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About Laurel Alexander

About Brighton Complementary Therapist, Tutor and Author Laurel Alexander

 

PUBLICATIONS

Health

  • How to Incorporate Wellness Coaching into Your Therapeutic Practice (Jessica Kingsley)
  • Women’s Wisdom: natural wellness strategies for the menopause years (Findhorn Press)
  • Women’s Wisdom: natural wellness strategies for pregnancy (Findhorn Press)
  • Women’s Wisdom: natural wellness strategies for menstruation (Findhorn Press)
  • Creating an Employee Wellness Programme (Management 2000)
  • Everyday Calm (Octopus)

Career Development

  • Career Networking (How To Books)
  • Learning New Job Skills (How To Books)
  • Graduate Job Hunting on the Internet (Internet Handbooks)
  • Career Planning for Women (How To Books)
  • Finding a Job with a Future (How To Books)
  • Medicine Uncovered (Trotman)
  • Getting into Complementary Therapies (Trotman)
  • Getting into Healthcare Professions (Trotman)
  • Getting into Physiotherapy (Trotman)
  • Overseas Job Hunting on the Internet (Internet Handbooks)
  • Career Guidance on the Internet (Internet Handbooks)
  • Working from Home on the Internet (Internet Handbooks)
  • Surviving Redundancy (How To Books)
  • Thrive on Redundancy (2nd edition, How To Books)
  • Turn Redundancy into Opportunity (3rd edition, How To Books)
  • Getting in to Nursing and Midwifery (1st and 2nd edition, Trotman)
  • Directory of Nursing and Midwifery 2005 (Trotman)

Business

  • The Yin-Yang of Business Communication (Management 2000)
  • Secrets of Profitable E-Commerce(Management 2000)
  • Human Resource Management on the Internet (Internet Handbooks)
  • Marketing your Website (Management 2000)
  • 675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People (Gower)

Training

  • Education & Training on the Internet (Internet Handbooks)
  • Secrets of Successful Online Training (Management 2000)

Internet

  • The Complete Beginners Guide to the Internet (Management 2000)

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HEALTH, WELLBEING & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE

  • Complementary therapist and wellness coach with over 25 years’ experience.
  • Guest positions: Learning Skills Council (reflexology, nutrition, stress management) - Holland & Barrett (reflexology) - Brighton & Hove City Council (stress coach for the Ninelives Campaign).
  • Media work: BBC Radio: natural health/beauty, HRT/natural menopause care - Meridian TV: stress management.
  • Designed and delivered wellbeing courses for: University of Brighton (Institute of Nursing and Midwifery) - Sussex Hospital Trust - Sussex Career Services - WEA - University of Sussex (Centre for Continuing Education) - University of Sussex (liberal education) - Sussex Down College - Brighton and Hove City College - Business & Professional Women – Seeboard - Social Service Family Centres - Dryad.
  • Wellness charities: Turning Point (provision of wellbeing coaching resources and training of NHS nurses in wellbeing coaching) - Aspirations Active (training and development coach) - International Stress Management Association (stress advisor for National Stress Awareness Day 2008 and business coach) - MIND (staff training in stress management) - Tinnitus Association (workshop delivery to service users) - Breast Cancer Care (workshop delivery to service users) - CancerBackup (feature writer) - CancerHelp UK (reviewer of complementary health material) - Nigel Porter Unit, Royal Sussex County Hospital (for nine years, I was a complementary therapist with the unit working with breast cancer clients at diagnosis, pre and post-surgery stages. I supported women through hormone treatment, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. I wrote a series of patient newsletters for the unit. I facilitated a therapeutic writing group for the unit working with women at all stages of breast cancer.
  • Published features: Fidelity (Journal for National Council of Psychotherapists), Good Health, LighterLife, Health Advisor, Yoga and Health, Prediction, Positive Health, Reflexions (Journal for Association of Reflexologists).
  • Book reviewer for: Positive Health magazine.
  • Cancer experience: Expert panellist on nutrition and complementary therapies for Amoena Life Magazine (for women who have had breast cancer) - Cancer-related articles: Positive Health (Working with Cancer Patients: nutritional and complementary approaches), Reflexions (case profile for breast cancer aimed at reflexologists) - Visiting lecturer at Institute of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Brighton (Cancer Nursing Pathway Course) - I have been a complementary therapist with the Sussex Cancer Centre, Royal Sussex County Hospital - Visiting speaker/facilitator on nutrition, visualisation and relaxation for Breast Cancer Care - I have been a complementary therapist on a Clinical Study of HRT in Women being treated for Breast Cancer at the Sussex Cancer Centre, Royal Sussex County Hospital – coaching NHS staff in using imagery for pre-surgery anxiety.

