Osteopathy: Your initial consultation is a thorough 60-minute appointment designed to gain a deep and meaningful understanding of you and your body.

We begin with an in-depth case history, exploring not only your presenting complaint and medical background, but also the wider context of your life — including sleep quality, stress levels, diet, movement habits, work demands, and emotional load. This allows me to see the full picture, rather than just isolated symptoms.

From here, I carry out a tailored osteopathic examination, guided by the information you’ve shared. This may include osteopathic assessment and relevant orthopaedic testing to help form a clear musculoskeletal working diagnosis.

Treatment is then carefully adapted to your individual needs and may include a combination of osteopathic approaches such as structural, functional, fascial, visceral, and cranial osteopathy, alongside movement re-training, breath training, and guided meditative practices where appropriate.

My aim is not simply to treat symptoms, but to support your body in reconnecting with its innate capacity for balance, adaptability, and health, in alignment with the core principles and philosophy of osteopathy.

Each consultation is unique, respectful, and collaborative — creating space for your body to move back toward its original state of health.

Follow-up: This 40-minute appointment is designed to review your progress and offer continued support, treatment, and guidance for your presenting concern. It provides time to reassess how your body is responding, explore your feedback, and gently re-test where needed, allowing the treatment and management plan to be adjusted to best support your ongoing healing.

Cranial Osteopathy: Cranial osteopathy is a gentle, hands-on approach within osteopathic medicine that works with the body’s natural rhythms and self-regulating systems. Despite its name, cranial osteopathy does not focus only on the skull — it considers the whole body, recognising that all tissues are connected through fascia, the nervous system, and fluid dynamics.

Using light, subtle touch, the osteopath listens to areas of tension, restriction, or imbalance within the body. These may relate to the cranial bones, spine, sacrum, membranes, or soft tissues, but can also reflect deeper patterns held within the nervous system.

The aim is to support the body in reducing strain, improving communication between systems, and restoring a sense of balance and ease.

Each cranial osteopathy session is 60 minutes whether it is the first appointment, or a follow-up.