Meet Our Staff | The Sunflower Centre

Osteopaths

Aidan Spencer
Registered Osteopath

Aidan is a Registered osteopath with specialist paediatric training and many years of clinical and teaching experience. Aidan also teaches Tai Chi and Chi Gong.
James Britton
Registered Osteopath

James is a registered osteopath with over three decades of clinical experience. He specialises in injury & post-op rehabilitation, injury prevention, sports performance optimisation and ante-postnatal recovery
Joanna Mitchell
Registered Osteopath & Owner

Joanna is a registered osteopath with over three decades of clinical experience. She works with all ages from pregnancy, birth to old age using the cranial osteopathic approach. Joanna is the lead osteopath and owner of the Sunflower Centre
Laura McCrave
Registered Osteopath

Laura is a registered osteopath who combines structural techniques with cranial osteopathy. She treats a diverse range of adults experiencing new or persistent pain
Soran David
Registered Osteopath

Soran is a registered osteopath with many years of clinical and teaching experience. Her approach is ‘eclectic’, combining traditional structural techniques with cranial osteopathy and medical acupuncture or dry needling techniques

Other Therapists

Cecily Saunders
Nutritional Therapist & Yoga Teacher

Cecily is a passionate Yoga Teacher and a qualified Nutritional Therapist
Clare Moss
Acupuncturist

Clare is a classically trained acupuncturist, offering TCM as well as Five Element Acupuncture. She is a member of the British Acupuncture Council
David Robinson
Sports Therapy and Performance Specialist

With a background in personal training, sports fitness and martial arts, David combines remedial/sports massage therapy, kinesiology taping and movement therapy
Elwood Amey
Homeopath

Elwood Amey is a Registered Classical Homeopath with decades of experience in private and clinic settings
Geraldine Mar
Bioresonance Practitioner
Lin Mirams
Acupuncturist & Chinese Herbalist

Lin is a TCM acupuncturist as well as Chinese Herbalist with decades of experience
Maria Luisa Goncalves
Massage Therapist

Maria Luisa Goncalves is an experienced holistic therapist in massage, aromatherapy, Reiki and constellation work and founder of Tão Linda Therapies, offering gentle, intuitive sessions that support both body and emotional wellbeing.
Mary Brooking
Massage Therapist

Mary is a qualified Sports Massage and Remedial Soft Tissue Therapist and is a member of SMA. She is also a keen runner and athlete and offers local running clubs
Nicky Jarrett
Reiki Therapist and Teacher

Nicky offers one-to-one Reiki session at the Centre as well as Reiki distance healing. She is also available to run small Reiki level 1 classes
Rieko Oshima-Barclay
Massage Therapist & Herbalist

Rieko is a qualified and highly experienced Massage Therapist, Reflexologist, Aromatherapist and Medical Herbalist and author. She is a member of CNHC, AoR and IFPA
Rosalind Noctor
ILM Therapist

Rosalind is a certified Ilan Lev Method practitioner, somatic movement facilitator, and healing space holder, offering one-to-one Ilan Lev Method sessions, as well as group classes and circles, in London and across the South of England.
Rosamond Martin
Movement Teacher & Educator

Rosamond has over twenty years’ experience teaching movement practices. She is a certified Pilates teacher and a professional practitioner in the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education, and she has a Masters degree in choreography
Scarlet Costello
Nutritional Therapist

Scarlet is a qualified Nutritional Therapist and a member of BANT. Through detailed case taking and testing she explores the root imbalance and combines nutritional and lifestyle changes to support your recovery
Tilda Landehag
Sound Therapist, Artist & Singer

Tilda is a Swedish sound artist, sound therapist, singer, and music producer based in South East London whose work explores the transformative power of vibration, voice, and resonance.

