After leaving school Anna worked in a psychiatric hospital as a nurse, and loved it. She started teaching by stumbling into a job when she was 18, which involved teaching young offenders in Prisons in the 1970's. Anna trained to be a youth counsellor when her two children where very young, as she wished to work with teenagers in schools.

After experiencing childbirth at first hand, she knew now what it was she wanted to teach, and in 1980 started training to be an antenatal teacher for the National Childbirth Trust. Anna soon found her feet with the NCT and went on to become an advanced teacher assessor and finally a tutor, training new students in London and Bristol, finally becoming the sole tutor for the whole of Ireland, both North and South.

An interest in alternative medicine developed into a passion after watching her daughter (then 8) very sick with meningitis; recover very quickly after the administration of a homeopathic remedy. The result was miraculous! In 1993 Anna commenced her training as a homeopath, and five years later, in 1998 qualified, finishing at the same time as one child went off to university and the other started her A levels. Sally is now a homeopath herself, working in Anna's practice when ever she can.

When not working, Anna is most likely to be…

Cooking, especially wild hedgerow foods, rowan berry jelly, wild mushrooms, crab apple jam etc. Sewing, Anna used to make clothes for her children and is now starting all over again as two new granddaughters have popped into her life. Enjoying world music, literature, and gardening are all a big part of her life, but her very favourite way of relaxing is “messing about on the river” on a narrow boat.

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