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CAREER & SMALL BUSINESS COACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Designed and delivered career and small business courses for: Sussex Career Services - WEA - University of Sussex (Centre for Continuing Education) - Sussex Down College - Brighton and Hove City College - Business & Professional Women – Social Service Family Centres – Open University – British Gas – Lewes Prison.
  • Media work: Heard on a number of radio stations giving advice on managing redundancy - Asked to appear on BBC’s, The Money Programme giving redundancy advice.
  • Published features: Making Money, Bella, Choice, Active Life, InForm (Bank of Scotland), Bella, Business Opportunity World and Working from Home.
  • Regular business coaching columns: International Stress Management Association, National Council of Psychotherapists and Association for Reflexologists.
  • Book reviewer for: Making Money, Working from Home and Careers Guidance Today (ICG).
  • Business mentor and group trainer with Let’s Do Business Group (NEA Scheme).
  • Project manager of European Social Fund Project on Rural Access in Sussex delivering career and personal development (University of Sussex) - Manager of career development centre; delivering government training/guidance programmes.

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TUTORING/TRAINING EXPERIENCE

  • Designed and delivered courses for: University of Brighton (Institute of Nursing and Midwifery) - Sussex Hospital Trust - Sussex Career Services - Breast Cancer Care Charity – WEA - University of Sussex (Centre for Continuing Education) - University of Sussex (liberal education) - Sussex Down College - Brighton and Hove City College - Business & Professional Women – Seeboard - Social Service Family Centres - Lewes Prison - International Stress Management Association – MIND - British Gas – Dryad - Tomorrow’s People (government employment initiatives) - BH Ltd (government employment initiatives) – Let’s Do Business Group.
  • Supervision of students, tutors, complementary therapists and nurses on health-related courses.
  • Published training resources: 675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People (Gower) - Introduction to Mentoring, (accredited learning pack for Sussex Careers Services) - Mentoring in Community Education (accredited learning pack for WEA) - Mentoring in the Workplace (accredited learning pack for WEA) - New Horizons (accredited learning pack on personal and career development for University of Sussex).
  • Trained personnel to qualification level in stress management who have worked for; West Sussex County Council, Protocol Skills, Ford Motor Company, Priory Group, South Downs NHS Health Trust, Travellers Worldwide and American Express - Trained personnel to qualification level in coaching who have worked for; Brighton & Hove Council, University of Sussex and Emirates Airlines.
  • Project manager of European Social Fund Project on Rural Access in Sussex delivering career and personal development, IT and literacy; co-ordination of adult students and supervising tutors (University of Sussex) - Manager of career development centre; delivering government guidance programmes, coaching sessions.

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QUALIFICATIONS

  • NVQ 4 in Guidance
  • TDLB Units D32, D33, A22, C21, C23 and C27
  • Certificate in Education
  • Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
  • Advanced Diploma in Professional Stress Management
  • RSA Certificate in Counselling Skills in the Development of Learning
  • Practitioner Certificate in Reflexology
  • Certified HypnoBirthing Practitioner
  • Diploma in Nutrition
  • CPD in Precision Reflexology - Facial Reflexology
  • Reiki Master/Teacher

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