I was a doctor in the NHS for more than 30 years. When I decided I wanted to retire early I found it difficult to find anyone who would listen and support me in my decision to leave medicine. However I finally found my new path in life and I have no regrets.

Since I changed my life I’ve learned a huge number of new skills.

Now I  encourage you, too, to live your dreams  and do NOW what you've been putting off for years, in or out of medicine.

As a result of my experiences, I realise how important it is to have someone who:

• will listen to you, really listen,
• will challenge and motivate you
• helps you focus on what's  important for you
• encourages you to be the real you
• lets you can talk to about your life and how you would like it to be
• respects your point of view and lets you discover the path you want to take

Because I understand where you're 'coming from', I  offer you that support and understanding to enable you to have a life whether in or out of medicine.

I work with stressed and overworked people who want a life. (mostly doctors)

I’ve noticed that people who spend most of their time solving everyone else's problems, don’t spend enough time looking after themselves. 

Successful professionals, like  you, may sometimes wonder if your academic and or business  achievements  have been at the expense of the rest of their lives.

I'm passionate about enabling doctors to have a life.

 I work with doctors who  want their lives to different.

If I worked with you  I would encourage  you to

• get it all back into proportion,
• consider what choices you have
• realise you have more choices
• be motivated to make the changes you want 

After just a few sessions most of my clients make big shifts in the way they view their life and the way they organise their time.   I know you can do this too! I’m passionate about encouraging doctors to have a life as well as being excellent professionals.  Coaching is about making changes for the better happen in your life a fun and productive way.  

Is this the right time for us to have a conversation about your life?

I took early retirement from Medical work at the end of 1997 in order to live the life I really wanted, be more creative, see the sea every day and travel the world!

I am married to an orthopaedic surgeon, have three grown up children, and two little grandchildren.

 I completed a Wilderness Challenge in Alaska in aid of Sense the National Deafblind and Rubella association. I walked over glaciers, bush whacked, crossed rivers and bog slogged while carrying my belongings and camping for eight days in the wilderness.

In February 2001 I went on a voyage on a Russian ice-breaker to Antarctica.

In October 2001 I walked across the Namibian desert for a week >100 miles in aid of RUKBA (Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association) and SSAFA (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families association)

I was a medical practitioner (professional name: Dr. S. E. Mushin) for over thirty years. I worked in and around London, Portsmouth , Cambridge and Birmingham, UK, working with all aspects of women's health including family planning, sub-fertility, abortion, women health screening, sexually transmitted disease, sexuality, counselling, medical gynaecology, hysterectomy and menopause.

Publication: British Journal of Family Planning 1993; 19: 236-238: 'Contraceptive Provision  to Prostitutes in Two Birmingham Saunas' 

I was Senior Clinical Medical Officer for Family Planning in the Northern Birmingham Community NHS Trust when I retired in December 1997

M.B. BCh. Welsh National School of Medicine, 1967 D.Obst R.C.O.G. 1971

Counselling:

Certificate in Counselling skills 1991

Diploma in Counselling skills 1993

Master's degree in Psychodynamic Counselling. M.Ed, 1996 Dissertation: 'The counselling needs of women on the waiting list for hysterectomy'

I was a counsellor in the Student Counselling services of Birmingham University and Aston University and also in the Brook Advisory Service in Birmingham.

Open University degree: B.A. in mainly in Psychological subjects

Life Coaching:

CoachU graduate                              

Accredited by  the Life Coaching Academy 

Master Practitioner NLP (neuro-linguistic programming)

Certificate and Diploma  in  Clinical Hypnotherapy

www.hypnotherapybyphone.co.uk

Writing

BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL  Published articles in BMJ Career focus over many years

Prescription for change- for doctors who want a life

ABC of Change for Doctors    

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