About Me
I am Valerie Page, living now on the Yorkshire Wolds in the East Riding, and resident in many parts of the UK over the years. I have retired from a long career in teaching, mainly in sixth form colleges and girls’ schools, where my subjects were English and then Latin, as well as Learning Support.
I am married to John, a retired Anglican priest who now provides spiritual direction and pastoral supervision of clergy, and we have three adult sons and three grandchildren. Another important part of our family are our rescue greyhounds; currently numbers eight and nine! To counterbalance our rather itinerant British life we have had a settled home in France, just south of Brittany for over thirty years, and this is the place which gives us “soul satisfaction” - it’s been hard work, but we all love it dearly, and especially to welcome guests to the sunshine.
It was personal crisis which ignited an enduring interest in aspects of psychology, and over the last twenty years I have trained and practised as a hypno-psychotherapist, a HypnoBirthing and HypnoFertility practitioner and in EFT- the ‘tapping’ therapy. Additionally, I completed a Diploma in Integrated Energy Therapies, which combines EFT with NLP. I have a particular interest in dissociative disorders and was able to volunteer for a while with First Person Plural, a survivor-led support and educational charity; I am constantly humbled by the courage and resilience of others.
It has been such a privilege to be able to assist people in their quest for wholeness with all these approaches, but I feel I am not done yet, and have been drawn to the ancient yet ever-new tradition of spiritual direction, or accompaniment. So now I am in formation with the London Centre for Spiritual Direction on the Encounter course, and I must admit it is “digging deep” and proving quite challenging!
If you would like to get in touch, then email me at valerie.cominghometoyourself@gmail.com