Meet the team
Mark Shields
Managing Director
Mark is the Founder and Managing Director of The Life Practice Group. He has appeared regularly on the radio and TV and is a monthly columnist for the Life Magazine Group, CAM Lifestyle and The Complementary & Alternative Medicine National Edition for Professional Practitioners. His CAM coaching column ” The difference that makes the difference ” is well known throughout the UK helping many practitioners in their own businesses. He has also written and produced his own successful range of “Home Hypnotherapy” audio books which are available at Waterstones bookshops throughout the UK.
Prior to setting out on his own he worked in the corporate arena for twenty years, starting from the bottom and worked his way to the top in the Financial Industry. He has achieved tremendous success during his career, with his penultimate role as Head of Channel Islands Banking for Barclay’s based in Jersey.
He has trained his courses for many years now and his students include world champion sportsmen, government officials, TV presenters and celebrity musicians. His training style and delivery of the course content is unique and well known in the personal development industry which is what makes the courses so popular.
Mark is now BBC3 Counties regular Life Coach appearing in the expert hot seat once a month. He has also recently taken up the post as vice president for the Brtish Association of Theraputic Hypnosis & NLP Practitioners one of the oldest most well established organisations in the UK.
Karen Webb
Co-Founder/Nutritional Director
Karen is a qualified Nutritional Therapist with a BSC degree a in Nutritional Medicine from the University of West London. She also holds a BA Hons degree in Design & Media Management.
Prior to setting up the Life Practice with her husband Mark, she worked in Marketing, PR and Property Management. After having their two children this sparked an urge to educate herself in the field of Nutrition and she achieved a new career path.
At The Life Practice she offers programs that positively support client’s health through active nutrition and lifestyle management. She also works in tandem with Mark by offering joint therapy programs namely, Neuro Nutrition which tackle the clients relationship with food , as well as, their nutrition & lifestyle choices. This particular program has seen positive results for Weight Loss.
She is not a great believer in diets, but healthier choices which enable the individual to have a higher self esteem, confidence and a spring in their step!
She is a member of the British Association for Nutritional Therapy, the professional body for Nutritional Therapy.
Alison Darby
Behavioural Change Consultant
Alison has many years of experience in working with people at all levels, she has worked successfully with politicians, celebrities, ambassadors, and dignitaries from all over the world. Her claim to fame was having tea with Tony Blair at No.10 and discussing his newborn son Leo’s bedtime routines.
Her friendly, approachable manner comes from years of working with people from all walks of life. She lives locally with her three young children and enjoys renovating delapidated houses.
Lorraine Hocquard
Lorraine has spent the last ten years working successfully in the education sector on Jersey and she has now brought her expertise into the field of Life Coaching and has trained to the level of Master in Clinical Hypnotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Emotional Freedom Technique and Life Coaching.She not only offers a full program for adults but specialises in NLP for children and students, something completely unique to Jersey.
www.lifepracticejersey.co.uk
Our newest member. More information to come shortly.Terry Lait
National Head of Product and Distribution.
Terry has achieved a successful career in senior management and business development for over 20 years. He now is the Life Practice Leading Consultant responsible for the the distribution of The Life Practice audio book range. His success includes distributing nationally the “Home Hypnotherapy” Audiobook range to Waterstone’s, Foyles , Blackwells, Play, Amazon, WH Smith and Public libraries. Terry also acts as Mark’s Managing Agent and he has also worked successfully in the past with Barry Norman and Mike Reid.