The D-Word

A little personal history

There's nothing like a major crisis to turn one's life around.
 
In 1989, after first training as a State-Registered Nurse and working for a time as a producer in corporate video, Sue's life took a dramatic turn.

A friend and she were flying a light aircraft at 3000 feet one beautiful August evening over Southern England when the propeller stopped turning.

Astonishingly, they walked away from the wreck with scarcely a physical scratch. But that experience of trauma and near-death catapulted Sue onto a healing journey that profoundly changed how she looks at herself.  

She knew she had to work with Death and Dying.

Training

Following the plane crash, Sue trained  with the Elisabeth Kubler Ross organisation as a Life, Death and Transformation facilitator, and went on to explore many avenues of emotional, mental and spiritual healing.

 In 2001, Sue took a Masters Degree in Theology and Religion at King Alfred’s College in Winchester, specifically in the Rhetoric and Rituals of Death, with a thesis on The British Media: an Evaluation of the Spiritual Effect of Reporting on Death through Tragedy and Disaster.

This led her to meet Dr Peter Fenwick, and to begin research into end-of-life experiences.

In 2004 Sue qualified in Person-Centred and Existential Counselling with a post-graduate diploma. 

She now works as a psychotherapist, specialising in trauma and bereavement, and runs D-Word workshops for carers, relatives and friends of the dying.