Welcome to the Active LightWorks team

BARBARA

I am actively committed to Active LightWorks current project as the Team coordinator and liason officer to the Children's Royal Sussex County Hospital in making this vision possible

With Active Light Works, I am actively providing aromatherapy treatments to the staff at the Royal Sussex County Hospital cancer unit; and am  team coordinator for the development of a new ALW community clinic right opposite the hospital. Its purpose is to offer low cost complementary therapies to patients affected by serious illnesses, but also to their carers and relatives, because we believe that regular holistic treatments can help greatly to improve quality of life, and support the alleviation of pain, stress and suffering. 
 
I joined ALW as a reflexologist and aromatherapists in 2007 with great enthusiasm, and I strongly support the charity for its humanitarianism, and community spirit. Since then I have been involved in several projects there, and taken part in many fundraising events.
 
I have always had an interest in alternative medicine and I often used it throughout my life. My father is one of the main reasons why I became a holistic therapist committed to work with patients with serious illnesses. When he died of cancer at a digestive disease ward in Italy, I knew very little about the benefits complementary therapies could bring to people with serious illnesses. But when I came to Brighton to study holistic therapies, by complete co incidence, I ended up volunteering on the digestive disease ward at Brighton County - and knew I was in the right path.
 
 I believe that integrating complementary medicine alongside solidly orthodox methods of diagnosis and treatment may bring a more holistic approach to prevention and cure of illnesses. Stress is thought to be he cause for 75% of today’s diseases, yet it can be reduced by promoting complementary therapies to the public, together with a more balanced diet, exercise and relaxation techniques.

At present, I work for Lewes & Wealden District council as a mobile massage therapist treating elderly people in their own homes; besides having a practice at the Equilibrium natural health clinic in Lewes, and my own private mobile holistic therapies service which works with clients all over Sussex.