Welcome to
the Wessex Clinic

Osteopathy Services - Wessex Osteopathy

Wessex Osteopathy, established 35 years ago, offers a comprehensive range of osteopathic approaches.

Audiologist - Catherine Mills

Catherine Mills is a qualified Audiologist with nearly 20 years clinical experience.
She studied a BA(Hons) in Human Communication and Communication Disorders followed by a MSc in Audiological Science at the University of Manchester. Following this she embarked on a fulfilling career with the NHS with 16 years working at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. A move to the New Forest in 2017 led to the inception of ‘Ear Sense’, which offers a full range of ear care services.

Throughout her career to date, her interests and specialist roles have included assessment and rehabilitation of adults referred for Hearing Implants including: Cochlear Implants; Middle Ear Implants and Bone Conducting Implants. She is also experienced in adult and paediatric hearing assessments and adult hearing rehabilitation. She has fitted a wide range of digital hearing aids and also CROS and BI-CROS hearing systems for single-sided deafness. Vestibular Assessments, Tinnitus Retraining Therapy and Obscure Auditory Dysfunction Assessments have also been a large part of her clinical role.

Catherine has been very lucky to work with some exceptional professionals and has been actively involved in many exciting pieces of research which have led to published papers and an opportunity to present at International Conferences.

Consultant Dermatologist - Dr James Hickey

Dr James Hickey MBBS MRCP

Consultant Dermatologist

Secretary: Caroline Pile (based offsite)

Tel: 01590 540190

Email: [email protected]

Wessex clinics – Dr Hickey can see self-funding (non-insured patients) for consultation and treatment advice* at The Wessex Clinic in Lymington. The charge for an initial consultation is £245.00 (30mins) – and clinics are generally held on the first Monday of the moth (morning only).

To make an appointment, please phone 01590 540190 or  email [email protected]

About Dr Hickey, Consultant Dermatologist: GMC registration: 4320605

Clinical interests: General Dermatology, Skin Cancer, + Minor Skin Cancer Surgery,  Acne and Rosacea, Eczema & Psoriasis, Full Skin/Mole Checks and Benign Lesion Removal (skin tags, cysts, warts, moles), Cryotherapy.

Professional Memberships: Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, University of London – MBBS 1996, Royal College of Physicians – MRCP 2000, British Association of Dermatologists

Other Clinics:

Nuffield Health: Bournemouth Hospital – 67 Lansdowne Rd, Bournemouth BH1 1RW

The Clinic @ 78 – 78 Poole Rd, Westbourne, Bournemouth BH4 9DZ

Nuffield Health: Wessex Hospital – Winchester Rd, Chandler’s Ford, Eastleigh SO53 2DW

New Hall Hospital – Bodenham, Salisbury SP5 4EW
* For skin treatment (cryotherapy) and skin surgery patients are required to attend a different facility in Bournemouth (see above).

Private prescriptions for topical treatment can be arranged at time of
consultation.

Clinical Hypnotherapist - Mark Williams

Mark Williams Hypnotherapy offers modern Clinical Hypnotherapy in Andover and Lymington as well as in neighbouring towns & counties, such as Dorset and Wiltshire.

Kinesiologist - Guy Blomfield

Sports Massage and Injury Rehabilitation - Suzy Judd

Suzy graduated from Solent University in Southampton as a Sports and Exercise Therapist, specialising in Sports Massage and Injury Rehabilitation and regularly incorporates all areas of this into her treatments. Some of these areas include:

·      Sports and deep tissue massage 

·      Relaxation and gentle massage

·      Stretching and strengthening programmes 

·      Kinesiology and sports taping

·      Injury prevention and rehabilitation 

·      Injury education

 At an early age Suzy found that she always wanted to peruse a career which helped people and being sporty herself thought of no better way than helping others to overcome pain and injuries whilst understanding them due to personal experience. Therefore, Suzy is qualified to deal with all manner of injuries, whether sporting or general.

 Suzy has a wide range of experience working with different types of patients and is therefore able to adapt and change her massage and therapy sessions to meet each individual clients needs and requests. As a recent graduate, Suzy is up to date with recent practices and literature and feels this allows her to provide the best and most appropriate treatments and massages for her clients. Suzy looks forward to speaking to prospective clients and helping as many people as possible.

Reflexology - Ally Brown

Ally Brown, MAR (Member of the Association of Reflexologists)

Ally originally trained in therapeutic massage in 1989 as she was very interested in natural health and therapies from a young age.  At that time though, she worked full time in Central London so it was more of a hobby to treat my friends and family.  About ten years later, she was suffering from a range of symptoms and just didn’t feel right – sleep patterns were dreadful, no energy, intolerant to many foods and fighting infections all the time with kidney problems.  Nothing the doctor said or prescribed had any effect whatsoever, she was drained with fatigue.   A friend was training to be a reflexologist and she was sceptical!  How can someone pressing your feet have much of an affect!   She became a case study and after 3 sessions all symptoms cleared up.  Hooked, she enrolled on the next course possible to do a year’s training, completing training in 2001.

