSc (Hons)
Prevention is the cure - without knowing and without understanding, we cannot prevent.
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Jean started out in the fitness industry as a personal trainer before studying for a BSc in Sports Science at Swansea University. He then completed a Masters degree in Osteopathy from the European School of Osteopathy in Kent whilst also completing a sports massage qualification. Having worked with a number of osteopaths since graduating, he decided to set up his own clinic in South Wales and has recently completed a functional medicine course specialising in the neuro-mechanical care interface.
As an experienced therapist, Jean adopts an integrative approach to patient care that ensures his patients understand what and why things happen to them, how to stay well, and options on continuing to improve over time. He is deeply committed to maintaining relevant, up to date and evidence-based approaches to supporting effective patient care. It is very important to Jean to be able to provide his patients with the information they need to both understand their health issues and facilitate their on-going recovery.
When with a patient Jean will always spend the time required to fully understand the cause of their pain, discomfort and/or dysfunction. He devotes a significant amount of his personal time researching patients’ presenting issues which means he is able to provide a more precise and accurate diagnosis and treatment of each patient’s health conditions. Jean’s fundamental goal is to support his patients in being able to do the things that are important to them with minimal discomfort whilst also working with and refining the details along the way.
Jennifer
BSc (Hons), MA (Oxon), MSc (Org. Consulting), MA (Existential Psychotherapy)
The work I do focuses on how the ideas you have, your attitudes and beliefs and your deeply held assumptions - your ‘worldview’ - either help or hinder you in being well.
My process makes use of conversation as a key tool to support learning and change, whether through one-to-one, one-to-two and/or one-to-three person conversations.
Any process that seeks to help you to do something different in your life that you feel you need and want to engage with to foster your well-being inevitably involves new learning and change.
As we all know from personal experience, embracing change and new learning is neither easy nor straightforward. In order to effectively support you in your change journey, I employ a broad range of relevant skills, concepts, tools and methodologies developed and refined over 30 years of engaging with individuals and groups.
To illustrate, a key concept I adhere to is that there can be no change without new information. A more familiar way of saying this is - ‘If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.’
What we mean by ‘new information’ can be many many things - a blood test result, the death of a partner, the birth of a child, or the arrival of a new boss, to name just a few examples. Basically, the scope of new information is anything that is happening for you now that wasn’t present to you before this moment.
However, in the business of change and transformation we also know that not all new information makes a difference, even if it represents a strong invitation for us to do something different. A pertinent example of this is where someone who has a long history of heavy drinking and smoking discovers they have dangerously high blood pressure. Despite the glaringly obvious need to ‘do something different’ as a result of this new information, the person concerned may not change their unhelpful habits, and may even drink and smoke more as a result! As odd as this may well sound to you, most of us have a little bit of that kind of response in us.
If engaging in healthy change is such a tricky process, it begs the question then of what kind of difference makes a difference? What ‘ingredients’ are most likely to support effective change through conversation?
I find that thinking about this question in terms of you-me-and-us is a helpful way of starting to explore some answers here.
Your motivation, for example, is obviously a key ingredient to successful change, as is the focus and skill of my intervention in support of your desired change. We are all familiar with the saying ‘you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink,’ but less so with the fact that a horse does not always know when it is thirsty, may habitually drink less water than it needs, and that the right kind of handling can make the difference between a horse quenching its thirst, or bolting. Although absolutely necessary to a successful outcome, neither your motivation nor my intervention suffice. Sustainable change happens through a generative pattern of relationship. The difference that makes a difference then, is the quality of our relationship over time.
So, if you are actively seeking to engage with change in your life, and you are curious and interested to know more about how I would engage with you in this process, please click the link below.