I am a fully qualified counsellor and Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy currently working with individual adult clients in private practice. Previously I have worked as a volunteer counsellor in schools and other organisations, as a learning support assistant in a college of Further Education and have over 30 years’ experience working as a registered nurse for adults with learning disabilities.
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Joanna helps you to feel connected to your true self; to be able to act from a more embodied and boundaried sense of who you are and what you want. Deeply nature connected herself, she can weave connection with something bigger into your work. Joanna is also trained in breathwork, somatics and EFT/Tapping and can gently help you work through past trauma, build a supportive sense of presence and help you remove blocks to the future you want.
Fatigue & Pain Specialist Physiotherapist & Integrative Somatic Therapist
Ann is a compassionate, trauma-informed practitioner and the founder of Unity Physiotherapy & Wellbeing. She understands the importance of being heard and works in partnership with each person, offering a space that is compassionate, collaborative, respectful, and responsive to individual needs and capacity. Her work is grounded in compassion, trauma–informed principles, nervous system regulation, somatic awareness and embodied presence.
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She specialises in supporting people living with persistent pain, fatigue-related conditions, and nervous system dysregulation, as well as those experiencing chronic stress, trauma, or seeking personal growth and improved wellbeing. This includes people with ME/CFS, Long Covid, fibromyalgia, PoTS and FND.
She shares her work through one-to-one sessions, workshops, and writing, creating spaces for people to settle, reconnect, and remember their own innate inner wisdom and connection to the wider whole.
Ann integrates specialist physiotherapy with somatic and embodiment practices, mindfulness-based and compassion-focused approaches, coaching, functional breathwork,and contemplative approaches. Her work focuses on working with the whole person and what is important to them, alongside cultivating awareness, compassion, and nervous system regulation, including building capacity and resilience. She draws on a strengths-based approach to support a growing sense of compassion and trust in the body.
She is passionate about empowering people to do more of what matters most to them, whilesupporting them to embody compassion and develop a personalised toolkit of practices and strategies to help navigate challenges and move towards thriving. Ann is also committed to ongoing learning, evidence-informed practice, and bringing both professional expertise and lived experience to her work
Founder and principal facilitator at Mindfulness Skills4Life and Head of Mindfulness for Champion Health, a global wellbeing organisation.
Dr. Sands is an accredited meditation & mindfulness teacher and Compassionate Mind trainer. Her clients appreciates that she seamlessly integrates neuroscience with mindfulness-based approaches to support their self-awareness, emotional regulation, stress reduction and resilience. At the heart of her work is enabling you to live with greater balance, a more settled mind, contentment of life, self-kindness & care.
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She offers mindfulness courses and drop-in sessions for small groups, bespoke 1:1 sessions (online and in her beautiful wellbeing studio), workplace wellbeing programmes, and retreats. She also facilitates community-based creative workshops (including mindful Zentangle and clay) and nature-led mindfulness sessions.
Clients consistently describe her as warm, exceptionally knowledgeable, grounded, non-judgemental, and deeply kind and compassionate. Her approach is highly personalised, meeting people where they are with sensitivity, insight, skill and care.
She has held a Visiting Research Fellow position at the University of Lincoln, contributing to research on the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions, including the Mindfulness-Based Living Course, on psychological and physiological wellbeing.
Prior to mindfulness full-time, she spent 18 years in neurobiology research at the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute, researching neurodegenerative disease. She collaborated with the UK Department of Health policy advisors and has consulted for the World Health Organization (WHO) and featured in BBC TV and Radio.
Sands’ training is accredited through the Mindfulness Association (UK), the Compassionate Mind Foundation, and the Mindfulness in Schools Project. She adheres to BAMBA professional standards and maintains ongoing supervision and continuing professional development.
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