She began practising straight away with some regular clients – she was then invited to Nepal to train basic reflexology for first aid, travelling around some hilltop villages that only had one small room to serve as the local school by day, but also somewhere for people to gather in the evenings as most people we visited had no electricity in their own homes.  Some years later, she also travelled to China and Tibet spending time in the Beijing General Hospital and Lhasa People’s Hospital seeing how they treated people on their wards.  In both these hospitals, the natural therapy department took up most of the space with only a tiny dispensing clinic for drugs – they had a whole department full of massage and reflexology to treat people with strokes, heart attacks and cancer.  It was an eye-opener to say the least.

Now she has been practising for over 20 years, and is still as passionate as ever about reflexology.  People come with a wide range of symptoms – arthritis, back pain, ME, MS, insomnia, anxiety, menopausal or fertility issues, migraine to name but a few.  Reflexology does not diagnose, but seeks to calm the central nervous system, promoting deep relaxation and encouraging the immune system into a response to work better.  Reflexology works better with a course of treatments, but can also be an indulgent one-off treat for general well-being.

As well as foot reflexology, she also offers also facial reflexology using a map of the reflex points on the face – this has the added bonus of reducing fine lines and puffiness of the face, and has been likened to a mini ‘face-lift’ as it tightens facial muscles.  It can also help with migraine and insomnia and improves skin tone.

Ally’s favourite quote which sums up reflexology by Enince Ingham, the 20^th century pioneer of modern reflexology “If you are feeling out of kilter, don’t know why or what about, let your feet reveal the answer, find the sore spot and work it out.”

Nutritional Therapist - Annie Winter

Annie recently graduated from the London College of Naturopathic Medicine (CNM) in March 2021 and is registered with multiple professional and regulatory bodies including CNHC, BANT, and ANP, so you can be sure you are receiving the highest clinical standards for Nutritional Therapy in the UK.

With over 200 clinic hours behind her, she has helped clients with a variety of health issues from arthritis to fertility, and obesity to psoriasis.

Although nutrition has a wide effect on all aspects of health, Annie has a particular interest in gut and immune health, and women’s health, supporting clients with a holistic approach and tailored advice to suit your individual needs. Whether you are battling a chronic disease or just looking to improve your lifestyle, good nutrition is central to optimal health.

NTs take a holistic approach, looking at the individual in detail, rather than only at the disease and/or symptoms. Rather than only managing symptoms, Annie aims to find the root cause of the problem and work to support the underlying mechanisms, supported by an evidenced-based practice.

In an initial consultation with Annie, she will go through a detailed health history and examine the functioning of every major body system, as well as analysing your current diet and lifestyle, and any recent lab tests you may have had.

 Annie offers a range of consultation packages to suit your goals. To see how her practice can help you, please see her website:

www.anniewinter.co.uk/booking.

Parent & Wellbeing Coach - Cindy White

Cindy White is a qualified Wellbeing and Parent Coach. Bringing with her over 25 years of experience of working with children and families. Cindy launched Barefoot Wellbeing and Parent Coaching in January 2017 following the closure of Hampshire Children’s Centres and seeing the noticeable decline in parent and wellbeing support being offered across the New Forest.

Cindy is a licensed Relaxation, Wellbeing and Parent Coach – proudly having annual school contracts in and around the New Forest and priding herself on offer something refreshingly bespoke to meet client’s individual needs. Offering a grounded approach to coaching, ensuring children, teenagers and parents can bring balance, a sense of peace and control back into your lives so they can shine bright with confidence and direction once more.

Cindy has extensive range of qualifications in the Child and Family Sector, encompassing Early Years, Behaviour and Family Support, Wellbeing and Relaxation, Special Needs, Positive Parenting and Domestic Abuse.

She holds licences to teach: Relax Kids, Charge UP!, Baby Massage, Story Massage, Go Zen!, WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Planning), Triple P Positive Parenting and the Freedom programme.

Qualifications include:

Dip. In Nursery Nursing (NNEB) Dip. Life Coaching Dip. Mindfulness Advanced Dip. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Advanced Dip. Childcare and Education

Post Graduate Cert in Integrated Centre Leadership (NPQICL)

Post Graduate Cert in Baby Massage

Holistic Life Coach (& cancer/psychosexual counsellor) - Dr. Jo Lee

With a special interest in cancer care and psychosexual issues, Dr Jo Lee trained as a life coach after working as a GP partner for 12 years – she continues to work in the NHS as a psychosexual counsellor.  Life Coaching is a talking therapy focused on helping people to make changes to benefit their wellbeing. The approach is holistic and any area of life can be the focus of the work. Some people will feel very clear about what they want to change and others may just have a sense that something is not right and may need help to explore what their priorities are. The process may involve exercises to facilitate new perspectives on individual problems.