Psychotherapists, Counsellors & Coaches

Chris Jude
Psychotherapist

Chris is a humanistic psychotherapist and counsellor with decades of experience. She is UKCP accredited and a member of BACP
Dr Jo Blundell
Clinical Psychologist

Jo is a clinical psychologist with over 15 years of experience working with children, young people and families, in the NHS and private practice
Dr Polly Cocker
Clinical Psychologist

Polly is a Clinical Psychologist with 10 years of experience across NHS settings. She is registered with the HCPC and also works within the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust as a Highly Specialist clinician
Ellie Parkins
Psychotherapist

: Ellie is an Integrative Psychotherapist and registered member of the BACP. She works with adults, offering a tailored and relational approach for meaningful change.
Jo Lane
Counsellor

Jo is an experienced counsellor, certified in humanistic & Gestalt therapy and is an accredited registered member of BACP. She sees adults and has experience working with domestic violence, trauma, sexuality and gender identity.
Kate Campbell
Systemic Psychotherapist and Family therapist

Kate is a UKCP and AFT registered Family, Systemic and Couple’s Psychotherapist and Trainer. She specialises in working systemically with children, adolescence, families and adults
Katharina Eberle
Dance Movement Psychotherapist

Katharina is a qualified dance movement psychotherapist with over two decades experience, working with adults and children in different educational and social care settings as well as in private practice.
Liz Kent
Psychotherapist

Liz is a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and an accredited member of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC), and the Foundation for Counselling & Psychotherapy (FPC). She is also an artist and writer.
Ludmila Bebjakova
Psychotherapist

Luda is a qualified person-centred counsellor & psychotherapist with experience in working with gender and sexual diversity as well as people from multicultural and diverse backgrounds
Maria Yasnova
Life Coach

Maria is a qualified and experience La Leche League breastfeeding Consultant as well as a Life Coach, focusing o the transition into Motherhood and Beyond
Mary Elliott
Child Psychotherapist

Mary is a UKCP registered Child Psychotherapist with extensive experience in private practice and other settings including NSPCC, schools, CAMHS and fostering agencies. She offers psychotherapy to primary age children and parent support work
Natalie Hylton
Counsellor

Natalie is a qualified Gestalt counsellor with experience in the charity and private sector. She offers long-term and short-term therapy for adults, adolescents and couples.
Ruth Hargreaves
Psychotherapist & EMDR Practitioner

Ruth is an accredited psychotherapist and EMDR practitioner with many years of clinical experience. Her approach is an inter-blend of Gestalt, somatic experiencing, person centred therapy, REBT, Object Relations, psychodynamic theory and Internal Family Systems.
Simrat Chopra Bhangoo
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist & Life and Executive Coach

Simrat is an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, certified neuro-psychology-based life and executive coach, and Reiki Master, specialising in stress and anxiety management
Tim Pask
Psychotherapist

Tim is an integrative psychotherapist, combining several humanistic modalities including Person Centred, Gestalt and Transactional Analysis while also incorporating contemporary attachment and relational theories.
Tom Secretan
Psychotherapist

Tom is an integrative psychotherapist who works both with couples and individuals. His style is highly relational and his practice is grounded in the psychoanalytic, humanistic, existential and embodiment-based traditions of psychotherapy, as well as in attachment theory

Pilates & Yoga Teachers

Aidan Spencer
Registered Osteopath

Aidan is a Registered osteopath with specialist paediatric training and many years of clinical and teaching experience. Aidan also teaches Tai Chi and Chi Gong.
Anja Lenka
AromaYoga Teacher

Anja is CNHC registered and is a fully insured member of Yoga Alliance, UK Reiki Federation & EFT International
Ann Ballard
Studio Pilates Teacher

Ann is trained in Yoga, Matwork and Apparatus Pilates, and has several decades of teaching experience. She teaches 1:1 classes in our equipment studio
Beth Moran
Yoga Teacher

Beth is an experienced yoga teacher, voicework facilitator, and opera singer and ispecialises in Yin, Mandala, Vinyasa, and Hatha Yoga
Cecily Saunders
Nutritional Therapist & Yoga Teacher

Cecily is a passionate Yoga Teacher and a qualified Nutritional Therapist
Charlotte Sumner
Yoga & Breathwork Practitioner

Charlotte is a trauma-informed Conscious Connected Breathwork facilitator, registered with the UK Breathwork Association, and a Yoga Alliance-certified Holistic Yoga Teacher specialising in Yin Yoga.
Christine Rutter
Studio Pilates Teacher

Christine teaches 1:1 Apparatus Pilates classes and specialises in supporting people post injury, surgery and childbirth as well as in breast cancer rehabilitation
Emily Spriggs
Pilates & Yoga Teacher

