About Me
I am Diana Abbott and I am qualified in Craniosacral therapy and the Perrin Technique for CFS/ME as well as aromatherapy, massage and lymphatic drainage.
I have had my own practice in north-west London since 2006, helping people with an enormous range of conditions – usually problems that their own doctors have been unsuccessful with. I believe that my own life’s path, with its many challenges (including a difficult birth, lifelong chronic back pain and Chronic Fatigue) has helped me to empathise with, and help my patients (as well as being living proof as to the efficacy of this type of therapy).
I believe that our bodies function best when in a balanced and relaxed state. However when part of the body is altered through physical trauma, occupational strain, emotional stresses and even the trauma of birth itself, tensions are created and held in the body tissues, altering this balanced state. And because we are one holistic organism, these tensions and restrictions can lead to abnormalities in other parts of the body and are, I believe, the root cause of “dis-ease”. The body attempts to resolve these problems of disturbed function and quite often it succeeds, but on occasion it may need some external assistance to help its self-healing mechanism to resolve that tension, and bring the affected part back in sync with the whole.
I love my role as one such facilitator, using my sense of touch to palpate where the restrictions are, being guided by what I feel the body needs in order to resolve, with the minimum of interference or manipulation from me, and then marvelling at how clever our bodies are when I see the most extraordinary results. In fact I feel privileged working with my patients and seeing the magic of their body’s inherent wisdom at work.
I also love that Craniosacral therapy takes into account the whole individual, and that I need to keep in mind the whole picture in order to help with any specific condition.
What I’m trying to say is that I really enjoy that I treat the Individual and not the conditions, and have met many wonderful individuals in the process!
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After qualifying and working for a few years as a craniosacral therapist, I came to realise that our formative experiences stay with us for the rest of our lives. I wanted to help children to grow unhindered by birth and pre-birth experiences, and to grow 'straight and strong'. I realised that although my basic training had provided the groundwork for treating babies, I wanted to deepen my knowledge. This led me to spending two years training with Matthew Appleton in pre- and perinatal craniosacral therapy from 2011-2013.
Through my specialist training I came to understand that our birth is the most powerful journey any of us will ever make, and when that challenge is too much for us to deal with, we have difficulty integrating it. This lack of integration can create physical and emotional patterns which affect our perceptions and behaviours in social, intimate, and work situations throughout our lives, preventing us from fully expressing our true selves. Since this specialist training, I have helped hundreds of children, this is done by connecting to their system and helping them to release the held tensions and constrictions. in so doing, I have successfully helped children with issues such as sleep, incessant crying, and digestive issues.
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For families who are genuinely struggling financially I will endeavour to make treatments more affordable.
