The Brooklands Clinic was founded by Martyn Shrewsbury in 1998 to bring a wide range of Natural Therapies to Swansea and the surrounding South Wales area.

The Concept
Having a range of therapies available 'under one roof' provides several advantages..

• We can assure clientele that each practitioner is fully qualified within their discipline and a member of one or more appropriate professional bodies that provides the necessary safeguards or conduct and practice befitting a caring professional.
• Clients and Practitioners benefit from having a safe and secure environment for their session.
• Clients and practitioners benefit from knowing that should it be identified that another treatment might be beneficial, then a practitioner can be close at hand to deliver the service and liaise with another professional on further treatments. This gives the added benefit (if chosen) of creating an extra means of assessment of ongoing treatment by a third party to each process

Our Ethos
It is often helpful to see ourselves as having five 'healths' ... physical, sexual, mental, emotional and spiritual. We are only truly in 'good health' when all five are balanced. Regretfully for many of us in today's world this is increasingly a rare state of being. The Brooklands Clinic can offer a range of natural therapies that not only compliment one another but can actively work together to bring about complete health to the whole of the individual. The Brooklands Clinic team aim to ensure that our clients have access to qualified competent practitioners that share the common goal of bringing health to all through natural methods. We believe in enhancing the individual and engendering not only a complete state of health and well being in the short term but a lasting 'journey of health' stemming form the added personal commitment to self improvement that empowerment of the individual can bring.

Confidentiality
All of the practitioners at Brooklands Clinic sign up to a confidentiality statement that ensures best practice.

Location
Our premises at Brooklands Road is only 10 minutes walk from the centre of Swansea. Each discipline practices from a separate room and absolute privacy is guaranteed. All of our practitioners are fully qualified and members of relevant organisations set up to ensure the highest possible standards in service delivery.

Affiliations
We are totally independent and only linked to those professional bodies that ensure ethical treatment and procedure.

About Martyn Shrewsbury

Martyn graduated from the university of Wales in History and Social Anthropology. He holds a diploma in Clinical and Pastoral Counselling as well as a diploma in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy. He has taught in the Centre for the Applied Languages at Swansea University and at Neath College. He has a busy practice in Psychotherapy and Counseling. Martyn ran a very popular course at the Kingsway Centre of Swansea College entitled "Introduction to Alternative Medicine". Six years ago he established a practice in Alltwen near Pontardawe. He has now extended that practice to working from the St James Medical Centre in Herbert Street, Pontardawe.

Martyn Shrewsbury is a member of the Institute of Stress Management, the European Therapy Studies Institute and is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He is an elected Fellow of the Hypnosis Research Society and is an accredited supervisor with the Hypnotherapy Society. He is a member of the Counseling and Psychotherapy Society and is a member of the British National Register for both Counseling and Hypnotherapy. He is a registered member of the British Hypnosis Association. He is also a member of the New England Institute of Forensic Hypnosis, which advises individuals and companies on workplace crime. he appears regularly on television and writes widely for local magazines and newspapers.

His clinical orientation is both Jungian and Humanistic as well as heavily influenced by client centred therapies. In his clinical work he as dealt with eating disorders, panic attacks, anxiety disorders as well as relationships and sexual problems. He has in addition worked with companies and individuals to promote career performance as well as running workshops for women and ethnic minorities in assertion training. He has a wide knowledge of application of Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Corporate use as well as a deep understanding of a body language from a psychological prospective. He has extensive experience of supervision of counselors and psychotherapists.

Martyn runs workshops in stress management, assertion and career performance. He has worked with sports persons and musicians to improve their performance as well as provided workshops and staff in training for local organisations such as the Richmond Fellowship, the Royal College of Midwives and the Family Centre for local government as well as the Probation Service and The West Glamorgan Bereavement Group and West Glamorgan Housing Consortium. Ten years ago he was the only delegate from Wales to the Conference on Accreditation and NVQ's for Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy organised by the Institute of Complementary Medicine at the Royal College of Nursing in Cavendish Square.

Martyn has a background in Education and has a Further Education Teaching Certificate. He has great experience in working with mature students and is experienced with explaining difficult statistical and mathematical aims and concepts. Before training as a Psychotherapist Martyn worked as an organiser for Anglo Swedish State Educational Travel and Italian Company Cultural Viva. In this capacity he ran orientation programmes for students from Europe and North America entering this country. In addition this involved wide European travel with groups of students.

Martyn is active in his local community and is a former chair person of the local residents association. He has stood for Parliament four times and the Welsh Assembly twice. He is an activist within the Green Party and is their National Spokesperson on Health and Social Services. He writes a local news column in the Evening Post. He is also a trustee of the Renaissance Trust and The Environment Centre. He is a member of the Soil Association, CND, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth. He is a member of the Amicus Trade Union. Martyn lives with his family in Swansea.