The Healthy Living Centre - Chronic Fatigue Clinic

Availability:

Tuesdays 2:15pm & 3:10pm

Wednesdays 10–2pm

Fridays 11:20am & 12:10pm

Prices: £25

About:

The Chronic Fatigue Clinic offers low cost craniosacral therapy to people with chronic fatigue conditions, including ME, CFS, Fibromyalgia and Post Viral Syndrome. The treatment works gently to build up health and vitality and enables relaxation and deep rest. Craniosacral therapy is supportive and holistic, and it follows the priorities and pace that your body determines. This makes craniosacral therapy well suited to people who have clusters of symptoms unique to themselves, and for those who have fragile and sensitive systems.

Appointments:

The Clinic offers four sessions each week and is run by two practitioners, Viola Sampson and Max Mainini. They work at different times (Max on Wednesdays, and Viola on Tuesdays & Fridays) and on alternate weeks. You can book with either practitioner and with your permission they can hand over to each other between sessions.

To book an appointment, please call reception on 020 7704 6900. Please let them know you are booking for the Fatigue Clinic, as Viola and Max both work at HLC at other times. If there isn’t an appointment free on the day that suits you, you can put your name on a waiting list with reception. If someone cancels, reception will call you as soon as a Clinic appointment becomes free, or if the practitioner has additional sessions available that week, you may be offered them 24 hours in advance at the Clinic low cost rate. You can also book sessions with either practitioner outside the clinic hours for a full fee of £45.

If you cancel or rearrange an appointment with less than 24 hours notice, we ask you to pay the £25 fee – unless you are unable to make it due to sudden ill health or an emergency.

Read more about Craniosacral Therapy here or at the Fountain Clinic website .

About Viola Sampson RCST and Max Mainini BCST

Viola Sampson trained as a craniosacral therapist after finding the work was central to her recovery from many years of ME. While symptoms and triggers are unique to each individual, personal understanding of the particular challenges of living with chronic fatigue makes her particularly sensitive to the needs and experiences of those with fatigue conditions. Viola appreciates the benefits of a gentle, supportive and often multidisciplinary approach. She also brings to her work simple, empowering body awareness tools that can support the therapeutic process.

Viola is also specialising in working with post traumatic stress. She is registered with the Craniosacral Therapy Association, setting high standards of postgraduate training and practice. Her background is in 15 years of environmental and human rights work. Spending time in nature, as well as studies in ecopsychology and a chi kung practice complement and inform her craniosacral work.

Max Mainini is a craniosacral therapist and homeopath, having gained his diplomas at the respected London colleges of CTET (Craniosacral Therapy Education Trust) and CPH (College of Practical Homeopathy). He is well established with busy clinics based in North and Central London.

He has experience treating a wide range of illnesses and disease processes, taking particular interest in working with the health imbalances that can arise from prolonged stress and nervous tension. He specialises in treating exhaustion and all fatigue conditions, anxiety, insomnia, depression, IBS and hormonal imbalances. He works closely with the functioning and energy flow in each person he treats, using his skills to facilitate the release of health and energy in a supportive and non-invasive way. He sometimes combines both therapies to help the body to return to a state of true emotional and physical balance.