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My name's Mandy Cutler, and I'm the head of the Complimentary Therapy team.
I don't think there is a typical day - it can be very varied from providing clinics
for myself which is mainly clinical hypnotherapy and that can be all day, I try to vary the
management side of it and the holistical therapy side of it.
From the complimentary therapy point of view, I think we see patients for varied reasons,
from lots of symptoms, whether it's anxiety, pain, side effects of treatments, and we can
see them during their treatment, after their treatment, so we can see a wide, varied reason
to see the patient and the benefits are I suppose seeing them coming out differently
to when they came in.
I think the most rewarding part for me is seeing a patient coming in for an assessment
who's really struggled, the side effects of their treatments, their self esteem their
confidence is really low, and seeing that patient coming in then, to seeing them 6 weeks,
8 weeks later going out, confidence has improved, self esteem has improved, they're able to
think beyond cancer or any other form of disease that they may have. And that for me is the
benefit.
I think it's always the fear of the unknown, like with anything, the more you worry about
it the more in your imagination you will build it up to be something it's actually not. I
would always suggest come and have a look around, come and have a chat to people, and
go from there rather than letting the anxiety and the fear take over.