Alex Howard

Alex is the founder of Conscious Life, and co-host of the world leading Super Conference series. He is also founder of The Optimum Health Clinic, one of the world’s leading integrative medicine clinics, which has a team of 25 full time practitioners supporting thousands of patients in 50+ countries.

Alex is an immensely experienced psychology practitioner, having delivered more than 10,000 consultations. He has also led the Therapeutic Coaching practitioner programme since 2005, training the next generation of psychology practitioners. Since March 2020, Alex has been documenting his therapeutic work with real life patients via his In Therapy with Alex Howard YouTube series.

Alex has published research in journals such as the British Medical Journal Open and Psychology and Health and is the author of three books. His first two books Why ME? and Decode Your Fatigue focus on his work with fatigue, and his most recent book, It's Not Your Fault: Why childhood trauma shapes you and how to break free, outlines his groundbreaking approach to healing the impacts of childhood trauma.

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Kirsty Cullen

Kirsty became CEO of OHC in 2020 after a decade of working within various departments within the organisation, including formerly as Director of Nutrition. Previously having worked in executive recruitment for 10 years, her interest in nutrition began as a consequence of health issues experienced by her own daughter, and her own mother's struggles with M.E/CFS.

Following her graduation in Nutritional Therapy, Kirsty embraced a number of different and exciting career opportunities through the establishment of her own nutrition clinic, which saw her undertake a number of nutrition roles within the professional sports arena. This included working as a Nutritional Therapist at St George’s Park National Football Centre and also for the League Managers Association, assessing and advising football managers and elite athletes on health, energy provision and injury recovery. Kirsty also worked as Lead Nutritional Therapist at Derby County Football Club, establishing an umbrella nutrition strategy for the club, in addition to providing one-to-one nutrition plans for all players.

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Sara Jackson

Having worked in senior management roles in the fashion industry most of her career, a cancer diagnosis caused Sara to explore the life-changing benefits of nutrition and integrative medicine to assist her recovery and stay well. The power of natural medicine resonated so much with her that she retrained as a nutritional therapist and naturopath and had a successful private practice before joining OHC. Sara has a special interest in complex case management and a breadth of knowledge and experience across many diseases and health conditions. Sara is a passionate, calm and caring clinician with acute sensitivity to her clients’ needs. Sara has a proven track record, supporting her client’s recovery journeys with evidence-based nutritional guidance that has transformed the health and life of hundreds of individuals.

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Claire Sehinson

Having recovered fully from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, fibromyalgia and complex illness, Claire has a wealth of personal experience and knowledge to share. She has completed an MSc in Personalised Nutrition, AFMCP (Functional medicine in practice), NLP practitioner training (neurolinguistic programming) and clinical neuroscience modules whilst contributing to research in Autistic spectrum disorders.

Claire has lectured in Biomedicine and continues to teach Chronic Fatigue Syndrome at several of the top nutritional therapy colleges in the UK. She contributed a chapter to Case Studies in Personalised Nutrition (a textbook for health practitioners and students).

Before starting a career in functional medicine, Claire was a classical pianist in training and now works with individuals in the music industry with a focus on psychiatric and mental wellness, addictions and overall resilience in a very challenging and pressured industry.

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Anna Duschinsky

Anna was the founding Director of Psychology at The Optimum Health Clinic, where for ten years she was responsible for developing the foundations of the Psychology department to its current level of international recognition. Anna holds a degree in Languages and Linguistics from Cambridge University, and has numerous qualifications in solution based psychological approaches to mind-body healing. For the last 15 years she has co-trained the Therapeutic Coaching practitioner training with Alex Howard, where she is now Course Director.

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