Emily teaches Matwork Pilates Classes, blending classical and contemporary Pilates with yoga influences
Erin Young
Studio Pilates Teacher

Erin teaches full apparatus Pilates and mat Pilates at the Sunflower Centre. She is also a qualified vinyasa yoga teacher
Iona Mumby Schwerin
Ante & Postnatal Fitness Instructor

Iona is a qualified and experienced personal trainer , specialising pre- and postnatal fitness and physical activity
Ivona Behalova
Pilates Teacher

Ivona teaches 1:1 Reformer Classes in our Pilates equipment studio. She has specialist training in the rehabilitation of chronic injury, including scoliosis and hypermobility
Laura Igiehon
Baby Massage Instructor and Yoga teacher

Laura is a certified Infant Massage Instructor with the IAIM and a Mum and Baby Yoga Instructor (Birthlight). She runs Baby Massage and Mum & Baby Yoga classes at the Centre
Rosamond Martin
Movement Teacher & Educator

Rosamond has over twenty years’ experience teaching movement practices. She is a certified Pilates teacher and a professional practitioner in the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education, and she has a Masters degree in choreography
Sarah Hansen
Yoga Teacher

Sarah is a qualified and yoga teacher with many years teaching experience. She specialises in prenatal and postnatal yoga as well as Yin Yoga classes

Workshop Teachers

Beth Moran
Yoga Teacher

Beth is an experienced yoga teacher, voicework facilitator, and opera singer and ispecialises in Yin, Mandala, Vinyasa, and Hatha Yoga
Justine Walsh
Meditation Teacher

Qualified with the British School of Meditation, Justine offers meditation courses and classes that will help you integrate meditation into your everyday life
Louise Winter
Funeral Director, Celebrant & Author

Louise is a funeral celebrant and director of Poetic Endings funeral home. She is an author and has run death cafes all over the world
Michelle Cole
Alexander Technique Teacher

Michelle is a qualified Alexander Technique Practitioner and Teacher with decades of experience. She runs the Alexander Technique Workshops at the Centre
Pete Brown
Psychotherapist

Pete is an experienced family therapist with many years experience of working in CAMHS. Pete has been supporting parents and carers in their parenting journey for over 20 years and is a keen advocate of the NVR parenting approach
Rosamond Martin
Movement Teacher & Educator

Rosamond has over twenty years’ experience teaching movement practices. She is a certified Pilates teacher and a professional practitioner in the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education, and she has a Masters degree in choreography
San Lau
Sound Healing Practitioner

San is a trained Sound Healing Practitioner who uses gongs, crystal bowls, Tibetan singing bowls, drums, tuning forks and voice in her private and group sound baths.
Simrat Chopra Bhangoo
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist & Life and Executive Coach

Simrat is an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, certified neuro-psychology-based life and executive coach, and Reiki Master, specialising in stress and anxiety management
Tamara Black
TRE Practitioner

Tamara is a Certified TRE Provider trained to teach TRE as a practice to relieve stress, tension and trauma.
Tilda Landehag
Sound Therapist, Artist & Singer

Tilda is a Swedish sound artist, sound therapist, singer, and music producer based in South East London whose work explores the transformative power of vibration, voice, and resonance.
Zoe Donkin
Hypnobirthing Teacher

Zoe is an experienced Hypnobirthing teacher and life coach. She is dedicated to helping women have an enjoyable pregnancy, positive birth experience and an empowering start to parenthood.

staff

Jenny O’Connell
Practice Manager

Jenny is part of the practice manager team and has been contributing to the Centre’s growth and development for many years
Joanna Mitchell
Registered Osteopath & Owner

Joanna is a registered osteopath with over three decades of clinical experience. She works with all ages from pregnancy, birth to old age using the cranial osteopathic approach. Joanna is the lead osteopath and owner of the Sunflower Centre
Johanna Benseler
Practice Manager

Johanna is part of the practice manager team and has contributed to shaping the Centre’s growth and development for a number of years

Our Team

Osteopaths

Other Therapists

Psychotherapists, Counsellors & Coaches

Pilates & Yoga Teachers

Workshop Teachers

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