Our team

Our team has many years experience of working with people with cancer, and is drawn from medical, nursing, psychotherapy and varied complementary therapy backgrounds. They are all members of their appropriate professional body and keep updated with developments in the field of complementary cancer care.

Profiles of our team:

Senior Nurse Therapist: Kate McKenzie

• Formerly an oncology nurse within the NHS
• Experienced teacher and facilitator
• Massage therapist and reflexologist

Senior Nutritional Therapist: Elizabeth Butler
BSc (Hons) MSc Nutr Med Dip ION

• Degree in Biochemistry
• Diploma in Nutritional therapy
• Respected lecturer and writer on nutrition and cancer

Head of Education: Michael Connors

•     Lecturer in counselling
•     Advanced practitioner in teaching
•     Counsellor
•     Mountain Leader
•     Father

Head of Frontline Services: Katrina Robinson 

• Ran a complementary practice for 12 years
• Qualified remedial therapist and on-site massage practitioner
• Over 7 years experience of managing helplines and other frontline services

Head of Information & Research: Helen Cooke

• Trained nurse and complementary therapist
• Trained counsellor
• MA in Complementary Health Studies
• Author of The Bristol Approach to Living with Cancer

Head of Therapy: Helen Gunson PhD

• Research biologist for 12 years
• Shiatsu practitioner
• Group facilitator
• Specialist interests in body-centred psychotherapy and trauma resolution

Senior Doctor: Dr. Sara Miller 
MRCS, LRCP, MBBS, MCOH, MBACP

• Experienced medical practitioner
• Specialist in Integrative Medicine
• Transpersonal Psychotherapist
• Over 25 years experience
• Editor of books on women’s health

Senior Healer: Janet Swan

• Healer
• Member of National Federation of Spiritual Healers
• Over 25 years experience working with people with cancer