Valerie is a fully qualified Teacher (Honours degree from Southhamptom University, UK). She subsequently learnt many Complementary Therapies which she also felt inspired to teach.
Her work is dedicated to teaching and supporting the deliberate creation of optimal physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health, to perceive life as a positive experience, through conscious choice. She achieves this through guided self evaluation, massage, bodywork, education, and personal empowerment.

As a teacher/facilitator, she brings with her a varied background of experiences. Valerie's intent is to empower her students to be more self-reliant when it comes to their own health and help them to feel the healer "within" In this way her students have the capability to inspire and help their clients.

Valerie is always learning new and diverse healing modalities to incorporate into her work. To date these include: Various massage techniques (Holistic, Swedish, Deep Tissue, Indian Head, Pregnancy, LaStone, Rainbow Crystal), Aromatherapy, Reflexology, Energy Healing Systems (Reiki, Sekhem, Karuna, Master/Teacher), Crystal Healing, Colour Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Timeline Therapy?, Kinesiology, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Myofacial Release, and Geo-Thermo-Therapy, Lymphatic Drainage, Nutrition and Stress Management.

Valerie is a highly qualified, experienced tutor with her major background in Complementary Therapies, and therefore well suited to lead the Complementary Therapy faculty at ISBC. Valerie¡¦s signature is her respect, love, and care of her students.