Treatment

For specific information on treatments for M.E.,
please click here to visit our specialist M.E. website

The clinic has two departments which work together and are closely interlinked. Both departments are internationally recognised as leaders in their fields, and below is a very brief outline of some of what is offered. To discuss your personal situation in more detail, please click here to book a free 15 minute chat.

Nutrition

Alex and clientOur nutrition department is highly geared towards testing. We believe that offering nutritional treatments without appropriate testing is like playing Russian Roulette with your health and budget.

We have three levels to our nutritional protocol. Which level is right for you will be dictated by your budget and personal situation. These are both things that are explored in 15 minute chats.

To learn more about our Nutritional protocols for M.E., CFS and related conditions, please click here to visit the nutrition section of our M.E. specialist site, where you can download our FAQ on Nutrition and M.E. which also includes details of our three levels of treatment.

Below are some of the tests we use. This list is by no means exhaustive, and we do the minimum amount of testing we can to get the information we need:

  • Adrenal Stress Index
  • Comprehensive Stool Analysis
  • Essential fatty acid profile
  • Hair mineral analysis
  • Porphryn heavy metals test
  • Red Cell Magnesium
  • Serum Ferritin
  • Mercury Sensitivity Test
  • Fat Biopsy Test for organic-metal compounds
  • Toxic Effects Screen
  • Functional blood vitamins
  • Leaky gut test
  • Vitamin B12
  • Vitamin C
  • ATP profile
  • Vitamin B3
  • Cell Free DNA
  • SODase
  • Translocator Protein Study
  • DNA Adducts

Psychology

Our psychology department is run with the same emphasis towards integration of ideas as our nutrition department, and our practitioners are specialists in four key areas:

Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is the use of the hypnosis for therapeutic purposes. This is either through accessing a trance state where we are more in touch with our unconscious mind (which is responsible for controlling most of our behaviours in life) or through being able to change our behaviours in a more conscious state. What is particularly valuable about working with hypnosis is having the ability to use language in a way which can change a person’s ongoing experience, either with or without their awareness. Over recent years hypnosis, through mediums such as stage hypnosis, has developed a reputation for being manipulative and misused. The style of hypnosis taught on The Optimum Health Clinic’s courses is permissive and empathic, and so although still very powerful, is driven by ethics and compassion.

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)

NLP is the science of understanding how people create their experience of the world, and how this can be changed. It was originally created by Dr Richard Bandler and Dr John Grinder in the 1970s, and has been developed by a number of different clinicians and practitioners since that time. NLP effectively provides the tools and processes to work with patients’ conscious and unconscious minds. NLP is most famous for its ability to wipe out life long phobias in as little as a few minutes, but it has groundbreaking applications in a whole range of therapeutic areas.

Life coaching

Life coaching is about finding out where people are, where they want to be, and then helping them create a plan to get there. This provides a much more focused approach to therapy than the more traditional psychotherapeutic model of just looking at someone’s past.

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)

EFT works on the premise that all negative emotion is stored as an imbalance in the energy system. Therefore, by tuning into emotional issues, and then tapping on various acupuncture points, it is possible to help people let go of emotional issues that they have felt trapped by for years.


Many of our practitioners are also trainers on our professional training courses, more information on these can be found in the “Training” section of this site. To discuss your individual situation and how we could help you move forwards, please click here to book a free 15 minute chat.

Patient Comments

"I feel so much better… I have felt supported all the way, which has also been really important, so thank you"
Barbara Knox, Shropshire

"I can honestly say, without fear of exaggeration, that these treatments have completely turned my life around. I have a quality of life and sense of purpose I'd never even dared to dream of. I feel better than I've ever done in my life (even before I got ill)"
Paula Hardcastle, Germany

"My IBS symptoms have almost gone. I had been suffering this problem for at least 20 years. Having someone who knew about this illness and understands how it really feels was a great."
Lynda Wakefield, Co Durham

"I had given up thinking about “being normal” ever again, however the improvement I have experienced has given me new hope."
PD, USA

"I have noticed massive changes from that one session, I walked into the clinic a completely different person to the one that walked out, no-one could believe that in two hours someone could have such an effect on me."
Anon, subsequently written up in Company magazine