Looking back, I met Maureen at a time when I was in need of both physical and emotional healing. She began by working her magic on the tension on my back and neck with therapeutic massage but also provided me with a safe place to unravel and unload difficult feelings and emotions.

Allowing a professional into your inner self is an immense act of trust; I have always felt totally secure in her care. Maureen's warmth and intuition have encouraged me to vocalise inner feelings and her empathy and great listening skills make for a totally comfortable experience.

She has really helped me to understand and deal with big changes in my life and to move forward. 

I feel so blessed to have met her.

I started working with Maureen when I was feeling low both physically and mentally. I was extremely overweight. I had been diagnosed with Type 11 diabetes four years previously and a recent blood test had shown things were getting seriously worse. 

 Initially, the change in lifestyle took some adjusting to, but after a couple of weeks, I started to feel more energised, was sleeping better and the mood swings associated with my diabetes have gone. 

Three months later and my diabetes nurse was astounded at my results and I am shortly going to be taken off my medication in the hope that I am able to control my diabetes with diet alone. 

Maureen has been such an incredible support and has helped me to explore why I overeat. I feel so well now, my mind is clearer and other people have noticed the positive change in me. 

I have been on a diet since I was 16 years old and I am 74 now and yet, each year, I seemed to get heavier and heavier. I didn't think I would ever be able to manage my weight and I was sick and tired  of thinking about it all the time - about how fat and ugly and stupid I was.

Each day I woke up full of resolve that I wasn't going to eat and each day I went to bed more disgusted with myself. I was becoming more isolated as time went by making excuses not to join friends for an evening out. Something Maureen said to me really resonated with me. She asked me why I was so unkind to myself? I began to realise that what I was doing to myself was a form of abuse as I alternated between starving and eating rubbish. I spent my whole time trying not to eat, in effect, to starve and saw food as the enemy. 

With Maureen's help I began to understand that I had a really unhealthy relationship with food and again, with her help, I began to eat regular, nutritious meals. I learned about my blood sugar and insulin levels and how my eating habits were causing me to have an overwhelming craving for sugar and cakes. At first, I was terrified that I would put on weight but it soon stabilised and then we worked on my excess weight. It has been a big learning curve and I have never felt better. I look forward to my meals and to cooking now that food is no longer the enemy. I feel happy and full of energy.