Since 2016 Blue frog therapies with Ben as practitioner has won multiple independent and reputable awards including the Luxury Travel Guide’s 2018 spa and wellness award as ‘Uk Urban Massage Salon of the year’.

More recently I became a sports massage therapist and am studying onward to become a physiotherapist.

Humbled by how little I still know about physical, emotional and spiritual health, I still dedicate myself to learn more, acquire more knowledge and to be of service.

Through my own journey with health and well being I realised how our body had a strong impact on our mind. For me, this was a discovery, as l always considered my brain the only relevant part of me. I came to realise how physical pain , fatigue and discomfort can impact our life and mind, to the point of changing who we are. I learned that, in most cases, this process can be reversed.

I believe that holistic therapies, along with a healthy life style, help our body and mind to be in balance.

Massage is one of the many valuable tools to get rid of the extra emotional and physical burden.

I consider a massage to be a reset button.

I appreciate the remedial side of the therapy as an undeniable pain management technique. My aim is, in fact, to keep studying and researching to acquire new skills to help people to live a pain-free life. There is more than that to massage therapy: a good session could help your mind to get back to “the centre” and, in this place, you can heal.

Sometimes all we need is a break and we can take care of the rest.

“mens sana in corpore sano”

(an healthy mind in an healthy body)

As a professional therapist my aim is to tailor my treatments to the client’s physical and psychological needs through the variety of tools and techniques I acquired from my studies, in the hope of positively and effectively contributing to their contentment and well being.

I’m profoundly convinced that holistic therapy is the perfect tool to tackle with your daily hidden threats, carefully rebalancing your body and mind.

My training began with Swedish massage and since, I have continued to develop my skills including sports massage and cupping therapy.

I believe that understanding how the body works is an important feature of an effective treatment and being able to implement the theoretical understanding. 

Combining my training, experience and active listening skills with different hands-on techniques is crucial to offer an effective and valuable session truly tailored to the client’s requests and needs. My interest for anatomy and physiology is currently leading me to further deepen my knowledge through more specialised courses.

I am humbled and excited to learn as much as I am able and to have the privilege to work towards people’s wellbeing.

Having experienced in first person how holistic treatments can practically help to alleviate your body and mind issues, I decided to became a  professional massage therapist. Having completed my qualification in sport massage and cupping in York, I offer dedicated  customer-tailored treatments, with the aim of taking care of my customers, listening and guiding them through their needs.

My roots are in North Yorkshire, though I have spent more than half my life living abroad, most recently 20 years in Asia before settling in York in 2016.  This experience of living in a number of different countries has taught me that people essentially have very similar concerns, issues and needs regardless of where they are from.

Before training as a hypnotherapist, I was a teacher, working with people of all ages to help them develop the skills and confidence to create a bright future and realise their potential. However, I found that the necessary focus on basic pastoral care and academic success that my teaching work involved was not enough as I was increasingly seeing people weighed down by anxiety, stress, depression and chronic pain.

I decided to do what I could to help alleviate this and, based on my own experience of therapies and my deepening personal interest in the often astounding power of the mind, I looked around for what I believed would be the most effective way to help.

Hypnotherapy has a good deal of scientific backing and has been recognised by the British Medical Association since 1955 (and the American Medical Association since 1958) so I chose to study hypnotherapy. I completed my diploma training in Manchester in 2009 and returned to Hong Kong to begin my practice as a fully qualified, professional hypnotherapist.

I have found that my years working in education have reinforced my therapy skills; enabling me to bring this vision and wealth of teaching, coaching and guiding experience to my work as a hypnotherapist.  In addition, my teaching background has instilled in me a love of learning and a deep belief in the importance of continuing professional development. Since 2009 I have continually added to my formal training and understanding of the field of hypnotherapy, and I added Integral Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT) to my tool box in 2020. I am passionate about helping people and ensure that I engage in regular supervision and constantly update my skills-set so that I can better serve my clients.

I help people with a wide range of different conditions and I am committed to helping you gain insights and mobilise your inner resources to achieve optimum health and fulfillment. I use safe, tried and tested techniques to help you communicate with your subconscious mind and achieve lasting results. My approach is compassionate, friendly and informal, and tailored very much to individual needs.

What you can expect when you book an initial session with me is a 20 minute free consultation first for us to explore how we could work together. This is a conversation about your reason for coming to counselling and I will share with you more about myself and how I work to create a plan that respects what you want to achieve. I am open and honest so we can begin to find a way forward, whatever life experience has brought you to counselling. We can then plan for the one hour weekly or fortnightly at the Blue Frog Therapies or online where I will make you feel welcome and comfortable to begin the work together. I will provide a confidential space and work ethically to the BACP ethical framework and my values as a compassionate, anti-discriminatory counsellor.

I also work with young people from ages 12 and up. I have a background working in child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) and children’s social care with broad experience of the challenges young people can face and helping them through these. I can offer a safe space for your child or you as a young person where we can begin to explore what has brought you to counselling and find creative ways to help you find a way through this difficult time in your life.  

The sessions are £55 for one hour. Usually this will be weekly or fortnightly, but the number of sessions you attend is flexible and can be reviewed throughout our time together. I can work short term or long-term depending on your preference and the nature of what you wish you bring to counselling.

I work with adults (of all ages) and have a variety of experience in working with issues such as depression, anxiety, loss, grief, stress, spirituality, relationships and more. 

Before working in counselling I was in PR, so I’m aware of the stresses that come with constant busyness and feeling overwhelmed. I’m a parent too, and so am equipped to work through the challenges that come along with that. 

I offer sessions at £45 for 50 minutes, for either a few sessions or more longer-term.

• Why choose counselling?
We go to counselling because of the way we feel.
Often it feels like we can be overwhelmed by our emotions, whether sadness or anger, fear, guilt, shame or distress. Sometimes people say that everything seems so confusing, that emotions have stopped them being able to make choices, stopped them speaking or being with others, even stopped them thinking.

• How do we do something about this?
Research has shown that an effective way to do something about the complexities that we find ourselves in is to explore them by talking about them.
By doing this they become less confusing, we can see where these feelings come from then see how best to manage them.

• How do we explore?
Counselling cannot make these feelings disappear but does allow an opportunity to revisit them, to make a different sense than the one that caused so much
distress at the beginning. Perhaps it caused so much distress because at the time it seemed to be the only sense to make.

• Relationships.
Many of these emotions that trouble us seem to stem from our habitual way of perceiving ourselves with others, the feelings that arise when we are in relationship to other people. Examining the way we feel about ourselves in relation to other people is an important first step in exploring those emotions that brought us to counselling in the first place. Exploring these in partnership with another, a counsellor, can offer an opportunity to revisit events, the background or the history that led to the feelings.

• A counsellor’s perspective.
Talking to close friends and family can help a great deal. However, most find that a different, new and impartial perspective can offer another way of making sense
of those emotions that seem to dominate.

I believe in the value and uniqueness of each person and tailor my therapeutic approach to meet your specific needs and goals. So, if you’re ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery, healing and personal growth, I invite you to take the first step towards positive change. You deserve to feel heard and supported as you cultivate a deeper understanding of yourself.