My Background

Hello, my name is Angela, and I am a Cranio-Sacral Integrated Therapist. I trained with the College of Cranio-Sacral Therapy (CCST) https://www.ccst.co.uk/ led by Thomas Attlee and his highly skilled team of tutors.  This amazing treatment can work wonders, as it did for me just over 2 and a half years ago! 

I was looking for something that helped with the usually daily stresses of work and balancing family life, particularly as my Mum was ill with cancer. I visited Clare Johnson at her practice in Ludlow (who also trained with the same college, just a few years earlier). 

I didn’t really know what Cranio-Sacral therapy was, but her write up sounded interesting, so I gave it a go!  During my first treatment I felt my body relaxing and physically unwinding and having a sense of grounding.  It felt great but I had my mind on what I was due to do later that day, which was to pick up my father and visit my Mum in hospital, as she had a heart attack the previous day! 

Sadly, my Mum passed away just 2 weeks later. I went through several months of a traumatic time including being asked to look for another home as the place I was renting was put up for sale!  The worst time of my life for this to happen. So, I treated myself to a weekend kundalini yoga retreat in the beautiful mid Wales hills.  This saved me going into a very dark place.  I then had my second Cranio-Sacral treatment (still not knowing what it was) and something very different happened. 

I went through an experience that connected with my emotional burdens, and I felt these being lifted away and out of my body.  It may sound strange, but I felt so much lighter, I felt released from what I had been through and what my body was holding onto! I was so taken with the treatment that I dared to asked Clare the question “so, what is cranio-sacral therapy” and her answer was simple “it’s exactly what you’ve experienced”. 

I was so taken that I asked Clare where she trained, she wrote down the name of the college website, I went home, read some of the information on their website and signed up to do the course that week!  I had a little bit of money from my Mum’s Will, which I wanted to put to good use, so this money paid for my training.

So, thanks Mum, you have given me a great gift..