Alex Howard BSC (hons)

PRINCIPAL

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Alex holds a first class degree in Psychology from the University of Wales, where he was awarded “Best Student Award” by the British Psychological Society, and has a number of qualifications in various mind-body healing approaches. Alex is well known for his approachable style, and ability to take complex ideas and make them easily understandable. He is the author of “WHY ME? My Journey From ME to Health and Happiness,” along with various academic papers in publications such as British Medical Journal Open, and Psychology and Health.

Alex is also Founder and CEO of The Optimum Health Clinic which has patients in 40+ countries globally, and where he is responsible for its ongoing leadership and vision. This includes overseeing a randomised controlled trial on its approach to treating ME/CFS with NHS patients.

Alex's online coaching programs such as The RESET Program, and online events such as the Fatigue Super Conference, have been attended by tens of thousands of people globally.

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Anna Duschinsky MA (hons)

COURSE DIRECTOR

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Anna was the founding Director of Psychology at The Optimum Health Clinic, where for ten years she was responsible for developing the Psychology department to its current level of international recognition. Anna holds a degree in Languages and Linguistics from Cambridge University, and has numerous qualifications in solution based psychological approaches to mind-body healing. Throughout her career she has trained extensively with some of the best teachers and trainers in the world in coaching, NLP, hypnotherapy, EFT and many other disciplines, and is a certified Trainer of NLP. She has been training on the practitioner programme for the last 10 years and played a crucial role in the development of the Therapeutic Coaching model alongside Alex.

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Emma Johnson BSC (hons)

TRAINER

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Emma has an honours degree (BSc) in Psychology and Counselling, and has undertaken further postgraduate training in psychotherapy and counselling. Emma has over 20 years experience in public, private and voluntary sectors working with survivors of abuse, mental health service users, young people and people living with HIV and AIDS. More recently, Emma developed a passion for the cutting edge methods, broadly termed Energy Psychology and Brief Solution-Focused Approaches. To further this passion, she has gained qualifications and experience with EFT, NLP and hypnotherapy. Emma is committed to working with everyone as an individual, and supporting them in finding their own path to transformation. Emma brings an unrivalled level of experience of the tools being taught in extreme environments in the real world and is deeply passionate about the potential within all of us change.