In 2008, Jo co-founded LYLAC: Live Your Life After Cancer for people who are struggling to find a way forward after cancer. LYLAC provides individual coaching and group workshops for men and women with any cancer diagnosis. Jo loves to work with people to help them to feel empowered and ready to find their own ‘right’ way forward.

Cancer Coaching provides support and an effective way to assist people in dealing with the impact of cancer on their lives. As well as affecting people physically, cancer may also cause depression, anxiety and loss of confidence, challenge relationships and affect peoples’ working lives. After treatment, people often feel vulnerable, unsupported and overwhelmed. The Coaching relationship supports people in processing their experience, increasing awareness, and reassessing priorities, with the focus on finding a good way forward, which will be different for each person.

Psychosexual Medicine is a medical service for women and men of any age from 18 years upwards. Sexual problems may have a physical or psychological origin, and often a combination of both. Psychosexual Medicine is a brief therapy based on psychoanalytic skills and a variety of therapeutic approaches are used to assist you in overcoming your problem. Typical problems include erectile difficulties, loss of interest, premature or delayed ejaculation, impaired arousal, painful intercourse and difficulty with or inability to have penetration.

Most people find the sessions useful and much easier than imagined. Number of sessions required varies with some people feeling much better very quickly. The usual number of sessions would be 3 -6 at intervals of around a month or 6 weeks.

Dr Joanne Lee is a member of the institute of psychosexual medicine, and works within NHS psychosexual clinics in Dorset.

Chiropody Services - Kath Chappell

Kath Chappell is a Qualified Surgical Chiropodist and a registered member of the British Chiropody Association. Kath is a graduate of the SMAE Institute having qualified in 1992 and is also registered with the Health Professionals Council (HPC).

Kath has now been a member of the Wessex team for 24 years. Over many years, a significant amount of experience has been acquired dealing with a wide range of foot conditions.

Transition Counsellor & Coach - Jane Karsten

Transition Counsellor and Coach – Jane Karsten BSc (Hons) MACP

Jane is an experienced and accredited humanistic counsellor and coach with a focus on adult/young adult clients experiencing challenges at transition points in their lives.

Change happens in life, some of which will come from decisions and choices that have been taken, but also those that happen from life events occurring unexpectedly.  The feelings that come from these transition points can be confusing and may create a sense of overwhelm or uncertainty, resulting in a lack of clarity on how to move forward.  Jane has a particular interest in working with couples with relationship issues and young adults experiencing bullying and difficulties in their academic environment.

The counselling or coaching relationship creates a safe, empathic space to explore any area of life where there is challenge being experienced.   Jane’s approach is holistic, and solution focused to enable clients to be empowered to make choices and change, finding a good way forward for each person.

Jane is qualified in the following:

• Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming
• CBT Coach
• BACP Accredited Degree in Humanistic Counselling – Middlesex University

Jane has experience of coaching for over 20 years, as a career and leadership coach and mentor in corporate environment and as a life coach and counsellor.

Further information can be found at icancounselling.com.

Jane works online for client’s convenience or face to face on Friday mornings at:

The Wessex Clinic, New St, Lymington, SO41 9BH.
For appointments or further information please text message Jane on: 07500 477432

Private GP & Functional Medicine - Dr Margarita

Dr Margarita Kitova-John

MD, MRCGP, DFSRH, MSc Leadership, FP

Are you tired of suffering from ongoing symptoms such as fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, chronic pain, allergies and poor gut health?

Do you feel as though conventional medicine has been unable to get to the root cause of your symptoms? Dr Margarita is uniquely positioned to guide you back to optimal health and wellbeing so that you start feeling like you again. With over 10 years of clinical experience as a GP and extensive functional medicine postgraduate training, Dr Margarita provides evidence-based and personalised, holistic treatment plans based on your individual needs.

Dr Margarita underwent medical training in Europe and eventually graduated in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2004. Early in her career, Dr Margarita developed a clinical interest in women’s health, sexual health, gut health, medicine management, and clinical leadership. Working as a front-line GP for ten years, Dr Margarita became convinced that many common chronic conditions have deep and complex causes and that symptomatic conventional treatments are not getting to the root cause.

During her medical training, she gained versatile experience in various clinical settings. She completed her GP post-graduate training on the Isle of Wight, fell in love with the place and has resided there ever since. In 2020, Dr Margarita developed an interest in lifestyle functional medicine and completed a post- graduate degree from the Functional Medicine University.

Dr Margarita has extensive clinical experience in the field of sexual and reproductive health and is also a member of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare. also has a Master’s degree in health service leadership and has been involved in the establishment of a local GP Federation.

Dr Margarita is now a member of the British Medical Association, Medical Defence Union, and Royal College of General Practice. She is passionate about root/cause medicine, sharing her knowledge and empowering her patients to recover and live healthier lives.