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Jo holds a PhD in Psychotherapy Studies, a PGDip Ed in E Learning, an MA, BA (Hons). Jo offers mentoring and coaching using mindfulness and acceptance strategies to help clients overcome problems affecting study, work, motivation, life direction and relationships. She has over 20 years experience in the mental health field as a nurse, social worker, trainer, advocate, researcher and was formerly a Lecturer in Mental Health at the

University of Sheffield, UK for 10 years. Jo lives in Kandy in Sri Lanka where she is working part-time for SIBA, Sri Lankan International Buddhist Academy  helping to develop a new distance learning Buddhist Counselling course while studying Pali and Sanskrit. She can now offer rooms in her quiet retreat house for those wishing to stay in Sri Lanka to study personal development and/or do spiritual practice. Jo has a passion for adventure where she once suffered many fears - including flying, lifts, underground trains and moths (!) She is living proof that learning mindfulness and acceptance techniques can expand your horizons and change your life. For more on her professional education and training click here.
As a mentor she has 12 years experience supervising medical students and mature graduate students on both professional trainings and academic degree programmes, turning around the lives of those deemed to be ‘failing’ with her mixture of practical support, professional skills, warmth and humour.
As a coach she has 15 years experience supporting people with a range of needs from problems with work-life balance, relationship issues, creative blockages, mental health and well-being, to entrepreneurial/ project start-up and support. She now uses ‘ACT’ as her main approach, which helps a person clarify their values using practical mindfulness and acceptance strategies to face and overcome obstacles to fulfilment. 
Jo is a Member of the Association of Contextual Behavioural Science (ACBS) which develops and promotes ACT,and a Member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF membership no 9014508). She adheres to the ICF Code of Ethics. For further details click here.