My qualifications and credentials

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My Qualifications

I am

-a medical doctor –MBChB (1989 University of Pretoria)

-a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners MRCGP (Oxford)

Although all that was of very little use when I fell off a horse and broke several bones...Doctors are the WORST patients!

Since I was incapable do doing any physical training for months, I concentrated on exercising my mind.

I trained as a

-a medical hypnotherapist (MBMDH, London)

-a NLP practitioner (certified)

-an EAGALA (equine-assisted growth and learning association) practitioner (certified),

and so, after many, many months I eventually got back into the saddle. So...

Been there, done that. And figured I may be able to help other riders struggling with similar problems...

My credentials

I have seventeen years of experience in coaching, counselling and treating patients and clients

I created the residential “Ride with Confidence” workshops for nervous riders (France) under the mentorship of Sylvia Loch

I am now an enthusiastic Friesian horse breeder and rider

and I own a dressage schoolmaster Lusitanian stallion (must have been mad).

I am

a member of EAHEA(equine-assisted health and education association)

EAGALA

the Classical Riding Club

the Allège Ideal Association

the GMC (General Medical Council)

the MDU (Medical Defence Union)

Keeping my knowledge up to date is very important to me... I attend several courses yearly to ensure this.

My Favourite Quote:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ~Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles," 1992

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