Meet the Team, the Bodymind Therapists...

"The most appropriate treatment for each individual" - this is what we at bodymind clinic focus on.

Unlike the majority of other health centres, we are not in competition with each other for clients. Whilst we do have our own client bases, we try our best to select the right therapy & therapist for each new client, based on our different styles and skills.

The first point of contact is our Practice Manager, Maddi Feven, who also handles reception and client contact.

Maddi Feven

Maddi is well-versed in all the therapies we offer and knows the personality of each therapist. She has an excellent understanding of how each therapy works, and how they best combine for maximum benefit. Maddi has personal experience of all the treatments we offer.

All these factors combine to ensure she is able to give good advice, make suggestions as to which therapies would be most helpful, and even which therapist will suit your communication style!

Maddi holds a Diploma in Optimum Nutrition and offers nutritional advice and Bodystat readings to clients. See under “Nutrition/Weight” for more details.

Janet Thomas (ITEC Tunia CCA.TCM Beijing LCM.Dip NLP Trainer Dip.H)

Janet has been a therapist in Kings Heath and Moseley for over 11 years. From the start she has maintained a keen interest in the mind/body connection and its effectiveness in bringing about significant life changes for clients. Her extensive training in massage covers therapeutic, remedial and Chinese (Tui Na), the latter requiring a month at a teaching hospital in Beijing.

Janet has also qualified in NLP to trainer level, holds a Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis and a Higher Certificate in Indirect Hypnosis. She often uses a combination of these Body and Mind methods to help resolve health issues which orthodox medicine give up on or have very limited treatments available. She has studied Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) – the science of Mind/Body medicine – and incorporates many of the principles into her work.

If you’ve been told “you’ll just have to live with it” or would like the opportunity to reduce the effects and symptoms of a particular condition, you would be very welcome to talk to us.

Janet believes that it is important to sometimes question the “usual” and the “normal”, and that often being a little curious and open-minded can bring unexpected rewards and relief.

Bobby Feven (LSSM.Dip BTEC MISRM Membe)

Bobby completed a BTEC Diploma in 1999 and then went on to qualify the London School of sports Massage in 2003. The LSSM qualification and his membership of the Institute of Sports and Remedial Massage enable him to treat all sportsman and women, professional or amateur, from World Class Athletes to triathlon participants to local footballers.

Bobby treats a wide range of muscular problems – not only those that are sports related – and has built a good reputation both in Birmingham and in Manchester. He has experience treating professional athletes and general exercise participants from many sporting areas. However, his skills are not limited to the sporting arena. His clients include those suffering sciatica, frozen shoulder and other muscular conditions as well as those needing post-operative and other “maintenance” treatments.

Bobby is a dedicated and professional therapist who believes in the importance of updating skills and keeping up with cutting-edge treatments. He also enjoys passing on these skills via his teaching in workshops and the accredited massage course.

A keen sportsman himself, Bobby has an excellent success rate keeping players fit or getting them back to fitness from injury – and also treating non-sports people.

Anne Smith Dip.Hyp. MHS MAPHP LCPS GHR

Anne first become involved with hypnosis in the late 1980's when, as a former international golfer, she had always been aware of the connection between the 'inner mind and directed thought processes' and its link to improve sporting performance.

It was during her period as an England Selector and seeing lots of different players of all levels and ages that she began to really question and ask - why are some people with greater physical strengths, more natural aptitude and ability sometimes outperformed by other players who appear to have less natural ability? Usually, it is because they have better mental skill such as focus, determination, confidence and self belief. Was this something that just existed naturally or could it be learnt, adapted and improve by practice? Her finds led directly to her learning more about the clinical workings of a person's powerful subconscious mind and its connections to the physical body and its mechanical movements.

This led to her gaining a Diploma in Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy and undertaking a further Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy.

She initially worked exclusively with golfers until she joined the Bodymind Clinic in Moseley in Birmingham, where she began to expand and undertake a wider range of psychologically based issues from insomnia to public speaking to interpersonal relationship problems and other varying stress related health issues.

She has frequently attended courses in specialised subjects from the Country's leading authorities on such subjects as Stop Smoking, Weight Control, Past Lives and Somatoform Illnesses such as Tinnitus, Chronic fatigue and Fibromyalgia.

She is a member of the Hypnotherapy Society, the Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, the Counselling and Psychotherapy Society and is listed with the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council.