About
Laurel Alexander
About
Brighton Complemenatry Therapist, Tutor and Autor
Laurel Alexander
INSPIRATION:
At 39 I was diagnosed with breast cancer and following
recovery became qualified in stress management therapy, reflexology,
Reiki (practitioner and teacher) and nutritional therapy.
CANCER WORK:
- complementary therapist for the Nigel Porter Unit (breast
cancer), Royal Sussex County Hospital
- complementary cancer care therapist with the Sussex Cancer Centre
- complementary therapist on a Clinical Study of HRT in Women being
treated for Breast Cancer at the Sussex Cancer Centre, Royal
Sussex County Hospital
- editor and writer of a Patients Newsletter for the Nigel Porter
Unit
- facilitating a therapeutic writing group for patients/survivors
of breast cancer for Nigel Porter Unit
- reviewer of complementary therapy material for CancerHelp UK (patient
information website of Cancer ResearchUK)
- visiting lecturer at the Institute of Nursing and Midwifery, University
of Brighton on the Cancer Nursing Pathway course
- visiting speaker for the charity Breast Cancer Care.
OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST:
Menopause, pregnancy, holistic stress
management, holistic life coaching, stress management in the
workplace (current and recent clients: Marks & Spencers,
NHS, Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited, Inland Revenue, Holland & Barrett,
Social Services, The Learning Skills Council, MIND, Sussex Police)
and the mind/body link. TEACHING & TRAINING:
Subject areas taught include: counselling
skills, mentoring skills, women and health, self development
through creative writing, assertiveness, time management, stress
management,
communication skills, self employment, magazine writing, facilitation
and training skills, IT, career management and study skills. Facilitated health and life management programmes for NHS, Sussex
Careers Services, social service users, MIND, Employment Services,
WEA, University of Sussex, Brighton and Hove City College, Lewes
Prison, Business & Professional Women, British Gas, Lewes Tertiary
College and Tomorrow’s People (formally Grand Met).
COACHING:
My coaching experience spans more than twenty years and
covers career management, personal development and wellness
with individuals and groups.
MENTORING:
I have worked in a mentoring capacity with adults for
over ten years in relation to career management.
TV & RADIO:
I have been on Meridian TV giving advice on stress
management and radio phone-ins giving guidance on natural health/beauty
and managing redundancy. I was the stress counsellor for Brighton & Hove
City Council’s Ninelives Campaign.
PUBLISHED BOOKS INCLUDE:
I have written over 23 books including
Getting into Complementary Therapies - Getting into Healthcare
Professions - Getting into Physiotherapy - Getting in to Nursing
and Midwifery - Directory of Nursing and Midwifery - Medicine
Uncovered (Trotman); Creating an Employee Wellness Programme (Management
Books 2000); Turn Redundancy into Opportunity (How to Books,
3rd
edition).
PUBLISHED FEATURES IN:
- Fidelity (Journal for the National Council of Psychotherapists)
- Good Health
- Health Advisor
- Yoga and Health
- Making Money
- Positive Health
- Reflextions (Journal for the Association of Reflexologists)
- CancerBACUP
- Choice
- Active Life
- Bella
- Business 2.0
- Business Opportunity World
- Working from Home and many more.
PUBLISHED TRAINING RESOURCES:
675 Ways to Develop Yourself and
Your People (Gower), Introduction to Mentoring (accredited,
Sussex Careers Services), Mentoring in Community Education/Mentoring
in the Workplace (accredited, WEA), New Horizons, a learning
pack on personal and career development (accredited, University
of Sussex). QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING:
- Practitioner
Certificate in Reflexology
- VTCT Diploma in Nutrition
- Advanced Diploma in Professional Stress Management
- RSA Certificate in Counselling Skills in the Development
of Learning
- Further & Adult Education Teacher’s Certificate
- Certificate in Education
- NVQ Training & Development
Units:
- A22 (identify individual
learning needs)
- C21 (create a climate conducive to learning)
- C23 (facilitate learning in groups through presentations
and activities)
- C27 (facilitate group learning)
- Skills Assessor Award
- Vocational Assessor Award
- Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Reiki 1, 2 and 3 (ART and Master/Teacher)
- NVQ 4 in Guidance
MEMBER OF:
- Association of Reflexologists (full)
- Association for Coaching
- British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional
Therapy (full)
- National Council of Psychotherapists (licentiate)
- Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
- Institute of Careers Guidance
- Society of Authors
- Guild of Health Writers
- FEDANT Registered No. 11795
- The Counselling Society (accredited)
- International Stress Management Association
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