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The 90 Day RESET Programme

The 90 Day RESET Programme is the Optimum Health Clinic’s ground-breaking psychology-based course. ​ In this video, Kirsty and Jess discuss how this 12-week online program is structured and designed specifically for those with ME/CFS and fatigue related conditions. ​Find out more about the 90 Day RESET Programme, get your free information pack or book […]

Soothing the Maladaptive Stress Response

Psychology practitioner Nikkie and Director of Psychology Jess discuss a case study from the Fatigue Super Conference. With permission, we share how the psychology team helped an OHC client regulate their maladaptive stress response with tools including EFT (emotional freedom technique) and sensory anchors. We explain how these tools helped to support the client in […]

Emotional Styles and Men’s Health

Jess (Director of Psychology) talks to Nik (Psychology Practitioner) about emotional styles for Men’s Health Week and goes through a short practice to get in touch with your emotions and take steps to process and acknowledge how you feel.  Connecting with your emotional style and processing can help with both mental health and some physical symptoms that manifest as […]

Meet Nik: 3 Tips for the Achiever

Nik joined the OHC team as a psychology practitioner after his wife recovered from ME/CFS with the help of the 90-day programme. In this video we meet Nik and he shares three basics of understanding the achiever pattern on the healing journey.

ME Awareness Month 2021

ME Awareness Day | May 12, 2021 Kirsty and Jess explore the Optimum Health Clinic’s latest updates for ME/CFS Awareness Day – including sharing their hope for increased funding for research and support for quality healthcare in this poorly understood and underfunded disease. 0:00 ME Awareness Week 0:55 The scale of ME/CFS globally 2:22 The […]

Practical tips for getting into a healing state

Following up on the biological role of stress in Long COVID recovery, Kirsty speaks to Jess Thompson (Director of Psychology at The Optimum Health Clinic) about simple tools that can help steer the body towards a healing state and support recovery. Jess gives 3 simple tips for helping the body relax, including mindfulness, breathing exercises […]

Introducing Our Upcoming Long COVID Series

  In the first of a long COVID series from the Nutrition Team, CEO of the Optimum Health Clinic Kirsty Cullen and Director of Nutrition Sara Jackson discuss the research of emerging data from COVID-19 disease and long COVID. With symptoms of long COVID often overlapping with those of various fatigue conditions including ME/CFS the […]

Important updates from the OHC

  Founder of The Optimum Health Clinic Alex Howard introduces Kirsty Cullen as the new CEO. Together they discuss what’s been going on at the clinic over the last year and what exciting advancements to expect going forward. Chapters 0:00​ Welcome 0:30​ We’ve been very busy! 1:41​ Our new CEO 4:23​ Priorities and key focus […]

Self-love calms the nervous system – Everyday Alex 009

Therapeutic Tuesday – Everyday Alex 009 – Self-love calms the nervous system – Alex Howard works with ME/CFS patient Kotryna to help understand why her nervous system is not calming, and how to cultivate self-love to encourage this process.

Progressing without crashing – Everyday Alex Episode 002

Alex Howard helps patient Luci with how to increase her activity level without triggering a crash of ME/CFS. Everyday Alex is the daily vlog series from Alex Howard. Subscribe and hit the bell for notifications to make sure you don’t miss a single episode! Explore Alex’s website alexhoward.tv to find out more about his projects […]