FREELANCE
HEALTH-WRITER
Freelance
Health related Writer Author Complementary Therapist Laurel
Alexander
Laurel Alexander - Freelance Health Writer
If you’re looking for a health writer who also has wide-ranging
experience as a therapist, I can help you.
As a published author,
I specialize in: complementary medicine, nutrition, women’s
health, cancer, psychology, mind/body medicine and health-related
careers.
 FEATURE WRITER
Here are some of the Magazines I've written features
for:
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Bella
- Choice
- Active Life
- Good Health
- Health Advisor
- Yoga and Health
- Making Money
- Positive Health
- Prediction
- Reflextions (Journal for the Association of Reflexologists)
- CancerBACUP
- InForm (Bank of Scotland)
- Business 2.0
- Business Opportunity World
- Making Money
- Working from Home
- Fidelity (Journal for the National Council of Psychotherapists)
- LighterLife
 BOOK WRITER
Here are some Books I've written:
-
Getting into Complementary Therapies (Trotman)
- Getting into Healthcare Professions (Trotman)
- Getting into Physiotherapy (Trotman)
- Getting in to Nursing and Midwifery (Trotman, 2nd edition)
- Directory of Nursing and Midwifery (Trotman)
- Medicine Uncovered (Trotman)
- Creating an Employee Wellness Programme (Management Books 2000)
- Turn Redundancy into Opportunity (How to Books, 3rd edition)
- Career Planning for Women (How To Books)
- Finding a Job with a Future (How To Books)
- Career Networking (How To Books)
- Learning New Jobskills (How to Books)
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Education & Training on the Internet (Internet Handbooks)
- Working from Home on the Internet (Internet Handbooks)
- Graduate Job Hunting on the Internet (Internet Handbooks)
- Overseas Job Hunting on the Internet (Internet Handbooks)
- Career Guidance on the Internet (Internet Handbooks)
- Secrets of Profitable E-Commerce (Management Books 2000)
- The Complete Beginners Guide to the Internet (Management Books
2000)
- Marketing your Website (Management Books 2000)
- The Yin-Yang of Business Communication (Management Books 2000)
- Secrets of Successful Online Training (Management Books 2000)
 
TRAINING MATERIALS WRITER
As a qualified trainer and tutor, I have designed
and written a range of training material including:
- 675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People (international resource
published by Gower)
- Introduction to Mentoring (accredited and used by Sussex Careers
Services)
- Mentoring in Community Education (accredited and used by WEA)
- Diploma in Holistic Stress Management (used by Complementary HealthCare
and accredited by The National Council of Psychotherapists)
- Diploma in Holistic Life Coaching (used by Complementary HealthCare
and accredited by The National Council of Psychotherapists)
- Assertiveness training (used in further education colleges)
- Communication skills (used in further education colleges)
- Self employment (used in Lewes Prison)
- Counselling skills (used by WEA)
- Mentoring in the Workplace (accredited and used by WEA)
- New Horizons, a learning pack on personal and career development
(accredited and used by University of Sussex)
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Reviews
- 'This is truly a collection of resources
for holistically developing yourself and
those
around you, involving a development of
the mind the body and the spirit … What's
more important than developing ourselves
to be fully functioning human beings in all
aspects
of our lives? This resource provides a
very user-friendly pack of activities and
strategies
to help us on this very important lifelong
journey.' Arena, June 2001
- 'Companies with a limited training budget could
use 675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People
to help staff increase self-awareness, self-esteem,
skill and confidence.' Food Manufacture, August
2001
- 'This innovative and useful resource collection
offers information, advice and activities to
trainers and learners in a comprehensive and
practical learning manner … This resource
is packed with a wealth of information and advice
that takes it beyond a self-development manual
and is collectively a subject textbook, a training
course, a session planning and design aid, and
an activity resource. I feel it is of exceptional
value in view of the multiple uses it offers.'
Training Journal, September 2001
- 'an experienced trainer would be able to utilize
many of the activities effectively, in a whole
range of learning situations.' National Association
for Staff Development (NASD), January 2002
- '… a sound and extremely comprehensive
resource that should be seriously considered
by anyone interested in self-development or the
development of others within an organization.
It makes a valuable addition to my library and
one I have no hesitation in recommending.' Croner
Management Training Briefing, January 2002
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ADDITIONAL WRITING PROJECTS
- I have written several (breast cancer) patient newsletters
for the Nigel Porter Unit, Royal Sussex County Hospital.
- Book reviewer for: Making Money, Working from Home and Careers
Guidance Today (ICG)
- Reviewer of complementary health material for CancerHelp
UK (the patient information website of Cancer Research
UK)
- Expert panelist on nutrition and complementary therapies
for Amoena Life Magazine, a twice-yearly glossy lifestyle
magazine that
is free to women who have had breast cancer (www.amoena.co.uk)
FEES
Each freelance writing
project is charged accordingly. I am based in Brighton,
Sussex.
What to do now
If you would like to talk to me about a health-related
writing project, please telephone me on 01273 564030 or email me
at info@laurelalexander.co.uk

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