We are your One-Stop Shop for complementary
health therapies from our clinic in Alyth, Blairgowrie,
Perthshire – close to the Angus border and convenient for
clients from Perth, Dundee, Tayside and Fife.
Complementary therapies, alongside
conventional medical care, can help to improve quality of life
and support to clients living with certain chronic conditions
and issues such as:
Fears, phobias, panic attacks, including
our specialist fear of flying course
Anxiety & stress, exam, interview or public speaking nerves
Food, nutrition and dietary issues
Personal and social
confidence, self-esteem issues
Working with unhelpful
habits, e.g. smoking, alcohol, cannabis,
nail-biting, hair-pulling, stuttering & tics
Working with weight issues and eating disorders
Sleep issues and insomnia
Helping in managing pain
Autistic spectrum and ADHD
Psychosexual problems such as impotence, frigidity & gender
dysphoria
Physical conditions,
exacerbated by stress or emotional aspects, e.g. IBS, headaches
and migraines, skin problems, and menopause
Clients should always consult their GP to ensure complaints are
not linked to an underlying medical problem.
Call now for free 15 minute
mini-consultation!
01828 633033
Don't forget we also offer online consultations
Andrea Holbrook
DIHom(Pract) SEN
Andrea is a fully qualified and
experienced professional Classical Homeopath
and is your consultant for
Classical Homeopathy, CEASE Therapy for autism, and Food
Intolerance Testing.
Prior to college training as a homeopath, Andrea was a nurse for 13 years and then went on to run her own complementary therapy business. She also taught at a private complementary therapy college and was a lecturer in complementary therapies at a Higher Education College in North-East Scotland. At her Perthshire clinic, the client can expect a private consultation with the highest standard of confidentiality and personal care.
Harry Holbrook
Dip.AH SQHP CNHC reg.
Harry is a fully qualified and
experienced clinical hypnotherapist. He holds the Diploma in
Analytical Hypnotherapy (Dip.AH),
is
registered with the General Hypnotherapy Register and is a
Validated Senior Practitioner (SQHP) with the General Hypnotherapy
Standards Council. He is registered for
hypnotherapy with the Complementary & Natural Healthcare
Council. Harry is also
an Anxiety UK Approved Therapist, and experienced in assisting clients
requiring CBT, NLP & coaching.
Continued professional registration
requires adherence to a strict code of ethics and
undertaking regular CPD training.
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Hypnotherapists use techniques that bring about deep relaxation and in this focused state the client is unusually responsive to an idea or image that will benefit their health - but a hypnotist cannot control the person's mind and free will!
Hypnotherapy is
therefore completely safe,
wonderfully relaxing and can be very effective in dealing
with a host of issues including stress, weight loss
(including the hypnotic gastric band), eating
disorders, anxiety, panic, phobias, unwanted habits and
addictions (e.g. smoking, overeating, alcoholism), disrupted
sleep patterns & insomnia, lack of confidence and low self-esteem, fear
of flying, fear of examinations, driving
test and public speaking nerves, migraine and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Additionally, it has proved
beneficial in pain
management and with sporting, business and
artistic performance enhancement.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is
a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by
changing the way you think and behave. It is most commonly
used to treat anxiety and depression, but can be useful for
other mental and physical health problems, including
obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic attacks,
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), phobias, weight loss,
eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, and sleep
problems such as insomnia.
A core principle of NLP is 'If you
always do what you've always done you will always get what
you've always got'. In other words, if your current
behaviour is unconsciously not getting you what you want in
life then by making this unconscious behaviour conscious,
you can make more resourceful choices and get a better
result!
Many people study NLP to help them
become more effective in their chosen field. The patterns
can be employed across a wide area of applications ranging
from fields as diverse as: education (all
levels), team building & training,
sales
& marketing, business & management, negotiation,
personal
& professional development, leadership and coaching,
relationships (personal & professional)
CEASE is the Complete Elimination of
Autistic Spectrum Expression. Although synonymous with
Autism, it is also now being widely used for many other
conditions such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD), Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Asperger's
Syndrome and other diseases where the immune system is
compromised. The increased use of medication, environmental
stresses and travel vaccines all play their part in
contributing to these spectrum conditions.
Children, in particular babies and
young children, are very sensitive to toxins and in the case
of Autism the toxins have overloaded the system with an
accumulation of stress factors. These can be many things
including allopathic drugs, insufficient nutrients and
environmental factors, added to which is the ever increasing
number of vaccines a child receives before the age of two
years. CEASE Therapy treats Autism and other conditions
using a combination of detoxing the causative factors with
Homeopathic remedies, dietary changes, supplements and
constitutional Homeopathy treatment.
Homeopathy works on the principle that
'like cures like' - in other words a substance that causes
particular symptoms in a
healthy person may modify the same
symptoms in a sick person. This 'law of similars' was
understood by Aristotle and Hippocrates and also referred to
in ancient Hindu texts.
Homeopathy is a holistic medicine that
aims to treat the whole person, but different people with
the same complaint may exhibit different symptoms. For this
reason each case needs to assessed by detailed careful
analysis of the clients physical and emotional symptoms in
order to arrive at the appropriate remedy. Homeopathic
remedies are prepared by combining serial dilution and
'succussion' (vigorous shaking).
We will explain the process of your
treatment and the principles of homeopathy. In order to
arrive at the appropriate remedy we will need to discuss (in
some detail) your lifestyle, diet, sleep patterns, medical
history, family and much more. For this reason your first
consultation may up to two hours, although follow-ups will
be somewhat shorter. Please be assured that all personal
information is securely held and is totally confidential.
After a detailed analysis, a homeopathic remedy is then
selected that most closely matches your unique pattern of
symptoms.
Homeopathy can be used effectively and
safely for all - from babies and children to adults,
including women during pregnancy. Homeopathic remedies are
safe and non-addictive and can be taken alongside
prescription drugs. The remedies are normally taken in
tablet or pillule form, but can available as a liquid.
Food intolerance is not, unlike a food
allergy, a reaction by the body's immune system. Symptoms
may be slower to manifest and may persist for several hours,
and a person may be intolerant to a number of foods or
groups of foods. Sometimes a person can tolerate a certain
amount of a food but if they eat too much or too frequently
then symptoms arise.
Dietary factors contributing to
conditions such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Asthma,
Eczema, Migraine, Thrush, PMT, High Blood Pressure,
Sinusitis, and Glue Ear in children can often be identified
by food intolerance testing. Symptoms are varied and can
include headaches, low energy, tiredness, constipation,
diarrhoea, bloating, nausea, vomiting, IBS, skin rashes,
joint pain, dark circles under the eyes, night sweats,
chronic runny or blocked nose, etc. In food allergy, the
symptoms are usually predictable. With food intolerance, a
much wider range of symptoms may occur which can make
diagnosis more difficult.
A food intolerance consultation will include a detailed appraisal of the client's diet and lifestyle, followed by kinesiology (muscle testing) for the specific intolerances. Advice regarding any required adjustments to diet and lifestyle will then be provided and assistance offered to support these changes, such as nutritional advice and recipe suggestions. A follow-up consultation will review progress and fine-tune the recommendations. Read more about food intolerance and food allergy issues here
Coaching (which may or may not include hypnosis - 'hypno-coaching') helps the client to 'unstick' from something holding them back in some aspect of their personal or professional life. Their life may lack direction or they are finding it difficult to achieve goals that have been identified. Read more about coaching here
Fairwinds, Hay Street
Alyth
Blairgowrie
Perthshire PH11 8DQ
Telephone: 01828 633033
Mobile: 07341 288122
