Nice to meet you, I’m Jan!

I qualified as a physiotherapist in 1981, and worked in the NHS. I got my greatest satisfaction working in the Out Patient department, treating mostly muscular and joint conditions.

After a break to raise my young family, I was looking for a more holistic therapy to practice, and I found it in the Bowen Technique. I was at first amazed, and then delighted with the sheer effectiveness of the treatments.

My credentials

I qualified as a Bowen therapist with the European College of Bowen Studies (now CBS) in 2006, and enjoy developing my skills with regular advanced courses. I’m a member of the Bowen Therapy Professional Association (BTPA), and the independent UK regulator for complementary healthcare practitioners (CNHC). I’m passionate about offering my patients the best care possible, and work to the profession’s standards of training and conduct.

Why I love Bowen Therapy

I love my work, and get a lot of satisfaction from seeing people get back to wellness, and achieve their potential. That could be helping a sportsperson get over an injury and back to their training, a child gain control of their asthma, an elderly person gain more mobility and independence, or a working person on sick leave get back to their job. I feel privileged to be doing something which can make such a big difference in people’s lives.

Why I teach Bowen Therapy

Through my work I have seen the power of Bowen to help people recover from pain and injury, both new and long-standing. I passionately believe Bowen can play an important part in the health and wellbeing of the population as a whole. So I’m delighted to be a tutor with Bowen College UK (BC UK), offering two-day workshops for people to learn how to give a whole body Bowen treatment, to support their friends, family and colleagues. 

Taking Bowen Therapy into the future

Because of its sheer effectiveness and lack of side effects, I look forward to the day when Bowen is a household skill, and more widely prescribed as a first-line treatment in the NHS. I feel everyone deserves to benefit from this very natural treatment.